Andrew Bolt the latest to apologise over Tony Abbott's wall punch
@Anonymous wrote:I'm too tired LD, but if I were to google links for you, I would put in words like Tony Abbott/smash walls/ university.
so google is your friend.
You can try and ignore stuff that has happened in the past- but he didnt get the nickname 'mad monk' etc. for nothing. and his reputation with women precedes him.
No problem Duffy - i don't mind doing it - 
During his time in the Howard Government, Tony Abbott was once thrown out of Parliament because he moved in a threatening manner towards the Opposition benches just after Labor's Graham Edwards, a Vietnam Veteran who had lost both his legs during the Vietnam War, had interjected: "You're a disgrace".
Source: The Australian - May 2012
In 1976, while at University, Tony Abbott kicked in a glass panel door after a narrow defeat in the University Senate elections in 1976.
Source: Sydney Morning Herald - July, 2004
Lindsay Foyle, a former deputy editor of The Bulletin and a past president of the Australian Cartoonists’ Association, has revealed that Tony Abbott once threatened to punch him because of a disagreement over abortion (Lindsay took a pro-choice stance, Tony Abbott reportedly didn't like that stance).
Lindsay is on record as saying that a number of journalists witnessed this, including Greg Sheridan, a friend of Tony Abbott's who is also the Foreign Affairs editor for the Australian.
Source: New Matilda - September 2012
During the 2007 Federal Election, the then Federal Health Minister, Tony Abbott, criticised a terminally ill man, Bernie Banton, accusing Bernie Banton of not being "pure of heart".
Source: The Age - October 31, 2007
Tony Abbott once joked about the suicide attempt of John Brogden, who at the time had just resigned as the NSW Liberal Leader. While at a Liberal Party fundraising event, Tony Abbott said: "If we did that we would be as dead as the former Liberal leader's political prospects."
When asked whether he should apologise for his comment on the ABC's Insiders, Tony Abbott stated: "Barrie, if it would make people feel better if I apologised, I'm always happy to apologise. I don't believe in standing on my dignity."
When asked whether his comment was appropriate, Tony Abbott stated: "Barrie, lots of people say lots of things."
Source: ABC's Insiders - September, 2005
Tony Abbott joked about the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that sunk claiming 11 lives.
Tony Abbott joked "that was one boat that did get stopped, wasn’t it?"
When Tony Abbott was advised that she should apologise, Tony Abbott felt that he didn't need to apologise as it was just "banter".
Source: Herald Sun - January 19, 2012
@boris1gary wrote:
Andrew Bolt the latest to apologise over Tony Abbott's wall punch
Bolt apologised?? really? he said he was wrong?
@boris1gary wrote:
Andrew Bolt the latest to apologise over Tony Abbott's wall punch
lol...sooooo funny. still a lie and not an apology so this whole article is wrong and a lie......lol sooooo funny
@lightningdance wrote:
@boris1gary wrote:
Andrew Bolt the latest to apologise over Tony Abbott's wall punch
lol...sooooo funny. still a lie and not an apology so this whole article is wrong and a lie......lol sooooo funny
So, what are you saying is that the court was wrong, and all the people who were there and who testified that it happened they perjured themselves?
