Australia’s Abbott squirms under spotlight

[***super_nova***]

What other countries think of our PM:

His policies, which include turning people-smuggling boats back to Indonesia, pre-emptively buying up rickety fishing vessels and paying villagers for intelligence, were coolly received in Jakarta, and Abbott appeared to waver on the key points after talks with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, AFP reports.
Striking a more conciliatory tone, Abbott insisted Australia had never said it would tow boats back to Indonesia but “turn boats around when it is safe to do so'' and his vessel buy-up “was simply the establishment of some money that could be used by Indonesian officials working cooperatively with their Australian counterparts.’’

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking_news_detail.asp?id=41413&icid=a&d_str

[*elizabeths-mum*]

Just watching him on the 7.30 Report now. 😄

[kennedia_nigricans]

i am not so concerned with what other countries think of our pm *shudder*

i am more concerned that they think this is a country where about 70% of voters are imbeziles whose mind is stuck in the 50s, so they might attack us knowing we would be too stupid to work out how all those fancy weapons work we have got....

[spotweldersfriend]

.......and a liar

[cherry*135]

I think putting Tony in the PM's job is just an experiment.. an experiment doomed to fail at that.

[*ibis]

 this is a country where about 70% of voters are imbeziles 

really?

[cherry*135]

Broken election promise?

Tony Abbott has conspicuously softened his tone towards Indonesia after talks with the nation's President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, possibly paving the way to ditch his controversial boats turn-back policy.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-tipped-to-soften-boats-policy-20131001-...

[cherry*135]

imbeciles.

We know what it means, who polled/studied/surveyed  the voters to work out 70% of them are imbeciles?

[*ibis]

i could write it in BIG letters again for you

would you?

[spotweldersfriend]

Murdoch's boy is apparently Australia's own Neville Chamberlain