Tony Abbott

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Tony Abbott backed Pyne during IVF trauma

CHRISTOPHER Pyne has revealed Tony Abbott felt the Catholic Church's teachings on IVF were "misguided" as he provided moral support while the frontbencher and his wife were trying to conceive through the treatment.

Mr Pyne, one of Mr Abbott's closest colleagues, said the Opposition Leader was only ever "extraordinarily supportive" over the five years they underwent IVF treatments. Mr Pyne spoke out after Mr Abbott's chief of staff, Peta Credlin, revealed the Opposition Leader had allowed her to store her fertility drugs in his parliamentary fridge and cleared out his official bathroom for her use as she underwent IVF.

Now, I may be dim.... but really, Mr Abbott's personal opinions and actions in this, should not a news headline.......his Religious beliefs or otherwise do not have any place in Parliament, imo. His opposition to the Catholic Church's teachings are between him and his Church/God?

and how dare those people make it public. friends or foe?

[donnashuggy]

It's over

[chameleon54]

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@donnashuggy wrote:
It's over

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Hopefully a new beginning. Heaven knows we need it.

[iapetus_rocks]

I'm not sure just how I feel about the news that Mr Turnbull has defeated Mr Abbott in their leadership ballot.

On the one hand I am very glad that Abbott has suffered the ignominy of being ousted (before even completing his first term) by his own party for being such a useless PM, but on the other hand Turnbull just has to have a better chance of leading the LNP to victory come the next election.

[iapetus_rocks]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2015/sep/14/its-on-but-can-this-mystery-potato-save...

[myoclon1cjerk]

Tony's 3 days short of qualifying for a PM's pension,a rule he introduced.

[debra9275]

Yes, he had to be PM on Friday to get the full entitlements . Just watching sky atm and David Spears just reported lots of anger and finger pointing going on in LNP right now

[iapetus_rocks]

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Tony's 3 days short of qualifying for a PM's pension,a rule he introduced.

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Oh my! and I thought my day couldn't get any better. 🙂

I suppose that may be one reason he tried to hang on and maybe one reason why his disaffected supporters acted to dump him sooner rather than later.

[lal-au0]

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@iapetus_rocks wrote:

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:
Tony's 3 days short of qualifying for a PM's pension,a rule he introduced.

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Oh my! and I thought my day couldn't get any better. 🙂

I suppose that may be one reason he tried to hang on and maybe one reason why his disaffected supporters acted to dump him sooner rather than later.

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it's not as if he was impoverished if he doesn't get it.

[iapetus_rocks]

Although, I just heard Barnaby Joyce speaking (on ABC 24) saying

that the Coalition govt is based on an agreement between the leaders of the Nats and the leader of the Libs (it's a personal agreement) and that until negotiations for a new Coalition agreement have been made, that Mr Abbott remains as PM and that "over the next few days" discussions will be held to sort out the new Coalition agreement.

What are the odds that these negotiations will stretch out for just a fraction more than the next three days?

[debra9275]

I hope it's not a ploy so that abbott gets his full entitlements, but it could be