Very sad day for Australia to see this in the press about the Prime Minister

[alexander*beetle]

These comments on the Pravda website. 

• I seriously hope President Putin washes his hands and sterilizes them after touching the grubby paw of Abbott. Tony Abbott displays a degree of insolence, arrogance and incompetence.
• Once again, we see a country whose political class is divorced from the collective will of its people yet we see a politician who thinks it is cool to be rude, insolent, insulting, impolite, impertinent, unpolished, gross, unpleasant and downright impudent.

Many more comments too. I'm sure many Australians, though not all, are very disappointed to have our country's leader spoken of this way. I've read lots of derogatory comments from various news websites from around the world and it seems he has trashed the position and how we are viewed by many other countries. And I stress not every country is knocking him but enough to know that he is not popular. 

"Tony Abbott said today that he will "shirtfront" Russian president Vladimir Putin when the pair meet at the G20 meeting in Brisbane next month."  Is this seriously how we treat other world leaders? What happened to open dialogue and discussion? 

We were once so admired for our leaders as statesmen, from both sides of politics. Tony Abbott has brought much criticism and shame and embarrassment to the position. No matter what side of politics, the position of Prime Minister should be held with respect but when we have one in the position who bullies and insults world leaders, then it is their prerogative to comment.

It is going to take some doing to win back the respect we once held.  

[lightningdance]

So we can hope he won't fall over flat on his face , puff up in "high dungeon" and accuse people of hyperbowl?

We can hope he won't spy on Indonesia,  spy on the presidents wife, stop  exporting food and meat into Indonesia with out so much as a by your leave.

We can hope he won't insult the Chinese and call them rat??? on the international stage in Copenhagen. We can only hope he doesn't "salute" people across a crowded room, (guffaw). 

We can only hope that he doesn't drop a cool 20 million or more onto every country he ever visits, we can only hope he doesn't "give " away ships and planes to Indonesia, after all hasn't Indonesia already  got the largest land army in the region?

We can only hope he doesn't do this on the world stage.

We can only hope that our Prime Minister has the support of our country and the one's on here giving support and defending what Mr Putin did are exposed as the (can't print it on here) they are.

What we can hope for is he stands up for our dead, the families of our dead killed by Russian separatists armed by Mr Putin.

[lightningdance]

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@But then where would they direct all their scorn?? where could they stand up and admire Mr Putin whilst denigrating the Prime Minister of our own country.kilroy_is_here wrote:
If you think the prime minister is wrong to be aggressive in demanding answersGoogle themaslin children look at their face then come back here and tell me he shouldn't be doing it

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Agree:

But where would they be able to stand up and extort the values of comrade  Putin, where would they be able to denigrate our Prime Minister and defend comrade Putin?

Lets just ignore the fact that Comrade Putin aided and abetted the separatists, armed them and invaded a sovereign state, let's all ignore that and destroy and decry a decent human being instead, after all isn't that what the left do on here?

[alexander*beetle]

As you have pointed out numerous times, please stay on the topic of this thread. 

[cherry*135]

Abbott needs to stop making immature comments. He backed away from the shirtfront comment himself.

[raptor_rebooted]

lets wait and see if putin turns up

on time first