When did Tony Abbott change?

[donnashuggy]

Last night on sixty minutes the guests (family and friends) kept on about how much he has changed since his uni days etc and quoted things that he thought and said 30 years ago.

BUT I can remember him very recently saying things that have upset women, gays, other politicians, his comments about Climate Change being carp weren't all that long ago.

So when did he change? How do you think he has changed?

[azureline**]

well, it's easier to imagine your gay sister in a lesbian relationship... and condone it... even though your Catholic values say it is sinful....than if it was your brother in a homosexual relationship... after all, the mechanics of it are quite...different?.:|

[donnashuggy]

and this is why he doesn't do proper interviews anymore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nch5BN0d9vE&feature=youtu.be

[kengillard]

sorry I even commented.    no use with all the labour luvvies around here....can't get a balanced viewX-(...all I have to say is that old cliche

Time will Tell.

[i-need-a-martini]

and this is why he doesn't do proper interviews anymore

He is a talking disaster. 

Anyway, the Liberal powers that be aren't stupid. They know they have a ticking time bomb on their hands so they will keep him out of the public domain until September.

[**meep**]

sorry I even commented.    no use with all the labour luvvies around here....can't get a balanced viewX-(...all I have to say is that old cliche

Time will Tell.

Leave them to it, Gill :^O    We'll have a good chat in September 😄

[lakeland27]

he wont have to change to win. nobody said that. it isn't football or a team sport. the least capable do win political contests with media asistance.  one only has to look to george w bush.

[cherples]

I  always think that as we mature and grow our opinions change... 

Two years ago I was dead against gay marriage... I even argued it here... 

But I listened and had a really good think about things and now I hold a different opinion.... 

People change, life experiences make us grow and mature, sometimes our opinions change because of the people we meet. Sometimes we change because we realise that to get to our goals we need to change what we do and how we do it. 

Howard had to change a lot.. he had to grow.. he admitted to changing... 

Abbott had to do the same thing... if he wants to get to his end goal of becoming PM then he needed to change... 

Do you also find it acceptable that Julia Gillard is allowed to change her views also?

Or is it that still a lie?

[cherples]

and this is why he doesn't do proper interviews anymore

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nch5BN0d9vE&feature=youtu.be

reminds me of this

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/14/1068674351979.html

Telstra will axe copper network

Telstra will replace its century-old copper wire phone network with new technology within the next 15 years, saying the ageing lines are now at "five minutes to midnight".

Telstra executives revealed the problem at a Senate inquiry into broadband services on Wednesday - the same day the company was forced to apologise again for problems with its BigPond email service.

In an email sent to customers late on Wednesday night, Telstra said the most recent email problems had to do with balancing the load on the system, rather than its actual capacity.

"The BigPond team would like to apologise for some intermittent email problems you may have experienced this week," Telstra said.

"We quickly dedicated all available resources to the problem, working to address it by rebalancing the email load."

Telstra's chief executive, Ziggy Switkowski, has promised to spend $100 million upgrading BigPond, after 1.5 million internet customers had their emails delayed by up to 48 hours.

The Telstra board is likely to come under fire for the email problems from shareholders at the company's annual general meeting today.

Telstra's manager of regulatory strategy, Tony Warren, gave the Senate broadband inquiry details of the company's problems with its ageing copper network.

He said ADSL, the high-speed internet service that runs over copper wires, was the bridging broadband technology Telstra was using until it replaced the network.

He described ADSL as the "last sweat" of revenue Telstra could wring out of the 100-year-old copper wire network.

A Telstra spokesman denied the ageing copper wire had anything to do with the email problems

[azureline**]

sorry I even commented.    no use with all the labour luvvies around here....can't get a balanced viewX-(...all I have to say is that old cliche

Time will Tell.

really?  were you expecting a thread of agreement?

[monman12]

CP: "...........Telstra's chief executive, Ziggy Switkowski, has promised to spend $100 million upgrading BigPond,..........."

Switkowski resigned from Telstra on 3 December 2004,

A week is a long time in politics, but 9years????????

Switkowski resigned from Telstra on 3 December 2004,

DY: "BUT I can remember him very recently saying things that have upset women, gays, other politicians, his comments about Climate Change being carp weren't all that long ago.

"When did Tony Abbott change", no idea DY, but obviously it is working. Perhaps Gillard needs some lessons from Tony,judging by her persona non grata status in WA recently.

Sounds to a degree like CS the Myopics and their Cyclopian acolytes. I will give them some heart "Abbott wears army boots", as does his wife.

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