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The most famous surf club in Australia shouldn’t need port-a-loos every time a crowd turns up. pic.twitter.com/NJMm6U9RsJ — Tony Abbott (@TonyAbbottMHR) February 3, 2019 An unusual campaign offering today by Tony Abbott. Budgie smugglers are perhaps not the best look when you are under attack by women candidates. And promising to work hard for extra loos when you have done nothing about it for all the years you have been local member will have many constituents puzzled. The Owl suggests Tony should bring back his old minder to add a little discipline to his efforts to retain his seat. Today's was the kind of stuff-up that Ms Credlin normally kept her boss away from.

The Owl is very wary of joining in the game of predicting a House of Representatives future for television superstar Peta Credlin. He has no desire to be on the end of a La Stupenda tongue lashing like the one she previously dished out to journalists. Click HERE to watch the video

At least someone at Sydney's Daily Telegraph  is still in there trying. Here's Shari Markson giving advice this morning: But over the page it seems they do not expect her advice to be taken. In a prediction about who will be in the Cabinet: So spare a thought for the Bonnie and Clyde of Australian politics who fought non-stop for 1074 days to get their revenge on Malcolm Turnbull. On Friday it looked like the end for a successful campaign. The enemy was deposed. But then ... Scott Morrison, a Malcolm Turnbull mark two, rode in to the Lodge. Another man who helped run them out of the perks of office. What a cluster f..... Outlaws still!

No change this morning at Sportsbet.

Grace Jones knows how to deal with lesser people And so does Peta Credlin as she gives a verdict on her Sky News colleague Laura Jayes When a lefty journo thought it was safe to go on #pmlive from her safe lefty day shift at Sky & ends up sitting next to #PetaCredlin 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/4YDdDAaxZn — timjbo (@pleaseuseaussie) October 11, 2017

In the Sunday Telegraph column of Peta Credlin this morning were these words of wisdom: When people say to me “there’s no way Trump can happen here”, I tell them they need to go for a drive outside their leafy suburb, find a pub, sit down in the front bar and just listen. The Owl is keen to get evidence that the columnist practices what she preaches. Please send photos of Ms Credlin on a bar stool.

28 January 2015 10 February 2015 –  The Australian  editorial: 10 February 2015 – Melbourne  Herald Sun  editorial:

From this morning’s Sydney Daily Telegraph Once upon a time the hired help were meant to be the loyal ones.

The Rupert Murdoch I have known (and sometimes worked for as both journalist and lobbyist) is politically astute enough to know that calling for the dismissal of Peta Credlin ensured that Tony Abbott would keep her in the job as his chief of staff. A Prime Minister would not survive being seen to cave in to the public advice of his tweets. No. The cunning old fellow actually has Tony in his sights not Peta. As I  wrote on Tuesday : Be afraid Tony Abbott, be very afraid. The News Corp empire has determined that a Coalition government led by you will put Labor back in office and that would never do.

From my internet browsing comes this gem from 2009 that seems relevant to today’s Australian politics: And perhaps this reflects the Peta Credlin approach to Coalition staff recruitment: