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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 bad blood between former Prime Ministers @TurnbullMalcolm and @TonyAbbottMHR is now playing out on social media. Malcolm Turnbull has thrown his support behind an instagram page dedicated to kicking Tony Abbott out of his seat. #auspol #7News pic.twitter.com/ehCF2PdrX1 — 7 News Sydney (@7NewsSydney) November 20, 2018

Tony Abbott has accepted the invitation to become a special envoy on Indigenous Education. “What I expect to be asked to do is to make recommendations on how we can improve remote area education, in particular, how we can improve attendance rates and school performance because this is the absolute key to a better future for Indigenous kids and this is the key to reconciliation.” The experience should prepare the former Prime Minister for a life after politics with the Owl noting vacancies around the world for jobs that he will soon have the necessary experience for. Advertisements on the web put the wage for attendance officers as: The job description says "Attendance officers track student attendances and enforce rules about truancy, which vary according to each school's guidelines and local laws. They sometimes even track down specific students who have a habit of missing school."

Tony Abbott is not rushing in to accept the offer to become the special envoy for indigenous affairs and no wonder. Prime Minister Scott Morrison seems to have baited a dangerous political trap for the Liberal Party's plotter in chief that is up with the best from the House of Cards. The PM, while pretending to show Mr Abbott that he cares and the public that he is generously forgiving, would be dispatching him to the frontiers of heartbreak and despair. Without any real responsibility for doing anything, the special envoy would still become the fall guy for all the problems besetting our first citizens. The response for any future pleas to Canberra for help would surely be “phone Tony he’s your man”. Little wonder the monk is hesitant about “accepting a title with no job”. The former prime minister this morning said he would consider the proposal but wanted to find out more about what it would entail. “Let’s see what this new role entails, obviously I have been going to ind...

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!

A very small minded effort by Malcolm Turnbull in France for the opening of the Villers-Bretonneux memorial. A bigger man than our current Prime Minister would have allowed his predecessor to say a word or two. It was, after all, Tony Abbott's idea. But no. Our Tony was left to skulk around on the outskirts wearing his plastic poncho. The hostility in the Liberal Party is clearly too great for even a semblance of civility.

Tony Abbott says he would “expect” Malcolm Turnbull to have a sense of whether he can win the election six months out from the poll, following Barnaby Joyce’s call for the Prime Minister to consider stepping aside if the Coalition’s poll numbers to do not improve by Christmas - The Australian

Here’s a letter to the AFR’s editor this morning; @MrKRudd pic.twitter.com/077zD92XEl — Sabra Lane (@SabraLane) April 9, 2018 Asked about Kevin Rudd, Bill Shorten says he doesn't tend to read the letters page of the @FinancialReview — Tom McIlroy (@TomMcIlroy) April 10, 2018 There's only one person who could take Turnbull's 30 Newspoll losses and think the story was about him from 8 years ago .... Rudd's ego never sleeps ..... https://t.co/2qdM8mwpZg — Real Mark Latham (@RealMarkLatham) April 8, 2018 Gillard blames the Medieval superstition of "unconscious bias" for her demise. But people were very conscious of the reasons they didn't like her: knifed Rudd, broke her promises, defended Thommo (a great feminist) etc. What a joke. https://t.co/BCR5P2GUML via @smh — Real Mark Latham (@RealMarkLatham) April 6, 2018 . @Barnaby_Joyce : @TurnbullMalcolm might have to 'look at a different way of doing business' if the polls don...

This email from a reader has just been received. The Owl’s description of our Tones as the “winged warrior” [see  The joke about a Tony Abbott comeback ] is out of order, NOT HAPPY, Andrew of Adelaide Look at this introductory episode of he white winged warrior - The most fantastic crimefighter the world has ever known- and judge for yourself.

Turnbull almost destroyed the Coalition in ‘09, and he has nearly finished the job after his idiotic nuclear attack on the Deputy PM this week. Time to restore conviction, credibility, and leadership: @TonyAbbottMHR MUST return. #BringBackAbbott #auspol pic.twitter.com/Ok90NEqDzb — #BringBackAbbott (@TeamTAbbott) February 17, 2018 And it is not just Tony Abbott's leading Twitter supporter who is calling for his return. “It could not be worse. This would never have happened under Tony” Thus spoke a worried government backbencher to The Owl late last reflecting on the sacking of Tony Abbott as Liberal Prime Minister and the current crisis besetting the coalition. And he is not the only Liberal thinking the unthinkable - that a man the party got rid of after he spent 30 consecutive Newspolls well behind Labor is the man to lead the resurrection from Malcolm Turnbull's dismal position. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed: ...

Really thrilled at the news of Francie and Sam’s engagement. 1/2 — Tony Abbott (@TonyAbbottMHR) November 20, 2017 We are very proud of her and the Abbotts are looking forward to welcoming Sam into the family. 2/2 — Tony Abbott (@TonyAbbottMHR) November 20, 2017 Singalong with the Abbott Family and celebrate Frances' two week whirlwind romance and engagement to fellow body builder Sam! If only our MPs could find such instant harmony.

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Tony Abbott's on the war path. Send in the army is his cry according to this report on the news.com.au website TONY Abbott has been ordered by senior colleagues to cool it after he seemed to suggest the Army could invade the states which don’t expand natural gas production. The former Prime Minister has said his successor Malcolm Turnbull could invoke “defence powers”, telling Fairfax Media the Commonwealth could then take management of resources from states. His drastic response to warnings of a possible gas shortage next year was an implied criticism of Mr Turnbull’s deal with three major gas suppliers yesterday to ensure potential exports would be used to protect the domestic market from gas scarcities. And it was immediately laughed off by senior colleagues of Mr Abbott. “No we’re not interested in a khaki solution,” Treasurer Scott Morrison said curtly today. And a senior Government source said the move would be illegal. “The Defence Powers are a wartime provision. Ther...

Abbott's disruption is raising the question: where will it end? Tony Abbott has reportedly threatened to cross the floor if there is any attempt to legislate a clean energy target. Mick Tsikas/AAP Michelle Grattan , University of Canberra Even in today’s often bizarre political environment, Tuesday night’s encounter between Tony Abbott, Peta Credlin and Alan Jones on Sky News was surreal. Credlin, Abbott’s former chief-of-staff, now works for Sky, where she more often than not is a sharp critic of the Turnbull government. Jones, a highly opinionated voice on 2GB who has a weekly Sky program, spruiks for the former prime minister’s return to the leadership. Abbott is running a jihad against renewables, increasing the pressure on Malcolm Turnbull as the government struggles to bring together an energy policy. It was a cosy threesome, and the off-air chit-chat would have been gold. Among the on-air gems was Credlin asking Abbott whethe...

Annabel Crabb chats to Tony Abbott about the time he slept through several divisions... #TheHouseTV with @annabelcrabb Tues 8pm. pic.twitter.com/eftONdhbeD — ABC TV Australia (@ABCTV) September 4, 2017

Monday morning and the Daily Terror brings us this story of an incident from three years ago: So now we know Malcolm Turnbull is human. He sometimes drinks too much at birthday parties, allows an idiot to make him angry and can swear a bit. The Owl expects his popularity to rise dramatically.

The Owl needs the wisdom of the crowd to answer this question and there's a bottle of Penfolds 389 from the cellar of his Adelaide correspondent for the best solution. What was Sydney MP Tony Abbott doing on 11 Monday nights in Melbourne last year including six in a row during May and June while pocketing a $438 nightly allowance? Melbourne's Herald Sun  outlined the mysstery this morning. Curiously, Mr Abbott spent 11 Monday nights in Melbourne last year, claiming the cost of flights as well the $438 nightly allowance. That included six Monday nights in a row during May and June. To stimulate thinking here's today's political singalong. Submit entries via the comments section below.

From The Australian  28 August 2017 From The Australian  18 July 2017