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“The Nationals, though, were frustrated by the protocols of Coalition government. They had limited scope to oppose Abbott and his ministers publicly, and so they felt ignored and taken for granted. ‘If you don’t throw a rock through the window, you won’t get heard,’ one Nationals MP said. ‘We don’t want to become an arm of the Liberal Party.”
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
“In 2010, on the ABC’s 7.30 program, he made the bizarre qualification that what he said spontaneously couldn’t be taken as his formal position: ‘In the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. Which is one of the reasons why the statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth [are] those carefully prepared, scripted remarks.’ In a comment that wasn’t off-the-cuff, Abbott was exempting himself from being held to his own words – a privilege he never gave prime minister Julia Gillard.”
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
“He got a call from a journalist, who was in another room on the same floor. Come and join us for a drink, the journalist said. O’Leary walked across. There, he found a celebration of the broader Abbott family, select journalists, including conservative writers Piers Akerman, Miranda Devine, Greg Sheridan and Dennis Shanahan, and dignitaries such as Max Moore-Wilton, a former head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet under Howard.”
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
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