Tony Abbott is a ‘very good human being’, ‘his decency quite impossible to overlook’, declares the ALP eminence, Graham Richardson. Coincidentally, this came after an overlooked survey had revealed that both Coalition and Labor voters trust Abbott. Above the plotting, leaking and undermining so treacherously used against him, Abbott understands and has followed the central parliamentary principle that when a frontbencher loses confidence in his leader, even believing he must go, the only honorable course is to resign.
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