Tony Abbott: Internet reacts to Seaforth Public School student’s face palm

EVEN the kids can’t handle it. As Tony Abbott’s latest comments spark outrage, this image portrays the collective sigh of a nation.

MATT YOUNG

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March 12, 2015 - 12:24AM

A child rests his head while the Prime Minister Tony Abbott and wife Margie Abbott visit Seaforth Public School in Sydney, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. (AAP Image/Nikki Short) NO ARCHIVING

EVEN the kids can’t handle it anymore.

As Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s latest comments spark worldwide outrage, an image has emerged portraying the collective sigh of the nation.

The kids these days might even call it a “face palm”.

Mr Abbott’s latest gaffe, in which he described indigenous rural communities as a “lifestyle choice”, has prompted the re-emergence of a picture from a school visit the Prime Minister and his wife, Margie, made last year.

We’ll let the kid tell the story here.

A child “rests his head” while the Prime Minister Tony Abbott and wife Margie Abbott visit Seaforth Public School in Sydney, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Picture: Nikki Short

The picture, taken last August, has become such a hit, Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young couldn’t help but share it online.

“This poor kid can’t take it anymore. I know exactly how he feels,” she wrote.

The post has since received more than 80,000 Likes.

Post by Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.

I think this may be the pic of the year. pic.twitter.com/THuX6crQFN
â€” Steven Raeburn (@MrStevenRaeburn) March 10, 2015

A terrific morning at Seaforth Public School - I particularly enjoyed the enthusiastic rendition of your school song pic.twitter.com/17sR1d9OBO
â€” Tony Abbott (@TonyAbbottMHR) August 8, 2014

When photo opps go wrong! Not every pupil was enthralled by Australian PM @TonyAbbottMHR (h/t @matthewchampion) pic.twitter.com/Gp0FyTnDwV
â€” Tim Montgomerie Ù† (@montie) March 11, 2015

At the time, Mr Abbott described the visit to Seaforth Public School, located in his electorate of Warringah on Sydney’s northern beaches, as a “terrific morning” but it seems not all the kids shared the same view.

Maybe it was his 2013 election campaign plea to vote for the “guy with the not-bad-looking daughters” via a video message to the Big Brother housemates.

Or perhaps the time when he said virginity was “a gift” and couples should try to abide by “the rules” when it comes to sex before marriage.

Or maybe it was the time he joked that dressing up as a policeman “was quite good at getting the [indigenous] kids to turn up [at school]”.

Either way, this kid probably wishes he didn’t turn up that day.

Keep up the good work, Mr Abbott.