Tony Abbott

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Islamic State’s message for us: ‘Submit or die’

PRIME Minister Tony Abbott has delivered a dire warning about the Islamic State’s terrifying intentions for Australia.

Australian Economy

Election13:Opposition Leader Tony Abbott with his wife Margi and daughters Louise, Bridget and Frances voted at the Freshwater Life Saving Surf Club. 7th September 2013. Photo By Gary Ramage

Abbott’s daughter in property win

STRUGGLING to buy a house? Tony Abbott says if his daughter can get on the property ladder, then so can you. This is how she managed it.

Marriage

Christine Forster (right) kisses her partner Virginia Edwards while handing out Liberal leaflets today at Bourke St Public School in Sydney ahead of the election result tonight.

Gay marriage ‘legal by end of the year’

TONY Abbott’s gay sister believes she’ll be able to marry soon, as a Liberal MP whose mind was changed by a ‘good-looking sheila’ hatches a radical plan.

Politics

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott visits Cibo, Glenelg. Pic: Tricia Watkinson

‘Nope, nope, nope’: PM’s callous remark

WHEN asked whether he would step in to help stop an unfolding humanitarian crisis on our doorstep, Tony Abbott’s answer was unequivocal.

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Foreign Minister Julie Bishop holds a press conference in Sydney to speak about the Earthquake in Nepal and the fate of Andrew Chan & Myuran Sukumaran, the Bali inmates facing execution.

Abbott and Bishop’s Bali 9 revenge

ANGER and resentment is growing in Australia following the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran. But what are Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop planning next?

Federal Budget

Tony Abbott and his wife arrived at the Kogarah Greek Orthodox Church at around 11:15pm and was greeted by dignitaries as he exited his car. Mr Abbott and his wife attended the Greek Easter Church service seated at the front of the church. On completion of the service the minister gave a speech and then handed over to Mr Abbott who spoke for about 2-3 minutes to the thousands of Greek citizens watching the service outside on the street. Picture: Gordon McComiskie

‘Morbid joke’: Abbott attacked

FORGET Labor. Today, Tony Abbott is copping it from a very senior figure on his own side of politics. What’s behind the spat?

National

The Prime Minister is in Melbourne and has the following media engagement as he visits a small business, Cafe Emjay in Ringwood East. Picture: Lawrence Pinder

‘How come you say so many stupid things?’

ABC radio host was only saying what many were thinking when he skewered the Prime Minister with this withering question.

Federal Budget

Prime Minister Tony Abbott at the Indigenous Governance Awards 2014. Picture; Tony Gough

PM’s gaffe misses the point

A ‘LIFESTYLE choice’ is deciding to dress like a hipster – not to be Aboriginal in a remote community. But Tony Abbott is right to question whether taxpayers should still be picking up the tab.

Costs

Are you about to pay more for food?

IT’S a pointless waste of time and will force up the price of our groceries. That’s the blunt verdict on Tony Abbott’s latest proposal.

Politics

Prime Minister Tony Abbott making a National Security Statement at the AFP Headquarters in Canberra.

Here we go again: Lib Spill Mark II

TONY Abbott’s leadership is again under threat, with his apparent successor Malcolm Turnbull reportedly having the numbers to topple him.

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FILE PHOTO of Peta Cradlin, chief of staff to PM Tony Abbott, and her boss at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Leaders meeting in Bali in 2013. FILE PHOTO.

Please, sack my wife

HERE’S the burning question for Peta Credlin’s powerful husband: why don’t you just ask Tony Abbott to sack her?

National

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 23: Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop and Treasurer Joe Hockey arrive to House of Representatives question time at Parliament House on February 23, 2015 in Canberra, Australia. (Photo by Stefan Postles/Getty Images)

Have voters already switched off Abbott?

THE struggling PM has been accused of ‘pressing the terror button’ as a poll boost points to voters waiting for a Julie Bishop or Malcolm Turnbull to take over.

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