It’s been only three months since Tony Abbott’s decisive victory on 7 September, and already the critics are baying for blood. Incompetent, untrustworthy, inefficient, embarrassing: all these barbs have been hurled in the Coalition’s way. Funny thing is, these are precisely the sorts of adjectives which conservatives in these columns would often apply to the Labor governments of Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard.
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