Peter Fitzsimons Tony Abbott:

Peter FitzSimons’ interviews are always worth reading, as is this one with Tony Abbott (“ Abbott’s take on old friends and foes and that misogyny speech ”, October 12). For me, the takeaway message is that Abbott hasn’t changed. He is still campaigning, putting forth his world view as the right one, and everybody else is out of step. He is still bitter about his defeat in the safest of Liberal seats, which supercharged the rise of independents around Australia, and that is perhaps the biggest threat to the Coalition now. His statement that “there was more good than bad in Trump’s speech to the UN last week” certainly puts Tony in the Trump camp, at least as far as weaponising migration, and that is where the hard right will campaign. Gary Barnes, Mosman

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