A change of heart.

What is it about the public and the MSM in Australia regarding Abbott?
This is a man who was a Rhodes scholar and is a polymath yet the MSM keep referring to him as a fool and an idiot and people believe them.
He is a man who was (still is) a volunteer fire warden, a volunteer lifesaver (long before he rose to prominence in politics) and yet the MSM excoriate him as uncaring, a spoiler and vicious...AND PEOPLE BELIEVE THEM!
It seems that in this country your worldview, your life and your actions mean nothing but what the main-stream-media (who are biased beyond belief) write about means everything...what does that say about the average Australians ability to cogitate? How gullible can the public be?
Have we become so reliant on government largesse that we have lost the willingness to risk offending our benefactor?
Welcome to abject dependency!

Perhaps there is more to it.
Is it primarily that Tony Abbott is also a man of faith?
If you are a Muslim or a Buddist or anyone of a thousand other 'protected faiths' there is no issue, no problem, but woe betide you if you are a Christian (or more recently a Jew).
You can believe in esoteric sytems, you can lie like Gillard (et al), bully like Latham, discombobulate like Swan, ponce like Brown, switch allegiances, cause fatal accidents through incompetance etc...in short you can do anything but believe in a (Christian) higher power!

Look at the way Lindy Chamberlain was treated without any evidence or reason and just because she too was a person of faith (the wrong kind). Unfortunately Australia's record in this regard is less than stellar and speaks volumes about the anti-authourity spirit that resides deep within many Aussies.

The solution is not a change of political parties but a change of heart.