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Australia has never shown much enthusiasm for the man. In the old days when pollsters asked us who should take over from John Howard or Brendan Nelson or Malcolm Turnbull, we put Tony Abbott way down the list, usually at the bottom.
As the years passed and the number of Liberal contenders dwindled, we always picked someone else: Peter Costello even after he gave up the leadership without a fight; Malcolm Turnbull even after the climate sceptics brought him undone; or Joe Hockey the untried hulk from morning television.
We never wanted the man the Liberals gave us in December 2009. Abbott was their choice, not ours.
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And the party was almost as stunned as the nation. God almighty, one of the Liberals cried in the party room that day. What have we done?
The Canberra press pack was held behind ropes waiting for the result. Bob Ellis was treated as comic relief as he buttonholed us with predictions of an Abbott vict