You've seen him wearing speedos, kissing babies, driving a mining truck and chatting to his flock. But who is the real Tony Abbott?
In the grand tradition of Bushisms and The Wit of Whitlam, here are the sayings of Abbott's, unvarnished and rich in revelation – the very best and worst of Australia's irrepressible mad monk.
Poverty: 'we just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.'
Climate change: 'absolute crap.'
Divorce: 'Come 2020, I'm confident that . . . families won't break up any more often, because old-fashioned notions about making the most of imperfect situation will have made something of a comeback.'
Female equality: 'But what if men are by philosophy or temperament more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command?'
Christian teaching: 'Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it is not necessarily everyone's place to come to Australia.'
And that's just a taste . . .
