"I'm going to shirtfront Mr. Putin, you bet I am"
-"I'm going to shirtfront Mr. Putin, you bet I am-"
Sydney
: Deposed Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's two years in power and four years as opposition leader were marked by numerous gaffes which provoked uproar.
Here are a selection:
-"It's pretty obvious that, well, sometimes shit happens, doesn't it -" Abbott in October 2010 overheard discussing the death of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan during a trip
-"No-one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom-" Abbott in August 2013 mistakenly used the word -"suppository-" rather than -"repository-" to contrast his campaign before the September election to then-Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd
-"They're young, they're feisty, I think I can probably say have a bit of sex appeal, and they're just very, very connected with the local area-" Abbott in August 2013 touting the appeal of an election candidate
-"I guess our country owes its existence to a form of foreign investment by the British government in the then unsettled or, um, scarcely settled, Great South Land-" Abbott in July 2014 says Australia was -"unsettled-" before British colonisation, even though Aborigines have lived on the island continent for more than 40,000 years
-"I'm going to shirtfront Mr. Putin, you bet I am-" Abbott in October 2014 vows to confront Russian President Vladimir Putin at an upcoming G20 meeting over the loss of Australian lives in the Malaysia Airlines MH17 crash
-"As many of us know, women are particularly focused on the household budget and the repeal of the carbon tax means a Aus$550 (US$390) a year benefit for the average family-" Abbott in December 2014 says his biggest achievement for females as the Minister for Women was reducing household bills by axeing Labor's carbon tax
-"There was a holocaust of jobs in defence industries under members opposite.-" Abbott in February 2015 when questioned in parliament about unemployment and submarine development in South Australia
-"What we can't do is endlessly subsidise lifestyle choices if those lifestyle choices are not conducive to the kind of full participation in Australian society that everyone should have-"
Abbott in March 2015 on living in remote Aboriginal communities amid a plan to close more than 100 of them across Western Australia
