This is a "synchronicity posting", as my eyes were strongly drawn to this one when I viewed DW's comment.

Comment by shad01 on November 19, 2014 @ 12:53 am

TONY ABBOTT is being savagely marked down by voters.

"World leaders must be wondering why Australia sent the village idiot to the G20. What an embarrassing performance for the PM," said Senator Dastyari.

"To have the entire leaders of the world together and use that as an opportunity to talk about your GP tax and the fact you can't anything through your Senate, Prime Minister you can't get anything through the Senate because they're bad policies."

"No one wants them and it's just embarrassing that Tony Abbott is out there on the world stage acting like the village idiot."

The Government had benefited from Mr Abbott's applauded role in the international search for the lost Malaysian Airlines MH370 and the jet downed over the Ukraine MH17.

However, domestic issues including the controversial remaining elements of the May Budget appear to have outweighed those global appearances.

And at the weekend there was significant criticism of his address to the G20 leaders in Brisbane and of the perception Australia was being left behind by the US, China and Europe on dealing with climate change.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/tony-abbott-down-in-polls-after-g20/story-e6frflo9-1227126587431 [Tony Abbott down in polls after G20]