Freed from facts, Abbott goes ballooning

The Opposition Leader’s discomfiture in the face of certain large repositories of expertise is a matter of record.

He disapproves of climate scientists, of Australian economists on the whole, and he has no time at all for the work of Treasury officials, which should make things fairly interesting should the public distaste for Julia Gillard bear its probable fruit two years hence, and install Mr Abbott as their lord and master. Awkward — via redwolf.newsvine.com