As I said at the time, the Australian electorate's choice at the last election was between "crazy guy who will be terrible in unpredictable ways" and "racist sexist homophobic Christian who will be terrible in racist sexist homophobic Christian ways".
Which is what it got.
Abbott was a tenacious pitbull 19th-century Opposition Leader who was just totally unqualified to be leader of a diverse 21st-century Australia.
As was put so eloquently by one journalist today:
