Slapstick budgie smuggler-wearing Prime Minister Tony Abbott is having quite a year, even by his incompetent standards.
His award of a knighthood to Prince Philip on Australia Day should have seen the leather-faced PM laughed out of office; yet in a world teetering from one disaster to another, it would seem his own party is taking one for Team Earth by keeping him on as a kind of comedy sideshow.
His most recent gaffe came during his attempts to save the two Aussie citizens on death row in Bali for drug smuggling.
Abbott’s idea of negotiating was to remind Indonesia of Australia’s generosity in donating $1billion in aid after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami that killed more than 200,000.
“We will be making our displeasure known, we will be letting Indonesia know in absolutely unambiguous terms that we will feel grievously let down,” Abbott told reporters, probably as he tried on a new pair of Speedos. “Let’s not forget that a few years ago when Indonesia was struck by the Indian Ocean tsunami, Australia sent a billion dollars worth of assistance,” he nudge-nudge-wink-winked.
Indonesia’s response was to raise a collective middle finger and waggle it in Abbott’s general direction.
A social media campaign with the hashtag #CoinForAustralia has been established by Indonesian Twitter users which encourages the Asian country’s people to ironically donate money to Australia. “Go to hell with your aid Bogan Oz”, wrote one angry Twitter user. Now we can expect Indonesia to not only execute the prisoners but to have them dressed in red Speedos and Abbott face masks while doing so.

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