Bharat Rakshak

An internationally respected US think tank has labelled Tony Abbott the most “incompetent leader in any industrialised democracy,” as the Australian Prime Minister provoked criticism over his latest remarks.

Speaking during the Australian parliament’s question time, Mr Abbott accused the opposition Labour party of causing a “holocaust of job” losses.

He immediately withdrew his comment in parliament, but the damage had already been done, and many opponents eagerly picked up on the latest gaffe.

Mr Abbott’s gaffes are among the numerable issues a senior researcher at the Council on Foreign Relations lists against the current Australian leader in the post titled: ‘Tony Abbott Has To Go’.

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Encouraging Mr Abbott’s party to unseat him – a motion that the leader narrowly defeated on Monday – author Joshua Kurlantzick claims: “Abbott has proven so incapable of clear policy thinking, so unwilling to consult with even his own ministers and advisers, and so poor at communicating that he has to go.”

Mr Kurlantzick, who is a specialist in south-east Asian politics, claimed that “Abbott’s policies have been all over the map,” and that the PM often seemed “ill-informed and incapable of understanding complex policy issues.”

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The researcher also wrote how Mr Abbott “embarrassed” Australia with his “coarse rhetoric” during a recent major economic summit.

“He seems to lack a grasp of how to deal with his own supporters,” he told Sydney Morning Herald. He added that Mr Abbott often appeared “unaware of how badly he comes off.”

Mr Kurlantzick’s judgement is the latest piece of bad news for the prime minister who despite fighting off internal threats, still has the worst poll ratings for any Australian leader since 1994.

Following Mr Abbott’s calls to award Prince Philip an honorary knighthood satisfaction with his leadership plunged to a record low of 24 per cent, with 68 per cent of the population dissatisfied, The Australian reported

Abbott said the government would not pursue an open tender because that would allow anyone – including Russia or North Korea – to bid to be involved in the project.

“They don’t understand the difference between an open tender and an evaluation process – a competitive evaluation process,” he said in response to a question from the opposition leader, Bill Shorten.

“Do you know about an open tender? Anyone can compete. What the leader of the opposition wants – he wants anyone to be able to compete to provide Australia’s next generation of submarines. He might want the Russians to compete; the Putin-class subs is what we will get from the leader of the opposition.

“First of all, he attacks the Japanese in some bout of antediluvian xenophobia; he says that we can’t possibly have Japanese involvement in the submarine contract because of what happened in Sydney Harbour. Now he says you’ve got to have an open tender. We could have Kim Jong-il submarines, Vladimir Putin submarines.