Politicians blaming other elements of government for their own failures is wrong – and bad for democracy
The excuses tumbled over each other as our former prime minister, Tony Abbott, gave his analysis of the failures of conservative governments including, of course, his own. Saboteurs were out to get him, not least such forces as the “tyranny of officialdom”, as the headline on an Abbott blame-shedding article put it in Monday’s The Australian.
But democratically elected members of parliament also done him in, including fellow Liberals.
