Yesterday Tony Abbott stood in front of a press gathering in Tasmania and asked could anyone think of “another Government program that had caused death”. There appeared to be a polite silence … I was astounded!

Abbott was, of course, making a vain attempt to defend the need for the Royal Commission (translation: totally redundant political witch hunt) into the previous Government’s home insulation scheme which was accompanied with four regrettable industrial accidents causing death.

Does Abbott think we are idiots?

In the same news cycle we were being told of death at Manus Island!  The mandatory detention of scared humans seeking asylum has previously caused other deaths too …

And then there were the perfectly foreseeable deaths in the pursuit of “weapons of mass destruction”

I’m sure if you ponder on it you will think of others …

Abbott goes to the top of the class for hypocrisy.  Junk politics at it worst!