{"id":21241,"date":"2015-10-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/ousted-tony-abbott-takes-aim-at-assassin-s-knife\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T00:00:00","slug":"ousted-tony-abbott-takes-aim-at-assassin-s-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/ousted-tony-abbott-takes-aim-at-assassin-s-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"Ousted Abbott takes aim at \u2018assassin\u2019s knife\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Tony Abbott has fired a shot at the individuals and media who he believes were behind his removal as prime minister.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of individuals have got to ask themselves, a lot of people in media have got to ask themselves, why did they allow themselves to be an assassin\u2019s knife?\u201d Tony Abbott said in an interview on 3AW with Neil Mitchell,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously the polls were difficult, but I am absolutely confident that we would have won the election under my prime ministership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe point I want to make is we were doing a good job,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH Mr Abbott talk about whether he has forgiven Malcolm Turnbull:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he had forgiven Malcolm Turnbull, Mr Abbott said he would \u201cexercise the former PM\u2019s prerogative of silence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s obviously been a lot of dirty water under the bridge and I guess in time all things are more readily understood, more readily accommodated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have often said that Malcolm didn\u2019t stay in the parliament to be someone else\u2019s minister,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s now got his chance in the top job&#8230; let\u2019s hope he makes the most of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing I want to be is a thorn in the side of the people doing what they can, inevitably under difficult circumstances to serve our country,\u201d Mr Abbott said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/former-eagle-exposes-2006-drug-use-at-west-coast\">FORMER EAGLE EXPOSES CLUB&#8217;S 2006 DRUG PROBLEM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/david-king-s-potential-patrick-dangerfield-deal\">ANALYST OUTLINES POTENTIAL PATRICK DANGERFIELD DEAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Abbott has fired a shot at the individuals and media who he believes were behind his removal as prime minister. \u201cI think a lot of individuals have got to ask themselves, a lot of people in media have got to ask themselves, why did they allow themselves to be an assassin\u2019s knife?\u201d Tony Abbott [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-21241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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