{"id":21282,"date":"2015-09-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/bruising-to-lose-the-prime-ministership-says-tony-abbott\/"},"modified":"2015-09-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T00:00:00","slug":"bruising-to-lose-the-prime-ministership-says-tony-abbott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/bruising-to-lose-the-prime-ministership-says-tony-abbott\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBruising\u201d to lose the Prime Ministership: Abbott"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>\u200fImage | twitter.com\/SkyNewsAust<\/h6>\n<h3>Tony Abbott has spoken about losing the prime ministership in his first live interview since being ousted as Liberal leader by Malcolm Turnbull.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cI always knew that politics was a pretty brutal business,\u201d Tony Abbott told Ray Hadley on 2GB.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a game of snakes and ladders, and yes, I\u2019ve hit a snake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Abbott said it was \u201ca bruising business to lose the prime ministership, but on the other hand, it\u2019s a tremendous honour to have the prime ministership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could probably dwell on some bad things if I wanted to, but I would rather focus on the privilege, the honour of being the prime minister of this great country for two years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the new Liberal government would offer more of the same.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/vine.co\/v\/eQuOiYJuguJ\/embed\/simple\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>LISTEN to the full interview at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.2gb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>2gb.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/patrick-dangerfield-says-he-hated-lying\">I HATED LYING: PATRICK DANGERFIELD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/afl-happy-fremantle-didn-t-make-grand-final-says-dwayne-russell\">AFL HAPPY DOCKERS DIDN&#8217;T MAKE GF, SAYS DWAYNE RUSSELL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200fImage | twitter.com\/SkyNewsAust Tony Abbott has spoken about losing the prime ministership in his first live interview since being ousted as Liberal leader by Malcolm Turnbull. \u201cI always knew that politics was a pretty brutal business,\u201d Tony Abbott told Ray Hadley on 2GB. \u201cIt\u2019s a game of snakes and ladders, and yes, I\u2019ve hit a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21283,"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-21282","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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