Tony latest hero of BoreCons LABOR changed leader twice in a desperate bid to cling to office. It sank flagship policies on climate change and immigration. It ran an ugly scare campaign portraying Tony Abbott as a misogynist, a reactionary and a dimwit. None of this worked. Abbott didn't just defeat Kevin Rudd - he left him stonkered and wombattered. In winning, and winning big, Abbott upended the normal rules of politics. The latest economic data suggests that Australia has grown by 2.6 per cent. British Chancellor George Osborne would eagerly undergo a bush tucker trial in exchange for such economic momentum.