This was one Prime Minister's way of helping in a disaster, with cameras to record it: Here is another Prime Minister's way: FOR 14 long hours over the weekend, Tony Abbott was just one of 1392 anonymous, sooty-faced firefighters battling to keep the relentless NSW bushfires at bay. His favoured white-shirt-blue-tie combo was swapped for yellow overalls as Australia's 28th prime minister joined his Davidson RFS brigade on a back-burning operation in Bilpin, near the Blue Mountains, for a night shift that began at 6pm Saturday and finished at 8am yesterday. If not for a couple of photos circulating on Twitter, it's a fair chance that Mr Abbott's weekend exploits would have gone unnoticed. His office did not issue a statement until the blurry image of the PM giving the thumbs-up from behind the wheel of a fire truck appeared on the social media site. Still can't win: While many Twitter followers praised his volunteering spirit, others questioned the wisdom of the nation's leader putting himself in the line of fire. But in the crazier parts of academia, where the far Left rule, Abbott is actually accused of making fires worse in just the month he's been in power: I wonder, incidentally, if this academic's students are allowed to be climate sceptics. Thanks to reader Mister Hepzn.