Wednesday, February 11, 2015

U.S. think tank compares Australia's leader to 'dangerously unhinged' Kim Jong-un

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An American journalist and fellow at a notable U.S. think tank has called Australia's Prime Minister "incompetent" and questions whether he is "the most incompetent leader of any industrialised democracy?"


The rhetorical question was published in a Feb. 5 post by Joshua Kurlantzick on the Council on Foreign Relations' website, a day before Prime Minister Tony Abbott defeated a leadership spill motion — a push to declare his position vacant — from within his own party


In the scathing piece, titled Tony Abbott Has To Go, Kurlantzick compared the country's conservative prime minister to "dangerously unhinged" world leaders such as North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and Russia’s Vladimir Putin who are "making policy based on whims, advice from a tiny handful of advisers, or some other highly unscientific formula." The article then berates Abbott further by stating: at least these men do not run powerful democracies Read more...


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