Abbott is the man Liberal-National supporters wanted, and still want.
...lose the election because the rest of the population are fooled by Rudd-Labor or not.
They didn't want the stupid carbon tax or ETS.
You might remember that Friday afternoon and weekend "pitchfork rebellion"...that saw Turnbull replaced as leader by Abbott.
...when the 20 or so Coalition senators were ready to cross the floor and vote with Labor for an ETS.
They were named on 2GB by one host.
Their inboxes were then bombarded, their sites crashing, the Conservative voters on fire, the backbone of the Liberal party, the older Liberal voters.
The 'Italian-descent' mayor of a Liberal Party electorate was begging one of the Italian descent Senators listed as set to defect...begging her over the airwaves:
"Concetta, don't do it Concetta, please Concetta, think of all your fellow Italians who have helped make this country great, do not betray them Concetta, please Concetta, stay loyal".
It was Friday afternoon, the vote in the parliament due on Monday [put off until Tuesday].
Then, late afternoon, two senior Liberal Party MP's marched around the corridor in parliament house and into their leader's office.
They asked him to change his mind, he refused, so one decided to challenge for the leadership of the party...9am Monday.
Meanwhile, Liberal Party speakers of the House etc were resigning their positions...one by one it was announced on the radio the names of the rebels joining the fight!
Concetta held out all night, but it was announced on the Saturday morning that she too had joined the revolution!..against the leader and his supporters.
Monday morning the nation stopped, as the spill meeting was called and the vote taken.
Tony Abbott was elected Leader of the Liberal Party...where he remains to this day.
http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/624936/fierravanti-wells-a-winner-in-op...Senator Fierravanti-Wells resigned as shadow immigration parliamentary secretary late last month in protest at the party's position on an emissions trading scheme under the Coalition's former leader Malcolm Turnbull.
In a statement at the time, she said she had tendered her resignation in response to concerns raised by the electorate.
"I acknowledge the avalanche of correspondence and feedback conveyed to me from a wide cross-section of the community, most especially after the decision of the joint party room to amend and support the legislation," she said.
"In all my years of involvement in the party, I have never seen such an extraordinary reaction."
As a person who owes much to the Liberal Party and to that grassroots base, as well as to the people of NSW who elected me, I feel compelled to heed their concerns." 
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