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<span class="date-display-single">Sat, 18/08/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/532">Carlo Sands</a></span></div><p>Congratulations to Tony Abbott on becoming prime minister. We all know how <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/windsor-calls-out-abbott-youd-do-anything-but-sell-your-arse/story-fndo48ca-1226452005882">just badly he wanted this job</a>, and he didn't even have to sell his arse. Or worse, support nominal action on climate change.</p>
<p>His rise to the nation's top office was marked on August 15, when his government passed his asylum seeker policies, with the opposition — Adam Bandt and Andrew Wilkie — voting against.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51943" target="_blank">read more</a></p>