Nemesis takes you inside the Liberal Party following the first big hit to Tony Abbott's popularity. Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5 Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024012...

Language Warning! This one gets a little sweary.

Having won office promising to end government waste and balance the federal budget, Abbott and his treasurer Joe Hockey wanted their first budget in 2014 to hit the mark.

"It all went rather pearshaped," former cabinet minister and leader of the house Christopher Pyne says.

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