Abbott boxed in

So Tony Abbott, the prince of the political pout, thinks Christopher Pyne is a disloyal member of the Liberal Party? (Mike Seccombe, “Notes from the Abbott insurgency”, July 1-7). That’s surely the pot calling the kettle black. It’s like Malcolm Roberts calling Barnaby Joyce bat guano crazy, or Bronwyn Bishop chastising Peter Slipper for wasting taxpayers’ money, and it’s even like Peter Dutton criticising Donald Trump’s refugee travel ban as being unfair treatment of a vulnerable group of people. Abbott must have the hide of a rhinoceros.

– John Bailey, Canterbury, NSW