Radio broadcaster Alan Jones believes Australia is caught in the middle of a "shit sandwich" following Malcolm Turnbull's dramatic toppling of Prime Minister Tony Abbott (SMH) in Canberra on Monday night.
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Scores of furious talk-back callers flooded Jones' conservative breakfast radio show on Tuesday morning to express their disgust at everything from Mr Turnbull and the "snakes of the Liberal Party" to the "traitorous" behaviour of deputy leader Julie Bishop.
During one of many spirited defences of the ousted prime minister, Jones read out a message he had received from a caller.
"As a caller just wrote to me, and forgive the language, but I mean we all talk the language of the playground, and he said: 'People don't want to vote for Turnbull, and they don't want to vote for [Labor leader Bill] Shorten. We've got a shit sandwich.' And I think that's most probably it."
One talkback caller, Geoff, asked Jones: "Are we going to get all these Green lefty bloody policies rammed down our throat? That's what bothers me, you know."
Another caller, Sally, lamented: "I'm gutted by what's happened to Tony, but I'm more disgusted with Julie Bishop, how she got up and said, 'My friend of many years, Malcolm Turnbull. I said, 'Oh, you've lost me.'"
Jones said Australia had a "lot of thinking to do" following the events of Monday night.
"Tony Abbott was doing a magnificent job in very, very difficult circumstances and getting results, but unlike the others, he doesn't pump up his own tyres."
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