Tony Abbott: Australia's Next PM?

hen Tony Abbott first ran for prime minister of Australia, he sensed the election was on a knife’s edge, so the fitness fanatic did what came naturally: He stayed awake for the campaign’s final thirty-six hours. After a 6 a.m. appearance at a Brisbane fruit market, he whizzed through a construction site, met with a mothers’ group, toured a mining equipment company, and then flew south to Sydney, where he speechified, played a game of tennis, drank at a pub, chatted with cops, heaved fish with fishmongers, fielded sunrise media interviews, and donned a team shirt at a local rugby pitch, all as only part of a day that finally culminated in the Wentworth Hotel that evening, where he greeted a crowd of Liberal Party supporters, many of whom hefted beers and cheered.