FOR 14 long hours over the weekend, Tony Abbott was just one of 1392 anonymous, sooty-faced firefighters battling to keep the relentless NSW bushfires at bay.
His favoured white-shirt-blue-tie combo was swapped for yellow overalls as Australia's 28th prime minister joined his Davidson RFS brigade on a back-burning operation in Bilpin, near the Blue Mountains, for a night shift that began at 6pm Saturday and finished at 8am yesterday.
If not for a couple of photos circulating on Twitter, it's a fair chance that Mr Abbott's weekend exploits would have gone unnoticed.
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Not to be outdone by our resident fireman Monk the keyboard RFS voluntere he claims he was on his friendsoftheleft facebook page where he posted pics of actual volunteers from his local community, engaing in the type of meaningful stuff our PM Tony Abbott does.
.... Jelous much Monk?
Monk, I am absolutely gob-smacked you would berate Tony for being a RFS vollunteer, given you claim to have been such yourself on your FB page.
Volunteers dont smear volunteers, theres a mutual respect and sense of comeradery... (something you clearly lack) which tells me you fight virtual forum spot-fires from your keyboard... not actual fires the way our PM Abbott does.
