Reasons not to vote for the Coalition

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Punch witness comes forward

A SYDNEY barrister and former political foe of Tony Abbott has backed claims the Opposition Leader intimidated fellow Sydney University student Barbara Ramjan after she beat him for the SRC presidency in 1977.

Another former student contends Ms Ramjan was ''no shrinking violet'' and once reduced to tears Tanya Coleman, who eventually married Peter Costello.

The re-emergence of claims might relate to his past life but Mr Abbott, who has assiduously been trying to change the perception he has a problem with women, has not fronted the media since Friday.

In an essay on Mr Abbott by the former Herald journalist, David Marr, Ms Ramjan said: ''He came up to within an inch of my nose and punched the wall either side of my head. It was done to intimidate.''

Mr Abbott at first said he had no recollection of the incident but now says ''it never happened''.

The barrister, David Patch, a Labor candidate in 2004, was Ms Ramjan's campaign manager in 1977. In an article for today's Herald, he says he did not see the incident but was nearby.

''The count had just finished. Barbara found me. She is a small woman and Tony Abbott was (and is) a strong man. She was very shaken, scared and angry,'' he writes. ''She told me that Tony Abbott had come up to her, put his face in her face, and punched the wall on either side of her head.''

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Punch witness comes forward

he says he did not see the incident

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Well done mantra, much prettier than the normal guff one has to wade through.
Pity is most of it is untrue.
Unlike the Green stuff.
Not being a rusted-on Liberal voter I say do your best.
Haven't checked on Skippy yet, I figure there'll be much frothing and no substance as usual.