Reading comments in Crickey, it appears that Tony Abbott has no idea what AJ is on about or what he wants. Once again, Joyce seems to be running off on mant tangents at the same time, and achieving nothing, except making a bigger and bigger mess of everything.
I'm starting to think he is hiding some really big, bad news and he is desperatly trying to find away out of whatever it is, but he can't say what it is, without inducing total panic, so he is just going into an ever steeper spiral dive.