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In September 2013 when Tony Abbott the leader of the Liberal party became the Prime Minister of Australia he was already despised by a section of Australia's population. He called climate change "crap", wanted to repeal the carbon tax levied from Australia's biggest polluters, was against immigration and gay marriage. Most famously though he was called out as a misogynist by Julia Gillard in 2012, in a clip that went viral online.

During his campaign he actually asked people to vote for him because he had "not bad looking" daughters. This is just one among a litany of misogynistic comments from the erstwhile Prime Minister of Australia. Gillard in her speech called Abbott out on saying that abortion is "the easy way out." He has frequently commented on women's appearances and desirability. His cabinet of 18 ministers included only one woman.

Abbott soon came to be hated more widely, becoming the second-most reviled figure in the country superseded only by a convicted pedophile. It is no wonder that his reign was plagued by gaffes.

This clip, from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, was aired way back in June 2014. A little over a year later, Abbott is gone, giving Australia its fifth prime minister in as many years. Abbott was ousted as the Liberal party's leader through an internal ballot and thereby from the Prime Minister's position too. This was the second time his leadership was challenged.

If he wanted to continue his political career, though, Abbott could easily find a home in India's Samajwadi Party; the most misogynistic political party in the country by far.

SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav famously said boys will boys and that rape was a mistake but nothing worth hanging the boys for. Mulayam Singh Yadav's comments attacking Mayawati's haircut calling her a "parkati aurat," a short haired woman, echo Abbott denouncing Gillard in her time as Prime Minister as both a witch and a bitch.

The party's leader Abu Azmi even said that if rapists were to be punished then women having sex outside of marriage should be hanged too. Sounds a bit like Abbott's 2002 comment in response to a question on the advice he would give to his daughters on sex before marriage: "I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think are both, they both need to be moderated, so to speak."