FED:Abbott backs Morrison after dressing down

AAP General News (Australia)
02-22-2011
FED:Abbott backs Morrison after dressing down

CANBERRA, Feb 22 AAP - Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has publicly backed his beleaguered
immigration spokesman just hours after telling the joint partyroom Scott Morrison overstepped
the mark with recent comments on asylum seekers.

Mr Abbott told coalition MPs on Tuesday morning that Mr Morrison and parliamentary
secretary Cory Bernardi had gone "a little too far" last week but both had been man enough
to admit it.

But a short time later the Liberal leader defended Mr Morrison when reporters asked
if the immigration spokesman was politicising the …