The bad polls have even got Abbott's main advisor thinking about who will replace him:
...shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, seized on this account on Wednesday, saying the “revelation in this book that Joe Hockey actually wanted to go further in the cuts in the budget is a stark reminder of just how out of touch Australia’s treasurer is”.
Bowen also said it was “extraordinary” for the prime minister’s chief of staff, Peta Credlin, to name potential successors to Abbott.
In the book, Credlin says...“Joe’s absolutely a contender and he’s probably got his head above every other contender...
...The book also tells of a curious incident during Hockey’s time at university that prompted his decision to enter student politics, beginning a chain of events that led to his federal political career.
It says that Hockey as a young child told “everyone who would listen that he wanted to be prime minister one day”, but by his third year at university he had not mentioned those political ambitions for some time.
That all changed when Hockey visited the University of Sydney’s students’ representative council front counter seeking a movie pass. The woman at the desk “had dismissed his query”. The book says Hockey thought the woman was rude; he felt that his fees went to paying her salary and that meant she was in his service.
“I would have liked her to be nice to me,” Hockey says in the book, “so I thought I should give politics a go.”...
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jul/23/tony-abbott-consulted-rupert-murdoc... 
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