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Tony Abbott, Australia's embattled prime minister who was tenderly described by John Oliver as a "human car crash", unfortunately managed to give comics a lot of fresh material this week.
He's been rounded upon for a photo op at the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (Asio) which revealed potentially sensitive information in the documents and maps scattered around the table - but worse than that (potentially), Abbott was photographed studying a map of Isis controlled territory that is over a year old.
The photo, which was taken on Wednesday by Fairfax photographer Alex Ellinghausen, shows Abbott with Asio director Duncan Lewis, pointing at a map of the terror group's strongholds in Syria and Iraq.
One eagle-eyed Twitter used noticed that the map was a copy of one from the Washington Post using old information from the Institute for the Study of War:
The ongoing battle between Isis and other rebel groups, the Syrian and Iraqi armies and Kurdish peshmerga fighters has developed so rapidly that a year old map is basically useless. This is the latest ISW version:
Understandably, Abbott and Asio have been lampooned on social media for the use of out of date information.
Asio later put out a statement that the documents on display during the filmed meeting weren't security sensitive. But people aren't buying it:
Abbottsolutely hopeless (sorry not sorry).
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