Liberals deciding whether to support apology

Further to the wedge issue post, looks like today is an interesting one for the Liberals as they decide whether or not to support the apology.  There have been a couple of good cartoons about the situation that Nelson finds himself in over the past few days, here's Moir at the SMH and Kudelka's from Saturday's edition of The Australian:

They're really into his haircut aren't they?  Not as much as First Dog on the Moon is though judging by this cartoon from a little while ago (and see here for the Crikey gallery) -

Nelson's problem partly arises from his election as leader.  He needed the Western Australian votes brought over by Julie Bishop and the one sure way he could get them (and note that we're talking about the likes of Wilson "Ironbar" Tuckey here) was by saying that - in direct contrast to Malcolm Turnbull - he wouldn't be supportive of an apology to indigenous Australians.  So he's basically made a rod for his own back, and you'd have to think that while he, personally, would support an apology, the tenuous nature of his leadership has meant that he hasn't been able to come out and say it, and that today's party room meeting will spend a significant amount of time working out how to support it without sounding like dickheads.  Phew.

Anyway, ABC online article here, one from today's Australian here plus comment by Dennis Shanahan who, now that the election is over, I'm prepared to occasionally read again.  Boy's just woken up from his lunchtime nap so gotta go and cannae really comment on it all further for now...