Tony Abbott says it would be ‘right’ for One Nation to remove cartoon labelling Andrew Hastie a ‘traitor’

Tony Abbott, the federal president of the Liberal party and former prime minister, has joined RSL Australia in condemning the One Nation cartoon’s depiction of Andrew Hastie. Photograph: James McCauley/Shutterstock

The former prime minister Tony Abbott has called on One Nation to remove a cartoon labelling the Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie a “traitor” or accept it’s playing a double standard.

Senior Liberals along with the independent senator Jacqui Lambie and RSL Australia joined in condemnation of the cartoon on Thursday and with the opposition leader Angus Taylor’s call for it to be taken down.