Australians love fresh produce, but they're not so sure about their PM Tony Abbott's taste for raw onions.

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott faces a challenge for the leadership of the Liberal Party.

So what's that got to do with onions?



Within hours of news breaking about the attempted "spill", Australians were all over social media accounts joining their cobbers posting #putoutyouronions.



The messages generally marked the poster as someone particularly keen to see the end of the Abbott premiership.

But why onions? Among the other weird things Abbott has done, perhaps the weirdest was the time he chomped in to a brown onion (skin on).

Then, he did it again.

Putting stuff out on one's porch, taking a photo of it, then posting the picture on social media was last seen used in a poignant tribute to the late Australian cricketer Phil Hughes.