When most governments get into power there's an unspoken truce that occurs where the new leader says something like "OK, OK, I know almost half of you hate my guts and did everything in your power to see me humiliated and beaten, but now we gotta pull together. I will govern for all".

And that's what most governments do - or at least try really, really hard to seem like they do.

With the Abbott government, we're seeing a change in paradigm, where the PM and his office is clearly saying to the people who didn't vote for him: "You're not a part of our plans for three years, so you might as well avert your eyes, you're not gonna like this."

Comedian Chris Rock said recently of former US President George Bush: "He was the first president who only served the people who voted for him. He literally operated like a cable network. You know what I mean?