Prime Minister Tony Abbott has thrown back a schooner of beer at a university party in a Sydney pub.

It didn't take long for Mr Abbott to oblige the rowdy crowd who were yelling "skol" during an awards night for the University of Technology's AFL team in the eastern suburbs.

Mr Abbott did not muck around, hand clasped firmly on the schooner - down the gullet it went, drawing victorious cries of "Tony!" from the football fraternity and putting all that concern over "the binge drinking plague" behind him.

It was only last year that Mr Abbott wrote an opinion piece in The Courier Mail following his quiet increase of the beer tax, which was designed to discourage binge drinking.