"You obviously enjoyed hearing it, so let me say it again: The government of Australia has changed," Abbott told jubilant supporters at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney.<br/> <br />55-year-old Abbott, a former boxer, Rhodes scholar and trainee priest, promised to restore political stability, cut taxes and crack down on asylum seekers arriving by boat.<br/> <br />It was the frustration with Labor's leadership turmoil that cost the government dearly at the polls.<br/> <br />Labor dumped Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2010 for Australia's first female prime minister Julia Gillard, only to reinstate Rudd as leader in June 2013 in a desperate bid to stay in power.<br/> <br />As Abbott and his family enjoyed rapturous applause, an interloper managed to make his way onto the stage before being spotted and forcibly removed.
