However, it appears that the late leader’s ongoing foot-in-the mouth disease, as well as his penchant for onions has permeated international news discourse, with most publications unable to get over Abbot’s love of onions — green, brown, red, skin and all.

The Washington Post delivered a swift report of the spill — but could not refrain from posting many onion gift and tweets about Abbot’s favourite vegetable.

In its analysis of last night’s startling events, the New Yorker magazine reported that “the Australian people greeted another bloodless coup at the pinnacle of their government with indifference — and onions”.

Describing Mr Abbott as a man who “exhibited a feckless machismo, which often verged on eccentricity”, the New Yorker couldn’t quite get past Mr Abbott predilection to chomp on raw onions, citing the ironic tribute hash tag #putoutyouronions which began trending on Twitter the moment Malcolm Turnbull announced his intention to run for Liberal leader.

In its rundown of Mr Abbott’s leadership, the New Yorker wasn't shy in pointing out his most memorable moments, such as vowing to “shirt-front” Vladimir Putin, knighting Prince Philip, who in 2002 asked an indigenous Australian, “Do you still throw spears at each other?”, and his fondness for budgie smugglers and triathlons.

Very little reference was made to our incoming PM, apart from stating that Turnbull is “very different in style from Abbott [who] in moving the Liberal Party back toward the centre represents a victory for the élites over populism”.

Glint ... Malcolm Turnbull has so far escaped criticism from international media, which appears more focused on Tony Abbott’s intricacies, such as his love of onions. Picture: Stefan Postles/Getty Images)Source:Getty Images

Vox News, on the other hand, has declared Australia the real-life “Game of Thrones” (or is it Game of Tones, chortle chortle), giving its audience a run-down of last night’s events and describing Turnbull as an “evidence-based, sound bite-averse politician” who could wreak havoc on the Coalition’s climate change policy (at some point) and roll Labor in the process.

Blood lust ... Tony Abbott may not be a lady but he has sure been politically decimated. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied

The Atlantic ran a headline pretty much articulating eveyone’s thoughts from 3:45pm yesterday: “What just happened in Australia politics?”

As a number of overseas media organisations have now pointed out, Australia has gained a reputation for the internal overthrow of its leaders as the public watches, generally also confused and surprised to be witnessing another political coup only a few hours past lunchtime.

“Yes, it’s not your imagination,” The Atlantic assured its readers.

“Through the past decade, Australia really has had a number of these sudden-lurch shifts of power. In the past five years, there have been four changes of prime ministership. In only one of these was the Australian electorate involved.”

Blink and you’ll miss it ... Australia has had another change of prime ministers, with Malcolm Turnbull wrestling the position for Tony Abbott last night. Picture: Ray StrangeSource:News Corp Australia

And Slate has also dubbed Australia as the inventor of the “front stab”, as they documented the fact that “Australia just changed prime ministers out of the blue. Again”.

“Down under, they call it “front stabbing.” Malcolm Turnbull replaced the effective but highly divisive Tony Abbott on Monday to become Australia’s 29th prime minister, the third time in five years that the country’s leader has been ousted in a surprise party coup,” Slate reported.

Abbott has also been the butt of many jokes, not least from comedians such as John Oliver, who last year roasted Tony Abbott in his Last Week Tonight show, calling him a “hard-line, right-wing prime minister ... who rose to power promising to be pro-business and religiously anti-immigration”.

Non-Australians have also tuned into Australia’s political debacle despite the opposite time zones, expressing what has now become the emotion most often associated with our political sphere: utter, blinding confusion.

Yet, despite Australians all thinking that our politics are globally important, it turns out the UK’s The Independent got a bit confused about our former prime minister’s name, referring to Tony Abbott as “Paul Abbott”, who is an English screenwriter and producer.

Malcolm Turnbull, however, remained himself, and was described by the site as a “wealthy, smart and ambitious” man who “never hid the fact that he wanted to regain the leadership and become prime minister — and that he believed he deserved it”.

The news site has since corrected its copy after initially posting the headline: “How Malcolm Turnbull seized his moment to unseat long-time rival Paul Abbott”.

Sweet revenge ... Labor’s former Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard have been resolutely polite in the wake of the Liberal spill. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied