Waldo: Will I get paid for overtime? taking 25 mg clomid His bid for Australia's top job, though, has seen him try to soften his image. In debates, he has done his best to avoid seeming too confrontational. And he has scrupulously avoided being photographed in his so-called "budgie smugglers" - tight red swimming trunks - which made him a national laughing stock when he once appeared in them during a triathlon in Queensland. During an appearance last Sunday at Bondi Beach, where Mr Abbott is a member of a local lifesaving club, he turned up in jeans and shirt, declaring the election campaign a "budgie smuggler-free zone."