But Abbott said his government would not be "held over a moral barrel" when it came to asylum seeker policy.
The video below, posted on YouTube, is said to show the remains of a barrel bomb in Homs.
Dan Dan noodles – her favourite – "were originally made by Chengdu street vendors who carried their gear around in a basket or barrel slung from either end of a bamboo shoulder pole, or 'dan' in Mandarin.
And even then, law enforcement had to use a tape measure to sort out jurisdiction, gauging the distance between the barrel of the gun and the point of bullet impact to persuade the local police to intervene.
Or, should I say, one was standing outside it and the other was rolling around on the pavement like a fat barrel, laughing.
Now, as has been the scenario for more than a year, Rangers are staring down the barrel of administration if they lose that particular battle.
Despite Brent crude edging up 0.2% to $94.86 a barrel, the recent falls below $100 have unsettled investors in oil companies.
Did they envy us sitting up there with our tumblers of table wine from a hole-in-the-wall shop around the corner where staff filled our empty one-litre water bottles from a wooden barrel for two euros?
"What keeps you motivated to fight and go on?" Referring to barrel bombs widely used in Syria, he replies: "When you see a little girl killed by barrels or an old man crying cuz his house was bombed".
Whatever the object was, the police suggested it was the barrel of a handgun.
Assuming a nominal $5 a barrel value, the resource announced today would be worth a significant proportion of Cairn's market capitalisation (on an unrisked basis – it is likely the market will not ascribe full value at this early stage).
