Prime Minister Tony Abbott vows to 'shirtfront' Russian president Vladimir Putin at Brisbane G20

[Matilda]

Mr Abbott confirmed he would hold a bilateral meeting with Mr Putin to raise concerns over the deaths of Australians in the MH17 disaster.

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"Look, I'm going to shirtfront Mr Putin ... you bet I am," he told reporters in Queensland.

"I am going to be saying to Mr Putin [that] Australians were murdered. They were murdered by Russian-backed rebels using Russian-supplied equipment."

A shirtfront, an Australian rules football term, is a "head-on charge aimed at bumping an opponent to the ground," according to the Macquarie Dictionary.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-13/abbott-to-shirtfront-vladimir-putin-at-brisbane-g20/5810002

All the media have been kind to Mr Abbott – what he said, in his usual bumbling, inarticulate fashion, was "I'm going to shirtfront Mr Putin – you bet you are – you bet I am", but every newspaper has tidied up his actual words.

Personally, I'd put my money on the KGB man.