PM Tony Abbott prehumously commemorated as #putoutyouronions trends on Twitter

"I'm not dead yet!"

Pity poor ex-Prime Minister Tony Abbott, whose reign was being commemorated before he even lost Monday night's spill motion.

Social media users across the country took to their platforms to tweet pictures of themselves putting out their onions in commemoration for the Prime Minister.

It was a nod to previous tributes to Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, who died last year after being struck on the neck by a bouncing ball. Australians rallied under the hashtag #putyourbatsout, and duly left cricket bats outside their front doors and driveways, and on cricket ovals around the country.

The same was done for murdered school teacher Stephanie Scott, who was killed shortly before her wedding. On that occasion, people hung their wedding dresses from their front doors, and tweeted under the hasthag #putyourdressout.

But the dubious honour doled out to Mr Abbott was altogether less sincere and more mocking. 

The PM, of course, was memorably captured eating a whole onion – skin on – at a photo-op in Tasmania.

And then, to rub onion in the wounds of a nation, he ate another one.

It only made sense for the man to be remembered through a touching tribute like #putoutyouronions.

- with Michael Koziol