#tony-abbott — Public Fediverse posts
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I feel like Tony Abbott is going to make a run for pm again.
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Greens say Australia should step up pressure on Israel over ‘disastrous, illegal, immoral war’ on Lebanon https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/10/australia-pressure-israel-war-lebanon-greens #Lebanon #UsisraelWarOnIran #TonyAbbott #MarkButler #AustralianForeignPolicy #AustralianGreens #AustraliaNews
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Oh look, Tony Abbott is volunteering to go fight in.. oh? That's not what the brave man said?
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#TonyAbbott the #RWNJ who refuses to just shut up & fuck off wants #Australia to fight #Iran. Of course he does. #auspol
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Billionaire Gina Rinehart says ‘I don’t understand’ arrest of Ben Robert-Smith over alleged war crimes https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/08/ben-roberts-smith-brs-gina-rinehart-alleged-war-crimes-arrest-ntwnfb #BenRobertssmith #GinaRinehart #TonyAbbott #AustraliaNews
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Pauline Hanson says she won’t ‘abandon’ Ben Roberts-Smith as Greens argue ‘no one should be above the law’ https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/apr/07/ben-roberts-smith-pauline-hanson-support-ntwnfb #BenRobertssmith #PaulineHanson #TonyAbbott #AustralianGreens #Coalition #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews
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Australia would be signed up to Iran war ‘by deception and stealth’ if military support sent, Shoebridge says https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/09/australia-iran-war-deception-greens-shoebridge #AustralianForeignPolicy #UsisraelWarOnIran #AustralianPolitics #PennyWong #AnthonyAlbanese #TonyAbbott #AustralianMilitary #Iran #AustraliaNews
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“Gilbert is being flown into #Australia by #Advance to be a key speaker at a conference in #Sydney, alongside former prime minister #TonyAbbott and #Liberal MP #MoiraDeeming. He is billed to make a half-hour speech on Saturday morning titled: ‘The quiet #coup: how judicial politicisation threatens democratic society.’”
Tony 🤪 and his nutter mates are getting the band back together.
#RWE / #extremism / #extremists <https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/obama-conspiracy-theorist-to-address-australian-conservative-summit-20260212-p5o1kb.html> / <https://archive.md/e8aIU>
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Will Tony Abbott return to frontline politics? The Liberal party’s most polarising figure can imagine a way https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/17/will-tony-abbott-return-to-frontline-politics-the-liberal-partys-most-polarising-figure-can-imagine-a-way #LiberalParty #TonyAbbott #AustralianPolitics #AustraliaNews #SussanLey
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Listening to #LiberalParty responses to the #LibSpill on the #ABC.
I haven’t heard #TonyAbbott’s name being mentioned so much in years!
That tells you what #AngusTaylor is all about. #Lies, #antimmigration, #COAL, #ClimateDenial
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And it's worthy noting that Tony Abbott's whimsy to demonise the unemployed was what set off the illegal RoboDebt program that was associated with the deaths of some 2000 Australians.
Tony seems to have learnt precisely nothing about the dangers of letting politicians' whimsy over-ride the legalities of a situation.
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"Whether a political protest goes ahead or not should be a question for the executive government, not for judges,” he said on Friday.
Tony Abbott wants your implied right to free speech over-ridden by the momentary whimsies of politicians.
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@rainynight65 @spinopsys Tony Abbott banging on about unity is bloody hilarious. This is the same guy whose whole career was about smashing everything apart – dividing Aussies on climate, fuelling endless culture wars, and ramming through brutal cuts.
Now he reckons he can save the Liberals by dragging them straight back to the same old poison that made them unelectable for a whole generation.
Yeah, good luck with that.
The real dead weight around the libs' neck isn't Sussan Ley… it's the mad monks sour legacy still hanging off them like a brick.
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@sortius
Australia is a fossil fuelled colony. People talk about democracy. What democracy, when our politicians are literally dressed as fossil fuelled employees?
#AusPol #Australia #RioTinto #Chevron #Fortescue #AndrewForrest #PeabodyEnergy #MalcolmTurnbull #TonyAbbott #ScottMorrison #AnthonyAlbanese #PetroMasculinity -
Tony Abbott intervenes in Liberal leadership battle calling on right to unite to oust Sussan Ley
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-28/tony-abbott-calls-on-conservatives-to-unite-and-oust-sussan-ley-/106278112It hurts me to say this, but: Susssan Ley is right. She's recognised that if the Liberal Party is to survive, to present itself as a credible Opposition, and have more than just a dream of winning an election in the next decade, it needs to be overhauled.
Susssan Ley has a mountain of work ahead of her if she's trying to reform and modernise the Liberal Party. This comes after years that cannot be swept under the carpet, and memories that stretch back so far in people's minds that we have a clear picture of what is "normal" for the Liberal Party. Some people like Tony Abbott want that "tradition" that he was part of and benefited from to persist, and for the rest of us to forget the aspects that were terrible for most people in Australia.
But, who can forget the lies and racism and RWNJ extremism resembling Nazism of the Malignant Potato Peter Dutton, the lies and racism and self-serving religious quackery of the Liar from the Shire Scott Morrison, the lies and racism and outrageous sexism and anti-intellectualism and cruelty disguised as boofheadedness of The Mad Monk Tony Abbott, the lies and racism and nonsensical neo-con ideology of Malcolm Turnbull, and the lies and racism and mean-spirited divide-and-conquer class-warfare of John Howard?
#AusPol #SussanLey #SusssanLey #PeterDutton #TheMalignantPotato #ScottMorrison #ScottyFromMarketing #TonyAbbott #TheMadMonk #MalcolmTurnbull #JohnHoward
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#RWNJ #maggot #TonyAbbott intervenes in #Liberal #leadership battle calling on right to unite to oust #SussanLey.
Liberal MPs Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor are both in the frame for the top job, but sources say the momentum for a leadership spill has "stalled". #auspol
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Bondi Massacre: Curtailing Dissent
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/12/19/bondi-massacre-curtailing-dissent/
We cannot allow this tragedy to be hijacked by cynical politicians and the divisive Zionist lobby, writes Stefan Moore. By Stefan Moore Pearls and Irritations CN at 30 My wife and I were at home preparing dinner in Bondi when we heard…
#Politics #Australia #CivilRights #Commentary #FreeSpeech #Zionism #AntiSemitism #Antisemitism #AustralianPrimeMinisterAnthonyAlbanese #BondiBeachAttack #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceAlliance(ihra) #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #StefanMoore #TonyAbbott -
On 26th Oct 2021, Australian PM Scott "don't-be-scared-of-coal" Morrison announced the Coalition's #NetZero2050 #ClimateTarget.
That same day, I read the document containing Morrison's 'plan'. It contained nothing to get Australia anywhere near the (already compromised idea of) #NetZero.
There was no plan, no modelling, no change in actual policies. The #ScottMorrison 'commitment' to net zero was still completely consistent with decades of #Coalhugger #Coalition policies. The target was toothless, an exercise in getting a headline to quiet the conscience of the news-skimming voter whose grandkids keep telling them climate is bad but who really wants to vote for hurting marginalised people and/or retaining their current tax loopholes (and who hasn't realised how much the #ALP embraces both anyway).
So with this week's news that #SussanLey has dropped that pretence, at least now there is one iota less dishonesty in Australian politics (albeit one with its own new lies and contradictions).
The last time the Coalition's #ClimatePolicy slightly departed from utter loyalty to the #DirtyEnergy industry was the morning of the 1st Dec 2009 in the hours before #MalcolmTurnbull was deposed as leader of her Majesty's Opposition and replaced by #TonyAbbott by a single vote.
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#Auspol #TonyAbbott #TonesVersionOfStrayanHistory
#AssimilationPolicyBook review by Jane Lydon, Chair of Australian History at The University of Western Australia,
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“As a political history, perhaps it is not surprising there are few if any “great women” in Abbott’s account. Nor that the impact of his “great men’s” policies upon others generally remains unexamined.
Thus the idealistic, rights-informed vision for Aboriginal assimilation devised by Paul Hasluck, Menzies’ Minister for Territories, is fairly set out. Yet the impact of child removal upon Aboriginal families is downplayed.”
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imo the assimilation policy formalised in 1961** is admittedly miles better than the foul ideas it sought to replace, but is nonetheless still deeply flawed — indeed, the policy of assimilation reads exactly like the traditional white (male) view abbott fans would cling to:people-strictly-the-same-as-us are great, people-not-the-same are shit; aren’t we kind to help them be more like us?
**”The policy of assimilation means in the view of all Australian governments that all aborigines and part-aborigines are expected eventually to attain the same manner of living as other Australians and to live as members of a single Australian community enjoying the same rights and privileges, accepting the same responsibilities, observing the same customs and influenced by the same beliefs, hopes and loyalties as other Australians. Thus, any special measures taken for aborigines and part-aborigines are regarded as temporary measures not based on colour but intended to meet the need for special care and assistance to protect them from any ill effects of sudden change and to assist them to make the transition from one stage to another in such a way as will be favourable to their future social, economic and political advancement.”
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/entertainment/books/2025/11/04/tony-abbott-history-of-australia
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#Auspol #TonyAbbott #TonesVersionOfStrayanHistory
Book review by Jane Lydon, Chair of Australian History at The University of Western Australia,The title of this book review sets the tone;
“Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him”
(a line from a George Formby song comes to mind… “if women like men like men like those, why don’t women like me?”)
i would rather eat cooked oatmeal — which triggers my gag reflex — than read a book by tony abbott, but i’m happy to read a well written argument about why i shouldn’t read this book …
Lydon begins her review with
“Abbott’s aim is to restore national pride by showing that our past was “far more good than bad”.”
and concludes “But we do not live in an equal, “colourblind” society. Many inequalities in the present are the outcome of the structural nature of colonial violence, the Stolen Generations and Indigenous pain. Abbott’s partial history precludes recognition of these links.”
…”Abbott never spells out exactly why we should feel national pride. I assume on one level he sees it as the basis for unity. Nor does he question whether “pride” is necessarily an outcome of being “the best” or having a “good” history…
…”For some of us, confronting our unequal past is no cause for shame or pessimism. On the contrary, truth telling and recognition of diverse views seem necessary for a united future…”
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sounds like the book is a cherry picked summary of already biased views of history, and Abbott believes Straya is a great place BECAUSE (here insert the usual white british male delusions about the civilising influences of empire)
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Want to elect a government that you don't trust?
Tony Abbott has a plan.
Vote Liberal so they'll have a “chance to earn your trust”.
See addressing climate change as communism and want the Liberals to push back against this "freedom-eroding nonsense"?
Jacinta Price is the woman you want leading a newly invigorated "centre-right" Liberal Party.
2000 deaths are linked to #RoboDebt AIUI.
Australian Vietnam War deaths = 500.
#TheRoboDebtParty
#TonyAbbott #JacintaPrice
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Former conservative Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he remembered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk as a “martyr for free speech” and “a force for faith”.
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Watching #TheShot / #TheSundayShot.
Great content, great guests.
The failures of internet connectivity between them all make viewing the show pretty unpleasant.
The failure to provide Australia with even quality late-20th century internet is on #TonyAbbott, #MalcolmTurnbull and their corrupt #LNP business-mates.
If this trash connectivity is normal on #Zoom etc then regular users have my commiserations.
For me, this Zoom-like format is currently too disjointed to watch for pleasure.
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#TonyAbbott, former PM of #Australia, shit-stain on our history, went off seeking to spread the de-humanising authoritarian methods.Wondering if he also gave advice to Trump's #StephenMiller that was used to shape the fascist #ICE project.
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Finding former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's passport number (2020)
#HackerNews #FindingFormerPrimeMinister #TonyAbbott #PassportNumber #Australia #News
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Saw the below from The Saturday Paper.
And wondered if Abbott was aiming to get Dutton into the PM position when #MalcolmTurnbull was rolled - which would have had Mr Sneaky outsmart Abbott.
Or were Abbott and Mr Sneaky in cahoots, using Dutton as the assassin, always intending to dupe him?
#AusPol #TonyAbbott #Machiavellian #ScottMorrison #TheSaturdayPaper
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Why Do the Least Qualified Often End Up in Power?
Machiavelli saw it coming centuries ago—and modern psychology backs him up.
This video unpacks the unsettling truth: confidence, charisma, and cunning often outrank competence when it comes to climbing the ladder. From CEOs to politicians, it’s not always the best and brightest who rise to the top.
Explore the dark side of leadership and what it means for you, your workplace, and the world.
#leadershippsychology #machiavelli #powerdynamics #organisationaltruths #auspol #scomo #tonyabbott #PeterDutton #dunningkrugereffect #dunningkruger -
Mmmmmm.
Glad this is coming into the light at such an oppportune time for #Labor.
Decapitatation would have the #Libs at a loss.
Maybe #TonyAbbott or #Scottie would step up?
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1. "said she organised a pair in parliament to negate her absence on votes."
Who in hell in #Labor would extend this courtesy to a J. Peterson-loving bigot?
2. Other AU #MurdochAdjacent figures slated to attend the Jordan Peterson-Civilization Fest, #AllianceForResponsibleCitizenship, are #TonyAbbott, #JohnAnderson, #PeterCostello, #PetaCredlin and #ChrisUhlmann, #GregSheridan & #PaulKelly.
Also invited were #BridgetMcKenzie, #SusanMcDonald and #JonathonDuniam.