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GravityLord Nov 19

Tony Abbott, President of the USA of Australia: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/khBX8ZdSeSo7jxN3cq6zLk

Tony Abbott, President of the USA of Australia: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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EndemicEarthling Nov 13

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.

#Auspol #ClimateWars #LNP

News Beep Nov 13

There’s an air of 2009 to the Lib’s climate chaos

Does it get any better than this for Anthony Albanese? Despite six months of drift and indecision and…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #andrewhastie #AngusTaylor #AnthonyAlbanese #AU #auspol #Australia #climateaction #Energy #KevinRudd #Politics #sussanley #tonyabbott
https://www.newsbeep.com/246832/

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Maude Nificent Nov 4

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#Auspol #TonyAbbott #TonesVersionOfStrayanHistory
#AssimilationPolicy

Book review by Jane Lydon, Chair of Australian History at The University of Western Australia,

continued…

“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

Abbott’s Australian history wants us to be proud of men like him

Tony Abbott’s Australia excludes the perspectives of non-British cultures, women, and especially First Nations people.

Maude Nificent Nov 4

#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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Opinion | The Guardian US Oct 20

Tony Abbott’s argument about Australian democracy is Trumpian in intent and based on half-truths | Marcia Langton https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/20/tony-abbott-history-australian-democracy-trumpian-half-truths-marcia-langton #IndigenousAustralians #Australianbooks #Australianews #TonyAbbott

Tony Abbott’s argument about Australian democracy is Trumpian in intent and based on half-truths

Former PM’s new book reads like a style manual for March for Australia types, weaving together evidence and myth, history and ideology

The Guardian

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skua Sep 21

@Spoon

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
#AusPol

earthling Sep 12

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”.

#Australia
#TonyAbbott
#quotes