“On my first day as prime minister, I would pick up the phone to the President of Nauru to accept Nauru’s bi-partisan, standing offer to reopen the detention centre there.
Within a week of taking office, I would give new orders to the navy that, where it is safe to do so, under the usual chain-of-command procedures, based on the advice of commanders-on-the-spot, Indonesian flagged, Indonesian crewed and Indonesian home-ported vessels without lawful reason to be headed to Australia would be turned around and escorted back to Indonesian waters.”
‘LANDMARK SPEECH (sic): THE COALITION’S PLAN FOR MORE SECURE BORDERS’
Tony Abbott, 27th April 2012
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Why on earth does Australia allow a bigoted, fascist and frankly “Victorian era” wanker like Tony Abbot lead a political party?
Is this “bloke” a symbol of Australia?
Lord help us if he is.
Why indeed, Bob. We’re based in Oz and had the agony of the Howard years not so long ago too – a salivating, Bushite walking flag with a nasal whine as repulsive as his politics. Abbott is a monarchist (duhhhh!?) and…an ex Director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy. He and his cronies make political capital from demonising the defenceless – cowardly, conservative bully boys.
Oz should become a republic, at least honour its UN obligations to refugees and do much, much more to recompense Indigenous Australian’s who are fully aware that miners like BHP are taking the proverbial…$22.5 BILLION NET PROFIT (BHP) 2011…
abbott is also a misleader of parliament int e first instance ,misuse of parliamentry privilage example the Insulation program derogatized as the failed ‘Pink Batt’ program. The pink batt program was the bowspirit of a green mandate given to Rudd was economically good as now proven but abbott continully repeated hearsay ,given to him by Warrick Batt the Ceo of Austek manufacture of insulation batts that had advised Rudd and had cherry picked the most profitable orders , other operators began in real competion and Austek was losing orders to competion.
Abbott informed parliament that up to 200,000 thousand homes were installed with toxic Batts being in the trade that would equate to 20million square metres of the alledged toxic material the knockers of the pink batts program Tony Abbott the mouthpiece in parliament undermined public trust trough their privilages of spceeh in parliament and treads the line of misleading parliament Abbott told lies in parliament scared the polity from it’s original mandate Abbott shows signs of fasicist and whoe betide us if he gets in
neale.mcconnell@gmail.com
Thanks very much for your comment, Neale. Yes, he continues to be a major worry – I grew up under Thatcherism, had a brief reprieve in the form of my initial 3 months in Oz under Keating, then the ghastly, deadening Howard years. The term fascist is not invoked lightly, but Abbott’s stance on refugees, his arch conservatism, croneyism and sheer contempt for any fair notion of the public interest, all seem characteristic of the term. Best wishes, a jfreos
I would only add that Abbott is a “psychopathic” fascist. However, he is not the wiley character Howard was, and I think is already alarming all but the most loyal Alan Jones fans.