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Source: NBN Co downplays report showing Australia lagging on internet speed | Technology | The Guardian
Category: Tony Abbott
Saturday 17 December 2016 1 Tony Abbott must be having the greatest dummy spit of all time. Now he is on about employment, or should I say the illusion that there are so many jobs that people are choosing to just not work. The last time I looked it up there were 19 applicants for…
Source: Day to Day Politics: Who gives a shit? Not Tony. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Tony Abbott is insisting he be given a title again. He has previously asked to be judged by his deeds so it would be timely to examine just what Abbott achieved when given the opportunity to lead the nation. Conveniently, the Liberal Party have a website that provides us with a list of their achievements…
Source: Tony’s job application – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has described Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the US presidential election as “the revenge of the deplorables” and says it will put contentious global issues such as climate change into “better perspective”.
It is not the first time the porcine has become political.
Mr Abbott’s intervention in the United States election comes as Hillary Clinton’s lead over Mr Trump widened to double-digits following the release of numerous historical tapes in which Mr Trump brags that he can get away with grabbing women by the pussy because he is a star.
Source: Tony Abbott says Donald Trump’s policies are ‘reasonable enough’ and his voters are not deplorables
Mr Abbott’s intervention in the United States election comes as Hillary Clinton’s lead over Mr Trump widened to double-digits following the release of numerous historical tapes in which Mr Trump brags that he can get away with grabbing women by the pussy because he is a star.
Source: Tony Abbott says Donald Trump’s policies are ‘reasonable enough’ and his voters are not deplorables
Exclusive: Tony Abbott has told right-wing allies in Britain that he believes he has a reasonable chance of becoming prime minister again, Fairfax Media has learned.
Source: Tony Abbott tells UK Tories he believes he can be PM again
Malcolm Turnbull has by any measure had a good week. And so it should not come as a surprise to anybody that the final business day of that good week was dominated by the appearance of Tony Abbott.
Source: Abbott tries to end Turnbull’s winning streak | The Monthly
The 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership confirms that the agreement would be another step in the global capitalists’ march to enslave us. Open, sustained revolt is our only option.
Source: Chris Hedges: The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History – Chris Hedges – Truthdig
Treasurer Scott Morrison has distanced himself from the Coaliton’s most criticised piece of hard-nosed political strategy against Julia Gillard’s minority government in 2011: the blocking of the Malaysian “people-swap” solution.
Source: Scott Morrison says he followed Tony Abbott’s orders on Malaysia solution
Hanson has tried time and time again to return to parliament. Her success this time around is a reflection of the broader political environment, one in which elite racism has flourished, writes Michael Brull. Now that Pauline Hanson is back in the Senate, we can expect ridicule of her in the mainstream media for theMore
Source: Trickle Down Racism: Without Tony Abbott, Pauline Hanson Couldn’t Have Returned – New Matilda
There has been a major break in the decade-long fight to unveil records related to the New York City Police Department’s surveillance of political organizations in the 1960s and 1970s. In recent years, the NYPD has come under fire for spying on Muslim communities and the Occupy Wall Street movement. But decades ago, the NYPD spied extensively on political organizations, including the Young Lords, a radical group founded by Puerto Ricans modeled on the Black Panther Party. The Young Lords staged their first action in July 1969 in an effort to force the City of New York to increase garbage pickups in East Harlem. They would go on to inspire activists around the country as they occupied churches and hospitals in an attempt to open the spaces to community projects. Among their leaders was Democracy Now! co-host Juan González. We speak with Baruch College professor Johanna Fernández, who has fought for a decade to obtain records related to the NYPD’s surveillance of the group. Last month, the city claimed it had lost the records. But this week its municipal archive said it had found more than 520 boxes, or about 1.1 million pages, apparently containing the complete remaining records. We’re also joined by Fernández’s attorney, Gideon Oliver.
Ex-PM’s campaign in blue-ribbon stronghold Warringah succumbs to maneuvering among rank-and-file Libs speculating about “life after Abbott”.
Source: Election 2016: Infighting, retirement speculation hits Tony Abbott’s campaign for Warringah
Bronwyn Bishop has formally farewelled Parliament and fired a warning shot at former prime minister Tony Abbott over his role in her demise.
Source: ‘It’s not the end’: Bronwyn Bishop farewells Parliament and drops Tony Abbott bombshell
I’ve often wondered what it would be like to spend an hour or two inside Tony Abbott’s head. What’s going on up there? What does the world look like? What textures, meanings, memories and emotions flavour the broth of his experience? How did he feel when his daughter called him a “lame, gay churchy loser”? Why did he eat that onion?
Dumped Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced he will be touring marginal seats during the election campaign. David Tyler is delighted.
Source: Abbott Unplugged! Tony’s tour and his continuing “contribution” to public life
Wednesday March 30 2016. Leaders rarely go with good grace. Almost always they feel they have been hard done by. Tony Abbott has joined a long list who stubbornly cling to the past in the hope that they might reinvent a future. Abbott was never a popular leader. He fell into the Prime Minister’s job…
Howard government minister Peter Reith has told Tony Abbott to “keep his head down” and warned he would endanger his reputation in the Liberal Party if he kept undermining Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Source: Peter Reith warns Tony Abbott: ‘Keep your head down’
Even for Abbott, the piece includes some extraordinary comments, claims, and justifications, writes Max Chalmers. From the charmingly deluded to the obstinately anti-humane, there’s plenty of interest in Tony Abbott’s latest attempt to revive his already dead, buried, and cremated legacy. Coming in at over 3,700 words, Abbott has outlined his proudest achievements in aMore
Source: Eight Revelations From Tony Abbott’s Openly Pro-War Crimes Quadrant Essay – New Matilda
Is Tony Abbott safeguarding his legacy, defending conservative principle, or swinging a wrecking ball through the Turnbull government? Whatever the reason, the result might be the same.
Tony Abbott has touted a meeting with the British Minister David Cameron on Twitter during his trip to the United Kingdom, the latest meeting with a world leader publicised by Abbott since being ousted as Prime Minister.
Source: Tony Abbott highlights meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron on social media
The Honourable Tony Abbott has issued an urgent press release to inform Australians everywhere that he has accepted a new title, bestowed by his own esteemed self, as Prime Minister at Large.
Source: The Hon. Tony Abbott, Prime Minister at Large, explains his latest position
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has declared the government will head to the election fundamentally unchanged under Malcolm Turnbull, hours after the Prime Minister sought to establish the opposite, saying his six months had brought significant improvements.
Source: Malcolm Turnbull is running on my government’s record: Tony Abbott
I first heard the scuttlebutt about Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin more than two years ago. As with all rumours, it was handed on to me by what I was assured was an impeccable source. The relationship had reached crisis point, I was told. The Abbott marriage was finished; the only question was whether Margie would throw Tony out of the marital home or walk out of it herself.
Source: Rumours | The Monthly
There was always a significant public appetite for Rudd’s return. Not so with Abbott.
Source: Why Tony Abbott is no Kevin Rudd
In response to Nicky Savva’s tell-all book, Tony Abbott issued a press release in which he, unsurprisingly, sang his own praises. I stopped the boats. I repealed the carbon and mining taxes. I signed three free trade agreements. I approved the Western Sydney airport. I kept the country safe. I made a “strong start” on…
Source: Abbott’s excuses – » The Australian Independent Media Network
A new book detailing dysfunction within Tony Abbott’s prime ministerial office will cause upheaval in the Coalition and may even fuel a thirst for retribution over his ousting.
Tales of dysfunction, infighting and secrecy within the office of former prime minister Tony Abbott are chronicled in a book to be released today.
‘The way they were trying to run the government was very destructive and led to their downfall,’ says Niki Savva, author of new book, The Road to Ruin
Destabilisation, leaks, leader against ex leader, awkward photos and calls for unity. No, not the Gillard government circa 2012 but the Turnbull government today.
Source: Kevin Rudd v Tony Abbott: Who destabilised it better?
In the past 48 hours we seem to have been flooded with people desperate to compare Tony Abbott to Kevin Rudd. This is supposed to be an insult, a way of bringing home to Abbott just how gauche his undermining of Malcolm Turnbull has become. And it’s true that Rudd hurt himself in the eyes of many Australians, especially Labor voters, with his long campaign to destabilise Julia Gillard.
Tony Abbott has already denied being the source of the leaked sections of the defence white paper. The journalist who received the leak, a friend of Abbott’s, has also denied it came from the former prime minister.
Source: Breathtaking breach of basic responsibility from ex-PM Tony Abbott
The similarities between fallen leaders Tony Abbott and Kevin Rudd are becoming hard to ignore. And destabilisation rarely ends well for the party involved.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott has hit out at China, saying Australia and the Asian superpower do not share common values, despite being closely linked by trade.Speaking in Japan overnight, Abb
Source: Australia And China Don’t Have ‘Shared Set Of Values’: Abbott
Who knows what persuaded Tony Abbott to stay in Parliament but a lot of people will surmise that he is positioning himself as a comeback leader under the banner of conservatism. If that is his plan, he is making a mistake.
Source: Flag-bearing for conservatives won’t work for Tony Abbott
The differing views in the party indicate there is tempered support for Tony Abbott’s continuing role.
Source: Marriage, monarchy and the Manly bus: what’s on Tony Abbott’s agenda?
The prime minister can no longer avoid glaring differences of opinion in the Liberal party. In the long run, a frank conversation will benefit everyone
Abbott’s off to talk to Christian Fundamentalists in the USA The 800-Pound Homophobic Gorilla Of The Christian Right
Tony Abbott’s plan for a long-term political future provides an irritant for Malcolm Turnbull but, at least between now and the election, it shouldn’t be much more than that.
Former prime minister Tony Abbott should quit parliament at the next election to make way for new talent according to a majority of electors within his own safe Liberal seat of Warringah.
Source: Tony Abbott should go, say most voters in his electorate: poll
Tony Abbott has allegedly set up a sleeper cell of Liberal insurgents aiming to undermine new PM Malcolm Turnbull.
Source: EXCLUSIVE: Tony Abbott’s Monkey Pod sleeper cell against Turnbull
Tony Abbott has been widely reported as declaring Islam needs reform, but it’s not Muslims who are his main target. The institution he’s really keen to change is the Liberal Party – and the reform he wants begins at the top.
Tony Abbott has declared he would have led the Coalition to a victory at the next election, while flagging he intends to stay around in Parliament.
First he loses the prime ministership, then the Queen declined to see him.
Source: Tony Abbott was snubbed by the Queen on his trip to London
Tony Abbott declares he couldn’t have done a better job as PM but Julie Bishop says it was his own fault he lost the top job, and not because of white-anting.
Source: Tony Abbott a victim of his performance and not white-anting, says Julie Bishop
A change of tone is the only tweak Malcolm Turnbull has made to the goverment’s national security policy, and the threat of Isis is far too great for his enemies to use it as a proxy for an entirely different discussion
There’s a strange phenomenon in Australian politics whereby the most mediocre MP, the state premier who got nothing done, and even the prime minister we all agreed was rubbish will be celebrated months or years after their retirement. For observers with a prior affection for the object of veneration, including the politician themselves, this can seem like an acknowledgement that proper respect was denied during the term of office. Well, it took them long enough, but finally the public gets it!
Source: Undead | The Monthly
Liberal MPs are starting to ask if the former prime minister is on the verge of breaking his “no sniping” promise.
Source: Why is Tony Abbott making so many media appearances while Malcolm Turnbull is away?
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