S3E3 Australia's Future with Tony Abbott - What Dunkley Means for Australia's Future

Former Prime Minister and Distinguished Fellow of the IPA, Tony Abbott, and the IPA's Deputy Executive Director discuss the significance of the upcoming Dunkley by-election. Plus Tony shares his perspective on Australia's failing energy system, and the importance of India to the future of the democratic world.
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[@leonardcody670]

Tony has learned a lot since his time as prime minister . How refreshing to be able to listen to a politician speak in the interest of the people without a word of wokeness or drivel .

[@TheSproutarian]

But you are forgetting, people with common sense have no place in leadership anymore. Leadership is a haven for the woke these days.

[@nevillewran4083]

Most Aussies wanted him to carry that knowledge and wisdom _before_ he became PM. His profound hubris saw him toppled by his own party, a rarity. He wasn't even in the Lodge long enough to score a PM's pension. What good is his new insight now? Being a paid commenter?

[@stevenmitchell7830]

Awesome to hear real policies that make sense.

[@sarahbatsford4791]

If Albo is listening to this he wouldn't understand a word!

[@shaneburns4349]

Agree, our relationship with India, and our defence history, is not well enough communicated. Plus, ... Cricket. It is clear Tony Abbott should be our PM. You eat one onion...knight someone and people can not see the woods for the trees.

[@Eric-kn4yn]

Relationship india a joke indian exports millions of them to us unwanted uneeded 👽👽👽😡😡😡

[@shaneburns4349]

agreed, I also think Dutton will be good for us. But If you vote green, you vote for a lack of prosperity @@d.a2500

[@melenaitestatham7988]

This is a very serious issue and have to be talked and discussed about our safety. Thanks Tony Abbot I support you 100 percent.

[@antoniahowarth-wass5001]

Fantastic

[@C165095]

We miss you as Prime Minister, Mr Abbott

[@baronvonaux8294]

LOL...an abject failure as a leader. No vision, no policies relevant to modern Australia, increased net debt and decreased productivity. If you miss that you are a fool. Even his own conservative colleagues couldn't stand him. You should watch Nemesis.

[@FORTISIAKING]

No we don't 🤣

[@markrockliff2742]

There is we in I dim wit!@@FORTISIAKING

[@corinnewatts6683]

The original vaccine mandates, breaching human rights, were put in place by Tony Abbott. No jab, no play. I don't miss him at all, and I don't idolise politicians. They are not the higher beings they like to project themselves as.

[@franktully3065]

I don't miss his bizarre desire for Constitutional Recognition of Aborigines.

[@jimstocks]

Why isn’t Tony Abbot prime minister he talks sense no smoke & mirrors

[@brucejohnston3521]

globalist had to get him out

[@jennyohara4011]

because no one likes a Catholic Priest as PM

[@Eric-kn4yn]

​@@jennyohara4011catholic clergy coming run children run 🏃‍♀️🏃🏃‍♂️

[@baronvonaux8294]

Because he was an abject failure, who had literally no vision, no courage to drive reform, and was an autocratic leader whose own team couldn't stand him.

[@nevillewran4083]

The Tories very rarely topple their own PM or premier. Hardly ever. The fact they removed him not 2 years in speaks volumes about his leadership.

[@keltonreyneke8948]

Abbott would make a better PM today then any of the others on offer

[@oldgolfer7435]

A lot of farmers wouldn't agree. Thay had to stop growing brown onions! If your Tony had been Prime Minister there would not have been a Royal Commission into child sex abuse and his Catholic mates in the church would have gone unpunished.

[@keltonreyneke8948]

@@FORTISIAKING okay, counter point ?

[@keltonreyneke8948]

@@oldgolfer7435 Your saying that people who believe in god are okay with what exactly ?

[@FORTISIAKING]

@@keltonreyneke8948 he spent more money than Malcolm turnbull and everything he wanted to do was pretty much blocked 🚫 by the senate!! He did get rid of the carbon tax yes that was good although that wasn't even legislated at that point!!

[@oldgolfer7435]

Abbott actually said that he would not support the Royal Commission ,"Because it would only turn into a witch hunt against the Catholic Church". I believe that most deluded people who believe in their own particular extra terrestrial superior entity are just that, deluded and do no harm, but many in the Catholic Church put the tainted name of the church before the victim.@@keltonreyneke8948

[@TheSproutarian]

Nice to see Tony in a custom suit.

[@suemcc36]

Thank you Tony Abbott. You were always a good politician & would have been a great PM if the media & some of your party supported you. Please come back! 🙏

[@simonsays1370]

Bring Tony Abbott back in the next election and the Liberals could win.

[@suemcc36]

@@simonsays1370 I agree 💯

[@sentientbean1]

Good for Tony and the country if he’s staying in public service and helping Australia’s cause. Not my political cup of tea in many respects, but he tends to mean well and you can’t fault his passion to win one for Australia. Like most men, they get better with age.

[@milosradovanovic5280]

We must use all sources we have in Australia, definitely. 🇺🇸💯👍🙏🤗🐖❤️🇦🇺 16:39

[@vivianoosthuizen8990]

And so say all of us Tony it’s madness with taxpayers money

[@milosradovanovic5280]

Correct, upfront change of heart is acceptable. 🇺🇸💯👍🙏🤗🐖❤️🇦🇺 9:34

[@Vernon353]

Tony Abbott was a boxer and rugby player. Definitely suffering from CTE.

[@jennyohara4011]

Labor will win for sure now that Abbott has entered the frey

[@cyberprince8272]

Why is this guy still relevant 😂

[@bmoey5635]

Fark the elites

[@milosradovanovic5280]

I do agree. 🇺🇸💯👍🙏🤗🐖❤️🇦🇺 7:36

[@milosradovanovic5280]

Correct 🇺🇸💯👍🙏🤗🐖❤️🇦🇺 28:06

[@vivianoosthuizen8990]

Australia is a different kettle of fish because of distance it’s not European countries or Britain’s size

[@milosradovanovic5280]

Correct 🇺🇸💯👍🙏🤗🐖❤️🇦🇺 15:18

[@euclid2994]

Has he eaten a onion after the Dunkley labor win?

[@farmerdeanoutlookcomau]

Thank you Daniel and prime Minister Tony Abbott. Great conversation fellas.

[@brucejohnston3521]

Get OUT of the WHO TREATY 🦘👿💯

[@alancotterell9207]

If Abbott tries to make a come back, a discussion might start about the Catholic Church, religious freedom and antisemitism - they are not separate issues. Get rid of him !

[@Eric-kn4yn]

Will he discuss record 👽 migration maybe not poison chalice

[@whatever9770]

I’m sure he would if he was asked. Loves his country.

[@daniellivings6638]

Unfortunately this old phogey is one foot in the grave and has a very dated view on the future of energy markets.

[@Vernon353]

Tony believes an invisible man in the sky created fake dinosaur bones and put them underground to “test our faith”. 😂😂😂

[@nevillewran4083]

IPA has stepped further down into the gutter since I last visited. Honestly, IPA, now you're sounding like Sky News. You're very well-funded, what happened to the mature, adult approach to right wing propaganda? Where you respected your audience and assumed they were reasonably economically & politically literate? Now you're tabloid, sensationalist and jingo. I bet many regulars fled.

[@paulchilds9137]

Abbott is not worth my time. Who cares what he thinks.

[@mdaddy775]

One of the worst communicators in Australian history. But a decent and smart guy, I'll give him those

[@whatever9770]

The backdrop is too busy, and takes the attention from the interviewee. Take out at least a third of the clutter.

[@cynthiahalim4642]

Try to be blind like me and listen instead.

[@virginiacharlotte7007]

Nice bit of Kmart tatt 😂

[@number2664]

Abbott has no business talking about broken promises. This interview was always to be slanted against labor because Tony actually tuned up. Not sure the WA liberal candidate was all that popular, if I recall there was quite a bit of nasty history with him

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

LOLO. Name one broken promise ! There were NONE !

[@whatever9770]

Example?

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

@whatever9770 : He does not have an example.

[@AllanMcKinnon-d6s]

Abbott said there would be no cuts to Education,No cuts to health and no cuts to ABC . What did he do? Massive cuts to all three when he was re-elected. Abbott one of our worst PM,s

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

@@AllanMcKinnon-d6s : Absolute RUBBISH. He increased all of those including the famous BILLION dollar ABC budget. Stop tell fibs.

[@robertlee3060]

We can only imagine where we would be in Australia if this was the 10th year of an Abbott coalition government. Imagine if Turnbull and Morrison had never been PM, the pandemic had been managed under Abbott's plan without lock downs and people had accepted the $10 Medicare co-payment. Imagine the principled stand our Nation would be taking now on Israel and home-grown support for radical Islam, and on support for Ukraine.

[@TheAussieCro]

He should come back!

[@TheAussieCro]

He should come back!

[@nevillewran4083]

We had one of the lowest Covid death rates in the world, due to lockdowns & other protocols. Without them, how many more would die? Twice as many? Easy to say 'Lockdowns bad' until your parent, spouse or best friend succumbs. TA also spent like a drunken sailor & never listened to advice. I shudder to imagine Australia 2024 under religious bigot Abbott.

[@vivianoosthuizen8990]

Messing with a country’s power supply and it destroy the economy look at Germany and what they are experiencing for listening to partners!

[@vivianoosthuizen8990]

There is currently an unprecedented number of generators wanting to connect to the power system. And more generators are connecting in places where lots of other generators are already connected, so some lines are becoming heavily loaded - making the electrical losses worse.

[@milosradovanovic5280]

Corporate Australia must stick with do business insted to play politics. 🇺🇸💯👍🙏🤗🐖❤️🇦🇺 31:05

[@milosradovanovic5280]

Definitely 🇺🇸💯👍🙏🤗🐖❤️🇦🇺 23:59

[@stephenhintz4628]

The mad monk needs to fade away, he is totally irrelevant - read Niki Savva’s novel, The Road to Ruin.