The ‘national parliament’ is the ‘voice’ of Australians, says Tony Abbott

[@thebaharibaycompany1061]

That’s right.The same voice.Well said🇦🇺

[@darylephillips6778]

Abbott did not believe in a choice when he destroyed the work place Award system

[@daniellebcooper7160]

Well said Tony. One country One Voice.

[@bullshitstomper9417]

He mandated jabs for preschoolers He jailed Pauline He snuck in same sex marriage He works for the Vatican the same people brought you Islam

[@ohasis8331]

For sure. That silly cow kept trying to put word's into Tony Abbott's mouth. I remember once when Jana Wendt (the so called wonder girl of Kerry Packer's journos) said to Bob Hawke, "Mr Hawke, so your'e saying xxxxx . . ". Hawke immediately stabbed his finger in her direction and with raised, angry voice replied, "No Jana! You're saying that, I'm saying this." She was shocked as though stung and pulled back with an alarmed look on her face. It was pure gold and probably the only time I ever saw her rattled.

[@jpduvaure8125]

Mr Abbott, you are 100% right. 👍

[@greg3095]

Should still be the prime minister. He is such a wonderful man and a great leader

[@fringedweller5425]

@Chester Tony was ousted in a coup led by Malcom Turnbull because he refused to sign the Paris Agreement. 2 weeks later Malcom dutifully flew out and did the deed.

[@fringedweller5425]

@Chester You replaced sensible and logical with sensational and emotional... But, worse than that, you think you've done the right thing... What have they done to you?

[@littletony1764]

Look at those supporting the voice and listen to what Mr Abbott is saying. He is talking facts. The others are reading scripts! Vote NO!

[@sabejreid2072]

I will

[@davidshore2159]

Everyone should have the same voice, spot on Tony. Vote No.

[@ozziecoops]

well said!

[@snozzybosch7503]

This man is seriously understated. Well done TA…!

[@LorisBrown-f5u]

Well said, Tony Abbott.... words that make sense to all ..

[@robertnicholson1409]

Well said Tony Abbott !

[@againandagainau]

WOW... Well said

[@pacnbeans]

Mr Abbott is a legend, We need him back in politics!!

[@francisbrown5469]

Have you noticed how Tony is talking without a single page of notes ...He talks about how we live within our cultures but the laws protect all Australians not just 3% of the population ...

[@TheBillABCTV]

I will be voting No. I hope the No vote gets up. If not life in Australia will be must worst in the future.

[@sabejreid2072]

Totally right and I hear that Albo is ready for that - and he'll pass it anyway - but it just won't be in the Constitution, he's planning to do it anyway and then swamp Australia with NZ jailbirds and criminals. Sow division, create chaos and take over. Same as in America.

[@junebaldwin5352]

Tony is always respectful something everyone should learn

[@timwilson4684]

Here we have Senator Cox with the pro voice agenda questioning a former PM as if she is absolutely right and he knows very little - it is my opinion that it is probably the opposite - this ex PM is entitled to his views & has nothing to gain by putting them before this committee - if Senator Cox wants an argument I think she might be better to wait for Graham Richardson to appear before the committee. I thought this committee was formed to explain the proposal - not for arguments for and against. Can you imagine what it will be like if the voice should succeed. So VOTE NO.

[@sabejreid2072]

Yes I will vote No and so will my family and as many friends as I can talk to about this important issue.

[@jimbowden768]

Mr. Abbott, thank you for clarifying the NO vote, ...I will definetly vote NO ! ........Australia does NOT need : ....." we are all equal under the Constitution; ....BUT some are more equal " !!

[@clintclintonforshortbonser736]

First nations terminology is a North American concept. It should never be used in an Australian or nz context.She's thinking of Canada. They keep pushing it though. You never heard it or welcome to country 10 years ago. We need to start telling the truth.

[@Lee-cc9jf]

It is so sanctimonious it's embarrassing

[@Nathan-ry3yu]

I've stopped listening to indigenous communities and activists a long time ago. They get 4.2 billion dollars a year for a small minority of people. It should cover for things such as internet, housing ect. What they doing with the money? To my knowledge they was all given new homes and cars a long time ago but they trashed them. There homes looks like Detroit. They all have broken windows holes in the walls ripped up carpet and camp fire in the middle living room. Cars burnt out at front of there property ect. They did it themselves. They choose to libe in remote areas away from hospitals ect. They expect special treatment from the law. The problem within many of thoughs communities, is themselves. You can't help a lost cause. Australian government and police have been trying for decades to help them. It's the quter cast that wants to claim more lands and a vioice to parliament ect so they can claim more tax money from Australia and rewrite the constitution laws for their own liking. And they don't even live in those communities they live in some expensive apartment in the city and are as white any other European Aussie. They are Antifa BLM.The government shouldn't even entertain them

[@anth5189]

Well if these "people" stopped breaking laws and causing problems, there wouldn't be a problem. Calling anyone who tries to do something "racist" doesn't help either.

[@ruprectgreatrex9153]

NO to 'special' rules for 'special' people. Yes to one Australia with equal rights for all.

[@walterolleroch94]

Good on ya Tony

[@leanneverrier2124]

Dorinda Cox is taking a very aggressive , arrogant approach. Then she tries to put words in Abbott's mouth. Is this what we could expect from a separate unelected body with "special" considerations over the rest of Australians? No thanks.

[@Bella77260]

It’s appalling that the lady senator did not listen and twisted every word around to suit her ideology. If Australia votes this rubbish in we will be more divided than ever. It seems you can only vote if you are indigenous if we allow that then surely we are no longer a democratic nation.

[@oldsgtdad8472]

Labor hasn't thought this through, this comes with multiple hidden repercussions. Well explained Tony

[@sabejreid2072]

And they don't care - it is a Trojan Horse for 175K importation of New Zealanders (already being planned) and so much more - to put us all against each other just like the BLM BS in America and they got 80ML or was it BL to spend on their Black communities but it never arrived. So this is going to be a large Bat to bash us with - and make us poorer and at each others throats. Do Gooder Committee members have no idea -and we don't want them deciding this issue. I will vote No.

[@mariobondanza3679]

Tony Abbot again showing leadership I fully agree mixtures of parliamentarians the best way to represent Australia

[@jasonaqua]

He’s right ..if Aborigines need a special Voice then all migrants ,religious groups need a special Voice..

[@mariecameron1644]

We all should demand our own voice what ever far off country!

[@mariecameron1644]

@Jim Rolfe my dad would have been devastated if he was alive today. This ‘Voice’ should never have got off the ground in the first place for this reason alone. Sinister

[@littletony1764]

Now you know why they tried banning him!

[@jeremyspencer1505]

I never supported much of what Abbott said in Parliament, but on this he is right on the money, and giving an exceptional performance. Well done.

[@lucasroe2878]

Mr Abbott, talking sense. 100% correct.

[@isomorph7954]

The tone of Dorinda Cox is that only aboriginals should provide administration for aboriginals. Isn't insularity the reason for the intransigence of problems in remote communities.

[@em7187-ok4yt]

No, she wants them to provide administration for all Australians

[@mariecameron1644]

@@em7187-ok4yt horrifying!

[@marktanska6331]

The woman is wrong, Abbott is right

[@sabejreid2072]

AGREE

[@jasonaqua]

We are One

[@jijogeorge5792]

Wow I hate when people don't listen to what is being said.

[@kentaitchison889]

Vote no to the voice garbage

[@daniilkeen6178]

How the hell we got as Australians from Tony to Albo? What happening to us?

[@timallan6383]

What an absolute champion of a man!! People of Australia will one day, ( when it all goes to shit) will realise Tony was a true Australian and wanted the best for Everyone

[@bernie4268]

I’m going crazy. Abbott is making a lot of sense. Culture should unite us, not separate us. There are many strands and Indigenous people have other cultural heritage but perhaps don’t own it or celebrate it as it suits their careers to prioritise their indigenous heritage. Maybe it opens more doors.

[@thinkharder1645]

Tony Abbort is a legend. This man has spent more time in indigenous regions that 90% of Parliament.

[@jonh9561]

The Senator seemed to suggest that as an ex-policewoman working in a regional part of WA, that she was a higher authority on policing in aboriginal communities than an ex Prime Minister of this country who later held the post of special envoy in Aboriginal Affairs. The senator went on to suggest that any lawlessness in these communities was due a lack of "basic necessities" but these things are available in the main towns and cities which is where the highest rates of lawlessness are to be found. No to division but yes to equal rights and opportunities for all Australians.

[@normanmazlin6741]

Abbott's arguments are reasoned, logical and clear. The Greens senator's arguments are emotional, personal and vindictive. Unfortunately, in the current social malaise that we have in Australia, the virtue signaling socialists will probably get their way on this.

[@gunt1234]

Tony Abbott! Makes so much sense the Greens Senator or whatever she is clearly has both of her ears shut and truly only follows her own narrative. What sorry and devise Person she is!

[@davidjohn6466]

Well after listening to her, thats what your going to be in for,!!!! Watch out, how could you vote yes,!!!

[@simonrankin9177]

Lynda burney has a scottish mother very rarely dose she mention that...

[@pegsmith8401]

Now I realise why she is aggressive, she is a member of the green party. Say no more.

[@geoffdrew5207]

If the government gets this through they will then be able to put in who ever they want and then do whatever they want to the Aboriginal people and then say it was their will.

[@sabejreid2072]

AGREE and they are incompetent

[@michellestanvic8577]

Good on you Tony.

[@TheRastacabbage]

Parliament doesn't represent the will of the people

[@sabejreid2072]

Parliamentarians are meant to and they are elected.

[@em7187-ok4yt]

Every country lives following it’s law and order principals, not the individual cultures. What nonsense she is talking there?

[@patrussell8917]

Green senator tends to downgrade others comments Constitution is for all giving the same voice not those only of urban indigenous migrants but everyone

[@MrMattias87]

"so besides the racism of police, lack of cultural understanding of police", that's a red herring of a question and a logical fallacy, plus lack of evidence to say that all police are racists. Well, if that were the case then you would expect every police officer around Australia would be investigated under the suspicions of racism as it is a crime under racial the discrimination act.

[@davidbarnsley8486]

Is she a greens senator calling tony abbot the problem not her party and her being the problem

[@margyrowland]

Just say “NO”.

[@michaels5928]

Thank you Tony - 100% Correct

[@danielarlington]

I vote no!!

[@michaelconnolly4382]

Cox you were never a sworn police officer, you were an aboriginal police liaison officer. Big difference!

[@sabejreid2072]

Brilliant - Ha a big difference.

[@stevewiles7132]

If the rest of us have to have an education, get a job, and live by law and order, why not them? Or is it racist to want them in the modern world?

[@Zedinator593]

Race based always ends with division .

[@Bella77260]

Well said Mr Abbott. We are one!!

[@lukeclifton4392]

Funny how when Alice Springs indigenous elder locals were questioned about Police racism… they asked “What police racism?”. As for access to internet and phone, that’s a service that all Australians choose to pay for. Yes, there is a lack of internet/phone service in remote areas… but don’t play an “everyone should have equal access” card. The people who pay exorbitantly for access to those services in remote areas do so because they see it as vital for their business/life… not so their kids can text each other and play Roblox. Ps. Love how “kids culture classes” was the last of her concern to make the script.

[@whatthe6532]

Go Tony. Parliament is the voice of the people.

[@douglasbrown8035]

Finally someone understand

[@robertthomas3777]

So, who is misusing the many millions allocated to aboriginal communities? Over compensated. Enough.

[@margaretarmstrong2445]

Billions.

[@terrieferguson6932]

This woman presumes that her own people are not able to become smart enough to get together and work out their own social struggles without handouts and victim culture, my memories of my in laws where so not that, I was very proud to be accepted by them and I respected them as my parents and family and I am insulted by the presumption that they are incapable of their own forward movement within a modern world, they did it and they were comfortable with their friends white and black, rich and poor of both sides, yes there were small business owners in their community, I am bored with the assumption that they are ALL victims. I hurts my heart all this divisive language and backward attitude and it hurts me to hear my gran-daughter say I dont care to learn about my heritage because other biracial kids beat her up on the school bus because of their own confrontational upbringing and because she just wants to love her family and they have lost theirs are just angry and misguided by their own, I wish my in-laws were still here for her, they were real people and true Australians, respect your elders if they are respectable all kids all cultures and if their not respectable you can make your own choices and get support, its out there billions of dollars of it being held back by people who think they are elders and are detached from their own culture, the victim cult must stop so a proud people can breath and be of generous spirit and good character. This horrible rhetoric by the voice people is going to force many children to forsake their own. I have never asked them to choose but they are being bullied by the programed racism of their own because they dont want a life on benefits. Its their choice.

[@jamiechippett1566]

It's called 21st century living luv! Not the stone Age.

[@DanA-xt8xy]

The problem right now is "The voice" trying to split the country in half, racially, financially, infrastructure. How about we just focus on fixing problems, not creating more of them.

[@edwardbec9844]

There are close to 26 million Voices .. and yet 24 selected Voices from a single racial background actually with 500 differing Clans or 3 % population hold sway over an entire nation .. its laws and legislative powers through legal challenges in the High Court of Australia a group of 7 Justices appointed by Government.

[@yggdrasil9039]

The Voice is inherently divisive. Inherently. You can spin it any way you like, set it to a backing track of Kumbaya, but that doesn't change the essential fact of the matter.

[@chriskranz6488]

Here is an idea....don't live out in the middle of nowhere where there are no jobs!

[@sabejreid2072]

They don't want jobs - they want freedom and their own lifestyle - I'm OK with that.

[@margaretarmstrong2445]

​@@sabejreid2072 Then you don't know what their own lifestyle entails.

[@timrohds750]

@@sabejreid2072 me to let them have it but I’m not interested in funding it. With decisions comes consequences.

[@ZELJKO472]

Parliament is meant to be a voice for all but is full of WEF SS henchmen and women. You have been silently invaded

[@rabidsminions2079]

Parliament may be the voice of Australians for many things but it isnt for Immigration, population policy or housing.

[@rob6543]

Rip in to her Tony , good stuff 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺I’m a convict back round I need to get a hand out to

[@justlinsu]

The woman posing the questions to Mr Abbot can't hide the look of distain on her face ....I think Mr Abbot answered her with respectful replies. My vote will be 'NO' to the voice.

[@davidvowles9497]

There are currently 11 first nations members and senators in Federal Parliament. As FN people make up 3.8% of Aus population they are over represented in parliament. So, why is the Voice needed?

[@stevewiles7132]

Put indigenous police in the communities............

[@darylephillips6778]

The parliament was not the Voice under ABBOTT he told Australi what they are going to do That is why he was shown the door. Abbott GST tax Abbott destroyed the award system so on so on

[@thechainsawbioethicist3878]

The Aboriginal Elders do not want the Voice.

[@selwyn500]

If parliament is our voice, then it has failed us miserably.

[@johnsampson7482]

Technically it is but unfortunately many politicians don't see it that way I as Australian citizens have the right to go my representative or shadow representative of my state and federal elective and express my support or concerns on any topic that I feel They have not the right to dictate how I am meant to view things What Abbott is trying to say is yes All Australians want to recognise indigenous people in our constitution but no we don't want a dictating voice deciding how we govern this land

[@johnfisher247]

Yes it is. I don't mind if electorates are created in the NT etc. Please vote no!

[@The_Resistance_1961]

I may not be black, or even an Earthling (I transitioned into a Martian), but I want a voice in parliament for those of us who are green, have three testicles and don't speak English at home.

[@sabejreid2072]

LOL!

[@modelfxaustralia8963]

Where proposing a constitutional voice for one group and no other group are demanding it

[@adrianjohn.]

🌐sky has theee most authentic digital news ever in the entire world👩🏼❣️😌

[@sabejreid2072]

Hopefully it will continue

[@thechainsawbioethicist3878]

"Programmes" - rubbish

[@SNRUB001]

Dear Tony Abbott. You were the most ineffectual ,also ran in AUSTRALIAN political history. Please take your retirement duties ,kije the nan ,your not. And stay away from the public. You are so misinfirmed that ,if it wree some one else,it would be funny.

[@tastycheesebooger]

That's rich coming from someone who clearly can't spell

[@DuckReach432]

Dutton said the Voice would not improve the lives of First Nations people. It will do a better job than Robodebt.

[@truthandlife4101]

Look out don't you know they have passed a bill for Foreign Police to come on our streets. Where are you going to get more police from when you sack and jab destroyed police service. Tony you did nothing for the people during covid but ready to Deceive them now.

[@MrMattias87]

"Tony you did nothing for the people during covid but ready to Deceive them now" Well of course he didn't cos he wasn't the pm, in fact he's no longer a serving politician....get your facts straight bonehead.

[@jettstream2886]

The no vote is getting the dregs in now

[@kentaitchison889]

Any thing is better than ALBOs garbage voice vote no

[@frankcoates4609]

Tony 'has been that never was' Abbott is a lingering stench in Australian politics. Be decent, vote yes.

[@mariecameron1644]

Decent? You are a useful idiot

[@tlb2970]

I’m voting No

[@frankcoates4609]

@@tlb2970 c'mon, don't be a gronk all your miserable life, do something kind, just for a change.

[@glitter_and_doom9218]

Did the Coalition really believe it would play well for then to trot out Tones to go into bat for them over this? Amazing 😂😂😂

[@Nicholas.T]

Why not mate??? He spoke brilliantly, and put that stupid, arrogant, ignorant Greens Senator in her place!! And by the way do you realise that Abbott appeared on his own behalf, and not as a representative of the LNP ?? No of course you didn’t, because you are as stupid as the Senator 😳😳

[@The_Resistance_1961]

It does seem like an act of desperation given the way they knifed Tony in the back. Retrospective wisdom isn't worth a whole lot.

[@Lee-cc9jf]

@@The_Resistance_1961 The Liberal Party didn't get him to do it. Tony as an ex PM did it himself.

[@sabejreid2072]

What? He had to bash the Door down to get in there and put his case - and it's a good one - The Parliament is our Voice and all Australians have the same right to be represented there. WAKE UP DUDE.

[@The_Resistance_1961]

@@Lee-cc9jf OK, my mistake. Yeah, that sounds a lot more logical - they don't generally bring back people they've already betrayed once. Good for Tony. I already liked him, now I like him a bit more. He's the only Liberal left on TV.

[@dominicpelle7841]

And this is why ABBOTT was thrown out of his own electorate... **He's not fit for purpose in modern Australia & still stuck in the Menzies era and antiquated God Save The Queen.** Go Home Tony.

[@bullshitstomper9417]

He was thrown out because he was going after drug dealers. The cops He was going after Islam the deep state

[@stephanmaric6796]

@Dominic Pelle education is missing!!!

[@fringedweller5425]

Abbott was thrown out because sensible and logical. Modern Australia is sensational and emotional.

[@dancinguy99]

This shows up labor up as undemocratic scumbags

[@novoca1n3]

Have never liked Tony however that was one of the best displays I've seen from a Politician in a long time. There's no need for a "special" committee of unelected individuals representing Aboriginals. They are not "special" people and deserve no more representation than any other Australian living in this country. The Voice will do nothing other than cause a greater divide. Non-aboriginals are more than happy to live side-by-side with Aboriginals. Maybe it's about time Aboriginals stopped causing problems and started living side-by-side with the rest of Australia. The last thing Australia needs is a bunch of Lidia's in Parliament!

[@snozzybosch7503]

So what your saying……..