Tony Abbott | The Foundations of Western Civilisation

[@Adam-nk4oj]

John Anderson... I am not sure how you do not have larger following... You have a very genuine and sincere platform which respects your viewers intellect and taps into your guests available wisdom. I hope more young Australians discover your channel

[@edmendes7022]

And elsewhere. Please let the rest of us enjoy him as well.

[@joannamoore4477]

I have only just discovered John Anderson and I am binge consuming his content . I would love to hear interviews from Jenny Shipley - ex centre right Nz prime minister and Helen Clarke - ex centre left Nz prime minister . Or in fact in ex Nz prime minister

[@MrSilverbirch]

@@joannamoore4477 Also just discovered John from here in Scotland. Sincere,wise,easy to listen to interviewer. Some great guests.Particularly liked Eric Metaxas,Jordan Peterson,John Haidt and Douglas Murray......so far.Working my way through

[@waterbourne9282]

My historical impression of Tony Abbot was formed by default via the media jackels mocking of him. Having listened now to his speeches and interviews I hold a very high opinion of, and respect for, the man. Thanks for the excellent and intelligent interview- subscribed.

[@oldgolfer7435]

They would all be eating raw onions, and onion farmers thriving. Ru486 would be banned, and we would have lots of more babies worth $40,000. from "Women of Quality". Catholic Priests would be going about their merry way, and the current king would have his father's medal. One good thing though Putin would have been shirt fronted.@aBoughtLemon

[@kelliewatt9669]

Thank you John Anderson for these interviews. Impactful, focused, balanced. Long may they continue, Blessing to you

[@hannah1943]

I do think Australia was lucky to have this man as prime minister.for the good of Australia and the western world .I hope you'll be prime minister again

[@Kurtsg10]

Shame that Tony lost his re-election in 2019 to an empty suit. Parliament is the worse without him.

[@anthonyjohn3202]

Love Tony Abbot and John Anderson

[@stanyeaman4824]

Excellent insights into our society.

[@MrLaurence007]

Keep up the Good work Mr Anderson, this makes for good viewing p.s. Dont let this American SJW nonsense Erode australian culture. Call in all the favours your owed

[@brucepaterson6731]

Two quality individuals!

[@Apriluser]

Wonderful!

[@SparrowFC]

The Senate has gone from a House of Review to a House of Rejection. Yes.

[@TheOriginalSupraFast]

Just on our schooling system, my wife is a high school teacher, and even within the current unappealing system, extremely often good teachers are let go and given fewer classes and bad teachers prioritized, as long as you are a full-time teacher you can be terrible and if the school needs to let a teacher go or cut someone's classes they will be forced by the system to prioritize the full-time teacher at all costs. This means that very often there is a teacher with better results in the school that could be doing a better job teaching our children but instead, they are sitting in there office while a teacher with clearly worse results, teaches our children instead. So even within a system that doesn't promote the top people to join in the first place, there is no system in place to make sure the best teachers are actually doing the teaching, not to mention the fact. That also removes all competition/motivation to improve as a full-time teacher, you could have 50% of your students failing and... nothing will happen at all, you won't even get fewer classes little own be fired 100% safe. That has to be one of the only workplaces.. that I know of at least, that's works that way. Anywhere else you would just simply lose your job and be replaced with someone who does it better.. simple and easy. Look into it a bit more and you will find, the system is beyond idiotic, it makes no sense at all, like most things our government does haha.. I would 100% bet if any company or business on the planet adopted the same system, it would disappear from existence within 6 months, never to be heard from again, yet we send out children in there all day every day to learn about the world and how to be successful as an adult and in life, in a large way anyway, kind of super important and I would say the group of people running it upstairs, need to quit immediately and shouldn't manage anything, ever again not even a local Jim's moving franchise, little own running our schooling system.. come on! but I imagine this problem is fairly old so it will have made it up to the top of the chain, so who knows if they are or where ever actually any good at there job or not probably no one and in reality, the public couldn't do much about it anyway even if we did disagree with who was in charge and round and round we go.. woohoo haha End Rant

[@akhalif68]

Does your spouse think that the state education technocracy as a whole needs to be reformed & the teacher training / career development process adjusted or changed - The last 200 or so years of practical experience indicates that privatizing the education of children & teenagers only benefits a small % of elite students who were born into fairly wealthy families...

[@akhalif68]

I also wanted t add that our MSM almost never discusses in a calm & serious manner the issues associated with educating our children in the current technological age...All we usually hear are reports on top Y12 students getting high marks or student teams competing in a English / Math / Science Quiz as well as multiple problems associated with the internet and "social media'

[@mots8656]

Very interesting conversation, looking forward to more! and where is this filmed by the way?

[@marcuswatts7215]

Great Video. I don't mind Tony Abbott but this video clearly highlights why he is way too Right Wing for Modern Australia.

[@daniangoodman-jones3931]

Spoken like someone that is totally ideologically captured. When we started to drift from our western underpinnings, our society started to regress. Did you ever stop to ponder on this. Or are you someone that is all about feelings.

[@nikop914]

bravo interviewver

[@chadjcrase]

I completely disagree with Mr. Abbott about the Senate. You don't need to go to the extent of changing the constitution just because of the poor quality of the current senators. I undertsand the sentiment that Australians actually never want a major to control the Senate again, but we just need to be more responsible with who we put there. To be fair, I haven't see too many good options lately, except maybe the Liberal Democrats.

[@nikop914]

best questions

[@brianvirgin2995]

Emmy Noether was a mathematician who made a huge contribution to Physics by connecting general symmetries with conservation laws. The only two uni classes I got perfect scores in were classical theoretical physics. Her theorem was a high point. It makes sense intuitively if you think about it. In a translationally invariant environment, what would make a mass go slower or faster? In a rotationally invariant environment, what would make something spin slower or faster? So the basic idea is incredibly sound. The idea thus arises, that for every symmetry, there is a conserved quantity.

[@chapmansbg]

I would have a lot more respect for both of these guys if they kept their cults out of the conversation.

[@dailyrants33]

"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea." - Mahatma Gandhi

[@denverbritto5606]

Might be apocryphal

[@claranordblom8968]

I agree with everything this is a good good discussion But one thing is not being explored sufficiently and that is in regard to the lack of attempting diplomatic solutions v. Rather the full speed of military deterrent policies(?) with our adversaries(?) what I mean is the attitude of rather promoting peace instead of defiance(?) how can the wisdom of Australia influence western policies or stir it in that way?

[@edmendes7022]

Teaching, in this day and age, also feels like it carries a certain amount of legal risk.

[@lostinspace699]

Tony is a good man in many ways, Malcolm stands for what ,, very vague ,,

[@oliverjamito9902]

There's a True FOUNDATION. Our innocents youngs sons and daughters upon all the tribes of judah truly deserves indeed. Likewise God IS TO FORGIVE AND TRULY LIKEWISE THE TRUE JUSTICE UPON ALL THE TRIBES OF JUDAH. ALL FEETS INTENT,BASED, FOUNDATION, AND WHERE YOUR HEART WILL BE ALSO. GOD WILL MEASURED INDEED.

[@nutmeg0144]

4:38 damn straight.

[@oldgolfer7435]

Abbott may have done a few things Anderson applauds, but you cannot get away from the fact that he believes in myths and fables, and was on the verge of becoming one of those "Anointed " ones driven to perpetuate impossible unscientific dribble.

[@nikop914]

for au people

[@katherinesherwin4049]

Excuse me for stating the obvious but isn't it true that the policies that are implemented today, not only impact negatively upon the next generation, but the next generation also reap a lot of benefits out of the implementation of infrastructure that would not have even been possible had not the previous generations had the forethought to have borrowed at a lower rate of interest than is currently possible? So, I do not understand why you are constantly trying to make us feel guilty over policies that we have no control over. They are all decisions that need to be made and the infrastructure, housing, rail and roads, etc. all need to be built, preferably now rather than later when the impact would be greater with a higher population. Why the self flagellation over it?

[@elektriknathan]

The Senate was doing their job, your budget was utterly horrible and put pressure on people that didn’t need it

[@nikop914]

god save us...motto

[@ausforaus7617]

I am watching this on the 1st April 2020 ...... "not yet crippled by government debt" Hmmmmmmmmm

[@reasonablespeculation3893]

"faith" a very slippery term... Could mean; believing things that are evidently NOT true... Could mean; believing supernatural claims due to indoctrination, and never questioning/exploring IF such beliefs are based in empirical fact..... Could mean; having a reasonable expectation, based on past experience, that a particular non-extraordinary claim is likely to be true

[@nikop914]

was sick

[@nikop914]

hard to ....

[@nikop914]

kids

[@nikop914]

sick abb

[@nikop914]

sick

[@neilwalsh3977]

''Grow and learn''? Not sure Tones ever managed that feat

[@nikop914]

fanatic

[@nikop914]

pm au

[@nikop914]

his priest

[@nikop914]

pm for au？？？？？？？？

[@nikop914]

any demo gov got sas? any other form got savs?

[@nikop914]

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[@nikop914]

wrong

[@nikop914]

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[@rajivmurkejee7498]

I've always thought Abbott the best of a bad lot . But there is much I had concerns about . He lost his job (mainly ) because of his extreme Anglophilia which many found just silly . He is still going on about how the UK should do this or that . Someone should tell him that when he lands in London he is in a non white city with a Muslim mayor . The UK has reached the stage when it is probably unsalvagable . But then Tony was born in England to an English father and I wasn't . It's his homeland and not mine . Many of us have been solely Australian for many generations His policy on stopping the boats was great and very successful . But he did nothing on other issues . He did nothing on free speech ,nothing on immigration -both numbers and nature . Didn't he suggest that Muslims would end up being accepted just like Italians and Greeks were ? I wish he stressed assimilation and avoided identity politics On a personal level he would get tongue tied and simply couldn't display any warmth . He lost contact with his own backbenchers . These are a succesful leader's basic political skills regardless of ideology . He froze when under the spotlight .I think his life experience was not socially wide although diverse in other senses . For instance his use of the term " shirtfront " puzzled every AFL fan . He seems to have experienced little of life outside Sydney's eastern suburbs and Old Boy "Public" school culture although undoubtedly he knows a lot in theory . But he simply couldn't talk fluently He is /was really a 2ndinC rather than a front man . We are still looking for a real leader

[@legatrix]

Good analysis. Thanks. I wonder if his views have now changed for the better, and whether he has learned to express himself better.

[@nikop914]

this ab bot....

[@nikop914]

bdsrs qus

[@Marty72]

So out of touch, is it really surprising that his party dumped him, and put him in a closet on the back bench. Thanks for sharing his real opinions and not decorating it in LNP spin. 👍

[@Alv11269]

Martin You gave yourself a thumbs up? Just shows the level of your lefty arrogance.

[@Marty72]

Can’t agree on anything. The LNP realised he is on a personal crusade, and isn’t interested in representing the diverse LNP that elected him. He might represent the view of a section of voters, but not enough to keep the majority of voters satisfied.

[@Alv11269]

Martin maybe it is the diverse LNP which is the problem. How about they stop being diverse Marxists & start doing an honest day's work for a change.

[@Marty72]

Aniket Mukherjee democracy isn’t about imposing your views. It’s about winning the argument. If the voters aren’t on your side you are wrong, bad politicians forget this. Tony Abbott was only a good politician when he was kept in line by John Howard. As an opposition leader you can be a wrecker, but when you are the leader on a nation you need to represent everyone.

[@Alv11269]

Martin imposing views is what brought in democracy in the first place. Please read up on the start of democracy in Greece what the motives for it were. It was to give people the illusion that leaders are there to represent them. Tell me again who picks the party leader?

[@yttean98]

Interviewing this guy, I wouldn't spend my time listening to him, he has really nothing intellectually to offer. His thinking is detrimental to my health don't waste your time here. There are more interesting persons or topics to view on KZbin.

[@helenandsophie100]

tean tan.....another leftie with an opinion and doesn't care that others might have a different view on this.....I actually enjoyed this discussion, but maybe that's because I'm a nice person and think this man is allowed to speak his mind!!! I'm sure you think your opinion trumps mine and think mine shouldn't be tolerated!! 😡

[@yttean98]

I must admit I am not a conservation but more like centre left. If you examine carefully you will find Mr Abbott has no interest and/or expertise in two very important areas of Government when he was the Prime Minister, they were Economics and Science & Technology. Worse still he surrounded himself with ministers who didn't have any idea in these 2 areas either. As a result, he was removed as PM for implementing the wrong economic policy and Liberal climate change & energy policies ware in tattered when he was PM. As you can see I won't be bothered about what he thinks because his intellect is below par, he is good at being a conservative on social matters eg stop the boat and nothing else. If he happens to return as PM of Australia then God saves Australia.

[@daniangoodman-jones3931]

Hes a Rhodes scholar you fool. Typical lefty

[@nikop914]

abot is sick

[@daniangoodman-jones3931]

John anderson for pm aussie aussie aussie