hi mary! i was wondering if you could explain who tony abbott is and why aussies hate him so much? as a brit, i do not understand. ty x
I’ll start at the beginning of his walk into power. Before Abbott there was Julia Gillard.
Julia Gillard was an amazing PM but disliked by lots of the older generation due to the fact that she is openly atheist, pro-marriage equality, unmarried and female. Julia OPENLY talked about sexism and misogyny in the Australian parliament. She fought for equality, which made men feel threatened. Then Abbott turns up; boasting his nuclear family and christian views, and the old people and men vote him in without thinking. Thousands of young adult Australians like myself quickly joined the “Don’t blame me I didn’t vote for Tony Abbott" Facebook group. We knew he would bring nothing but trouble for our country.
The only arguments that Tony Abbott presented as to why people should vote for him rather than Julia were based around her physical appearance and her gender. He fought like a catty teenager, not like a man with intelligent thoughts and opinions.
In response to her continued fight to stay in parliament he said:
‘Gillard won’t lie down and die’
I think it took less than a week for everyone to realize how much of an idiot he is.
Abbott is sexist. When he came into power he took women out of almost every single powerful role they held in parliament. He appointed HIMSELF as the minister for women. TWO DAYS AGO he told the women of Australia that they should be thankful for the fact that he abolished the carbon tax. This means they can worry less about the household budget, and get back to the ironing!. It sure is tough being a woman, #thankstony!
Here are a few lovely quotes that showcase his sexism:
‘What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up, every year…’
‘The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.’
'I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons’
‘I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak’
Abbott is uneducated. He has done NO studies into science or medicine and yet he continues to make ridiculous statements and push his personal beliefs into our legal system.
Read this to laugh at his lack of understanding about about what Carbon Dioxide is.
‘Climate change is absolute crap’
'If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax.’
Also, there has been some speculation that he has straight up lied about his university education. Here’s some interesting information:
“This is to certify that Anthony John Abbott has qualified for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, having taken in June 1983 the Final Honour School of Philosophy, Politics and Economic (PPE) and been placed in the Second Class." Second Class. As in B. Out of a possible First, Second, Third, Pass or Fail he received a Second. How did he get the “Rhodes Scholership” with a B?
Abbott doesn’t separate church and state. Australia is NOT a christian country. We celebrate our diversity and we try our best to show compassion and understanding towards other cultures and religious beliefs. A quarter of Australians have no god, almost half a million are Muslim; Abbott doesn’t get this.
He used religion as an excuse to treat immigrants poorly:
‘Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.’
Tony Abbott’s new $245m religious chaplaincy scheme is removing secular (non-religious) counselors from schools and replacing them with religious, non-trained as counselors, chaplains. Teens most at risk of suicide are those questioning their sexuality thanks to bullying etc.Where are they supposed to go now?
He used “god” and an excuse to cut down Australian forests. WTF does religion have to do with deforestation? Apparently a hell of a lot to Abbott. In his speech to the woodchippers, Abbott referred to the Greens as ”the devil” and hammered out an Old Testament/Manifest Destiny notion that ”the environment is meant for man”.
Abbott is homophobic. Anyone with a brain should be able to tell that two consenting adults who love each other should be able to have a legal wedding. Abbott disagrees. He supports “the existing definition of marriage”
‘I’d probably … I feel a bit threatened’
‘If you’d asked me for advice I would have said to have – adopt a sort of “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about all of these things…’
His reaction to the death of an Australian soldier? “Shit happens.”
I know I’ve mentioned sexism, but I’d also like to point out the tones of pedophilia he has portrayed.
“If you want to know who to vote for, I’m the guy with the not bad looking daughters”. (then he winked)
‘… [a] bit of body contact never hurt anyone’ (he said this while posing closely for a photo with female teenage netball players.)
He fired a HUGE amount of people, very recently, right before Christmas.
He doesn’t care about foreign aid. He doesn’t care about the disabled. He doesn’t care about women. He doesn’t care about immigrants. He doesn’t care about the homeless. He doesn’t care about drug addicts. He doesn’t care about rape victims. He doesn’t care about fucking anyone other than straight, able bodied, catholic, white men. Writing about him makes me very very angry, so I’ll stop now, but feel free to follow the links I included and to do your own research on him to find more information :) xx
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