An honour to catch up with incoming Vice-President @JDVance. At a fraught time, America is blessed to have leadership of such calibre.
Tony Abbott
4,086 posts
Tony Abbott
@HonTonyAbbott
🇦🇺 28th Prime Minister of Australia
- Over the past 24 hours, especially talking to young people, I’ve been really struck by the impact Charlie Kirk has had on their lives. He’s been a force for faith and is now a martyr for free speech. His life should inspire more of us to be more like him: an exemplar of
- Congratulations to President Trump on his return to the leadership of the free world. Self belief is what the West needs right now and Trump has that in spades
- I’m mourning the shocking death of Charlie Kirk. He championed the pursuit of open debate and intellectual freedom in places of education, and did so with great courage. My prayers are for his wife and children at this dire time.
- Recognition of Palestine should be a reward for good behaviour not bad. Recognising Palestine with Hamas still armed, still holding hostages, still largely running Gaza and withholding aid, and still pledged to the destruction of Israel is unconscionable. By all means suggest
- There is no moral equivalence - none - between democratic Israel and terrorist Hamas. The ICC arrest warrant that makes no distinction between terrorist aggression and national self-defence is a shameful travesty. Downer is right: unless it rethinks, Australia should withdraw
- It should not be for judges to decide when a political protest is justified. The decision to close the Sydney Harbour Bridge to facilitate this protest is a political decision and should be made by elected and accountable ministers - who as it happens, think the march should not
- A shameful result from the Victorian Liberal party room. How can someone elected as a Liberal be expelled on the basis of a lie and not be readmitted once the truth is there for all to see? Especially right before Christmas, the season of goodwill, this is a truly contemptible
- With the death of Shinzo Abe in an act of shocking violence, Australia has lost a great friend and Japan has lost its most significant post-war leader. Under Abe, Japan assumed its rightful place as the leading democracy of the western Pacific.
- Israel is doing the world’s work in trying to destroy forever the Iranian nuclear weapons programme and it’s good that America has supported its ally
- Congratulations to @AlboMP on last night’s election victory. As we Liberals reflect on a shattering loss, two things matter. First, we mustn’t lose heart. We have come back from demoralising defeat before. Second, we mustn’t sell our soul. We won’t win elections or govern
- It goes without saying that Australia is a country with an immigrant character. But just because we always have been and always will be a settler society, doesn't mean that immigration should be anyone, from everywhere, all the time. Right now, sustained record migration is
- Dismayed that Australia has broken eight decades of bi-partisanship to back the UN admission of Palestine without renouncing terror and without accepting Israel’s right to exist behind secure borders. It looks like rewarding the October 7 atrocity. Shame the government has
