Tony Abbott | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union 

From another crow too

He's a maniac actually. You poor fool

@@lucasadam65 please substantiate these claims. The OP is right, every time a liberal government has stepped in (other than Turnbull who is a Wolf in Sheep's clothing) they have had to not only bring the budget into a surplus rather than the constant deficit Labor governments have brought, but improve on everything the Labor party did. They succeeded. Tony campaigned hard and fought hard against the far left "GetUp" campaign and the Labor party, and now we have won the election. Here's to three years of health and prosperity with the help of the Morrison government.

I think the smirk might have been him thinking here we go

*Winks at the moderator

Matthew Smith- Are you nuts? Driving up energy prices does not encourage employment, except in China, Bangladesh and India, where all of our manufacturing jobs have been disappearing to for the last 30 years. Coupled with the fact that these countries are also exempt from the Paris Climate hoax targets for at least 15 years, as well as the FACT that Australia contributes less than 2% of the world’s pollution, it’s a stupid, stupid move.

I didn't mention anything about the carbon tax increasing employment, merely that we lowered our income taxes when it was introduced (ie lowered the tax on employment) and raised a tax on pollution. But since you've bought it up, yes, changing energy sources does increase jobs in the short term, someone has to do the work of installing the equipment and designing the systems etc rather than just day to day maintenance. In the long term all jobs will be lost to automation regardless of whether we stay with coal or move to renewables so holding on to them for another 10 years is ultimately a drop in the ocean. Renewable energy is not the source of the increased power bills within Australia, if you were to remove all subsidies that both coal and renewables receive then both solar and wind, accompanied with an appropriately sized battery, already beat coal for total lifetime cost. The reason electricity bills have been increasing has been due to electricity distribution companies ramping up wholesale costs, not electricity generation companies. ( www.accc.gov.au/system/files/Retail%20Electricity%20Inquiry%20-%20Preliminary%20report%20-%2013%20November%202017.pdf ) Australia contributes 1.2% of global emissions while having 0.3% of world population, we're contributing 4x our fair share and thus need to act first. If we were already contributing less per capita than China then yes, I would agree with you. The entirety of the mining, electricity, gas and water industries accounts for 2.8% of all jobs in Australia, this is including renewable energy. Do you really think the risk of a systematic destruction of our entire ecosystem is worth maintaining the jobs of less than 1 in 35 Australians, most of which will easily be able to pivot to other jobs? ( www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1718/Quick_Guides/EmployIndustry )

Making a tax based on something that is fundamentally a lie?

@Nat Smythe what small businesses are excessively polluting? It's almost exclusively large corporations that are the source of emissions.

Lucky Henry- Paul Keating? Speaking of nobody..

Indi Sargent Paul Keating transformed the Australian economy with Bob Hawke and then grew our social wage further as PM. He left school age 14 and never went to university. Apparently you need not be Oxford educated to become a competent leader. Far from any nobody

@David Velevski I'm a Labor voter and member of the party. I do not forget any Labor government. Many labor governments are behind the substantive reforms in Australia whether it is Chifley, Whitlam, Hawke or Keating. The most reformist governments have always been Labor. Even amid leadership turmoil the Rudd and Gillard governments were chief architects of the NBN, NDIS scheme and Gonski school reform with the Gillard government being the main designer of the NDIS and school reforms. Significant reforms to the entire financial services sector was delivered by the Rudd government after they saw Australia through the 2008 GFC. I will take Rudd and Gillard any day over this embarrassment of a Federal Coalition government in Canberra. Apparently many rusted on Liberal voters do not even want to vote Liberal anymore as was self evident in the Victorian 2018 election. Remember that the ALP has spent significantly less time in government than the Liberal party.

@@PattoDan88 NBN is a joke, Rudd had decent policies but sadly a terrible personality, hence why he got kicked out. I think though that under Shorten, Labor will move away from the sound economic policies of the past to more populist-left policies to garner votes.

@David Velevski im agreement with you but would also add, the only reason the labor government was able to give a financial stimulus was because of the careful financial governing done by the Howard govt who got australia back in the black, without that labor could not be falsely labelled as the architects behind Australia's good performance through the gfc. the decision for stimulus was indeed a good one but the fact they were able to do it is because of the Howard govt, next time there is a gfc we most likely wont be able to do that and that is largely due to the stereotypical labor spending, so claiming that they are behind so many reforms that have delivered deficit budgets time and time again is not something labor voters should be proud of, theyve had 1 succesful period in the boom time of the 80's by endorsing right wing economic policies, the opposite of what most of the labor socialists believe in. Its always the same with everything leftwing, it all sounds good on the surface but upon deeper analysis it is revealed as bunk, just like socialism, only the young and the ignorant buy into it. Have a listen to Kevin "narcissist" Rudd's speech, besides being in love with his communist mates in china and saying "trump bad china good" what does he add? besides heaping praise on himself and offering some truly woeful unsophisticated pop Theology, the guy is an absolute pretender only concerned with winning popularity contests, at least Tony abbot tried to right the ship and make the unpopular decision of cutting back on out of control spending, but of course labor couldnt be in agreement with something thats unpopular but good for the country, no theyre way to concerned with being superficial as is evident in their narcissistic and intellectually bankrupt leaders, have you heard one of their latest policies about the mythical gender pay gap??? I mean how stupid are their electorate that they can endorse policies that are largely myths perpetuated by disgruntled feminists, there is not one serious economist that has endorsed the gender wage gap, it has been thoroughly debunked even leftwing economists understand it is caused largely by womens choices to leave the workforce and have children yet our federal labor govt actually builds a policy around something that doesnt exist?????? and people are going to trust them with the economy??

Yoooo based brother

Based? Hes bowing to China

Is there anyone else smarter on the planet apart from my Team? Especially those who know when to stop without asking. Haha

3rd comment

65(closer to 80 million) million people in a country a tiny fraction the size of australia that has 25 million, that's why we need someone who can actually work in economics and understand the detriment of mass immigration and fraudulent policies.

You must be one of those illiberal reactionaries I have been hearing about.

No time to listen to the 54 min speech. What topics and positions is he attempting to convince his audience of?

You should listen to one of his opponets who takes what he says out of context and makes hyperbolic lies. I am sure thats the shortcut you want.

@@woodchuck003 Is it really worth the consideration when his opponent's have so much to work with, it's like saying Tony Abbott didn't say something controvercial when he did. Everything that was used against him came from his mouth. He still defends the Knighting of Prince Phillip. Even on his push back the boat's policy that he was most proud of, he savages a report on hundreds of children being abused in detention centres by saying he feels 'no guilt'. Surely a liberal voter would listen, even if they say that Abbott didn't say that afterwards lol.

I would have to agree with you Brantley, the knighting of Prince Philip was unacceptable. As an American, I believe all forms of nobility should be out lowed and disbanded. Unless someone is going to return the bow (similar to how bowing in Japan is akin to a handshake) I will not bow. Off with their heads.

Unintelligible

@@damienmcdonald8409 indeed

Yes, his nickname is the mad monk.

is that all you can come up with?

How about this. The weather got warmer for a short while and more people bought cars so lefties tried to ban cars to change the weather. I've gone from never been out of a job to having to find self employment and house prices have gone up by £120,000, the only different being some 10 million or so immigrants so if climate change is real then immigrants taking my jobs and housing is real.

He is the dope, mind midget.

And exactly how much success in life have you achieved? Must be top notch since you can label a former Prime minister so.

@@jeepjockey9219 Perhaps you should know a bit more about the clown you seem keen to defend. Tony Abbott Prime Minsiter "in the worst Government is Australia's history" that was his achievement and that only took half a term of government.

Canberra breads nasty people, and he was the worst of them

Tony Abbott the worst Prime Minister Australia ever had

I don't think so Tony Abbott got no morals

@@johnkelly7825 bullshit he was the best, apart from John Howard he was the best prime minister of this century and the only one that went against the Moronic left wing Mobs abs did what was right for Australia, no matter how unpopular, particularly in regards to climate change, where he was well ahead of his time- calling out and exposing the fraudulent science for what it is. Which is what proper leaders should be doing. His critics just disagree with his politics and never took the time to understand his decisions.

@@Vgallo well done you are going to be blocked from RU-vid offensive language

I'm givin' ya a like, just for a near forgo'n choice a werds. Ya bozo

It is: those stilted pauses. Funny thing is, his best speech delivery was when he conceded his seat at the 2019 election

@@leooostveen4435 Yes it was and I make sure to watch it at least twice a month, cheers me up no end.