Tony Abbott

The Honourable
 Tony Abbott 
MP

Incumbent
Assumed office 
1 December 2009
Deputy Julie Bishop
Preceded by Malcolm Turnbull
Minister for Health and Ageing
In office
7 October 2003 – 3 December 2007
Prime Minister John Howard
Preceded by Kay Patterson
Succeeded by Nicola Roxon
Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations
In office
26 November 2001 – 7 October 2003
Prime Minister John Howard
Preceded by Himself (Employment and Workplace Relations)
Succeeded by Kevin Andrews
Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business
In office
30 January 2001 – 26 November 2001
Prime Minister John Howard
Preceded by Peter Reith
Succeeded by Himself (Employment and Workplace Relations)
Ian Macfarlane (Small Business)
Minister for Employment Services
In office
21 October 1998 – 30 January 2001
Prime Minister John Howard
Preceded by Chris Ellison
Succeeded by Mal Brough
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Warringah
Incumbent
Assumed office 
26 March 1994
Preceded by Michael MacKellar
Majority 16,163 (9.5%)[1]
Born 4 November 1957 (1957-11-04) (age 53)
London, United Kingdom
Political party Liberal Party
Coalition
Spouse(s) Margaret Abbott
Alma mater St John's College, University of Sydney
Queen's College, Oxford
St Patrick's Seminary, Manly
Religion Roman Catholicism
Website Official website

Anthony John "Tony" Abbott (born 4 November 1957) is the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian House of Representatives and federal leader of the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. Abbott has represented the seat of Warringah since the 1994 by-election. He was Minister for Employment Services, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, and Minister for Health and Ageing in the Howard government at various times from 1998 to 2007 and Leader of the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007.

After the defeat of the Howard government at the 2007 federal election, he was Shadow Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs until he resigned from the Malcolm Turnbull shadow cabinet on 26 November 2009 in protest against Liberal Party policy.[2] Following a successful spill motion, Abbott defeated Turnbull 42 votes to 41 in the Liberal Party of Australia leadership election of 2009. Abbott led the Coalition in the campaign for the 2010 federal election, which was held on 21 August 2010.[3]

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Early life and family

Abbott was born in London, England,[4] to Australian parents. In 1960, his family returned to Australia, living first in the Sydney suburbs of Bronte then moving to Chatswood. Abbott was schooled at St Aloysius' College before completing his secondary school education at St Ignatius' College, Riverview in Sydney.[5] He graduated with a Bachelor of Economics (BEc) and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB)[4] from the University of Sydney where he resided at St John's College, and was president of the Student Representative Council.[6] He gained media attention for his political stance opposing the then dominant left-wing student leadership. He was also a prominent student boxer. He then went on to attend the Queen's College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and graduated with a Master of Arts (MA) in Politics and Philosophy.[7]

When Abbott was 19, his girlfriend became pregnant and believed Abbott to be the biological father. She was keen to get married but Abbott refused, so she left him seven months into her pregnancy. She later gave birth to a son and had him adopted.[8][9] For 27 years, Abbott believed that he fathered this child.[10] In 2004, the boy sought out his biological mother and it was publicly revealed that the child had become an ABC sound recordist who worked in Parliament House, Canberra, and was involved in making television programs in which Abbott appeared.[11] DNA testing later revealed that Abbott was not the man's father.[12]

In 1983, he began studying for the Catholic priesthood, and entered St Patrick's Seminary, Manly.[6] He subsequently decided to leave the seminary and choose another career path. Due to this time in the seminary, Abbott was given the nickname "The Mad Monk"[13] by his critics.

Throughout his time as a student and seminarian, Abbott was writing articles for newspapers and magazines—first for the Sydney University Newspaper, and later The Catholic Weekly and national publications like The Bulletin. He eventually became a journalist and wrote for The Australian newspaper.[6] In 1987, Abbott met his wife Margaret, with whom he has three daughters (Louise, Bridget and Frances).[14][6]

Political career

Entry

Abbott began public life as a journalist for The Bulletin, an influential news magazine, and The Australian Newspaper.[6] He became well-known for his strongly worded criticism of trade unions and left-wing politics. For a time he was a plant manager for Pioneer Concrete before becoming press secretary to the Leader of the Opposition, Dr John Hewson from 1990 to 1993 and worked on the Fightback! policy.[6] Between 1993 and 1994 he was the Executive Director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy.[4]

Despite his right-wing leanings, Abbott has acknowledged he voted for Labor in the 1988 NSW state election as he thought "Barrie Unsworth was the best deal Premier that New South Wales had ever had." Nevertheless, Abbott then clarified that he has never voted for Labor in a federal election.[15]

Member of Parliament and Minister in Howard Government

Abbott was elected to the Australian House of Representatives for the Division of Warringah at a by-election in March 1994 following the resignation of Michael MacKellar. He served as the parliamentary secretary to the Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (1996–98), Minister for Employment Services (1998–2001), Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations and Small Business (2001), Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations (2001–03) and Minister for Health and Ageing from 2003 to November 2007. From late 2001 to November 2007 he was also Manager of Government Business in the House of Representatives.[16]

As a Parliamentary Secretary, Abbott oversaw the establishment of the Green Corps program which involved young people in environmental restoration work.[17][18] As Minister for Employment Services he oversaw the implementation of the Job Network and was responsible for the government's Work for the Dole scheme.[19][20][21][22][23][22] He also comissioned the the Cole Royal Commission into "thuggery and rorts" in the construction industry and created the Office of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner in response and to lift productivity.[24][25]

The Liberal Party allowed members a free choice in the 1999 republic referendum. Abbott was one of the leading voices within the Party campaigning for the successful "No" vote, pitting him against future Parliamentary colleague and leading Republican Malcolm Turnbull [26][27]

When Abbott was promoted to Cabinet in 2000, Prime Minister Howard described him as an effective performer with an endearing style, whereas the Opposition described him as a "bomb thrower."[21] Howard appointed Abbott to the key Health Portfolio in 2003, during a period of contentious Medicare reform and a crisis in Medical Indemnity Insurance, which was forcing doctors out of practice.[28][29] Abbott worked with the states to address the crisis and keep the system running.[25]

Abbott was involved in controversy in 2006 for opposing access to the abortion drug RU486, and the Parliament voted to strip Health Ministers of the power to regulate this area of policy.[30] He introduced the Medicare Safety Net to cap the annual out-of-pocket costs of Medicare cardholders to a maximum amount. In 2007 he attracted criticism over long delays in funding for cancer diagnostic equipment (PET scanners).[31][32][33][34]

According to Sydney Morning Herald Political Editor Peter Hartcher, prior to the defeat of the Howard Government at the Australian Federal Election, 2007, Abbott had opposed the Government's centrepiece Workchoices industrial relations deregulation reform in Cabinet, on the basis that the legislation exceeded the government's mandate; was harsh on workers; and was politically dangerous to the government.[25]

Abbott campaigned as Minister for Health at the 2007 Election. On October 31, he apologised for saying 'just because a person is sick doesn't mean that he is necessarily pure of heart in all things', after Bernie Banton, (an asbestos campaigner and terminal mesothelioma sufferer) called him 'gutless' for not being present to collect a petition.[35]

During his career as a Minister, Abbott acquired a reputation as a robust parliamentary debater and political tactician.[36][37]

Action against the One Nation party

In 1998, Abbott established a trust fund called "Australians for Honest Politics Trust" to help bankroll civil court cases against the One Nation party and its founders, Pauline Hanson and David Ettridge.[38] Prosecution ultimately resulted in Hanson & Ettridge being imprisoned.[39] The conviction against Hanson was ultimately overturned, leading to criticism of a range of politicians for political interference by the adjudicating justice.

Post Howard Government

After the Coalition lost government in 2007 and he lost his health portfolio, in opposition Abbott was re-elected to the seat of Warringah with a 1.79% swing toward the Labor Party.[40] Following Peter Costello's rejection of the leadership of the Parliamentary Liberal Party, Abbott nominated for the position of party leader, along with Malcolm Turnbull and Brendan Nelson. After canvassing the support of his colleagues, Abbott decided to withdraw his nomination. He seemingly did not have the numbers, noting that he was "obviously very closely identified with the outgoing prime minister."[41] He also said he would not rule out contesting the leadership at some time in the future.[42]

In December 2007, Abbott was assigned the Shadow Portfolio of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.[43] As indigenous affairs spokesman, Abbott said that it had been a mistake for the Howard Government not to offer a National Apology to the Stolen Generations.[44]; spent time teaching at remote Aboriginal communities;[45] and argued for the Rudd Government to continue the Northern Territory National Emergency Response which restricted alcohol and introduced conditional welfare in certain Aboriginal communities.[46]

During this period in Opposition, Abbott wrote Battlelines - a biography and reflection on his thoughts on the Howard Government, and a discussion of potential future policy directions for the Liberal Party.[47] In the book, Abbott said that in certain aspects the Australian Federation was 'dysfunctional' and in need of repair. He recommended the establishment of local hospital and School boards to manage health and education;[48] and discussed family law reform; multiculuralism, climate change; and international relations. The book received a favourable review from former Labor Party speech writer Bob Ellis, and The Australian described it as 'read almost universally as Abbott's intellectual application for the party's leadership after the Turnbull experiment'.[49][50]

The number of unauthorised boat arrivals to Australia increased in Australia during 2008.[51] Abbott claimed that this was an effect of the Rudd Government's easing of border protection laws and accused Kevin Rudd of ineptitude and hypocrisy on the issue of boat arrivals, particularly during the Oceanic Viking affair of October 2009, and said "John Howard found a problem and created a solution. Kevin Rudd found a solution and has now created a problem".[52]

In November 2009, Abbott resigned from shadow ministerial responsibilities due to the Liberal Party's position on the government's Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), leading to the resignation of other shadow ministers.[53]

Leader of the Federal Opposition: 2009-present

On 1 December 2009, Abbott was elected to the position of Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia over Malcolm Turnbull and Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey (See 2009 Liberal Leadership ballot). Abbott proposed blocking the Rudd Government's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in the Senate whereas Turnbull sought to amend then pass the bill which the majority of the Liberal Party did not support.[54] Abbott named his Shadow Cabinet on 8 December 2009.[55]

Abbott described Prime Minister Rudd's Emission Trading plan as a 'Great big tax on everything' and opposed it. The Coalition and minor parties voted against the Government's ETS legislation in the Senate and the legislation was rejected. Abbott announced a new Coaltion policy on carbon emission reduction in February, which committed the Coalition to a 5 per cent reduction in emissions by 2020. Abbott proposed the creation of an 'emissions reduction fund' to provide 'direct' incentives to industry and farmers to reduce carbon emissions.[56] In April, Rudd announced that plans for the introduction his ETS would be delayed until 2013.[57]

When appointed to the Liberal leadership, the subject of Abbott's Catholicism and moral beliefs became a subject of repeated media questioning. Various commentators suggested that his traditionalist views would polarise female voters.[58] Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard accused Abbott of 'lecturing' women when he responded to a question from a women's magazine by saying that he would tell his own daughters that virginity was 'a gift' not to be given away 'lightly'.[59] He told press gallery journalist Laurie Oakes that he doesn't do doorstop interviews in front of church but regularly faces pointed questions about his faith which are not put to the prime minister, who attends Anglican services every week.[60]

In a 60 Minutes interview aired on 7 March 2010, Abbott was asked: "Homosexuality? How do you feel about that?". He replied: "I'd probably feel a bit threatened ... as most people do."[61] In a later interview Abbott said that the answer he gave had been a "spontaneous answer", and on the ABC's Q&A program he apologised and said that he had used a "very poor choice of words".[62][63]

In March, 2010, Abbott, announced a new policy initiative to provide for 6 months paid parental leave, funded by an increase in corporate tax by 1.7 per cent on all taxable company income of more than $5 million. Business groups and the government opposed the plan, however it won support from the Australian Greens.[64]

During his time as Opposition Spokesman for Indigenous Affairs, Abbott spent time in remote Cape York Aboriginal communities as a teacher, organised through prominent indigenous activist Noel Pearson. Abbott has repeatedly spoke of his admiration for Pearson, and in March 2010, introduced the Wild Rivers (Environmental Management) Bill to Parliament in support of Pearson's campaign to overturn the Queensland government's Wild Rivers legislation. Abbott and Pearson believe that the QLD law will 'block the economic development' of indigenous land, and interfere with Aboriginal land rights.[65]

Abbott completed an Ironman Triathlon event in March 2010 at Port Macquarie, New South Wales and in April set out on a 9 day charity bike ride between Melbourne and Sydney, the annual 'Pollie Pedal, generating political debate about whether Abbott should have committed so much time to physical fitness.[66][67] Abbot described the events as an opportunity to "stop at lots of little towns along the way where people probably never see or don't very often see a federal member of Parliament."[68]

In his first Budget reply speech as Opposition Leader, Abbott sought to portray the Rudd Government's third budget as a "tax and spend" budget and promised to fight the election on the new mining "super-profits" tax proposed by Rudd.[69] [70][71]

Election 2010

On 17 July, after receiving the agreement of the Governor-General, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the next federal election would be held on 21 August 2010.[72] Polls in the first week gave a view that Labor would be re-elected with an increased majority, with Newspoll showing a lead of 10 points (55–45) two party preferred and the Essential poll similarly reflecting Newspoll. Gillard then appeared on the Great Debate, against Abbott, where she was declared a strong winner by the Channel 9 audience, while Laurie Oakes claimed Tony Abbott won. Channel 7 also favoured her, by a closer margin.[73]

Labor and the Coalition each won 72 seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives,[74] four short of the requirement for majority government, resulting in the first hung parliament since the 1940 election.[75][76] Both major party leaders are seeking to form a minority government.[77][78][79][80][81][82]

On the crossbench, four independent members, one member of the National Party of Western Australia and one member of the Australian Greens hold the balance of power.[83][84] At present, the Greens and an independent have declared support for Labor on confidence and supply votes.[85]

Political views

Constitutional monarchist

Abbott is a supporter of the constitutional monarchy in Australia.[23][86] Prior to entering Parliament, he was Executive Director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy from 1993-94.[87] Arguing against the case for a republican system of government in Australia in 1999, Abbott outlined his beliefs on conservatism and the monarchy:

There are some people who believe that any republic would be better than what we have now.
“Republic or bust” zealots are incapable of perceiving any difficulties. Conservatives, however, don’t change anything lightly.
Conservatives approach issues with instinctive respect for institutions and approaches that have stood the test of time.
“If it is not necessary to change” the conservative ethos runs, “it is necessary not to change”.
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” say conservatives, “and if it is broke, recycle it, don’t throw it away”.[88]

Abbott supports the argument espoused by former Prime Minister John Howard and Justice Michael Kirby that Australia is presently and should remain a crowned republic. He predicted in his 2009 book Battlelines that Australia would still be a Crowned Republic in 2020.

Climate change

Speaking in July 2009, Abbott told the ABC's 7:30 Report that though he thought the science of climate change was "highly contentious" and that he thought that the economics of an ETS was "a bit dodgy", he nevertheless thought that the Opposition should pass the Rudd Government's ETS as he didn't think it would be "a good look for the Opposition to be browner than Howard going into the next election".[89]

At an October 2009 meeting in the Victorian town of Beaufort, Abbott was reported to have said: "The argument (on climate change) is absolute crap... However, the politics of this are tough for us. 80% of people believe climate change is a real and present danger".[90] On 1 December 2009, when questioned about that statement, he said he had used "a bit of hyperbole" at that meeting rather than it being his "considered position".[91]

Speaking in November 2009, prior to being elected Leader of the Opposition, Abbott told the ABC's Lateline program that in relation to Climate Change Policy:

I am always reluctant to join bandwagons. I think there are fashions in science and in the academe, just as there are fashions in so many other things. But look, we should take reasonable precautions against credible threats.
I think it is perfectly reasonable to take action against climate change. The problem with the Rudd Government's position is that Australia could end up impoverishing itself through this dramatic ETS, and not do anything for the environment if the rest of the world does not adopt an ETS or something like it.

Outgoing Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull wrote that Abbott had described himself as a 'weathervane' in relation to climate change policy in the months prior to his becoming leader of the Liberal Party.[92]

Upon becoming Leader of the Opposition, Abbott put the question of support for the Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), to a secret ballot and the Liberal Party voted to reject support for the policy - overturning on an undertaking by Abbott's predecessor, Malcolm Turnbull, to support an ammended version of the government's scheme. Under Abbott, the Coalition voted against the CPRS in the Senate, and the bill was defeated twice, providing a double dissolution trigger.[93]

Abbott proposed an alternative 'direct-action' climate policy involving a 5% reduction in emissions by means of creating a $2.5bn fund to provide incentives for industry and farmers to reduce emissions and through measures like storing carbon in soil; planting 20 million trees over the next decade; and providing $1000 rebates to homes for installation of solar cells.[94]

The Rudd government eventually deferred its CPRS legislation until 2013.[93]

The Liberal party's environmental philosophies have changed under different party leaders. Under Tony Abbott, the Liberal party has actively opposed the idea of a large carbon tax.[95] Although opposing the Labor party's environmental policies, claiming that Labor would increase electricity prices, the Liberal party is in bipartisan support for the Mandatory Renewable Energy Targets, which would see an increase to electricity prices.[96]

Bioethics and family policy

Abbott is a socially conservative Catholic who promotes family values. He is pro-life, an opponent of embryonic stem cell research and euthanasia and has said that while abortion should be safe and legal it should also be rare.[97][98]

As Health Minister, Abbott said that he saw reducing the number of abortions performed each year as a national priority. In March 2004 he asked "Why isn't the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?"[99] In February, 2006 he said, "We have a bizarre double standard, a bizarre double standard in this country where someone who kills a pregnant woman's baby is guilty of murder but a woman who aborts an unborn baby is simply exercising choice."[100]

Abbott promised to launch an investigation into a product called Pink or Blue, produced by the American firm Consumer Genetics. This test is one of several pre-natal blood tests designed to detect the sex of a fetus as early as six weeks into pregnancy. Some ethicists and anti-abortionists have raised concerns that it would become a "sex select" tool.[101]

Abbott opposed allowing the introduction of embryonic stem cell research or therapeutic cloning in another conscience vote. He argued that: "there are very important ethical questions here and even the very best end does not justify every possible means."[102]

In his 2009 book, Battlelines, Abbott proposed that consideration should be given to a return to an optional at-fault divorce agreement between couples who would like it, similar to the Matrimonial Causes Act, which would require spouses to prove offences like adultery, habitual drunkenness, cruelty, dessertion or a 5 year separation before a divorce would be granted. [103] Abbott said that this would be a way of "providing additional recognition to what might be thought of as traditional marriage".[104]

Abbott opposes euthanasia. Addressing a 2009 Intelligence squared debate, he said: "Love, not death, is our obligation and our duty [to the sick]. I would be slow to judge anyone who helped the passage to death [who really needed it] … Let's not make bad laws on hard cases." He argued that he feared that legalised euthanasia could result in doctors avoiding complex responses; and that there was a danger that in some cases unscrupulous relatives might abuse the practice in the interests of gaining an inheritance.[105]

In 2010, Abbott told the ABC's Q&A program that an Abbott led government would not amend Australian law to recognise gay marriage and said: I certainly want to see - just a general principle, I want to see stable, committed relationships, but I do think that a marriage, by definition, is between a man and a woman.[63]

Religion

As a former Catholic seminarian, Abbott's religiosity has come to national attention and journalists have often sought his views on the role of religion in politics. Abbott says that a politician should not rely on religion to justify a political point of view:

We are all influenced by a value system that we hold, but in the end, every decision that a politician makes is, or at least should, in our society be based on the normal sorts of considerations. It's got to be publicly justifiable; not only justifiable in accordance with a private view; a private belief.[86]

Abbott's positions on bioethics and family policy often broadly correlate with Catholic positions. However, various of the political positions supported by Abbott have been criticised by the Church, including aspects of industrial relations policy, asylum seeker and Aboriginal affairs policy.[106][107][108] After criticisms of Liberal Party policy by clergy, Abbott has said: "The priesthood gives someone the power to consecrate bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. It doesn't give someone the power to convert poor logic into good logic."[106]

According to John Warhurst from the Australian National University, academics have at times placed an "exaggerated concentration on the religious affiliation and personal religious background of just one of [the Howard government's] senior ministers, Tony Abbott."[109] Journalist Michelle Grattan wrote in 2010 that while Abbott has always "worn his Catholicism on his sleeve", he is "clearly frustrated by the obsession with [it] and what might hang off that".[110]

To what extent the media and academia feed into one another here is a matter of some debate; Abbott, with years of experience as a media and political adviser to Liberal leader John Hewson, is on the record as saying he believes "1960s elites... hold [declining yet still] significant opinion-making positions in the media, publishing and academia".[111]

For a few years after the Howard government came to office, little attention was paid to 'Catholic influence' in the Liberal Party. David Marr's 1999 book on religious influence in Australian politics, The High Price of Heaven, did not focus on Catholic Liberals.[109] Political commentator Gerard Henderson wrote in 1998, following the death of B. A. Santamaria, that Catholics MPs like Abbott "reflect a Liberal Party which has gained strength by broadening its base."[112] In 2002, after Abbott gave a speech about the increasing "catholicisation" of the party, Henderson remarked that "[t]here is no justification for any concern that Catholics are running the Coalition" because Catholic MPs, even those with similar backgrounds like Abbott and Joe Hockey, are divided on the big moral issues.[113]

Community service

Abbott is a volunteer member of the NSW Rural Fire Service[114] as a member of the Davidson Rural Fire Brigade.

Abbott has participated in many events for charity including running in a 100 km charity ultramarathon.[115] In April 2007 he launched the tenth annual Pollie Pedal, a charitable event which aimed to raise money for breast cancer research.[116] Federal Territories Minister Jim Lloyd said that the event was Abbott's "brainchild".[117]

As Opposition spokesman on Indigenous Affairs, Abbott spent weeks teaching in a remote Aboriginal settlements in Cape York in 2008 and 2009, organised through prominent indigenous leader Noel Pearson. He taught remedial reading to Aboriginal children; worked with an income management group, helping families manage their welfare payments; and visited children who had not been attending school—with a goal 'to familiarise himself with indigenous issues'.[118][119][120]

Books by Abbott

Abbott has published three books. In 2009 he launched "Battlelines"; a personal biography, reflections on the Howard Government and discussion of potential policy directions for the Liberal Party of Australia.[87] Previously he had published two books in defence of the existing constitutional monarchy system, "The Minimal Monarchy" and "How to Win the Constitutional War".

See also

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