I was sent this via e-mail and decided to share it here for everyones
information, including the gullible dopes who support the abortion of a
government we now have.....................
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Overheard last week: “It’s such a shame there isn’t someone other than
Tony Abbott as alternative Prime Minister. We think the Gillard
government is bad for the country, but it would be better if we had
another Opposition leader to vote for.”
It caused me to ask why that view might exist given Abbott’s background,
and I wondered if it might be that people do not know his history. So, I
have put together some information which might help get a better
understanding of the man.
Abbott graduated from the University of Sydney with degrees in Bachelor
of Laws (LLB) and Bachelor of Economics (BEc). Then he became a Rhodes
Scholar at Queens College Oxford UK in Politics and Philosophy. He also
won a boxing blue at Oxford. He married Margaret in 1987 and has three
daughters. He is a member of the congregation of the Catholic Church.
He was involved in student politics, but beyond that, biographer Michael
Duffy, wrote that during his student days he
“........saved a child
who was swept out to sea. Another time, he helped save children from a
burning house next to a pub where he was drinking. On each occasion he
disappeared before he could be properly thanked”.
He is a member of Manly’s Queenscliffe SLSC, and a member of the New
South Wales Rural Fire Service, both of which he joined before it was
politically expedient to do so. He spent several weeks teaching in
remote Aboriginal settlements in Cape York in an effort ‘to familiarise
himself with indigenous issues’.
If you are wondering where some of the negativity attributed to Tony
Abbott comes from, go on to the Net and have a look at the comments
which followed, 2 years ago, when he was asked by the Women’s Weekly
“What advice would you give your three daughters on sex before marriage?”
He told the magazine:
‘’I would say to my daughters,
if they were to ask me this question …it is the greatest gift you can
give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don’t give it up to
someone lightly.”
Yet, if you were to read many of the comments on the internet and the
print media at the time, you could be forgiven for thinking he was
attempting to impose his will on all females in Australia, had ranted
against women, had argued for Muslim like chastity, and so
on................... see for yourself - Google it! Gillard’s response
was to accuse Abbott of “lecturing women”???
I have also included a video of Abbott where he commented on, in what
seems to me to be quite a balanced fashion, “climate change” yet the
title of the video suggests he has been extreme in “denying climate
change and advocating carbon tax”. See what you think.
http://youtu.be/oPpQisoZqx4 Then have a look at the longer interview from which this original exerpt was taken
http://youtu.be/ZoCKhNr8Atk.
Abbott has had a history of being told by ‘ABC types’ that he lacks
compassion, does not understand homosexuality or homosexuals, avoids
situations where he might need to face up to gay relationships, and so
on. Again, because he was not prepared to reveal personal issues of
others (ethics, principles,?), he did not speak about his own sister’s
gay relationship and the part he played in supporting her. It would have
been an easy defence for him, but in line with his principles and
values, he chose not to use it.
Granted, he is not a super smooth, off the cuff, speaker, and does not
fit the orator mould. But when he is compared to the glib tongues and
untrustworthiness of Gillard, Rudd, Swan, etc, it is not difficult to
determine which attributes are more important for the leadership of
Australia.
After Abbott completed his studies, he became a journalist for The
Bulletin and also the Australian. For a time he was plant manager for
Pioneer Concrete, then became press secretary for the then Opposition
Leader, Dr John Hewson. He was elected to Parliament in 1994 at a
bi-election. He has held various Ministerial posts and his actions in
those roles are a matter of public record . His work ethic is
unquestioned.
He was dismayed at the policies of former leader Malcolm Turbull
relating to ETS, and following widespread disaffection with Turnbull’s
stance among Liberal Party members, threw his hat into the ring, as did
Joe Hockey, for leadership of the Liberal Party. Abbott was successful.
At the time, the polls were running strongly against the Liberal Party
(in the 40% approval range), while Kevin Rudd enjoyed figures around
60%. Within a short space of time, with Abbott as leader, those figures
changed to such a degree that Rudd was replaced in the now infamous
“faceless men” coup which installed Gillard. Since that time, Abbott has
maintained constant focus on the ever widening circle of disasters
associated with the Gillard government to the stage where support for
that government now hovers around the 30% mark.
Whilst I do not know Abbott personally, he strikes me as a person of
integrity, he has values in which I too believe, and ethics based on his
Christian beliefs. I would much rather place my trust in someone who,
in his actions, has shown he is what he says, rather than someone who
will say anything to gain a prospective advantage for themselves.
