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‘Misogynist & homophobic’ Tony Abbott’s Top 10 controversial quotes as he becomes UK trade adviser

"Whichever Australian traded Tony Abbott to Britain,” remarked local cartoonist Jon Kudelka, “is the person Britain actually needs to help them with trade.”

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2020-09-05 10:42
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Boris Johnson has defended trade role prospect Tony Abbott amid allegations of homophobia and misogyny, saying the former prime minister’s election by the people of Australia “speaks for itself”.

Ministers have come under pressure to scrap proposals to make Mr Abbott joint president of the relaunched Board of Trade.

Critics have raised numerous concerns over the allegations, including his climate change scepticism and belief that coronavirus restrictions should be lifted.

Prominent LGBT figures including Sir Ian McKellen and Doctor Who writer Russell T Davies have signed an open letter alongside environmental activists to ask the Government to reconsider his potential appointment.

The letter, first reported by ITV News, said: “This is a man who described abortion as ‘the easy way out’ and suggested that men may be ‘by physiology or temperament more adapted to exercise authority or to issue command’.”

It added that Mr Abbott “vigorously campaigned” against Australia’s successful marriage equality referendum in 2017 and had said climate change is “probably doing good”.

Here are ten of his quotes on a range of subjects…

On women: “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.”

Making holocaust references in response to job losses: “Under members opposite defence jobs in this country declined by 10 per cent. There was a holocaust of jobs in defence industries under members opposite.”

On climate change: “It’s climate change policy that’s doing harm. Climate change itself is probably doing good; or at least, more good than harm.”

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He told daughters that their virginity is “the greatest gift you can give someone”.

Asked if he felt threatened by gay people: “I probably feel a bit threatened, as so many people do. There is no doubt that [homosexuality] challenges, if you like, orthodox notions of the right order of things.”

Persuading colleagues to vote against equal marriage: “If you’re worried about religious freedom and freedom of speech, vote no. And if you don’t like political correctness, vote no because voting no will help to stop political correctness in its tracks.”

On same-sex parents: “it is not homophobic to maintain that, ideally, children should have both a mother and a father”.

On indigenous communities “What we can’t do is endlessly subsidise lifestyle choices, if those lifestyle choices are not conducive to the kind of full participation in Australian society that everyone should have.”

On refugees: “I mean… you get a million angry military-age males swarming into a single country in a year. They are not there to be grateful, they are there with a grievance.”

On Islamophobia: “All too often in officialdom’s ranks there is this notion that Islamophobia is almost as big a problem as Islamist terrorism. Well, Islamophobia hasn’t killed anyone.”

Related –Video – Julia Gillard stands by ‘every word’ of famous speech at ‘misogynist’ Tony Abbott

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