The Latest Breaking News from Tony Abbott

Australia has not had a national urban policy since the Rudd government. A troika of Liberal PMs followed. Tony Abbott wasn’t interested. Malcolm Turnbull didn’t quite live up to the hype but delivered cross-governmental City Deals and the Smart Cities and Suburbs Program. Scott Morrison at best presided over a…

Lenore Taylor looks back at Guardian Australia’s first big scoop and its far-reaching repercussions

“Four times, the mic went around. I kept putting my hand up. It’s like it was all played out that First Nations people weren’t going to have a voice that night.”

The timing of history. How Anglophile and monarchist Tony Abbott would love to have been the prime minister attending the coronation. To say nothing of John Howard, a key figure in fending off an Australian republic in 1999.

Discussion with Tony Abbott and News Corp columnist Joe Hildebrand, hosted by Coalition MP Jenny Ware, shut down after Indigenous man takes to stage

Tony Abbott entered the debate on this year’s Indigenous Voice referendum on Monday just as had been predicted.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott offers a staunch criticism of a proposed constitutionally enshrined Voice to Parliament, just hours after getting into a spat with a parliamentary committee investigating the looming referendum.

Tony Abbott has told an inquiry the Indigenous Voice will divide Australia and is “wrong in principle and potentially quite dangerous".

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