Former hard right Australian politician Tony Abbott is in the news because the Johnson Government want to appoint him as trade envoy.
His qualifications for this seem doubtful at best, but he is admirably qualified in more or less every area of objectionable right-wing views and behaviours.
Abbott was in fact born in the UK and took a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford. Unusually for such students when he left Oxford he seems to have actually toured Africa in homage to the racist founder of what is now Zimbabwe.
This Guardian article from 2013 provides a useful insight into Abbott’s life and views:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/16/tony-abbott-at-oxford-university
It does not however cover the occasion when Abbott visited an onion farm and ate a raw onion. Not that unusual perhaps, except he ate the outer skin as well.
In short Abbott is a man who makes Boris Johnson’s antics look rather mundane by comparison..
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