How Tony Abbott lost the fight of his political life | Four Corners
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- Опубликовано: 19 май 2019
- Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s 25-year career as the member for Warringah has been ended by independent candidate Zali Steggall.
Four Corners brings you the inside story of how the battle for Warringah was lost and won in the 2019 federal election.
In interviews with key players, Four Corners reveals the strategy behind the Steggall campaign, the roots of the insurgency within the seat of Warringah and the roles played by the key activist groups, GetUp and Advance Australia.
With Tony Abbott's political career at an end, all eyes will be on the Liberal Party to see if the divisions that roiled the last two governments are over.
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Fact. Abbott was ousted by dissatisfied former Liberals (not left wing activists) who found a genuine local member of their community to do the job.
So whats Zali Steggal done for the community in the last 2 years? Has she put solar panels on her roof yet?
Zali is a climate zealot and many in that electorate have obviously drunk the kool-aid.
@@paulsz6194 weemuch m
Wrong, you can see the swing from Labor and Greens in that electorate to Zali. It was a broad church of people who rejected Abbott on his sexism and rejection of climate change.
The two campaign managers at the start were left wing activists one self described and the other a labor left staffer.
It only takes 10 years for an MP to get a non means tested fully indexed pension 8 times higher than the aged pension. A bunch of crooks if ever.
And the 'Mad Monk' will get a tidy pension of $300, 000 a year and probably a gig on SkyNews......for such a paedo supporting f***wit he has done very well.
Well thats the rules and there's a reason for that if you weren't so ignorant about it and if you think people will listen to your ignorance go run for government .Im not liberal either and despise Abbott,but theyre the rules
Only for people who entered federal parliament before 2004 election
Get rid of Dutton next please.
Oh lord I pray for that everyday
Yes plz!
Did Dutton model himself on " red skull " of marvel fame or visa versa ??
Get rid of Sarah Hanson Young
@@soulsphere9242 Hopefully he is too toxic for the public to handle.
Man this aged really well
It’s a big thing to be able to win a seat against a former prime minister as well, it shows how powerful it can be when politicians don’t listen to the people they are supposed to represent
Me thinks ScoMo wasn’t exactly disappointed to see Tony lose
Skomo could get a job as a Car Salesman as he has a gift of the gab.....
Can I have the link to "Shorten's End: How Bill Shorten lost the un-losable | Four Corners" please?
They did make that video the second the election closed. It went for 2 hours and discussed how both parties knew Liberal would win. Labor were expecting a much worse defeat in Queensland and betted on winning WA, VIC and NSW. The public polls didn't count Liberal safe seats.
@@thetrashmaster1352 thats not a political hit job on dollar bill
Abbott was a Prime Minister...Shortern never got that far....so you want to see a retrospective analysis on Mark Latham, Andrew Peacock and Peter Costello?
One term tony
Yeah the I think the only time ive been more embarrassed of our PM than Tony is our current one, Morrison. Look at how he is so quick to just accuse her of being a part of Labor, dont politicize a crisis you absolute waste of tax payer money.
In the late 1980s I learned about "The Greenhouse Effect" in high-school. The scientists had warned us then. It takes a special kind of individual to still be arguing the other way in 2019. He was the kid who kicked over everyone else's sand-castles, wrecking the hard work of everyone who tried to take action of climate change. I'm impressed with my electorate for putting party tribalism aside for more important issues. Well done Warringah!
Duncan Wallace 🙃🙃🙃🙃😂😂😂😂
They also taught evolution at high school. How do we know this isn’t part of the ongoing evolution process?
@@paulsz6194 Evolution?! It doesn't sound like you know what that is. Evolution is a process where living organisms adapt and change over time.
If you're talking about natural climate change, a tiny amount of research would make you realise the rate of change is too fast to be natural.
It would be like arguing, when the wings have snapped off a plane, that you're not going to crash, because planes naturally descend when they are coming in to land.
@@duncanwallace7760 didn’t the climate change along with evolution?
Did the whole world as we know " evolve" by means of a Big Bang?
What would you call that? "The Big Bang theory" ?
Wouldn’t life then had to have evolved from the conditions brought about by this Big Bang??
So are you saying the Big Bang and the transformation of the earths environment has no influence on living organisms evolving?
Is a plant a living organism? Does it not create air from Co2?
You're right, life on earth definitely changed the atmosphere and plants are absolutely part of that! But Evolution happens in living organisms.
The big bang, the universe, stars and planets are not living things, so its not evolution.
Climate change has happened on other planets like Venus, without any life, so its not caused just by living things.
Scientists spent a lot of time working out that the rapid increase in carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution could not have been because of natural processes. Its happening way too fast for that. Natural processes stored away huge amounts of CO2 in fossil fuels over millions of years, and we're burning it and releasing the CO2 back into the atmosphere.
Abbott - the suppository of all wisdom.
Yes. He is the arse end of the far lunatic Right in Australia and he crashed and burnt. 😢
Feeling great after my suppository of wisdom 👍
"I fought for this country" okay. and that makes you right about everything?
Yes.
I agree it’s a pretty tacky thing for a veteran to say in a political argument. Either your opinion stands on its own merits or it doesn’t - clearly that gentlemen felt his general sense of paranoia about Labor and the unions wasn’t enough so he dragged that line out.
@@mrvictorian4004 no
"I fought for this country, so I'm going to vote against its interests!"
Just far-Right on everything. 😊
Tony Abbott should never talk about lifting public discord
Some of Tony's expressions are priceless, he looks like he hasn't got a clue?
Im 68. I have great respect for GET UP, STAND UP, SPEAK UP for our lives.
How did Tony lose? By being Tony. The real question is "Why did it take so long for his constituents to get rid of him?"
dogma meant there wasn't any alternative for over 20 years.
I disliked this man with a passion... the real Dr No, more interested in stopping anything from benefitting Australia than actually doing positive things!
Tony Abbott went down selling his own truth, not someone else's lies.
Respect.
Wow! That's a rare accolade in Aussie politics - honesty. How about self-delusion?
David Renwick how about fuk bill !
Tony Abbott's own truths were in reality actually lies. He set his standard as leader of the opposition, and lived up to it. Why was it a surprise when his reign was so short lived? Even compared to John Howard he was a failure, and that is saying something. Howard scoffed at the idea of Abbott ever becoming Prime Minister. Someone should replay that video.
Facts don't care about your truths.
@@BenState truth doesn't care about your 'facts'
The defeat of veteran right-wing Liberal MP - and former Prime Minister - Tony Abbott was the only 'silver lining' amidst a disappointing outcome for the ALP (Australian Labor Party). Notwithstanding the disappointing outcome, i am quite elated that Abbott finally received his comeuppance when lost his seat to Olympic alpine skier-barrister Zali Steggall. There is absolutely no doubt that the now-former MP for the constituency of Warringah, NSW was perceived to be 'out of touch' in the eyes of both his constituents and the Australian populace. Much remains to be seen is if his 'comrade-at-arms' named Peter Dutton - MP for the constituency of Dickson, QLD - will be inclined to pick up the torch for the right-wing of the Liberal Party, now that Abbott has been forced to relinquish it. Upon winning a by-election for the constituency of Warringah, NSW back in March 1994, Abbott sowed the seeds of his eventual political demise.
VERBOSE blabber.
@@BenState Give me a Break!
@@albertcalleros9489 have a break, have a kit-kat !
so what has zali done for her electorate, 2 years on? She's made more noise contesting the seat, than representing it.
Alan Jones must be devastated his sounding boards gone...
..he can cry on Bolt's shoulder..
john smith "...dually elected..."
*duly
Sincerely,
Grammar Nazi
Fuk Bill fuk labour! Suffer you fools
Alan Jones being devastated sounds good to me
Looks like the Abbott proof fence did the trick
Great production ABC. A fascinating look at the campaign.
Alan Jones is so OUT OF TOUCH with his thoughts on Abbott.... just like Abbott was so out of touch with the community.
Australia's worst Prime Minister... Scott Morrison was a close second...!
Abbott was far from outstanding as an opposition leader and prime minister. He's the worst Australian prime minister and one of the worst parliamentarians.
At no time in his parliamentary career has Abbott has never given a single thought about lifting the tone of conversation about the quality of life in Australia.
Best thing that happened on this election night. My side lost on the national level, which I was disappointed with, but I was very happy with what happened in Warringah. So in the end, it was a wash😐
Because Shorten tried to appeal to everyone, trying to stand for everything, but appealed to no-one..
Abbott’s lack of self awareness is breathtaking!
Now he can fly to Russia and shirt front Vlad .
but the left are the ones who want communism
Awwww...yet another muppet who believes in the "Russian collusion"?
You have them in Australia too? lolol!
@@erikjohnson8031 Totally different story, situation and context.
@@user-md1ol7nj7h spoken by someone who doesn't know the difference between socialism and communism?
NO. ONE. WANTED. HIM. AS .PM
TO. BEGIN. WITH ...
Very interesting
If he’d resigned they’d have held the seat.
Remember Abott's internet? lmao
BanamA you mean Murdoch’s internet
As he said I'd rather be a loser.
And looser he is!
Mr Rabbit is mad as a hatter!
Can Advance be any more see-through? Their slimy, self-serving dishonesty and reliance on old cliches is just comically predictable.
He might not have had 25 bad years in public live but Australia would have been better without him. He put himself, his ideology, his faction and his party before the country he was elected to serve to many times. Good riddance.
Will give ScoMo the clear air he needs to get on with the job.
TheFleetz Peter Dutton though.
Ahahaha. Oh yeah. What a bang-up job ScuntMo's doing. No plan for drought. No plan for bushfires. No plan for floods. No plan for a pandemic. Just twaddle and pantshitting at Engadine Maccas. Really inspirational.
The stench is still rising from the job that SloMo the smirking shyster did.
And nothing of value was lost.
One thing I know about Dutton being elected as leader his electorate of Dixon is a very marginal seat. Abbott and Howard both were sitting on blue ribbon liberal seats. So there attitude was self righteous & guaranteed. So that is why they should never vote for those idiots. All Prime Ministers mandatory is to hold a seat like our great Wartime Prime Minister John Curtain had. He lost his own seat and that kept him hungry and devoted to being a prime minister for this nation.
Mr. Abbott, Rabbit.
Hahahaha the best thing that happened, for Sco Mo and the LNP. Abbott would have been the one dissenting voice, now he's gone Scott Morrison ows Get Up, big time wahahahahahahahah
Tony Abbott is out that's nice now what? How is Warringah going to fight climate change exactly?
By preventing Tony from voicing his opinion in the parliament opposing policy on climate change
@@ResmeN I can feel it getting cooler already.
well they need to get rid of him next election too don't they you fool
Make it a no go zone for fossil fuels. That's what they want, that's what they should have
@@tkawenga6588 I think that's just the sea breeze, lol.
Abbott's views on climate change are archaic
So is your existence.
Neolithic more like.
Yeah I know. Surely he'd know the temperatures in the Arctic have dropped by 0.88 degrees in the last 50 years. So out of touch. Hopefully they'll put a new tax on to help fight climate change.
ScoMo with a wide smile you know
I suss him for funneling funds to Zali.
Pretty rich of Tony to get upset about offensive posters of him with swear words when he stood in front of insulting posters directed at Julia Gillard. Always different when the shoes on the other foot. Glad he's gone.
ah , that old chestnut @ he never sponsored those posters they were made by private individuals. Im sure the media were intent on getting that footage because it was going to make a juicy news story .So You're Gillard apologist? Feel comfortable with the way she brought down K .Rudd?
@@paulsz6194 You forgot to add, created by whom ever but with an approving nod and wink from the mad monk and his off sider Sophie Mirabella, late of the Fair Work Commission.
Getting that oxygen thief Howard to give a character reference of someone is laughable,that Howard is a grubb full stop
I'm not close to the world of politics, but in a country like Australia you're never the full six degrees away from the people who run the place. So you don't have to do a great deal to find out what our leaders are like.
In the case of Tony Abbott, you'd likely hear that in more private, relaxed settings, he's great company. Can tell a joke, take a joke, he basically passes the 'superficial stuff' test.
But if you ask the electorate the great leveller, "Who would you rather have a beer with?", Tony would score very poorly. For some reason, all the affability and bonhomie he supposedly displays behind closed doors abandons him in public.
He comes across as an unctuous, disingenuous schemer, a reptile, a conspiracy nut's wet dream.
It makes me think his talents would be better served elsewhere. Now they have to be.
Howard's Star rating,who give him that rating, Monstar for sure?
Ate too many onions 😂😂😂😂
“Solar farm developer Angus Gemmell”
No conflict of interest there
Rofl
How does the Northern Beaches and the Sutherland Shire keep all the non-whites out? 4 Corners should do an investigation into that great Australian mystery.
Eastern Suburbs too
Aww, we didn’t get to see AJ (Alan Jones) eat his words.
but he got the election results right. Ha!
Didn't getup! piss that money up the wall! 🤣
How could you report state secrets? How did you get the information? SPY or imagination?
Fight of his political life? Lol. Pull the other one!
'Losing' so he can quietly retire on a sweet $300k+/yr ex-PM pension more like it.
Warringah Shire has now become irrelevant and has no real voice in parliament ! Well done !
yes I thought the same. haven't heard a peep from her since she's gotten in. She made more noise competing for warringah than representing them. Has she even put solar panels on her roof yet?
Im a proud Labor voter, never liked or agreed with Abbott. In saying that Thank you Tony Abbott for your service. We cant expect the right to respect the left if we dont respect the right.
Proud Labor voter lol
Respect is earned.
nick brown Would you please read carefully what you wrote and tell me that you're not schizophrenic?
nick brown, one of the most respectful comments I’ve read in a while. Democracy is not about holding to militant and insulting attitudes just to wear the opposition down to nothing. Let’s see what the future holds!
There's no way to earn respect from these deplorables.
They're not your classic Liberals just like the Republicans aren't the same party they were prior to Trump.
Most of them are young males getting all swept up in the alt-right madness of the moment.
Trump's downfall might take the edge off them a bit.
Fingers crossed.
back-paddock here i come........
27:20 "I fought for this country!"
This is inaccurate. No Australian under the age of 85 has actually fought for this country. Aussie soldiers who served in Korea, Vietnam, East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan have fought for Australia's geopolitical interests, and for the hegemony of our allies.
We can be grateful to our soldiers however, for their service, because it demonstrates willingness to fight, even die, for their country.
So you're saying every soldier who has fought post WW2 is invalid. WTF is your logic
No, I didn’t say that.
There’s nothing wrong with my logic, the problem is with your reading comprehension.
Perhaps you have aphasia.
@@gloccry2184 They died for American causes from ww1 to present ,Australia is a lapdog of USA like England and now Germany, Japan ,France and other western countries.
Sad to see such a good bloke go
@Big Al fuck off you lobotomite
Let it be a lesson that a community will not support someone on issues that they don't care for.
So many Abbott parties on his leaving politics.
Well done to all those protesters.
Australian's have got there wish & are enjoying a better Liberal party & politics in general.
There should be a ban on misogynistic men like Abbott being allowed in politics, so that it doesn't happen again.
The best thing is he lost to a woman.
Wonder if he learned from his issues with powerful woman?
Doubt it, probably thinks he's still ahead.
sometimes voters must do what parties can't, get rid of bad smells.....
Now the time arrived for Tony to doing life saver at Bun.
¡ADIÓS, ANTONIO!
Don't despair, hope is on the horizon, my mate's sister's boyfriend says that someone told him that Tony Abbott is about to be appointed as the ABC Editor-In-Chief.
Good riddance, Abbott.
@Colonel Meme Not a fan of the current version of the left but people are innocent until proven guilty. The left won't stand up for due process it's up to the right
john smith john mate are you abbot? Surely noone likes him that much that they’d spend half their day trawling videos about him. Lot of time now that you’re unemployed hey? 🤪
@@KrazyKevsta Anyone that watches a documentary on him like this very video has some interest in Abbott
And look at what this result inspired
The magnificent Teal female MPs. 😊
who isnt happy he is gone, the LNP are happy, SCOMO IS HAPPY, Labour is happy, the greens are DELIGHTED, the residents of Warringah are happy and finally Australia is Happy. the only person that is not happy is Allan Jones and who gives a toss about him :)
Mohamed Hussein I'm not happy
Sad that the end of this well researched item ends with more mendacity from little johnny.
Like abbot, and with hubris, he dug his own political grave.
Together, two skidmarks in the underpants of Australian political history, bereft of meaningful achievements(gun laws aside) after their, combined decades in politics.
The dinosaur is gone. 🦖 🦕 🦖 🦕
Great ABC work for once
45 mins which could be better summed up as, Abbott was canned because he lost her prime minstership and people got sick of him. If he was not PM he would be in his seat today.
John Howards love child, John never liked mickey mouse ears, and so, gave up on Tonys lateral emcumbents. ............
Not sure if the climate will be changing in Warringa, but the climate will be changing for Tony, he'll be in Washington DC
Swimming in the Potomac, that will challenge the 'Mad Monk'.
i dont think he is to worried he still takes a large paypacket from goverment
That's the lovely aspect of the Liberals, they witter away about the need to wind up 'the Age of entitlement' whilst they milk the taxpayer remorselessly.
Tony Abbott will not be forgotten... for his climate change crap..
Zali can't just exist because she defeated Tony. Zali actually has to represent. Remember Zali we are still a conservative electorate.
Good luck with that. She couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery, let alone represent the constituents of the seat of Warringah properly.
she made more noise contesting the seat than representing it. Has she even put solar panels on her roof yet?
@Michael Steers I’m not questioning what he does, he’s gone, he’s out of the picture. Zali steggal came in preaching doing stuff for the environment, whilst owning a thirsty Nissan Patrol and not having solar panels on her roof. You may not subscribe to this notion, but I’m a firm believer of Practicing what you preach, before the fact (you get into Politics). I certainly won’t be taking any advice from her. Nothing more than an opportunist. I know someone who lived in her electorate, and the can’t name a single thing she has achieved for her electorate.
@Michael Steers How is telling me what the former member has or has not done, go to do with what she promised?? You sound like a Steggal sympathiser? Why not talk about Morrison’s or Turnbulls failures next time someone shines the light on Steggal again? 🤔
Why not write an Op-Ed for the Gaurdian about it ? That will be entertaining on your behalf! 🤣
@Michael Steers LoL, you are very entertaining! You clearly don’t know how to do research, do you? You just rely on what the Gaurdian feeds you ( like a chicken!) ? Peta credlin actual Went to Melbourne University, ANU, and studied law. What was it again that you studied?? 🤔 How many degrees did you get from Sequoia University?? 🤣🤣 I’m sure you proudly display those on your wall!
Sometimes it’s best to stay quiet and let people suspect you’re a fool, rather than open your mouth and remove all doubt....😎
Mercedes Socialists.
What's wrong with that? Why does having money have to preclude you from having a conscience?
Nobody’s kept out of the current system. Socialism is a failed system that really looks after the few. My point is that it’s Ironic that this wealthy electorate wants all this social justice and change whilst living big.
i.e Mass immigration, Windfarms, Solar power etc........just not in my backyard.
Andrew McNeil what does socialism have to do with Abbott’s demise?
Nobody will admit the truth. Zali’s team were former ex Liberals dissatisfied with Abbott’s lack of leadership on climate change. Most labor policies were opposed in the Zali campaign. The Getup group are merely opportunists taking credit for the work done by others including labor. Beyond that there is no connection with Zali’s campaign and getup
@@andrewmcneil7157 another who likes to muddy the waters splashing around the world socialist,m9st wealthy European countries are socialists but you're the type thst always points to russia and china to credit your arguments,fire Departmens,police,education,hospitals are all socialists ideas,if you agree with those youre a socialist
@@michaelmasin6373 because socialists should be sharing ( redistributing) the wealth The real workng clas drive holdens, Fords, toyotas, etc. They should practise what they preach.
Alot of talk about Palmer spending millions trying to get elected, not much talk about getup spending 15 mill to stop someone being elected
Heartening to hear of well spent money!
@@Tyronepeader the cure for antifa is testosterone 😉
At and end eh? Not so fast
“The coalition of the willing (participants with a vested monetary interest in renewable technologies)”
Abbott should be made national pariah. Like John Kerr after the Whitlam sacking. Boo him whenever he appears in public.
Is it just me a Brit but does Tony Abbott look like a machine washed tony Blair ?
The stench of Tony Abbott seems like Trump's smelly ring gear, doesn't go away. Has anyone thrown Alan Jones overboard in a chaff bag yet?
Sad day for Australia.
Phag
@@farkuwhale4439, really? Millennial?
@@RUHappyATM you can see spelling is his strongest point, he's going into overdrive stringing sentences together!
It was a big change in rechurch and Education.From the Abbot to Barrencode.
The creation of our Passport.
Taueli Faka'osi it take 200 year to create Manly.
And yet again someone put their own needs ahead of the people of the electorate whowere entitled to a candidate that could maintain the seat for Liberal but out of self interest it was probably handed to Labour shame on you Tony this stinks of John Howard not committing to going full term or not and losing his last election
Careful ABC...he could be you boss
I remember the Abbott media assassination.
And now the people of Warringah have an independent who has no political experience and no power in the parliament.
...and no solar panels on her roof, either!
The good people of Warringah returned their Independent MP with an increased majority. Apologies to all those bitter and twisted Tony Abbott supporters and the Murdoch media that keep their heads spinning.
No one don't have any money economy everything economy everything me menester don't know how going Menester is
Haha good job you have more time to spend with George now
Love to see the back of bill !
im not Australian but have an interest in Australian politics. Did Australian have an American moment and take back there country? And how man y greens left now, i see one. is that it just one green left now.
There was no America moment or take back control moment. The Greens only had one Member and he was re-elected with an increased margin. The polls were just wrong.
Everyone went central both far right and far left politics got destroyed this election. This country is very centrist and liberal party is representing the centre very well. Labour went with far left towards the greens their policies. This election any voter nation wide could not distinguished between the greens and labour parties. Also the far one nation got punished because they have some questionable “family values”.
@@keanusolan2844 but still only one federal MP. The rest are in the senate. Im sure Adam bandt knows all the good coffee shops in Melbourne .
Fast forward 2022 green slide …. Go figure
That may be true but only on the parallel universe where you are. 😊
0:51 I don't know why anyone would hire a bodyguard with a huge potbelly? Will they use it to save your life?
Divide and conquer TONY ABBOTT the architect and proud holder of the title of the best opposition leader ever.... leaving behind him a trail of six prime
ministers in twelve years, the final victim of his own brutal and efficient machiavellian methods....
.So the chickens have finally come home to roost for this man, and it took the public only seven years to work out this man was a destructive self-indulgent dud.
The question is how long will it take for the Australian public to figure out that these methods are still at work and even more finely tuned by the corporate media and their mouth piece the liberal party.
These people are determined to never again have a government that will put the interest and welfare of the people over the interests of the corporatocracy.
Robert Stopa Such a joy ! 2 TOXIC MEN : (TONY AND BILL) ARE OUT,
Electorates are not fool,I wish they would do the same for Shorten
I don't need to watch this. I'm just glad he's gone. His own party is too probably.
...too bad they won
They won though...
lol "his own party" won the election
Best outcome for the Libs. Win election, get rid of this wrecking Kent.
Tony should have fronted up as the candidate for the Australian Conservative Party. Hopefully, in time, this result will nudge the Liberal Party to embrace policies that deal with the reality of climate change.
If only that was the last we heard of him.
Who's bored of chanting and high viz?
We see the deception for what it is and this is just more of the same
He was a great right wing warrior.
waxed link love to see him shirt front Vlad . The north shore boy would be on his arse in seconds lol warrior ????
@Big Al yes and he loved Muslims dearly.
@Big Al I don't like Abbot or the right wing. I was being sarcastic but it back fired on me. It seems many people are happy to be called right wing these days! It's an indication of what we Australians have become. As a country we have moved so that the right is now the new centre.
@Big Al no worries mate. Stay strong.
@Big Al yeah I did think about this before the election. Labor do have a habit of taking over the reigns just before the world and Australia's economy goes south. Then they get a reputation for increasing national debt. What about personal debt? It's off the charts but the conservatives don't mention it because their whole economic recovery depends on it.
When you live in Makella (next to warringah) and they still vote liberals 😞
- then you're lucky. Warringah's going to vote Liberal as soon as the Libs get another candidate out who more accurately represents the views of the people on issues like climate change.
spellings not your strong point, is it ?
Perhaps move to newton then?