This report of what Tony Abbott said at The Australian-Melbourne Institute conference on Thursday night has the hair standing on the back of my neck:
"Prime Minister Tony Abbott says we have all benefited from Britain’s original foreign investment because Australia was “unsettled” before the British arrived. ..."
"... “I guess our country owes its existence to a form of foreign investment by the British government in the then unsettled or, um, scarcely settled, Great South Land,” he said. ..."
This from a PM who promised to spend the first week of his time as PM working in aboriginal communities.
This is the very same PM who's instead slashed and burned support for Aborigines in his budget declaration of war on low income earners, the poor and the vulnerable. It's the same PM who recently declared Japan to be Australia's best friend and gifted a surfboard to US President Barrack Obama.
Well Abbott is in desperate need of explaining his comments and actions!
