"Scrapping the national curriculum, cutting back immigration, restoring super to you, building coal-fired power, no new spending, getting nuclear subs and making government simpler: here's a series of specific steps that would make our country stronger, our citizens freer, and our government smaller and more accountable."

Those are the most important things.

I just wonder how much of what is needed would have been done if Tony was still Prime Minister. Remember 18C?

I see Tony Abbott's learned nothing.
I can't say I'm surprised.

"Back then we were a great country let down by a bad government"
He is obviously speaking personally.

Agree in principle. Parties need to take principled positions and stay with them! And the only way to stand for something! Enough of running with the hare and hunting with the hounds, politics! Or the political straightjacket of idealogical imperatives!

Like the nonsense of labor, ruling out nuclear power, because it's not labor policy! And when asked for a logical reason, no matter how the question was framed, simply repeated the same, Polly want a cracker, response!

And the abysmally ignorant Greens going bananas when someone suggests that carbon-free nuclear power was the cheapest, cleanest, safest, most effective way of addressing climate change! And demonstrably true!

And that nuclear power is, cheaper than coal, Super fuel/green energy MSR thorium! Thorium is four times more abundant than uranium and the most energy-dense material on the planet! Just 8 grams of thorium which would cost around $100.00 to mine and refine, would power your house and car for 100 years, without the need to refuel!

That my friends, is just one dollar a year! And the reason why the entire fossil fuel industry and big nuclear stands four-square against it! And the extremely efficacious very low-cost medical spinoffs, is the reason big pharma is also in that opposition camp!

Only the very real lack of political integrity, makes that asinine, obtuse opposition possible and effective!?

Gone are the days when pollies would take that question on notice! Nowadays some will address a question by replying, I've already addressed that question, i.e., by simply refusing to give anything like a credible, or relevant response! Just more mumbo-jumbo, jelly-back, Polly waffle!
Alan B.

Cutting back immigration? Yeah right. Under Abbott, Permanent Migration continued at record (Gillard) levels of 190,000. Net Migration also continued at very high levels.

As Abbott must also know, Morrison and Albanese are agreed on a Net Migration plan of an insane 235,000, every year, post COVID.

If he really wants to do voters a favour, he should break ranks with the elite, and come out strongly against this destructive agenda before the federal election. Not just in OLO, but like, on the front page of The Australian or the Financial Review.

Perhaps the last chance we had to get it right, but he was white anted from with in. It showed the stupidity of OZ, & the Libs at the time that he was replaced by that clown Turnbull. Given a free hand, he would have cleared much of our swamp, but they won again.

The ultimate stupidity he was toppled by an elite snow skier, rather than someone who might know which way is up.