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This year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List has been announced, with former prime minister Tony Abbott awarded the top honour of Companion of the Order of Australia.
The Prominent Northern Beaches elder was finally recognised today for his eminent service to the people and Parliament of Australia, particularly as Prime Minister, and through significant contributions to trade, border control, and to the Indigenous community.
This long overdue commendation comes at pivotal moment in Australian history, after a weekend of protests that saw over 500,000 people take to the streets nationwide to highlight the inequality faced by Indigenous Australian at the hands of both law enforcement and the courts system.
Tony Abbott, or Dr Uncle Tony X as he is known to his own people, says he’s not usually into them flash titles – but graciously accepted the acknowledgment after learning that he was just one of many politicians from his government to receive accolades today.
Within the list of 933 awards former NSW premier Mike Baird, former Victorian premier Denis Napthine and former federal Liberal ministers Philip Ruddock and Bronwyn Bishop – were also given the respect they deserve as the true defenders of equality and civil rights in Australia.
Having gone quiet since the 2019 election, where he lost his seat to a former Winter Olympian who believes in climate change, Uncle Tony has returned today to say thank you to the voters, public servants and mining companies that helped him in his brief two-and-a-bit-year stint as Prime Minister.
However, it doesn’t look like that will be the last nod that Uncle Tony recieves this award season.
The devout London-born 62-year-old Jesuit is also tipped to receive a Noble Prize for his work in defending the environment from a culture of resource-industry led populist greed.
While joining the Order of Australia honour list may be viewed as the highest honour for Anglophile Australians who still think the Queen Of England actually cares about them, the Noble Prize is international.
Set up in 1901 by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, the coveted Nobel Prize is a set of annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.
If successful, Uncle Tony will be the 17th Nobel laureate, and only the 9th to not be directly involved in medicine.
Speaking to the Betoota Advocate today, Uncle Tony said he doesn’t do what he does for the awards and prizes, and says it’s all about creating a fair and sustainable future for his family that don’t really talk to him anymore.
“I do this for my people” he said while taking a knee on Manly esplanade earlier today, to polish his RMs.
“Always was, always will be, jobs and growth”
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