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Respected community elder from Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Uncle Tony Abbott has today had a rude shock during a general health check up at the local Aboriginal Health Centre.
The Former Prime Minister, who will turn 61 in November has today learnt that due to completely preventable socio-economic factors, he is expected to die in roughly eight years time.
According the Australian Bureau Of Statistics, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population born in 2010–2012, life expectancy was estimated to be 10.6 years lower than that of the non-Indigenous population for males (69.1 years compared with 79.7) and 9.5 years for females (73.7 compared with 83.1).
Uncle Tony’s new health concerns have come to light after the Member for Warringah gave a conditional yes to taking on the job of the Federal Government’s Indigenous envoy.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison did not ask Mr Abbott to be a minister in his new Government, but instead asked him to take on the role of envoy, citing his close association with Aboriginal Australia after growing up in a six bedroom mansion in Sydney’s Northern Beaches and working for the Liberal Party for nearly three decades.
“I better start making some deadly choices” said the Member for Warringah.
