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Battlelines
''Battlelines'' is a 2009 book by Tony Abbott. The book was published while Abbott was in opposition, four years before he was 2013 Australian federal election, elected as Prime Minister of Australia in 2013. The book is partly autobiographical and discusses Abbott's experiences in the Liberal Party of Australia and in the Howard government. The book was written during Abbott's time as a Shadow Minister following the 2007 defeat of the Howard government and prior to Abbott's 2009 Liberal Party leadership election as List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition, Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Parliament. Background and synopsis Written in the aftermath of the defeat of the Howard government, in which Abbott had served as a senior Cabinet Minister, the book is partly an autobiography, partly an insider critique and examination of the record of the Howard government and partly a manifesto on future directions for the Liberal Party, which had entered opposition after 11 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Abbott
Anthony John Abbott (; born 4 November 1957) is a former Australian politician who served as the 28th prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia. Abbott was born in London, England, to an Australian mother and a British father, and moved to Sydney at the age of two. He studied economics and law at the University of Sydney, and then attended The Queen's College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics. After graduating from Oxford, Abbott briefly trained as a Roman Catholic seminarian, and later worked as a journalist, manager, and political adviser. In 1992, he was appointed director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, a position he held until his election to parliament as a member of parliament (MP) for the division of Warringah at the 1994 Warringah by-election, before the election of the Howard government in 1996. Following the 1998 Australian federal election, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
