Hon. Tony Abbott AC
Tony Abbott served as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015.
Hon. Tony Abbott AC
Under his government, the carbon tax and mining tax were repealed, free trade agreements were finalised with China, Japan and Korea, the people smuggling trade from Indonesia to Australia was halted, Australia became the second largest military contributor to the US-led campaign against Islamic State in Iraq, the biggest federally-supported infrastructure program in Australian history commenced, and, as PM, he chaired the G20 meeting of global leaders in Brisbane in November 2014. In 2014 and again in 2015 he spent a week running the government from a remote indigenous community.
He served as the member for Warringah in the Australian parliament between 1994 and 2019. As the local MP, he was instrumental in the creation of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust to preserve the natural and built heritage of his electorate and elsewhere. He served in the Howard government cabinet between 2001 and 2007, variously as Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Health, and Leader of the House of Representatives.
Prior to entering parliament, he was a journalist with The Australian, a senior adviser to opposition leader John Hewson, and executive director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy. He has degrees in economics and law from Sydney University and in politics and philosophy from Oxford which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. In 2020 he was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Australia.
He is the author of The Minimal Monarchy (1995), How to Win the Constitutional War (1997), Battlelines (2009) and, most recently Australia: A History, which was the best-selling book in its category in 2025.
Currently he is a director of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, is a visiting fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs and the Danube Institute, and is a director of FOX Corporation.
