"I don't know what resources he's got. I don't even know what he's going to do. He's appointed himself to be the schoolmaster of Indigenous kids around Australia," he said. "[It's] as if many of those families can't look after their own kids. There is an assumption that we cannot look after ourselves and we need a special envoy."

The WA Labor senator spoke of a friend's reaction when he heard Mr Abbott was appointed in the new role. 

"One of my friends, who is very ill, when he heard of this - he's a West Australian - said, 'What we need is an Abbott-proof fence. We need to keep this bloke away from us,' he said. 

Calls for an 'Abbott-proof fence' first circulated during Abbott's prime ministership in 2013, in which he declared himself the 'Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs' and prided himself on visiting remote communities at least once a year. 

But many Indigenous leaders, including Senator Dodson, described his previous efforts as a failure. 

"When he came into power and was supervising the place as the prime minister, he called the homelands, where people live in poverty in remote communities, a lifestyle choice," he said. 

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https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/nitv-news/article/2018/09/21/we-need-abbott-...

The ABC understands that tensions are high among South Australian Indigenous communities regarding the timing of an expected visit from special envoy for Indigenous Affairs Tony Abbott in the wake of a recent alleged murder in Ceduna.

A 56-year-old man was charged with murder following the death of a 32-year-old man at an Aboriginal community near Ceduna on South Australia's far west coast last Tuesday.

Mr Abbott's office today said the former prime minister was eager to visit as many remote communities as possible to hear what local school and community leaders think needs to be done to improve "school attendances and outcomes".

"This week, he is grateful for the opportunity to engage with a number of communities in South Australia," a spokesman said.

He is believed to be visiting Aboriginal communities around the state including Adelaide, Ceduna, Yalata, Koonibba and Murray Bridge but the timing of his visit is believed to have caused hostility, with one Indigenous elder describing the visit as a "wasted exercise".

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-28/tensions-high-ahead-of-tony-abbot...

Nauru is a “very pleasant island” where refugees and asylum seekers get better healthcare than in some towns in regional Australia, Tony Abbott has said.

The former prime minister made the comments to 2GB on Monday in an interview warning voters not to toss out Liberal MPs in favour of independents who, he said, claimed to be centrists but were in fact “to the left of Labor” and more like the Greens.

Abbott was asked about a YouGov Galaxy poll, published on Sunday, which found 80% of people want children and their families transferred off Nauru by taking New Zealand up on its offer to resettle 150 refugees.

Abbott said “the people on Nauru and Manus [Island] now are almost all would-be economic migrants and if we give them what they want we will get more of them”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/29/tony-abbott-says-...

forget this idiot turdy Abbott of the North Shore. Vote for Jane Caro...

The Liberal Party politician once provoked outrage in a keynote speech when he said that Australia was “unsettled” before Britain colonized the land. Now it appears he’s put his foot in it again by greeting ancestors of people who were effectively colonized with the word “invasion”.

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https://www.rt.com/news/442948-tony-abbott-indigenous-invasion/

Is this an improvement? or is Turdy Abbott sicker in the head far more than we ever knew?