Anthony Anacletus Abbott
Meet Anthony Anacletus Abbott - Advisory Board Member
Trouser Size
34R
Pet’s Name
Mary McKillop (gerbil)
Favourite Food
Communion Wafers (plain and Marmite)
Childhood Hero
Cardinal Richelieu
Western Zodiac
Scorpio
Chinese Zodiac
Year of the Ferret
Babylonian Zodiac
House of the Pustulous Carbuncle
Prior Occupations
Catholic priest, cage fighter, Prime Minister
Qualifications
Shooter’s License, BA (Divinity) BLlb
Favourite Documentary
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Favourite Book
Prison Diaries, George Pell
Favourite band
Vatican Boys Coir
Pet hates
Organ Donors
Phobias
Barophobia (fear of gravity)
Famous Quote
Anything from Book of Leviticus
Date and Place of Birth
4 November 1957, London
Current Positions
National President, Liberal Party of Australia; Treasurer, Opus Dei
Anthony Anacletus Abbott (proxy for Hon Sir Harold Holt)
Named after his father Anthony Abbott (the Bishop of Fulham) and St Anacletus, third Pope of the Catholic Church, Anthony ‘Tony’ Anacletus Abbot was born in London in 1957.
His doting mother exerted a particularly strong influence over his early childhood development. Discipline was highly valued in the Abbott household, and Tony and his siblings learned to recite the gospels through his parents‘ assiduous use of nunchuckers and boric acid, coupled (of course) with lots of TLC.
After coming to Australia, Tony was enrolled in Saint Beadon's Catholic Boys school in Sydney’s North Shore. The firm hand of the Christian brothers, including a daily routine of swimming naked in ice baths filled with blue-bottle jellyfish while the brothers ran along the side of the pool thrashing the water with garden rakes and pool cues, reinforced the traditional family values of self-discipline he learned at home.
Those boyhood experiences prepared Tony well for the challenges that inevitably came with young adulthood and the transition to university life. Confronted on a daily basis with the types of temptations that inevitably result from the ill-considered policy of mixing men and women in the same classrooms, Tony threw himself into student politics.
He was successfully elected to student council at Sydney University, where he launched a number of initiatives. Designed variously to purge evolution from the biology syllabus, introduce stocks to hold student union members and act as a deterrent for other forms of aberrant behaviour, he also led the charge to resegregate classrooms along gender lines, and introduce a ‘Girls Only’ degree structure focusing on home duties and values such as chastity and obedience.
Sadly, all these initiatives failed, foundering on opposition engineered by the Marxist-feminist cabal that ran the university from a secret bunker beneath the student Co-op.
Yet further evidence of the benefits of parental discipline reinforced by a no nonsense clergy, was Tony standing academic record. After graduating from Sydney University he travelled to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, graduating with a Masters degree in theology. His thesis addressed the historical utility of self-flagellation in post-reformation Britain.
Tony’s University Years - full of thought and wonder.
On returning to Australia Tony decided to dedicate his life to the church and enrolled in Sydney’s Pope Pius IV seminary. But he quickly realised that a career in the priesthood was unlikely to satiate his appetite for adventure, and so he took a job as a PE master at a Catholic boy’s school, before turning his talents to the budding art of cage wrestling.
It was in his persona as ‘Tony the Inquisitor’ that Abbott came to the attention of then liberal leader, and avid blood sport enthusiast, Dr John Hewson. He accepted a position as Hewson's personal bodyguard and private confessor, before being nominated for the safe Sydney seat of De Groote. The new Liberal Party leader John Howard was alerted to Tony's talents and promise as a potential minister, when he stumbled across Abbott holding labor senator Robert ray in a painful figure-four leg lock behind the parliament house bicycle sheds. Howard promoted Tony to the shadow front bench, and on winning government at the 1996 election, Howard went on to award him the senior ministerial portfolio of Forestry, Fisheries and Vivisection. The apex of his ministerial career occurred when Howard then appointed Tony as minister for Workplace Bullying.
Tony has had many achievements, despite his relatively short political career. These include his declaration of work choices, banning red meat from the Friday menu of the parliament house canteen, the defeat of the Rudd government’s emission trading bill, and nominating the Vatican for membership in the British Commonwealth.
He is also known for punching an uppity stenographer in the House of Representatives unconscious, and taking the first incremental steps toward the complete dismantling of the child support system, which was seen as anti-father, anti-family and promoting lesbianism.Tony makes no secret of the fact he has long aspired to lead Australia into a new era of conservative greatness. His position as adviser to the HHDRS is a significant step towards this.
His vision has been forged through thousands of hours immersed in the works of great thinkers such as Karl Schmidt, Ulrich von Ribbentrop, Pope Pius the XII and Sydney radio legend Alan Jones. Meanwhile his appreciation of the nature and origins of humankind has been refined after thousands of additional hours of deep philosophical debate with leading Christian theologians.
Tony recounts how the impetus to seek out advice and embark on a crusade to remake Australia and turn it into a shining example of western virtues of abstinence and self-discipline came with the nocturnal visit by the spirit of first governor of NSW and patron saint of chronic masturbators, Arthur Phillip. Philip told Abbott to meditate and wait for a message from God. He told Abbott the Holy Spirit would quote knock three times on the ceiling if Tony had been anointed by God as a modern day antipodean metternich, twice on the pipe if the answer was no. Three loud taps on the ceiling later and Tony was hard at work on a vision for Australian greatness.