Tony Abbott

Hon. Tony Abbott A. C. was elected as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia in 2013. His administration repealed the carbon and mining tax, boosting the country’s resource-led economy. Economic liberalisation continued in the form of free trade agreements with China, Japan and Korea. Abbott also secured Australia’s borders, halting the people smuggling trade from Indonesia. And he put Australia front and centre of the fight against Islamic State, becoming the second largest military contributor to the US-led campaign. Australia also took centre-stage in international politics when Abbott chaired the G20 meeting of global leaders in Brisbane in November 2014.

In 2020 he was appointed as a Companion of the Order of Australia, and in 2022 he was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun.

Currently, he is a director of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, serves on the council of the Australian War Memorial, an adviser to the UK Board of Trade, a visiting fellow of the Institute of Public Affairs and the Danube Institute and is a Board Director at FOX Corporation.