Jun 10, 2026 – 8.36amWashington | Liberal Party president Tony Abbott has urged the Labor government to release multi-billion dollar gas projects from their regulatory straight-jacket, warning that Australia had lost its ambition and was drifting into decline.The former prime minister and Conservative political warrior also lamented the “timidity of Australia”, and blamed last year’s Bondi massacre on migrants’ rejection of Australian values.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
‘Australia lacks ambition’: Abbott attacks gas, immigration policies
The Liberal Party president criticised a “laissez-faire” approach to multiculturalism, saying it had let some maintain “their old thinking and their old identity”.
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