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🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 97 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello everyone watching and listening. Today I'm speaking with |
0:18.5 | Australian journalist and former Prime Minister the Honorable Tony Abbott. |
0:23.3 | We met before once in Australia, and this will be a follow-up to that. |
0:27.8 | We discuss Australia's role on the world stage, the problems facing the Australian economy and culture, the broader problems that face the |
0:36.0 | west, how the quasi-cult of carbon threatens, in particular the poor in the developing world, |
0:43.0 | why new religions propagate where traditional faith |
0:46.0 | has been abdicated, and the looming threat of war |
0:50.0 | as China destabilizes, and Putin pushes forward against Ukraine. |
0:55.7 | We also discuss our joint involvement in the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship, |
1:00.6 | the Arc, which is a new venture grounded in London, designed to put forward a positive |
1:07.2 | vision of the future that everyone could, in principle, be on board with voluntarily. |
1:14.0 | So Mr Abbott, let's start by talking about Australia as a whole. |
1:20.0 | I mean, what role do you think Australia plays on the international front now? |
1:27.0 | Like, how do you think Australia should be conceptualised by people outside of the country? |
1:32.0 | Well, Jordan, I think Australia is one of those wonderful countries, which is big enough to be |
1:39.2 | interesting and significant, but not so big as to be intimidating and three and no one anywhere in the world who has a grievance against us. |
1:55.0 | And that's not true of so many other countries. |
1:57.5 | You think of the United States, you think of Britain, you think of France, you think of |
2:01.8 | Germany, you think of Italy, you think of Russia, you think of France you think of Germany you think of Italy you think of Russia you think of |
2:05.2 | China there are grievances that different countries have against all of those |
2:11.1 | countries they're all of those countries have great strengths as well. |
2:15.0 | But Australia is one of those happy places |
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