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The Rubin Report

Is Australia About to Repeat the Biggest Mistake of Europe? | Tony Abbott

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.513.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks to Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott about the decline of Western values in Australia and beyond; the authoritarian overreach during COVID lockdowns; the dangers of multiculturalism without shared civic values; the importance of patriotic immigration and national unity; how political stagnation weakens democracies; the need for cultural confidence and strategic renewal; and much more.

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0:00.0

One of the things that the Australian Guffer did recently was that it issued some 3,000 tourist visas, would you believe, to people from the terrorist-controlled war zone in Gaza.

0:14.0

Now, I'm sure there are many decent people in Gaza, and we recently saw some very brave gas people standing up against

0:22.1

the Amar terrorists that control the on-cliffe but nevertheless you've got to assure

0:28.1

that if you just give 3,000 pieces to people from Gaza you will be importing trouble.

0:34.6

You will be bringing into your country people who are unlikely ever to go back and who don't

0:40.3

necessarily share your values.

0:42.3

So this is where I think there's been a degree of negligence from a lot of Western governments

0:49.3

in recent times.

0:51.3

I accept that in a sense it's our virtues that have brought on this problem

0:56.9

because we want to be decent, we want to be fair-minded, we want to think the best of people,

1:03.2

they're all good things. But in the end, if you do somehow fracture your society or make your society less cohesive, well, you're not

1:18.4

doing yourselves any favors.

1:27.0

All right, former Australian Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, it's good to see you.

1:31.0

We were just commiserating about long trips to get here, but 30 hours for you, you're awake.

1:36.4

You're awake. What level am I getting at right now?

1:38.3

Look, you're probably getting me out about nine out of ten.

1:41.0

What, nine out of ten? That's not bad.

1:42.7

At least, it's not as bad as it used to be.

1:45.5

The first modern Australians came to Sydney Cove from Britain in 1788, and it took them nine months.

1:54.4

So, and something.

1:56.5

So 30 hours, not so bad.

1:58.1

And something got two or three percent of them died on the journey. So let's

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