Tony Abbott vs the real Australia

The fallout from Abbott's delusional and self aggrandised preaching speech to Europe and it's asylum seekers, is still happening aplenty here in Australia. Yes folks, Australia has once again recoiled in horror at the revolting scenes that unfolded in England the other day. Our ousted leader, done in by his own bastardry, chose to preach hate and separation to Europe as a way out of the refugee crisis now engulfing it.

It gave the opportunity for the cartoonists to once again have a go at Abbott. Unshackled by domestic politics, he was now able to put himself to the world as the demented and insidious fuckwit he's always been. 

More so however, there have been opinion pieces and articles all over the net here condemning him for this, perhaps the most disastrous of all his self inflicted political fuck ups. Again he showed to all Australia (this time as well as the world) that he did not represent us. He's not one of us. Perhaps only in citizenship papers but that's all. His mind and heart lie in the ultra conservative world of entitlement and prestige that he grew up in. I can't imagine him ever lasting in a public school. He'd have been laughed out of the grounds FFS.

The article that I've found the best analysis on his speech is from Barry Cassidy of the ABC. A short but very on the ball read. He points to our being the most immigrant nation and how we simply don't agree with hating people like Abbott wanted us to. 

Abbott's speech in the end was a missed opportunity. Why do our leaders not tell our real story when they travel abroad? 

George Megalogenis in his latest book "Australia's Second Chance" topically raised the question that Australian leaders should respond to: "How did you make the world's greatest migrant nation?" 

Good question. And the answer is obvious, or should be. 

Megalogenis writes: 

Our unique strengths are social cohesion; our ability to turn the disparate querulous cultures of the world into a unified people. 

That's our story; that's the real story. It's not one that preaches hardnosed indifference to the tragedies befalling the rest of the world. It's not one that favours tough action, force if necessary, to prevent the suffering of others from spoiling our utopia, a utopia built on migration. 

And it's not one - at home - that favours force and the will of a single leader over negotiation and consensus. The Drum

Is Abbott a true Australian? Certainly a question to ponder...