Tony Abbott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Tony Abbott

Australian politician, 28th Prime Minister of Australia

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1957

Place of Birth: General Lying-In Hospital, England, United Kingdom

Profession: politician

Nationality: United Kingdom, Australia

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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About Tony Abbott

  • Anthony John Abbott (born 4 November 1957) is an Australian politician who served as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015 and leader of the Liberal Party from 2009 to 2015.
  • He served as Leader of the Opposition from 2009 to 2013.
  • Abbott served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Warringah from 1994 to 2019.Abbott was born in London to an Australian mother and a British father, and moved to Sydney at the age of two.
  • He studied economics and law at the University of Sydney, and then attended The Queen's College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar, studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
  • After graduating from Oxford, Abbott briefly trained as a Roman Catholic seminarian, and later worked as a journalist, manager, and political adviser.
  • In 1992, he was appointed director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, a position he held until his election to parliament at the 1994 Warringah by-election. After the 1998 election, Abbott was appointed Minister for Employment Services in the Second Howard Ministry.
  • He was promoted to cabinet in 2001 as Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business.
  • In 2003, Abbott became Minister for Health and Ageing, retaining this position until the defeat of the Howard Government at the 2007 election.
  • Initially serving in the shadow cabinets of Brendan Nelson and then Malcolm Turnbull, Abbott resigned from the front bench in November 2009, in protest against Turnbull's support for the Rudd Government's proposed Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
  • Forcing a leadership ballot on the subject, Abbott defeated Turnbull by 42 votes to 41, to become the party's leader and Leader of the Opposition. Abbott led the Coalition at the 2010 election, which resulted in a hung parliament.
  • Following negotiations, Labor formed a Government, with the support of one Greens MP and three Independent MPs.
  • Abbott was re-elected as Liberal Leader unopposed.
  • Abbott went on to lead the Coalition to victory in the 2013 election and was sworn in as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia on 18 September 2013.
  • On 14 September 2015, Abbott was defeated in a vote for the Liberal leadership (54 votes to 44) by Malcolm Turnbull, who replaced Abbott as Prime Minister the following day.After his defeat in the party leadership, he returned to the backbench and held his seat of Warringah at the 2016 federal election.
  • He lost his seat to independent candidate Zali Steggall in the 2019 federal election.

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