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Abbott has no mandate from Aboriginal Australia

Aboriginal Australians awoke on Sunday morning to find they had a new 鈥淧rime Minister for Indigenous Affairs鈥, a pledge Tony Abbott delivered during the 2013 election campaign. One problem 鈥 noone, including within the media, ever stopped to ask Aboriginal people if they actually wanted a 鈥淧rime Minister for Indigenous Affairs鈥, and in particular whether they wanted Abbott. As it turns out, they apparently don鈥檛.

Don't agonise, organise against Abbott's agenda

So Tony Abbott is the new prime minister. The Rudd-Gillard-Rudd Labor governments delivered this outcome with the narrow self-interest of its MPs and mafia-like faction heads and its desperation to prove itself as the best managers of the system for the billionaire class.