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Tony Abbott

Parliamentary Service

Elected to the House of Representatives for Warringah, New South Wales at by-election 26.3.1994 vice the Hon. M.J.R. MacKellar (resigned). Re-elected 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2004.

Ministerial Appointments

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs from 11.3.96 to 21.10.98.

Minister for Employment Services from 21.10.98 to 30.01.01.

Minister for Employment, Workplace Relations and Small Business from 30.01.01 to 26.11.01.

Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations from 26.11.01 to 07.10.03.

Minister for Health and Ageing from 07.10.03.

Personal

Born 4.11.1957, London, UK.

Married.

Qualifications and Occupation before entering Federal Parliament

BEc, LLB (Syd), MA (Oxon).

Rhodes Scholar.

Journalist.

Plant Manager, Pioneer Concrete.

Press secretary and political adviser to the Leader of the Opposition, Dr J.R. Hewson 1990-93.

Executive Director, Australians for Constitutional Monarchy 1993-94.

Tony gets an earn?

Wednesday, 21 May 2008 - Tony Abbott made no secret of the pains of adjusting to the loss of a minister's income which perhaps explains his somewhat plaintive plea on a blog he contributed yesterday on the site of the Sydney Daily Telegraph. more

Tony Abbott and the long nosed bandicoot

Wednesday, 20 February 2008 - All politics is local and for Tony Abbott that means a small colony of long nosed bandicoots which dig their small, conical holes at Spring Cove on Manly's North Head so their long, sensitive snouts can reach in and detect insects and other small invertebrate prey by night. Far be it from me to suggest that the local member is campaigning against a new building at the Cove by the Federal Police for training academy accommodation because his constituents enjoy having own noses in this idyllic trough of a national park and don't want it over run by visiting Constable Plods. more

Support for Health Minister Abbott

Thursday, 5th October, 2006 - Health Minister Tony Abbott has received some welcome support this week for the sceptical approach to putting new drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme list which is necessary to limit the escalating cost to the budget. A study funded by the British government and published in the Archives of General Psychiatry has found that new treatments for schizophrenia perform no better, and perhaps worse, than older drugs although they cost up to 10 times more. more