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Saturday 7 September 2019 The Guardian •
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Abbott uses migrant slur
speech to bolster Orban
Ben Smee
Tony Abbott, the former Australian
prime minister, has moved to bolster
President Viktor Orbán in Hungary
with an infl ammatory speech claiming
Europe is endangered by “military-
age” male immigrants “swarming”
the continent.
Abbott also criticised Prince Harry
and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, for
saying they would not have more than
two children. Abbott said it would
make little diff erence “when so many
children are being born elsewhere”.
Abbott, ousted by his centre-right
Liberal party in 2015, appeared as guest
of honour at a Hungarian government-
backed meeting on demography in
Budapest on Thursday. Praising
Orbán’s hardline policies, he gave a
lecture on what Europe could learn
from Australian immigration policy.
He said the left was attempting
to undermine western society with
migration and the “climate cult”.
“The vast majority of migrants did
not come to Australia to change us but
to join us,” Abbott told the conference.
“There were the British or the Irish
coming in our fi rst 100 years. They
changed us, but for the better.
“The problem with the people who
have been swarming across the bor-
ders in Europe in very recent times is
that you don’t get any impression that
they come to join. You get the impres-
sion they come to change.
“I mean ... you get a million angry
military-age males swarming into a
single country in a year. They are not
there to be grateful, they are there with
a grievance. And people who come
with a grievance are very diff erent to
people who come with gratitude.
“There is an absolute moral world of
diff erence between people who cross a
border to be safe and people who cross
multiple borders to have a better life.
No one can blame them for wanting a
better life, but nobody has a duty to
give it to them unconditionally .”
The conference began with an open-
ing display portraying people from the
south and east advancing on Europe.
The event will heighten concern about
the emerging international nexus of
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