Former prime minister Tony Abbott says people are getting sick of “woke” public company CEOs and senior staff using their businesses to “play politics” over the issue of Australia Day.
“I accept that not every aspect of our history is something we can be equally proud of,” he told Sky News host James Morrow.
“But, the modern Australia that began on the 26th of January, 1788, is as free, as fair and as prosperous as any country on Earth. No country on earth is fairer to minorities than ours. “Whatever we might want to change in the future, we got here … because of what happened in the past, we should acknowledge it, we should face up to it, we should cherish the best, anything that is not so good we should strive to change.”
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