The Liberal National Coalition Party (LNP) has won the 2013 federal election of Australia. After a campaign which lacked transparency and that had a mantra of “cut the debt”, “stop the boats” they managed to win a landslide.

With the new incoming government, tens of thousands across Australia are set to lose their jobs with cuts that were announced when costings were released only 48 hours before the election – not really giving people time to read and think about the impact. Not only will people be losing jobs, indigenous programs to help indigenous people in Australian society have also been cut.

$4 billion worth of aid will be cut – the hardest hit will be the Pacific region. The election of the LNP also leads to funding questions for early childhood, education, universities in doubt as well.

24 hours before the election, the media in Australia except for one newspaper in Melbourne had all endorsed and pretty much declared Tony Abbott the winner.

Prior to entering Parliament, Abbott studied for a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Sydney, and later for a Master of Arts as a Rhodes Scholar at Queen’s College, Oxford. He later trained as a Roman Catholic seminarian and worked as a journalist, business manager, and political advisor. In 1992, he was appointed Director of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy, a position he held until 1994 when he successfully stood in the Warringah by-election.

Abbott led his party through the 2010 election, which resulted in a hung parliament. Incumbent Prime Minister Julia Gillard formed a minority government after gaining the support of a Green MP and three independent MPs. Abbott was born in London, England, on 4 November 1957, to an Australian mother and an English-born Australian father. His father, Dick Abbott, grew up in a village near Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Dick and his parents moved to Australia during the Second World War. On 7 September 1960, Tony’s family moved to Australia on the Assisted Passage Migration Scheme ship Oronsay

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