Tony Abbott condemns action to remove Rhodes statues
Former prime minister and Rhodes Scholar Tony Abbott condemned the movement to take down statues of Cecil Rhodes, the British imperialist who bequeathed one of the English-speaking world's great university scholarships.
Mr Abbott, who attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship in the early 1980s, said it would be arrogant to assume that all current views are superior to those held by people such as Rhodes, who built a business empire based on the colonisation of South Africa in the 1850s.
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