The Sketch: ABC Abetz Examination answers
Q1) At the age of three, after his father obtained work on the hydro scheme, Eric Abetz emigrated from Germany to what Australian city?
Hobart
Q2) Abetz was the minister for employment at the establishment of which royal commission?
Royal Commission into Trade Unions
Q3) When arrested over war crimes in 1945, Eric's great-uncle Otto Abetz said he believed in the survival and impending return of which high-ranking Nazi?
Adolf Hitler
Q4) Gleeson played a clip of Abetz in Senate estimates saying: “And that is the issue of a bias, and favouring one point of view over another”. Alleged bias at which organisation?
The ABC
Q5) In May 2019, Abetz presented Scott Morrison with a portrait of who made of what?
Scott Morrison carved into timber (made by Tasmanian wood-turner, Bob Brinkman)
Q6) Abetz gained an interest in politics while studying law at the University of Tasmania, where he joined the Liberal Party because of outrage over what compulsory requirement?
Compulsory membership of the student union
Q7) Despite being available free online, in 2018, Abetz defended his purchase of 200 copies of a book with what title?
The Forgotten People by R.G Menzies (75th Anniversary Edition)
Q8) Invited by the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex to send a message to another planet in 2009, Abetz outlined his dream to be free of what?
Labor debt
Q9) In 2017, Abetz raised concerns over the pride flag being flown in the lobby of which government building?
The Department of Finance
Q10) Abetz asked 85 commonwealth departments and agencies to, and I quote, “Provide the messages, if any, sent to staff” on which four occasions?
Christmas, New Year, Easter and Ramadan
Q11) In 1999, Abetz was one of only a handful of parliamentarians who attended a screening held to review the classification of which film?
A remake of Lolita starring Jeremy Irons and Melanie Griffith
Indexation refusal to trigger $8bn tax slug
Labor’s tax on unrealised capital gains is set to raise more than $8bn a year in a decade as more people are slugged, a Parliamentary Budget Office analysis indicates.
WA finds state allies as GST battle brews
The additional GST funds, Treasurer Rita Saffioti says, are helping WA invest in the infrastructure needed to support the next wave of major projects in the state.
For you political tragics out there, here are the answers to the ABC Abetz examination, courtesy of The Sketch.