Tony Abbott's Nazi references

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is copping flak for suggesting Islamic State terrorists are worse than the Nazis.

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Prime Minister Tony Abbott. (AAP) Source: AAP

ALAN JONES SHOW

"I mean, the Nazis did terrible evil but they had sufficient sense of shame to try to hide it. These people (Islamic State) boast about their evil."

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 - ALAN JONES SHOW

"But the atrocities that were committed by the Nazis, by the communists and others, they were ashamed of them, they tried to cover them up. This mob (Islamic State), by contrast, as soon as they've done something gruesome and ghastly and unspeakable, they're advertising it on the internet."

FEBRUARY 12, 2015 - QUESTION TIME

"There was a holocaust of jobs in defence industries under members opposite. That is what there was. (Pause) I am sorry, and I withdraw."

MARCH 19, 2015 - QUESTION TIME

"The Dr Goebbels of economic policy." (Aimed at Opposition Leader Bill Shorten)

SEPTEMBER 1996 - ARTICLE ON EUTHANASIA IN THE AUSTRALIAN

"In a century that has given us the Holocaust, the Killing Fields and the terror bombing of defenceless cities, perhaps this (euthanasia law reform) is a trifling transgression. But why are we letting it happen here?"

OCTOBER 16, 1995 - PARLIAMENT DEBATE ON EUTHANASIA

"I believe that there is a vast moral gulf which separates modern Australia from Nazi Germany. But can we be so sure that, under pressure over time, we will not slide down the same slippery slope."


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