Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott (main picture) has sparked a backlash among his right-wing colleagues following publication of his new book charting Australia’s history.

Queensland LNP Senator, Matt Canavan, who sits with the Nationals in Canberra has led the charge against Mr Abbott after singling out a key passage in the book, Australia: A History. (below).

“The section penned by Mr Abbott that I object to covers the arrival of the First Fleet on the shores of our wide brown continent in 1788,” Senator Canavan said. “Fair enough, but it’s the implications in what Tony has written that I find offensive.”

The following paragraph was singled out by Senator Canavan for criticism:

“In 1788 the modern world erupted into an ancient continent that had been substantially undisturbed for over 10,000 years – since the seas had risen after the last ice age, broken the land bridge from South East Asia and separated Tasmania from the mainland.”

Speaking in his home town of Rockhampton during unexpected, unseasonal, and inexplicable flooding of its main street following massive sea level rises along the Queensland coast (below), Senator Canavan said the passage was “far too woke” and “more in line with far-left eco-warriors intent on destroying our nation and its economy”.

“All this scaremongering talk in the book about ice ages, sea level rises, and damage to civic infrastructure such as bridges is wildly misleading and sounds like an endorsement of climate change to me,” he said while apologising to reporters for forgetting to apply fake coal dust to his face in readiness for interviews.

“Everyone knows climate change doesn’t exist, so why is Tony giving it credence in his book?

“I’m afraid he’s gone too far for me. I believe the blame can be laid squarely at the feet of his former chief of staff, Peta Credlin, who still advises him as her News Crap Australia job requires her to do.

“She has always been far too left-wing for my taste on climate change and the whole debate on fossil fuels and renewables as far as I’m cornered,” Senator Canavan said.

Former deputy prime minister and former National Party leader, Barnaby Joyce, echoed Senator Canavan’s criticisms of the book.

Speaking to reporters while hand feeding starving cattle on his northern NSW property, Mr Joyce said he too took issue with the passage singled out by Senator Canavan.

“Tony’s book just gives comfort to the crazy lefties who believe in climate change,” he said while wondering aloud if he should try feeding his cattle some hay rather than the now warm full-strength Fourex beer he was trying to force down their throats.

“Tony seems to have fallen off the wagon or jumped the shark with his new book.

“Come to think of it, it’s probably more a case of him having fallen of a footpath planter box – a saying I understand has great currency these days for some reason,” Mr Joyce said.

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