Tony Abbott served as Australia's 28th Prime Minister. After first addressing the University in 2024, Mr Abbott returns to UATX for a conversation on how liberal education forms the character and judgment required for statesmanship. A Boxer, Journalist, Lawyer and Scholar, Abbott has long argued that great leaders are shaped by deep engagement with the moral and intellectual inheritance of western civilization. In this exclusive keynote address to the University of Austin, Tony Abbott will reflect on why liberal education remains essential to the formation of capable statesmen in a democratic age.