Abbott's 2020 predictions......

In Chapter 7 of his 2009 book Battlelines Australian Opposition Leader Tony Abbott predicts that by 2020:

A) Australia will still have one of the world's strongest economies....

B) our partnership with America will still be the foundation of our security....

C) We will still be a 'crowned republic'.....

D) We will be more cosmopolitan than ever but perhaps less multicultural....

E) Some progress will have been made towards 'closing the gap' between Aboriginal and other Australians' standards of living.....

F) Families won't break up anymore often....

G) there will have been bigger fires, more extensive floods, more ferocious storms because records are always being broken....

H) sea levels will be much the same, desert boundaries will not have changed much, and technology, rather than economic self-denial, will be starting to cut down atmospheric pollution.

Thankfully, Abbott doesn't predict that he'll be leading a Coalition government in Canberra at the start of that decade.