WOMEN have been warned by Australia’s most experienced female politician that parliament is not a pleasant workplace – and never will be. Former Federal Speaker of the House Bronwyn Bishop, who left parliament in 2016 as the nation’s longest serving female MP, said women should stay clear of politics if they’re scared of a fight.
MATT Kean’s appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as NSW’s zero emissions tzar has been described by voters as ridiculous, an abomination and political suicide.The former prime minister was this week tasked with de-carbonising NSW after his “good friend” handed him the chairmanship of NSW’s Net Zero Emissions & Clean Economy Board.
SO-CALLED conservative politicians will face electoral annihilation if they follow Labor down the gender quota rat hole. This assessment from Sky News commentator Rita Panahi follows moves by Liberal Prime Minister Scott Morrison to introduce quotas to counter recent allegations of sexual misbehaviour by political staffers.
THE mood among Liberal Party supporters is darkening as the Party continues its hard lurch to the Left, shedding millions of voters as it does. From this month’s Western Australia debacle – where a radical Liberal opposition was all but wiped out – to recent big losses in Queensland, the Northern Territory and a minority government in Tasmania, there’s little joy among centre-right conservatives.
Federal MP Zali Steggall is being advised on climate issues by one of the nation’s most disproved doomsday scientists. Left-wing activist Tim Flannery was appointed by Ms Steggall in 2019 to advise her on meteorological issues, despite his speciality area being with mammals.
THE Left’s organisational team that oversaw former Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s 2019 election disaster has controversially been given a second chance to win Warringah. The former Liberal stronghold had never been lost by the Party until its hard Left “moderate” faction grabbed control in 2018.
THE two political Parties pushing the most radical climate policies have been all but wiped out in last week’s Western Australian election. The Greens lost 75 per cent of its parliamentary representation while a confused Liberal Party shed 85 per cent of its seats.
WESTERN Australia’s Liberal Party has been electorally destroyed, its greens-embracing leader turfed from parliament and the Party replaced by the Nationals as official opposition. The Party, which had attempted outgreen Labor, now holds just two of the State’s 59 parliamentary seats, trailing both Labor (53) and the Nationals (4).
BHP has fallen into line with Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s mantra that emissions reduction should occur via technology, not bankruptcy. After years of BHP plying for Green applause, its newly minted CEO Mike Henry has turfed the company’s activism and delivered record wealth instead.
OPPORTUNISTIC pro-republicans have completely misread the public mood, demanding Australia break ties with the monarchy at a time when support for Queen Elizabeth is surging.
In the wake of a nasty tell-all interview with two of the world’s most privileged “victims”, Australia’s anti-monarchist politicians scrambled to cash-in after the royal family was called racist and mean.
