TIME-tested political strategies were thrown into turmoil with the rise of the 24-hour news cycle and then all but decimated by disruptive social media – but PM Scott Morrison has found an ingenious fix. John Howard used the political “wedge” for more than a decade to great electoral success while his Liberal Party successor Tony Abbott mastered the “slogan”, which saw him sail into high office in 2013.
UNIVERSITY leaders should be hiding their faces in shame having diverted stretched national intelligence resources to deal with subversive threats on campus. The chairman of Australia’s Federal Intelligence & Security Committee Andrew Hastie said ASIO’s job was to deal with the most pressing threats to the nation – not securitising universities.
THE head of Australia’s powerful Intelligence & Security Joint Committee has called for the reinstatement of National Service as Australia’s strategic position continues to deteriorate. With rising concerns around a “strategic miscalculation” within the region, Committee chairman Andrew Hastie warned the risk of conflict was also increasing.
THE Berejiklian government remains teetering despite Nationals leader John Barilaro walking back plans to withdraw his parliamentary support. The Deputy Premier last week announced – then withdrew – plans to lead his entire Nationals team to the cross benches in response to the government’s latest Greens-inspired environmental planning policy – the so-called koala habitat protection plan.
CORONAVIRUS fatalities are in-line with annual flu deaths with continued claims of a pandemic being wildly exaggerated according to newly released research. In a study presented by European clinical director Dr Martin Feeley and biochemical research engineer Ivor Cummins they demonstrate that excess mortality from COVID-19 is “not very much greater” than the excess mortality observed during the 2018 flu season.
ANGER over NSW’s hard lurch leftwards has spilled into public view, with voters expressing disgust at the Berejiklian government’s Greens-inspired policy agenda. The government’s direction has become so unpalatable that its Nationals coalition partner has announced it would move to the cross bench en masse.
WHILE Australia’s educational performance plummets to its lowest since international rankings commenced, public schools have reintroduced radical gender theory into classrooms “by stealth”. Australian students were placed 29th in mathematics, 17th in science and 16th in reading in the latest Programme for International Assessment (PISA) rankings.
FEMINIST activists have failed to have the Australia Day honour removed from their one-time poster girl Bettina Arndt, despite powerful backing from media and politicians. Ms Arndt, who was awarded the Order of Australia honour in January, fell foul of modern feminists after rejecting claims of a university rape culture, saying there was no evidence to support such assertions.
NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean is on a collision course with the State’s powerful Parliamentary Development Committee which has warned renewable energy is incapable of meeting growth demands. Mr Kean, who hopes to reduce State carbon emissions by 35 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2050, is under pressure to back away from his pet project by the cross-Party committee findings.
JOB-destroying climate policies are being championed by law-makers misled by “politicised” science, according to Federal Senator Malcolm Roberts. The Queensland MP said many politicians failed to scrutinise the highly questionable science they were embracing.
