PRIME Minister Scott Morrison’s harsh rebuke of a self-serving United Nations bureaucracy should serve as a lesson for Australia’s hostile public sector. Mr Morrison this week reminded the UN it worked for its members and not for its own “processes, institutions and officials”.
LABOR leader Anthony Albanese has sided with radical hippies as ALP unions, factions and shadow ministers go to war over weather.With the nation’s focus firmly fixed on Coronavirus recovery, Labor has spent the past six months tearing itself apart over carbon.
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.
THERE has never been a time when Acton’s and Madison’s warnings about the abuse of power and the danger of dictatorship have been more relevant to the world’s oldest continuing democracies, especially Australia and America. When the Wuhan virus struck, Australia’s leaders ignored world’s best practice, guided instead by notoriously failed modelling as well as the panic ignited by that propaganda arm of the Democrats, America’s mainstream media.
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.
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.
AFTER being overlooked by the Morrison government both inside and outside of parliament, one of Australia’s most impactful leaders has instead been headhunted by the UK government. Described as a huge loss for Australia, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has been appointed to a global trade role by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
THE politicians are ruining Australia far sooner than anyone ever expected.It was always self-evident that a lockdown of the productive sector must be a last resort. The first was completely unjustified. It has, without explanation, morphed from “flattening the curve” to preventing hospital crowding to eradication, which is impossible.
