SCOTT Morrison has cancelled the Defence Force’s order for conventional submarines moving instead to purchase a nuclear fleet. Incurring an eye-watering $3.5b cost to break the $90b French contract signed by former PM Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister Morrison said the cost was…
UNITED Australia Party federal leader Craig Kelly has proposed a bill that will cut politicians salaries during lockdowns. The private member’s bill called “We’re All in This Together Act 2021” seeks to reduce politicians’ salaries to $750 per week while States or…
I USED to think that the Murdoch press supported the vaccines rollout because it wanted to support the Morrison government. Now I am convinced that I got that one-hundred-and-eighty-degrees wrong. My new working hypothesis is that the nonagenarian Murdoch supports Morrison because…
UNDER cover of COVID, the federal government has set out to kill off new and small political parties. The Electoral Legislation Amendment (Party Registration Integrity) Bill 2021 had its second reading on August 12.
FORMER PM Tony Abbott has warned frustrated conservatives not to give up on the Coalition, saying it would simply fracture the centre-Right and hand government to Labor and Greens. Mr Abbott said Australia’s preferential voting system made it difficult for dark horse…
IT IS increasingly difficult to distinguish between Coalition and Labor governments. They are both populated (with exceptions) from an homogenous political class; as in any oligopolistic market where competition is never about price, their policies differ only at the cosmetic margins. While…
JOHN McEwen was leader of the then Country Party and Deputy Prime Minister in December 1967 when the Prime Minister, Harold Holt, unwisely went for a dip at Cheviot Beach outside Melbourne and didn’t come back. Within hours of Holt’s disappearance, various…
AUSTRALIA was some years ago sold out by those whom the people trusted, the politicians and the elites, to Beijing’s genocidal thugs. No longer, as Shakespeare might have said, “this other Eden, demi-paradise”, a land of gradually advancing prosperity, based on liberty,…
LIBERAL branch presidents are in open revolt with one quitting the Party and another calling for the entire NSW State Executive to be sacked and replaced by an administrator. The moves come as a deluge of Party members vent their outrage with…
FEDERAL Liberal vice-president Teena McQueen has called her Party “undefendable” as it morphs into an aggressive authoritarian regime. Her scorching comments came on the heels of Party resignations by former Qld premier Campbell Newman and high-profile author John Ruddick. I’ve had heartbreaking…
