AS AUSTRALIA approaches adopting a net zero emissions target, Deputy PM and Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce has urged the prime minister to address critical concerns on how the move should be achieved without undermining the nation’s economy. All eyes have settled on…
THIRTY-eight thousand citizens still can’t come home. But in 2020-21, the government let in 60,000 immigrants (with those from China leading). The reason Australians can’t come home is that, unlike most comparable countries, the airlines can’t function normally because of the draconian…
TRADE discussions between the European Union and Australia have been abruptly suspended as Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan was in transit to continue the negotiations. The snap move comes after French displeasure at Canberra’s decision to cancel a $90b submarine project, following…
WAS keeping Christopher Pyne in parliament and Malcolm Turnbull in The Lodge really worth spending billions on a fleet of French submarines, minus their nuclear-powered engines, we asked here days after the 2016 deal was announced. But after that outrageous financial commitment,…
MALCOLM Turnbull replacement Dave Sharma has continued to undermine the prime minister on climate policy as the Left ramps up efforts to remake the once centre-Right Liberal Party. The novice Wentworth backbencher has again demanded a Greens-inspired carbon emissions deadline – even…
JIM Molan is a living example of the quality of those great statesmen we once had in Australia. A distinguished general who held a series of commands, including the 6th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment and the Australian Defence College, he served in…
THE United Australia Party is poised to overtake the Liberals as the nation’s leading centre-Right political organisation as membership surges under new leader Craig Kelly. Tens of thousands of disgruntled centre-Right voters have responded to an aggressive growth drive by a well-funded…
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…
