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…
THE Tax Institute has recommended the re-introduction of death duties in what surely is one of the worst plans since The Greens campaigned in central Queensland in 2019. It’s common knowledge that national revenue increases when economic activity is stimulated by reducing…
ONE of the great disappointments of the COVID era has been the performance of the fourth estate. Corporate media has simply transformed itself into an arm of government, a super-spreader of hysteria and propaganda on behalf of Big Pharma and a source…
THE Liberal Party is on the cusp of imploding as its elected MPs abandon centre-right values and, instead, compete for Greens’ votes. The founder of Australia’s largest conservative conference, CPAC’s Andrew Cooper has cautioned that the once great Party had become a…
