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Surging UAP membership outstrips Libs

On : 19/09/202123/12/2021- by Sean Burke- 22 Comments.

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…

PM takes nuclear option against China threat

On : 17/09/202127/09/2021- by Sean Burke- 2 Comments.

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…

Politicians face $100k pay cut during lockdowns

On : 06/09/202116/09/2021- by The Epoch Times- 6 Comments.

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…

When incompetence & greed collide with totalitarianism

On : 30/08/202109/09/2021- by Paul Collits- 2 Comments.

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…

Liberals move to ban opposition Parties

On : 25/08/202103/09/2021- by Paul Collits- 7 Comments.

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.

Abbott begs Liberals not to abandon Party

On : 23/08/202118/02/2022- by The Epoch Times- 12 Comments.

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…

Liberal ALP merger on cards

On : 19/08/202126/08/2021- by David Flint- 13 Comments.

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…

Barnaby’s lost ticker for playing hard ball

On : 10/08/202119/08/2021- by Paul Collits- 6 Comments.

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…

Sold out to thugs by elites & politicians

On : 10/08/202119/08/2021- by David Flint- 26 Comments.

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,…

Party leaders revolt, call to sack NSW State Executive

On : 05/08/202118/02/2022- by Sean Burke- 43 Comments.

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…