AN ATTEMPT to unite Australians behind a more “inclusive” national anthem appears to have backfired, with long-running community divisions spilling onto social media. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced during his News Year’s Day address that the second line of the national song would now read “we are one and free” in place of “young and free”.
A NSW MP who last year threatened to topple the Berejiklian government over its support for late term abortions has again raised concerns over its treatment of unborn children. In a Christmas Eve email, Member for Mulgoa Tanya Davies said the NSW government hadn’t honoured its commitment to recognise unborn babies who had died as a result of crime.
IF BOOK sales measure opinion, then Labor’s Kevin Rudd would count as the single most unpopular prime minister in Australian history. Despite a landslide election victory in 2007, coupled with record high opinion polls for his first 18 months in office, the 26th prime minister’s memoirs have flatlined.
THE architect of Labor’s 2019 election climate policy has warned that medium-term emissions targets are unnecessary, contradicting the ALP’s dominant Green wing. Australian National University economics professor Warwick McKibbin said while medium targets were not required, costs controls most definitely were.
AUSTRALIA has been warned it can no longer hide behind its powerful allies and must become independently capable if it’s to deal with Chinese aggression.Federal Senator and former Australian Army Major General Jim Molan said Australia needed to change its mindset and contribute “healthily” to its own defence.
FORMER Labor cabinet minister Joel Fitzgibbon has labelled climate politics “dishonest” and “delusional”, saying Australian voters were being lied to.
In a broadside speech given to The Sydney Institute on Wednesday, Mr Fitzgibbon said Labor had no business setting medium-term emissions targets.
OUR SAS have been appallingly treated.Why has the government, with the high command, effectively declared war on Australian soldiers who served in Afghanistan, including those who died?
LABOR leader Anthony Albanese is incapable of steering his fractured Party towards its working class base, according to ALP historian Troy Bramston. The inner Sydney MP, who toyed with communism during his time at university, has been accused of leading Labor over a cliff while pandering to its radical Green Left parliamentary wing.
A CARBON tax will not be re-imposed onto Australians according to Federal Energy & Emissions Minister Angus Taylor. Mr Taylor said while he was keen to reduce emissions, he would not do so by imposing a cost onto the economy or households.
SOLDIERS have rights, too. Why are politicians — elected public servants — so determined to run down morale in our defence forces, discourage enlistment and leave Australia defenceless?
