FORMER Prime Minister John Howard has provided a ringing endorsement of Philip Argy to take the NSW Liberal presidency, just days out from the controversial vote. With former Parramatta “captain’s pick” Maria Kovacic also running for the top job, Australia’s greatest living…
THE Chair of the Democratic Reform Movement, Walter Villatora, has urged delegates to free the Party from the grip of self-serving factions. In an email to Party members and supporters prior to this Saturday’s critical NSW Liberal Party AGM, he said backing…
AFTER completely trashing the Liberal Party constitution prior to May’s federal election disaster, NSW factions are uniting to make it “legally” easier to install “captain’s picks”. To avoid a re-run of one of the most disgraceful betrayals of Party members in modern…
SENIOR Liberals are fuming that Matt Kean’s pick for NSW Liberal President, Maria Kovacic, will steer the Party even further Left. The failed candidate for Parramatta, who was Scott Morrison’s “pick” for May’s federal election, has now been given the nod by…
by BETTINA ARNDT – IN A recent judgement about a sexual misconduct case at Cornell University in New York, the judge compared the campus disciplinary committees to the infamous English Star Chambers. He warned that “these threats to due process and academic…
A DARK horse candidate running for NSW Liberal President has thrown a spanner into factional plans, saying he’ll restore Menzies’ values to the Party. Hunters Hill branch president Philip Argy, who entered the campaign race this week, warned the Party had “jettisoned”…
by DAVID FLINT – AFTER three decades, why are taxpayers still forced to underwrite something they clearly don’t want, a politicians’ republic? The reaction to any referendum should always be, as Alan Jones famously said in 1999, “If you don’t know, vote…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE late John O’Neill, South Sydney tough man and legend, is reputed to have said, upon leaving Souths and joining Manly in 1972, “no wonder this bunch … has never won a premiership”. The implication was that perhaps…
HALF the Manly Sea Eagles’ NRL team has refused to take the field after the club enforced gay pride attire for its must-win Round 20 match against the Sydney Roosters this week. Seven footballers, including six run-on players and one off the bench,…
NSW’s activist Treasurer Matt Kean is searching for a safer seat in the hope of avoiding a preselection battle in his once untouchable seat of Hornsby. A combination of fed-up Liberal pre-selectors and a boundary redistribution has eaten into Mr Kean’s confidence…
