SCOTT Morrison’s dirty dozen have proven to be a disaster for NSW Liberals with not a single seat gained and an average swing against them twice the Coalition’s national average. Of the 12 candidates parachuted in by the then prime minister, only…
by PAUL COLLITS – FOR most Australians, the most momentous political event of the past fortnight has been the federal election. This saw the coming of a new government, the crashing of the Liberal Party, especially some of its so-called “moderates”, the…
by DAVID FLINT – WITH less than an abysmal one-third of the vote, a clearly inadequate and far-Left politician has become Australia’s 31st prime minister. This was allowed by a seriously defective electoral system designed principally to protect the atrophying two-Party system…
WESTERN Australian MP Andrew Hastie is being talked up as a possible deputy to Liberal leadership front-runner Peter Dutton. The former Australian SAS officer is being seriously considered among influential Party members as an alternative to the media-fancied Sussan Ley. As Assistant…
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean is blitzing the ABC and other “progressive” media outlets in a desperate attempt to bully Liberal colleagues to swing even further Left. The extremist factional boss (described as the most dangerous politician in Australia) is attempting to blame…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE is nothing like a very long, very tedious election campaign that totally ignores the pain of the truly dispossessed to further tick off the already disgruntled. That the number of pre-poll votes cast trebled the already large…
THE night of May 21 became a nightmare for the Coalition government that was decisively beaten by Labor and the teal independents at the election. For once, the pollsters, who predicted a Labor win, were right in their predictions, except that the…
by PAUL COLLITS – AND so to the recriminations. For the ABC “squad”, it was always going to be described as “the climate election”. Well, they would say that. Yet for at least 90 per cent of the electorate, it was not…
by PAUL COLLITS – WELL, thank God the bread and circuses are over for another three years of utterly bastardised representative democracy. This is an idea whose time has well and truly gone. Now come the recriminations, blame games, useful narratives and…
MEMBERS of the Liberal’s decimated “moderate” faction are scrambling to shift blame for Saturday’s federal election wipe out, demanding the Party lurch further Left. This is despite Left-wing MPs suffering swings two to three times the national average. Almost every MP who…
