FORMER Coalition Senator Sam McMahon will contest the upcoming federal election as a libertarian-leaning Liberal Democrats candidate. The former senator resigned in late January from the Country Liberal Party – part of the governing centre-right Coalition – after losing a tough pre-selection…
THE defender of Liberal members’ constitutional right to select candidates has been expelled from the Party, as Scott Morrison keeps his “captain’s picks”. State Executive board member Matthew Camenzuli, who took his fight to the High Court this week, was removed from…
A POWERFUL Christian group has fixed its cross-hairs on a group of anti-religious Liberal MPs aiming to have them ousted at the upcoming federal election. The “moderate” Liberals that the Australian Christian Lobby wants removed from parliament includes Trent Zimmerman, David Sharma,…
OUTGOING federal Liberal MP George Christensen has given his colleagues a blistering lesson on conservative values. During his final parliamentary speech last week, Mr Christensen said he was leaving parliament because the concerns of Australians were being ignored by politicians. The government’s…
by DAVID FLINT – LIKELY to attract more fraud than ever, it’s too early to predict the results of the 2022 federal election. A hung parliament is possible, one where the House could at least function more as intended and less as…
by PAUL COLLITS – NOTWITHSTANDING Russian aggression, the coming world depression and Will Smith, the biggest story of the year to date has been the death of Shane Warne. The great man’s shock passing has left many of us dumbfounded. We had…
by PAUL COLLITS – JUST a few months ago, there passed one of the giants of American economics and public policy scholarship. Anthony Downs was 90 and his death was, surprisingly, largely unremarked, even inside the academy, and certainly outside his native…
THE COVID State, apart from its destruction of lives, societies and economies, has caused a rethink of our explanations of political life. What we assumed to be the basis of liberal democratic polities, the social contract, if you will, has been rendered…
IN AN act of political insanity, the Liberal Party has appointed a registered supporter of climate activist Zali Steggall to run for the seat of Warringah. Solicitor Katherine Deves was yesterday given the nod by a federal committee headed by PM Scott…
THE co-founder of environmental activist group Greenpeace has admitted his organisation peddled lies because scaring people was good for business. Dr Patrick Moore, who left his organisation in 1986, said he was disgusted that “fake invisible catastrophes” were being invented to increase…
