BY FULLY buying into Kevin Rudd’s “great moral challenge” scare, the Liberal Party has become increasingly sidelined as a radical green movement – while Labor pivots away from extreme environmentalism. With Liberals, particularly in NSW and WA, squabbling over how fast they can eliminate baseload power – alienating millions of voters while doing so – Labor has outwitted them, throwing its support behind traditional energy.
FEDERAL Senator Jacqui Lambie has publicly questioned whether Andrews government MPs “personally” benefitted from secret Belt & Road negotiations with the Chinese Communist Party. In a scathing interview on Sky News’ First Edition yesterday Ms Lambie said the Victorian Labor government was “off its head” and “absolutely nuts”. She said full details of Mr Andrews deal were still to be learned.
ONE of the nation’s most senior educators has warned that traditional Australia will be lost if conservatives continue to flee from the culture debate. Australian Catholic University Senior Research Fellow Dr Kevin Donnelly said the culture war was real, that the Left’s take-over of institutions was happening and that very little was being done to prevent it.
AUSTRALIA’s defence chiefs have been told to quit their bleeding-heart posturing and to toughen up. After years of governments pandering to a military obsessed with gender fluidity and political correctness, new Defence Minister Peter Dutton has ordered the armed services to “get back to business”.
THE world is at greater risk of polarisation, and like-minded, democratic nations needed to work together to carry the “aspirations of the future” Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said. In a recorded speech to the Raisina Dialogue in India, the Prime Minister said Australia was “not blind” to the realities of the state of the world.
THE High Court will soon have the opportunity of demonstrating that traditional academic freedom and freedom of expression are still alive in Australia. The decision they hand down in Peter Ridd v James Cook University will rank in importance with the Court’s unanimous decision concerning Cardinal Pell, reaffirming the presumption of innocence and that guilt be proved beyond reasonable doubt.
DEPUTY NSW Premier John Barilaro says he backs coal to the hilt while his energy minister Matt Kean has announced he wants to be completely rid of it. Mr Barilaro has promised there would never be a moratorium on coal while Mr Kean’s failed choice for climate tsar, Malcolm Turnbull, publicly pushed for an immediate end to coal mining licences.
CHINA has been warned to re-consider its aggressive stance as “credible” military forces align against it.
Australia’s former Army Chief, General Peter Leahy, said a hot war with China now appeared inevitable given its escalation of aggressive and assertive actions.
ABUSED Aboriginal children must be removed from dangerous homes according to indigenous leader Jacinta Price, who says child safety is more important than culture. The backlash from the stolen generation’s “Sorry” campaign has resulted in abused Aboriginal children too often being left in dangerous family environments.
AS A teenager growing up in England I was an active Trotskyist. My pal and fellow Trotskyist PJ and I devised a petition to have Queen Elizabeth – or Mrs Elizabeth Windsor as we preferred to called her – her husband, the late Duke of Edinburgh, and her children, evicted from Buckingham Palace and re-housed in a modest semi-detached home in the outer London dormitory suburb of Croydon.
