A SENIOR legal expert has accused Victoria Police of turning political and has suggested they could no longer be trusted to run an unbiased investigation. The Dean of Law at Melbourne’s Swinbourne University Mirko Bagaric said Victoria Police had become “unhappily” close to politics and was part of a secretive justice system.
CHINA has called Australia’s new regional security alliance an “exclusive clique” as foreign ministers from the four member States met this week for a second time. Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne met with her US, Japanese and Indian counterparts in Tokyo on Tuesday again raising the ire of Chinese officials.
AFTER years of double speak and dragging its heels on mining approvals, Labor has now publicly embraced coal as Queensland’s 2020 election looms. Holding a slim two seat majority, ALP Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is targeting regional electorates to assist her retain government – albeit with a bet each way.
NSW Environment & Energy Minister Matt Kean has prioritised his personal ideology first and foremost, placing at risk NSW citizens’ jobs while doing so.
The Liberal Party minister, who is breathlessly nicknamed Captain Planet by his Greens Party allies, has been accused of sabotaging NSW energy investment.
RINO treachery only ensures a Trump victory. Not only does Donald Trump again have an agenda vastly superior to his opponent, his supporters continue to demonstrate something almost totally absent from the Biden camp – enthusiasm.And as I learned in the Australian republic referendum, when your grassroots offer enthusiasm in spades, forget that the other side is far better resourced, supported overwhelmingly by sitting politicians, other elites and the mainstream media juggernaut, it’s enthusiasm which counts.
COAL will be around “for a long time yet” according to BHP chief executive Mike Henry as Labor fast-tracks approval of a massive new coal mine in central Queensland. Mr Henry, whose company mines both metallurgical and thermal coal, confirmed this week that BHP was committed to coal and that he expected ongoing demand.
A SHRINKING Zali Steggall has swapped Warringah for Twitter while revealing an almost unhinged obsession with global warming. The federal Member for Warringah, elected in May last year to replace former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, has almost disappeared from public view since her local newspaper — and No.1 cheer squad — closed its print edition earlier this year.
IN A bombshell exposé, Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s leadership could be “sunk” if her actions as transport minister were made public.
In an article published on page one of The Australian newspaper on Tuesday it was inferred Ms Berejiklian’s successor to her transport portfolio, Andrew Constance, was in a position to undo the Premier with revelations from her time leading that department.
THERE could not be a clearer choice in the US presidential election. Since the settlement, we Australians have lived in a world led from the heart of the Anglosphere, with all of the great political and economic advantages our civilisation has so bountifully ensured.
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison’s harsh rebuke of a self-serving United Nations bureaucracy should serve as a lesson for Australia’s hostile public sector. Mr Morrison this week reminded the UN it worked for its members and not for its own “processes, institutions and officials”.
