VICTORIA Premier Daniel Andrews told the enquiry into the hotel fiasco that he did not know who was responsible for the disastrous decision to hire a security firm to monitor the quarantine of overseas arrivals. Not only did Andrews dodge accountability, but for good measure he threw Health Minister Jenny Mikakos under a bus by shifting blame to her, causing her sacrificial resignation.
LABOR leader Anthony Albanese has sided with radical hippies as ALP unions, factions and shadow ministers go to war over weather.With the nation’s focus firmly fixed on Coronavirus recovery, Labor has spent the past six months tearing itself apart over carbon.
AUSTRALIANS would never sell out to China and would stand by their national principles despite calls for appeasement from Labor MPs and profit-driven executives.Australia’s ambassador to Washington Arthur Sinodinos told a US audience this week that Aussies would never “compromise national interest to safeguard economic interests”.
UNELECTED activist bureaucrats are intimidating Australians into silence for attempting to state the obvious according to Federal Senator Claire Chandler. The under fire Tasmanian MP said it was appalling that everyday citizens, including herself, were being put through the “legal wringer” for stating normal mainstream views.
It’s time to take back our country. “If you want a vision of the future,” wrote Orwell, “imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” Let us hope that any vision of 21st century Australia is not one of the masked DANSTAPO storming the home of that terrified, young pregnant mother, Zoe Buhler. Pinning her arms back and handcuffing her, they took her away. Her crime? Daring to propose a Freedom Day for Ballarat.
TIME-tested political strategies were thrown into turmoil with the rise of the 24-hour news cycle and then all but decimated by disruptive social media – but PM Scott Morrison has found an ingenious fix. John Howard used the political “wedge” for more than a decade to great electoral success while his Liberal Party successor Tony Abbott mastered the “slogan”, which saw him sail into high office in 2013.
UNIVERSITY leaders should be hiding their faces in shame having diverted stretched national intelligence resources to deal with subversive threats on campus. The chairman of Australia’s Federal Intelligence & Security Committee Andrew Hastie said ASIO’s job was to deal with the most pressing threats to the nation – not securitising universities.
THE head of Australia’s powerful Intelligence & Security Joint Committee has called for the reinstatement of National Service as Australia’s strategic position continues to deteriorate. With rising concerns around a “strategic miscalculation” within the region, Committee chairman Andrew Hastie warned the risk of conflict was also increasing.
THE Berejiklian government remains teetering despite Nationals leader John Barilaro walking back plans to withdraw his parliamentary support. The Deputy Premier last week announced – then withdrew – plans to lead his entire Nationals team to the cross benches in response to the government’s latest Greens-inspired environmental planning policy – the so-called koala habitat protection plan.
NSW NATIONALS leader John Barilaro started it, by threatening to take his bucket and spade from the sandpit and go play on the cross benches. He made a thorough goose of himself on two counts: tittle-tattling to the public about matters that should have been sorted out behind closed doors and displaying his ignorance of constitutional conventions.
