ULTRA-Left NSW MP Matt Kean has suggested he is the future of the Liberal Party – and not conservatives such as Menzies, Howard or Abbott.
In what could only be described as a self-congratulatory piece in Friday’s Australian Financial Review, the NSW minister spoke of his government-supplied Tesla, his Greens Party agenda as well as his disapproval of former PM Tony Abbott. He also provided a glimpse of his deep dislike for US President Donald Trump.
NSW One Nation Leader Mark Latham has described Christianity as a punching bag for “sneering bigots” as long-promised religious freedom laws were shelved by the Australian parliament. In response to Canberra’s anti-religion posture, Mr Latham has introduced similar legislation into the NSW Parliament and is furiously working with MPs across Party lines to see it passed.
LABOR’S former king maker Graham Richardson has declared climate change politics dead and buried as the Australian economy faces more important challenges. He said a shift away from renewable energy was a post-COVID “fact” — regardless of the ructions it would cause within his own political Party.
FEWER than a thousand of Labor’s 50,000 illegal boat arrivals between 2008-13 were legitimate refugees, according to an ALP-appointed immigration expert. Former Refugee Review Tribunal member Simon Jeans said the cost of processing these false claims was already upwards of $16b and would continue to clog up Australia’s appeals courts at least until 2026.
THE republican movement is in disarray. It is split several ways: whether to promote an elected or appointed president with or without reserve powers, whether to campaign against the Queen, whether to campaign on a single fake issue and most importantly, those who are dismayed by all this and demand a more serious approach.
PANDERING universities that have shut down freedom of speech and academic inquiry face tough new legislation if they continue to reject the basics of Western educational standards.
Under pressure to appease the Chinese Communist Party and high-value corporate sponsors, a number of Australian universities have systematically suspended students, removed staff and deleted social media posts over comments that they’ve judged to be offensive.
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has outmanoeuvred China’s trade threats by securing alternate markets for discretionary items – strengthening Australia’s hand dealing with Beijing’s “structural” trade needs. In a move described as “smart”, the Prime Minister has made Australia a harder target for Beijing according to defence and security expert Michael Shoebridge.
FORMER Prime Minister Tony Abbott has raised concerns about Australia’s deteriorating strategic situation saying the nation’s economy is not as strong as it should be nor its citizens as united as they need to be. In his third and final interview with the Institute of Public Affairs on Thursday, Mr Abbott spoke about his current unease and outlined what needed to be addressed as Australia faced uncertain times.
AUSTRALIANS are twice as concerned about the health of the nation’s economy as they are for their own well-being as the Coronavirus pandemic picks up a new head of steam.
With an uncontrolled second wave in Victoria and isolated outbreaks in NSW and Queensland, all Australians whether male or female, young or old have ranked the economic impact as their primary concern, by far.
ONE of the defining characteristics of the cultural-Left’s cancel culture and political correctness movement is the rejection of concepts such as reason and rationality on the basis that such values are Euro-centric, binary, patriarchal and guilty of marginalising and disadvantaging the “Other”.
