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.
NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean is on a collision course with the State’s powerful Parliamentary Development Committee which has warned renewable energy is incapable of meeting growth demands. Mr Kean, who hopes to reduce State carbon emissions by 35 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2050, is under pressure to back away from his pet project by the cross-Party committee findings.
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.
THE “father” of the Liberal’s Moderate faction has candidly revealed his philosophical alliance with Labor, desire for open borders and affection for Kevin Rudd.
In a wide-ranging interview earlier this month Bruce Baird, the long-serving federal back-bencher and father of retired NSW premier, Mike Baird, also revealed his commitment to climate activism.
HAVING been rejected by Labor – and twice ousted by the Liberals – now former PM Malcolm Turnbull appears to have turned his sights towards Greens Party membership.
In a speech last week to the so-called conservative group Coalition For Conservation – members of which backed Zali Steggall’s successful campaign last year against Tony Abbott – Mr Turnbull pushed for a “green new deal” on energy.
WITH the murky inner workings of the Labor Party laid bare, shifty political operatives of all colours should be scrambling for cover.
The media coverage surrounding the Victorian branch stacking scandal, which has already claimed three State Ministers, has barely scratched the surface – so far.
WHAT quality of people are being elected to Australian parliaments if they first require training in leadership, ethics, thinking and statesmanship before they can perform their jobs?
It appears political Party factions who foist politicians on the population are more interested in “compliance” than they are in competence.
A TRADITIONALLY centre-right political party knows it’s in serious trouble when its extremist MPs are kept in check by activist members of The Greens and Animal Justice Party.
FACTIONAL heavyweights are exploiting a legal loophole to launch a hostile and sometimes bloody take-over of the NSW Liberal Party’s candidate selection process.
TONY Abbott has been one of the most impactful Australians of the 21st Century – and he’s not finished yet. There’s no person the Left fears more. He’s the reason why the combined resources of GetUp, the Victorian unions and Labor’s most seasoned campaigners were funnelled – at huge expense – into the Sydney seat of Warringah.
