by PAUL COLLITS – I HAD two immediate thoughts when I purchased Tony Abbott’s new history of Australia. The first, was, what a great range of encomia on the back cover. John Howard. Expected. Andrew Roberts. A great historian saying good things…
IF I WAS advising Andrew Hastie, I’d say, when the decision comes down and the Liberals bed-wet on net-zero and every other policy – I’d say, Andrew, don’t become leader of the Liberal Party. This was the advice given by former Liberal…
by MONICA O’SHEA – LIBERAL Senator Sarah Henderson has criticised Opposition Leader Sussan Ley’s decision to remove Jacinta Price from the Shadow Ministry. Henderson, who was also demoted by Ley, said she, Senator Price and others did not deserve to be sent…
by MICHAEL DE PERCY – IN THE annals of political irony, few names fit the bill quite like NSW Liberal Leader Mark Speakman. Here we have a man whose very surname evokes the act of articulation, of speaking out boldly in defence…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – JUST a day after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Welcome to Country ceremonies “should never be controversial,” they became the subject of political dissent in Parliament. On the second day of the 48th Parliament, One Nation leader…
by STEVEN TRIPP – DO YOU remember the John Howard era? The era of sound economic management and stable leadership. Love him or hate him, John Howard was a man of conviction. In 1998, he took the GST to an election, despite…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal Party is now two Parties masquerading as one. It can’t survive – and it doesn’t deserve to. A very clever and insightful Australian citizen podcaster, Damian Coory (The Other Side), recently demonstrated the perversity that is…
by PAUL COLLITS – IF EVER an organisation was bereft of decency, it is the morally and electorally pathetic Victorian Liberal Party. To adapt a phrase much now in the news again, they are waging a veritable jihad on decency. The only…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – FORMER NSW Premier Nick Greiner will be tasked with getting to the bottom of the NSW Liberal Party’s systemic issues that contributed to its failure to nominate candidates for council elections, as well as alleged failures during…
by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – SENIOR NSW Liberal Alan Stockdale said women in the Party were “so assertive” that men needed special rules to get preselected. In response, however, Federal Liberal Leader Sussan Ley has said there is “nothing wrong with being…
