by SEAN BURKE – PETER Dutton is up there with Australia’s best Liberal leaders. If he rolls Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in 2025 he will surpass Tony Abbott as the nation’s best performing Opposition Leader. Peter Dutton is not disciplined. When the…
by PAUL COLLITS – DURING a recent absence from Australia, I thought I would stop by Old Europe and savour its remaining charms while it still vaguely exists in its traditional form. This provided a welcome break from the tedium of creeping,…
SENIOR Liberal Party operatives were aware of a child-sex investigation into NSW MP Rory Amon as early as April 2023 – mere weeks before he was appointed as the State’s Shadow Assistant Minister for Youth. According to former NSW Liberal State Executive…
by SEAN BURKE – A POPULAR Sydney mayor has this week quit the once-conservative Liberal Party saying he’s fed up with “factional rubbish”. Lane Cove Mayor Scott Bennison tendered his resignation to Liberal HQ on Monday after a dirty factional deal saw…
by SEAN BURKE – FORMER Prime Minister Tony Abbott has accused former NSW Treasurer Matt Kean of attempting to drag the Liberal Party even further Left. He said Mr Kean was involved in a pre-selection stitch-up in his long-held seat of Hornsby…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE departing Member for Hornsby has the nose of Pinocchio. His latest lie was to suggest that he was off to seek new opportunities “in the energy industry”. Little did we know that this had a more specific…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE NSW Liberal Party is a basket case utterly beyond redemption and almost incapable of reform. Its upper echelons are swarming with talentless, self-regarding factional lemmings with absolutely no interest in reforming anything, least of all themselves. Looking…
IN A world of political irrelevancy, there are few people climbing higher, harder and faster than NSW Shadow Health Minister Matt Kean. The guy who grinned while dangling off the end of a tax-payer funded EV charging cable during his ministerial years,…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – THE spate of recent elections should be a wake-up call to the State divisions of the Liberal Party across Australia. The result in Tasmania – where the Party is endeavouring to form a minority government – is but…
by PAUL COLLITS – LIBERTARIANS and conservatives have often disagreed – and they still do. The divide may be growing. The “fusionist” project of postwar conservatives – mainly in America – of figures like William F Buckley and Frank Meyer, has all…
