by SEAN BURKE – A FORMER Coalition prime minister and a senior ex-Liberal member have taken the Party to task over its “disastrous” change in direction. Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott said this week that while the Party should be a broad…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE languishing Liberals are still in a state of confusion about who they are, why they exist and about who they represent. Yes, we have had the outstanding “Dutts found his voice” effort on the Aboriginal question, the…
by PAUL COLLITS – TO LOSE one Liberal MP by your own hand might be regarded as misfortune. Two looks like carelessness. But what about three? The ABC reports: “Two Tasmanian Liberal MPs have quit the party to sit as independents, pushing…
by PAUL COLLITS – AMERICAN intellectual, statesman and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin never got to be President. His Macquarie Street namesake, no intellectual and certainly no statesman, has. Today. President of the NSW Legislative Council. I had thought that propriety in government…
by SEAN BURKE – NSW Coalition MP Ben Franklin has been warned he’d be referred to the Corruption Commissioner if he strikes a deal with Premier Chris Minns to hand Labor the balance of power in the Upper House. The Young Liberal…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal Party is lying about why it’s losing elections in an effort to justify its continued trajectory to voter wilderness. Those in and behind the Liberal Party never, ever consider the interests, values and aspirations of voters. It…
by SEAN BURKE – LEFTIST Liberal MP Natalie Ward has been schooled live on air after defending her factional boss Matt Kean’s hard-green policy agenda. The former State Roads Minister was brought to task by former PM Tony Abbott’s chief of staff…
by ERIC ABETZ – THE comprehensive wipe-out of the centre-Right in Australia is continuing unabated with the defeat of the Liberal-National government in NSW on the weekend. Its 5.5m voters (Australia has about 17.3m voters in all) delivered their verdict in a…
by SEAN BURKE – FORMER deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has warned that any coalition arrangement would be “incredibly difficult” under a Matt Kean led NSW Liberal Party. Saturday’s NSW election saw a weak, Greens-sympathising Liberal Party removed from government in a…
by ALFRED BUI – A LIBERAL MP faces expulsion from the parliamentary Party after she attended a women’s rights in sport rally in Melbourne. On March 18, MP Moira Deeming, who represents the Western Metropolitan area, delivered a speech at the Let…
