IN AN effort to sure up its invasive political influence, the Left-controlled South Australian Liberal Party has moved to expel up to 550 conservative members. Almost every person who joined the division in the past month – about 150 – is now facing expulsion due to their Christian conservative values, according to Sky News.
BEFORE jetting off to the G7, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison addressed the USAsia Centre in Perth on June 9. His address entitled “A world order that favours freedom” is an ambitious attempt at demonstrating that “liberal democracies work” considering that, in many countries, freedom is an elusive or vanishing goal.
NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has backed changes to the Australian Constitution that will permanently embed identity politics at the heart of the nation. The Premier this week revealed that she’s in lockstep with the Left-posturing ABC, Sydney Morning Herald and other low-circulation media organisations.
THINGS have indeed fallen apart for the lost, snookered souls of the Australian electorate. We are slouching, disoriented, disgruntled, unmoored and clueless about where next to place our votes. The centre, or “club sensible” as the late and much missed Christopher Pearson termed it, has not held.
PREMIER Gladys Berejiklian is quickly back-pedalling from a decision to privatise NSW graveyards as Catholic Archbishop Anthony Fisher prepares to punish her government over the issue. It is understood NSW Property Minister Melinda Pavey has this week been instructed to re-engage the Catholic Church and to quickly find an alternate solution to the government’s bombshell graveyard reforms.
NEWLY appointed NSW cabinet minister Natalie Ward has kicked back with political lobbyist Michael Photios to celebrate her recent promotion. The founder of political lobbying firm PremierState joined Ms Ward’s “family and friends” at an eastern Sydney venue on the weekend to celebrate her unexpected advancement.
VICTORIA is wrestling with South Australia for the title of Australia’s poorest as its downtrodden citizens take flight from Labor’s police State. Under its current premier, Daniel Andrews, Victorians have become poorer than all other States and territories except South Australia.
NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean’s green energy dream has been labelled a “train wreck”, with spooked investors steering clear – forcing the federal government to intervene. NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham said Mr Kean’s promised “avalanche” of green investment didn’t materialise – forcing taxpayers to cough up at least $600m to fund a public gas-fired power generator in the Hunter Valley.
SENIOR NSW cabinet ministers have been ordered by ICAC to hand-over potentially damning evidence as the Berejiklian government faces comparisons with the corruption-riddled Keneally Labor government. Treasurer Dominic Perrottet, Deputy Premier John Barilaro and possibly Environment Minister Matt Kean have all been served section 22 orders, according to The Australian newspaper.
FEDERAL Finance Minister Simon Birmingham is circumspect on the national implications of last weekend’s NSW by-election in the coal-rich mining region of Upper Hunter, north of Sydney. The by-election was watched closely by major political parties keen to see how popular support for the incumbent NSW government was tracking, particularly considering its handling of COVID-19 and recent sexual assault allegations against several MPs including retiring Upper Hunter MP Michael Johnsen.
