by DAVID FLINT – JUST from his understanding of the issues that concern the rank and file and particularly from the common-sense solutions he offers, Mark Latham should be a serious contender to head the next NSW government. But in NSW, as…
by SEAN BURKE – NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has been labelled the “most despised politician” in State history. The confused Liberal Party MP, who has prioritised his personal pet projects ahead of the people he’s presumed to serve, has been widely criticised…
by DAVID FLINT – IT HAS been rightly said that Australians are a wise constitutional people. They achieve what the politicians could not, “a nation for a continent and a continent for a nation”. Our two major Parties are competing to satisfy…
by PAUL COLLITS – SKY News political commentator Andrew Clennell has suggested that the upcoming election might well be a repeat of 1995. The Liberals lost that one, delivering government to Bob Carr and ushering in a period of long and hugely…
by SEAN BURKE – NSW Opposition Leader Chris Minns’ carefully curated image of “nice and relatable” has been dealt a heavy blow by his own hand. The Labor premier-in-waiting last week exposed himself as little more than an “identity” politician after he…
by PAUL COLLITS – GEORGE Orwell, sadly much quoted in these times (because everything he warned about has pretty much come true), called it “doublethink”. A simple definition is as follows – “the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as…
by JOHN RUDDICK – THE Right side of Australian politics is in crisis. At recent State and federal elections the Liberals and Nationals shied away from any contentious debates … despite the reason for being in politics is to win contentious debates. …
by SEAN BURKE – MINOR conservative Parties are set to capitalise on wide-spread voter anger at the Liberal Party’s continued slide to the Left. The NSW Liberal Government, under the influence of Leftist factional boss Matt Kean, is bleeding support as it…
by PAUL COLLITS – MODERN Australian politicians rarely say what they mean, never mean what they say and always avoid mentioning the things they intend to do if elected. They play “look over there” politics, never earning a mandate while peppering their…
by SEAN BURKE – FEDERAL Senator Jim Molan has been denied a State funeral by the Perrottet Government, as internal factional acrimony continues to plague the NSW Liberal Party. The former Major General’s funeral was held in Canberra yesterday after he died…
