THE Liberal Party commissioned an official review into its 2025 election disaster — and then tried not to release it. They thought it could stay internal. They thought it could be contained. Well — we have it. THE 2025 Federal Liberal campaign…
by ROGER CROOK – “The morning after the night before.” For as long as I can remember, those few words have been the catalyst for many jokes and more than a few cold and clammy feelings of remorse. There can be few…
by FRED PAWLE – LABOR’S top strategist will deliver a speech on Wednesday explaining how his team won the recent election. What he won’t say is that it was a charade that will end in catastrophe. The takeaway is that, to Labor,…
by PAUL COLLITS – Labor people, a tribal lot, don’t like people who rat on them. This goes back to the bitter days of the anti-communist split of the 1950s and the formation of the Democratic Labor Party. The legendary, former Labor…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE post-election scene among the conservatives-in-name-only is always a goon show on steroids. And so it has come to pass. The recriminations are bitter and are growing exponentially. There are allegations of sabotage of the Liberals’ “campaign”. The…
by DAVID FLINT – SUCH are the wonders of the Australian electoral system that a Party which gets barely more than one third of the votes is rewarded with what is reported as a landslide victory. With 34.8 per cent of the…
by PAUL COLLITS – WELL, there goes One Term Albo as a nickname! The Australian election result was predictable, though the extent of the anti-Liberal rout was not foreseen by anyone. Looking around the (non-American) Anglosphere, some interesting points of convergence are…
by FRED PAWLE – AUSTRALIA has dodged the bullet of fake conservatism and it’s now incumbent on those who can survive Labor’s treacherous incompetence to ensure a decent alternative is offered in 2028. Had Peter Dutton’s Coalition won this election, we would…
by REX WIDERSTROM – AUSTRALIANS have comprehensively rejected the soppy centre-Left agenda embraced by Liberal leader Peter Dutton, re-electing Labor with an increased majority. In a result that mirrors the recent Canadian election, Australia’s so-called centre-Right Coalition lost the May 3 federal…
by PAUL COLLITS – IF AUSTRALIANS on the ineffectual Right are shaking their heads and thinking “aren’t Canadians stupid”, well, just wait until Sunday morning. One Dominion is down, one to go. Labor hasn’t bothered to change leader – nor back down…
