by FRED PAWLE – HAS anybody seen Energy Minister Chris Bowen lately? The man who was central to Labor winning the 2022 election has suddenly gone uncharacteristically quiet. After single-handedly losing the election for Bill Shorten in 2019, Bowen was one of…
by ROGER CROOK – AUSTRALIAN farmers and miners are battling to survive the Albanese Government’s obsession with a net-zero emissions target. The value and strategic importance of agriculture and mining to Australia has been neglected by both sides of politics for too…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – THE speed at which Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese’s green dominoes are falling is truly breathtaking. When Queen front man Freddie Mercury belted out the chorus to Another One Bites the Dust back in 1980, he would never…
by REX WIDERSTROM – ALREADY struggling to pay a $9m costs order after losing a high-profile case against energy giant Santos, the Environmental Defenders Office may be about to lose its charitable status. The federal opposition, which has said it will end…
by PAUL COLLITS – ANYONE thinking “thank God he’s gone” – and I don’t mean Beijing Biden, I mean the Boy Blunder Justin Castro – should press the pause button on any early celebrations. Canadian PM Justin Trudeau may or may not…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – A FAMOUS line from an old Australian film was my first thought when I heard Labor’s latest renewable energy pipe dream – a $2b subsidy for “green aluminium”. “Tell him he’s dreaming” was uttered by Darryl Kerrigan’s main…
by FRED PAWLE – INDUSTRY Minister Ed Husic has set the tone for the forthcoming federal election by singing from Labor’s tired Kumbaya song book. But there are signs that the fans have stopped listening. The vibe is shifting around the world….
by REX WIDERSTROM – THE Greens have insisted they’ll play no part in supporting a Liberal minority government after the next federal election. With recent opinion polls suggesting a possible minority government led by Peter Dutton, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said her…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – FARMERS are not the only ones wondering if our national weather forecaster, the Bureau of Meteorology, will get it right this year. With Australia living up to its reputation of a land of huge weather contrasts, it’s a…
by PAUL COLLITS – AUSTRALIA has no leader of sufficient charisma and brand recognition to unite its disparate Right-of-centre micro Parties. Absent unity and popular appeal, conservative voters are doomed to the Liberal Party model of almost equally numbered, warring moderate and…
