by REX WIDERSTROM – PM ANTHONY Albanese has said Rudd’s decision to leave a year early was “entirely” his own. Australia’s ambassador to the US, former Labor PM Kevin Rudd, will step down at the end of March to take up a…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – LIBERAL Leader Peter Dutton has warned that Australia must have a US ambassador who can stablise relations between the two nations. Mr Dutton’s comments come amid speculation that former PM Kevin Rudd could be nearing his final days…
by DAVID FLINT – IT HAS long been obvious, even to a drover’s dog, that Donald Trump stands an excellent chance of winning the 2024 Republican nomination and, provided it is not rigged, the election. A major factor has been the rank…
by JOHN MIKKELSEN – ACCORDING to recent calls by the Australian Greens, alarmist scientists and leaders from the UN and World Economic Forum, we should all become climate activists to save the world from “an era of global boiling”. We saw the…
by ERIC ABETZ – MANY of the observations made about Australia’s choice of new ambassador to Washington, former PM Kevin Rudd, are less than flattering. A former Labor premier and senate deputy leader, Kristina Keneally, once described him on Sky News as…
By SCOTT HARGEAVES – I’M NO fan of the Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. But credit where credit’s due, she went to Taiwan even when both Chinese Leader Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden told her not…
THERE are two supreme ironies in play in the COVID Commonwealth of Australia, where most of the population is housebound as lockdown mania creeps from cities to back blocks as (typically) a single, wayward spreader visits a region. We also have a…
IF BOOK sales measure opinion, then Labor’s Kevin Rudd would count as the single most unpopular prime minister in Australian history. Despite a landslide election victory in 2007, coupled with record high opinion polls for his first 18 months in office, the 26th prime minister’s memoirs have flatlined.
POLITICAL corpses continue to pile up in Australia as out-of-touch politicians hold tight to a fanatical obsession with global warming and climate “emergencies”. As if the career-ending mistakes of Bill Shorten, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull (twice) weren’t warning enough, current Labor leader Anthony Albanese has seemingly volunteered to sacrifice his otherwise promising career to their cause.
Extraordinary plans are afoot in Canberra for Malcolm Turnbull, Paul Keating, Kevin Rudd or someone of their ilk to succeed Queen Elizabeth in her capacity as Queen of Australia.
This is to be done through the back door, not by the people, but by the politicians doing a deal among themselves.
