IN HIS effort to rename Ben Boyd National Park, NSW Treasurer Matt Kean has been accused of resorting to “shoddy” history. The NSW Liberal’s Left faction co-leader has described 1800s entrepreneur Ben Boyd as a “slave trader” and vowed to work with…
DOMINIC Perrottet’s deal with the Left to secure his premiership increasingly appears to be dominating his government. He’s saying all the right things but it’s his actions that are being watched. Each incremental step to the Right now appears to be followed…
IF PRIME Minister Scott Morrison wants any chance of surviving next year’s federal election he must prohibit his MPs from ever again uttering the words climate, renewables and net-zero. These are tenth order concerns for the vast majority of voters who now…
A MORALLY corrupt Liberal Party can never recover while its warring Right faction leaders continue to cut self-enhancing deals with the Party’s increasingly radical Left. This is the view held by departing branch president Mark White, who said the Party would continue…
ENVIRONMENT Minister Matt Kean has been accused by regional residents of moving at a snail’s pace to remove dangerous, Greens-inspired bans on clearing fire fuel. The climate activist MP, who attempted to blame last year’s devastating NSW bushfires on so-called “global warming”,…
LEFT-wing Liberals are in a tizz as new Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce pledges support for coal miners and farmers. In a stirring speech to federal parliament on Tuesday the new National Party leader sent radical Liberals – as well as their “progressive” Labor mates – scrambling to protect their pet climate projects.
THE most effective way to deal with “disgraced” former prime minister Malcom Turnbull is not to expel him, according to Liberal Vice-President Teena McQueen. Ms McQueen was responding to recent motions drafted by several Liberal Party branches to expel the embittered former PM.
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.
MALCOLM Turnbull’s all-in support for radical environmentalist Kirsty O’Connell in yesterday’s Upper Hunter by-election has helped deliver victory for the NSW Coalition government. Prior to the former prime minister throwing his cash and support behind the green independent, Premier Gladys Berejiklian had publicly stated the Coalition would most likely lose the seat – tipping her into minority government.
