by DAVID FLINT – ONE of the two contenders for the Liberal Party leadership, Sussan Ley, has long been involved in Middle Eastern affairs. Given that the first duty of a Leader of the Opposition, a potential alternative Prime Minister, is 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 SEAN BURKE – PETER Dutton is up there with Australia’s best Liberal leaders. If he rolls Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in 2025 he will surpass Tony Abbott as the nation’s best performing Opposition Leader. Peter Dutton is not disciplined. When the…
by PAUL COLLITS – DURING a recent absence from Australia, I thought I would stop by Old Europe and savour its remaining charms while it still vaguely exists in its traditional form. This provided a welcome break from the tedium of creeping,…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE NSW Liberal Party is a basket case utterly beyond redemption and almost incapable of reform. Its upper echelons are swarming with talentless, self-regarding factional lemmings with absolutely no interest in reforming anything, least of all themselves. Looking…
by KEVIN ANDREWS – THE spate of recent elections should be a wake-up call to the State divisions of the Liberal Party across Australia. The result in Tasmania – where the Party is endeavouring to form a minority government – is but…
by PAUL COLLITS – THERE are two Robert Menzies Institutes in Australia. One is run by Nick Cater, and the other by the University of Melbourne, aka The Parkville Asylum. So named by the legendary and now vanished Professor Bunyip, who may…
by MARK WHITE – IF YOU keyword search “Mark Speakman John Ruddick maiden speech” in a Google news search you get precisely zero results. Zilch. Replace “Mark Speakman” with “Natalie Ward” and you get the same result, zilch. Following the ban on…
by SEAN BURKE – MATT Kean’s radical Left faction that led the NSW Liberals into electoral wilderness last March is quickly losing its grip on the Party. This startling revelation comes after an internal Party ballot for State President held last week…
by PAUL COLLITS – FORMER NSW Gladys Berejiklian has been found to have been seriously corrupt by an Independent Commission Against Corruption inquiry. And, true to form, the clueless NSW Liberal Party has circled the wagons in praise of her leadership –…
