by NAZIYA ALVI RAHMAN – ANTHONY Albanese claimed this week that Peter Dutton was catering to the “fringe Right” – as more Leftist Liberal MPs flee parliament. In a speech aimed at Liberal leadership, the Prime Minister said those with a vision…
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…
by PAUL COLLITS – VICTORIAN Labor’s polling is in the toilet. Its Uncle Festa Treasurer, Tim Pallas, has resigned, leaving the State $156b in the red with a tanking economy. Premier Jacinta Allan is a dead girl walking. Or should be. And…
by PAUL COLLITS – SIMON Birmingham’s seemingly sudden retirement from politics caught a few people by surprise. He has left the building with the Liberals on the cusp of a possible, equally surprising, return to government in 2025. Birmingham thinks Dutton will…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE old Queensland tourism pitch needs to be updated to “Labor tyranny one day, squishy Liberal the next”. Queensland Labor was appalling on every level. And because there is no upper house north of the Tweed, governments can…
by SEAN BURKE – A POPULAR Sydney mayor has this week quit the once-conservative Liberal Party saying he’s fed up with “factional rubbish”. Lane Cove Mayor Scott Bennison tendered his resignation to Liberal HQ on Monday after a dirty factional deal saw…
by CRYSTAL-ROSE JONES – FORMER NSW Liberal premier Gladys Berejiklian has lost her court bid to overturn findings she acted corruptly amid her romance with Party colleague Daryl Maguire in her time as premier. This week, Chief Justice Andrew Bell maintained findings…
IN A world of political irrelevancy, there are few people climbing higher, harder and faster than NSW Shadow Health Minister Matt Kean. The guy who grinned while dangling off the end of a tax-payer funded EV charging cable during his ministerial years,…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Liberal Party is split in so many different directions as to be almost meaningless. No Liberal-led government has ever played to its strengths in office – and very few have played to them in opposition. No one…
by PAUL COLLITS – LIBERTARIANS and conservatives have often disagreed – and they still do. The divide may be growing. The “fusionist” project of postwar conservatives – mainly in America – of figures like William F Buckley and Frank Meyer, has all…
