by PAUL COLLITS – ELECTIONS are suddenly in the air, now competing for column and screen space with war, floods and a (fading) megastar virus. Whether you are a genuine, probably disgruntled, conservative, an outsider or merely a jaded and befuddled swinging…
by DAVID FLINT – WHY should anyone be surprised that some in the far-Left faction of the parliamentary Liberal Parties, the LINOs, demonstrate their dislike of those who are even mildly conservative? Intolerance of even slightly different views is a badge of…
THE same gang of “modern” Liberal MPs who contradicted Prime Minister Scott Morrison on energy policy has joined Labor and Greens to defeat his religious protection bill. Ignoring Mr Morrison’s plea for unity – warning a split could hand Anthony Albanese government…
THE recent announcement by Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt that he is retiring at the forthcoming election is noteworthy. His explanation for his exit from politics was the usual cover-all – “to spend more time with family”. This might be true, but…
by DAVID FLINT – POLITICAL predictions can sometimes come to pass. That the Australian Republican Movement would release a preferred republican model, featuring an elected president stripped of all powers, was predicted in detail at the 2020 Australians for Constitutional Monarchy (ACM)…
THE gaslighting of retiring federal MP George Christensen by senior Coalition figures in Canberra is a disgrace. It is also very, very dumb politics. When they bully Christensen, they bully a now quite large and ever-expanding freedom movement which has had a…
MALCOLM Turnbull replacement Dave Sharma has continued to undermine the prime minister on climate policy as the Left ramps up efforts to remake the once centre-Right Liberal Party. The novice Wentworth backbencher has again demanded a Greens-inspired carbon emissions deadline – even…
DESPITE the Liberal Party’s wholesale embrace of nation-destroying Greens’ policies, ultra-Left Liberals continue to blame conservatives for the Party’s spectacular demise. In just two election cycles the Coalition has lost more than two million supporters and a federal official is reporting mass…
FORMER PM Tony Abbott has warned frustrated conservatives not to give up on the Coalition, saying it would simply fracture the centre-Right and hand government to Labor and Greens. Mr Abbott said Australia’s preferential voting system made it difficult for dark horse…
IT IS increasingly difficult to distinguish between Coalition and Labor governments. They are both populated (with exceptions) from an homogenous political class; as in any oligopolistic market where competition is never about price, their policies differ only at the cosmetic margins. While…
