by PAUL COLLITS – WITH the departure from high office of the Unspellable Premier north of the Tweed, we have lost our last COVID Gauleiter. They are now all gone. This will be widely noted by those of us for whom the…
by DAVID FLINT – THERE is a widespread view that if this year’s referendum were stripped back to the specific recognition of the Aboriginal people in the constitution, it would be home and hosed. Instead, the referendum uses recognition to camouflage a…
by PAUL COLLITS – FOLLOWING the inquiry by Judge Virginia Bell, Albo has done the obvious political thing and moved to censure former Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The reason? For assuming additional portfolios during a “pandemic”, more or less without telling anyone. …
by JURIS LAUCIS – CLIMATE change hysteria is wrecking the economies of developed western nations on a platform of disputed so-called science and self-serving computer modelling. This is on top of identity politics unravelling social cohesion, gender fluidity obliterating biological reality, artificial…
by GARRY BURKE – SCOTT Morrison may prove to be the most damaging leader the once-conservative Liberal Party has ever had. He has steam-rolled constitutional norms in both the nation and the NSW Liberal Party. And he has weakened the argument on…
by DAVID FLINT – PRIME Minister Morrison’s curious accretion of portfolios, in itself no formal breach of the Constitution, raises a fundamental issue exposed by the pandemic. This is the whittling away of the checks and balances on the exercise of executive…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE 2022 federal election turned out to be a real Seinfeld election, a show about nothing. The biggest policy-making issues facing Australia were simply parked to one side. Like the great COVID bungle (or crime, depending on where…
by ERIC LOUW – THE 2022 election saw both Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese play the same game – cling to the political centre and attack each other’s personalities rather than their policies. This meant there was little differentiation between the Parties…
SCOTT Morrison’s dirty dozen have proven to be a disaster for NSW Liberals with not a single seat gained and an average swing against them twice the Coalition’s national average. Of the 12 candidates parachuted in by the then prime minister, only…
THE night of May 21 became a nightmare for the Coalition government that was decisively beaten by Labor and the teal independents at the election. For once, the pollsters, who predicted a Labor win, were right in their predictions, except that the…
