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…
by PAUL COLLITS – WELL, thank God the bread and circuses are over for another three years of utterly bastardised representative democracy. This is an idea whose time has well and truly gone. Now come the recriminations, blame games, useful narratives and…
by SEAN BURKE – PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has one late chance to save his career and his government. To do so, he must quickly win back his centre-Right support base. While his shocking net-zero pledge may have impressed frenzied journalists and…
by NINA NGUYEN – PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has pushed back at claims that Australia broke trust with the US when it delayed informing Labor about the AUKUS negotiations, arguing Labor MPs couldn’t be trusted due to their cosy relationship with communist…
by DANIEL Y TENG – PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has clashed with Anthony Albanese on the China threat during a second televised leaders debate on the weekend. For both men, the debate was crucial coming on the eve of the commencement of…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE Australian Christian Lobby has a very clear strategy for the 2022 federal election. It is targeting candidates and not Parties. It is attempting to get more members in the parliament that are sympathetic to Christian families, values…
THE Coalition’s 2022 policy position is identical to Labor and The Greens on every major issue apart from border control and defence spending. According to a policy analysis by not-for-profit organisation Turning Point Australia, the major Parties agree with each other on…
by PAUL COLLITS – AN AUTHOR of my acquaintance has just co-written a book about Scott Morrison. A very good book (reviewed recently in Politicom), though not pleasant reading for members of the Liberal Party or Liberal voters. The author says he…
by PAUL COLLITS – THREE things have emerged from the first days of the 2022 election campaign. One, this election is even worse than normal in providing a platform for discussion of the issues that matter to disgruntled voters. Witness the massive…
NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has told the Prime Minister he fully supports segregated sports for biological women – but not “insensitively expressed views”. “These issues have to be debated in a sensitive way at every step – an insensitively expressed view should…
