by GABRIEL MOENS – THE world has reacted with shock to the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abe was prime minister of Japan on two occasions, from 2006 to 2007 and 2012 to 2020, when he resigned for health…
by DAVID FLINT – IT WAS typical of the man. Some of the most prominent defenders of the Crown had assembled at Sydney’s Union Club to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee, including two former prime ministers and a former head of state. Michael…
MORE than two-thirds of Liberal MPs suspected of voting Prime Minister Tony Abbott out of office in 2015 are no longer members of parliament. In a purge that has continued since September 2015, when Malcolm Turnbull’s 54 “bedwetters” knifed a first term…
by DAVID FLINT – BILLED to speak after Tony Abbott in Melbourne recently, I sought inspiration from his foreword years ago to Twilight of The Elites. “To the Paddington republican set,” he wrote, “Flint should have been one of them. Weren’t people…
AFTER years of demonising coal workers, it has emerged Warringah MP Zali Steggall’s biggest political donor is a coal mining multi-millionaire. A six-figure lump sum donation from a trust headed by investor John Kinghorn was curiously misreported by the Steggall campaign as…
by PAUL COLLITS – THE conservative stalwart broadcaster Mark Steyn has made the suggestion, in apparent seriousness, that the British Tories should draft Tony Abbott as the next leader of the Conservative Party. Mark’s interviewee at the time, Kathy Gyngell, editor of…
FORMER Prime Minister Tony Abbott is being considered to lead the UK Conservative Party, replacing “stand-for-nothing” Boris Johnson. GB News TV anchor Mark Steyn said on air last week there was nothing to prevent the former Australian PM from running and that…
AUSTRALIAN republicans have been described as “clueless” as political war breaks out over their preferred constitutional model. Peter Fitzsimons’ Australian Republican Movements’ proposal has been immediately criticised as dangerous by Labor heavyweight Bob Carr – who claimed it invited conflict between a…
WHEN he was minister for health, Tony Abbott drew up a plan to deal with future pandemics which attracted international praise. Sadly, the Abbott plan is gathering dust somewhere in Canberra. Where to next? The answer is to develop with widespread public…
FORMER Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has delivered a stinging criticism of Chinese Communist Party leadership during a speech to the Yushan Forum in Taiwan on October 8. Mr Abbott said he turned down an opportunity to attend the conference two years…
