Politics

Broadly speaking, the coming federal election seems to be coalescing around three main issues. Young people particularly see climate change as the defining issue.  They […]

By 2353NM  They say it’s nice to start with a win. So as we get down to business for another year let’s celebrate a small […]

There is no scientific, intelligible or rational justification put forward for the reduction of 70 GL. The obvious inference to be drawn is that political […]

When David Speers asked federal member for Fadden, Stuart Robert, about Scott Morrison’s jobs promise, Robert replied they would be full-time jobs just like the […]

The same old dog-eared Liberal Party playbook has been dragged out again with Liberal Party federal director Andrew Hirst warning voters about Labor’s “great big […]

In the face of a challenge from Oliver Yates, Josh Frydenberg has defended the Coalition’s record on climate change action. Well he tried to … […]

Regardless of the result, there are going to be many fresh faces in the Senate after the 2019 election, and some old ones we may […]

Tony Abbott’s relentless campaign to “axe the tax” marked a turning point for the Coalition.  They put all their efforts into ignoring or denying the […]

“For years – decades – we have had political correctness in this country, which I fear is raising kids in our country today to despise […]

This could have been seen as audacious. Instead, it had the smell of a not so well concealed sponsorship, the backing of a meaty foreign […]

“Of all risks, it is in relation to the environment that the world is most clearly sleepwalking into catastrophe.” These are not the words of […]

My long association with the Federal seat of Gilmore commenced a few years before 1984, a seminal time for the Royal Australian Navy and the […]

In response to a letter from the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination raising concerns about lack of consent from the native title […]