Are conservatives irrelevant in the 21st century?
Are conservatives irrelevant in the 21st century? Jennifer Wilson reports. The extraordinary Queensland election result saw former LNP Premier Campbell Newman lose his seat, and […]
Politics
God I love Australians
We are an apathetic bunch who would rather watch sport than talk politics. We would rather have a barbie than a bi-election. We would rather […]
Liberal Party Redux, or What Were They Smoking?
How can normality return to Australian politics? Paul Dellit has found a simple answer. No treatise upon the evolution of Liberal Party philosophy, no eminence […]
Please do not endorse Tony Abbott by voting for Campbell Newman tomorrow
For the last two weeks I have worked on the pre-poll booth for the Labor Party. It has been very, very hot here in Rockhampton […]
Every football team needs a head-kicker but you don’t make him captain
The Liberal Party has no-one else to blame but themselves for their current woes. When they allowed the climate change deniers to stage a coup […]
You’re F***ed, Tony
Guest blogger Ross Sharp explains why … and he pulls no punches. From awful to f***ed in the space of one brief week, Prime Minister Tony Abbott, our Dear Leader, the […]
In March, we’ll march again
We’re marching again, writes Loz Lawrey. And with good reason. In 2008, when Australia faced a real and actual global financial crisis, sound economic initiatives […]
The Credlin thing
I don’t get all this Murdoch-inspired hoo haa about Peta Credlin, the Prime Minister’s embattled Chief of Staff. Ms Credlin has been in the spotlight […]
#Murdoch’s Machiavellian Manoeuvres . . .
After a string of ghoulishly inappropriate tweets it seems the irrepressible Rupert it is at it again. With very own his media empire poised and […]
Tony Abbott has again succeeded in getting us to focus on what’s unimportant
Some politicians – Tony Abbott an expert among them – realise the importance of dictating the terms of public discourse. That is, to get us […]
Could anything be more contradictory?
Assistant Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg has just returned from the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos with some pearls of wisdom that have come from a […]
The Equality of Citizenship.
During the period between WW2 and the 1970s most western governments established employment as a right of citizenship. They declared that a properly regulated redistribution […]
Hands off our common wealth
John F Kennedy once said: “Voters chose us because they have confidence in our discernment, when we are in a position that allows us to […]
Abbott admits he’s wasting 4.3 million taxpayer dollars
Tony Abbott “continues to make the most astounding, cringe-worthy gaffes that stretch all credulity” writes Jennifer Wilson. This, today from a Prime Minister who spends […]
Think very carefully, Queensland
When Queensland goes to the polls next Saturday they will be voting for their future – the future of their freedom, their democracy, their environment, […]