J’accuse
Falsehood and deception in the Ridd Affair
Dis-con notes
Reshuffle revisited On 5 July we learned that the Minister for Finance, Senator Mathias Cormann, will leave parliament towards the…
Australian notes
Chinese aggression and the New Cold War Over recent weeks commentators both in Australia and abroad have drawn attention to…
Dis-con notes
Get a wriggle on, ScoMo Previous Dis-Con Notes (25/04/20 and 16/05/20) proposed eleven policy reforms for Prime Minister Morrison’s consideration.…
Dis-Con notes
Well done, Angus Six weeks ago I advised the prime minister to undertake a ministerial reshuffle. Three weeks ago I…
Dis-con notes
Some policy reforms, Mr Morrison Three weeks ago I advised Scott Morrison to dump seven Liberal and LNP ‘Duds’ from…
Dis-con notes
Time for a re-shuffle, Mr Morrison Since its re-election the Morrison government has been beset by one ‘crisis’, real or…
Dis-con notes
Wrong way, go back My last Dis-Con Note (‘Watching and hoping, Mr Morrison’, 13/07/19) pointed out that, despite his ‘miracle’…
Dis-con notes
Watching and hoping, Mr Morrison With our post-election parliament finally operative, what can we now expect from the new…
Dis-con notes
How to Vote, conservatively With only a week until the election, we Dis-Cons (disaffected conservatives) face a dilemma. A Labor…
Dis-con notes
Next please, PM Last week’s editorial, ‘In praise of the PM’, rightly gave Prime Minister Scott Morrison ‘full marks ……
Dis-con notes
The UN at work A recent Dis-Con Note, ‘ScoMo’s (recommended) manifesto’, mentioned two international meetings in December pursuing the United…
Dis-con notes
ScoMo’s (recommended) manifesto Everyone seeking, like myself, to avoid a Labor government must wish Prime Minister Morrison well. However, in…
Dis-con notes
Does Morrison cut the mustard? The first quality Napoleon Bonaparte sought in his generals was that they were lucky. Scott…
Dear Paul
Three major articles by the Australian’s editor-at-large Paul Kelly, and Tony Abbott’s even more major Heritage Foundation speech in Washington,…
Dis-con notes
Are they blind? It is seven months since my last Dis-Con Notes (‘No More Shilly-Shallying’, 2/12/17). Meanwhile the Liberal party…
Populate or perish: destroying the village to save it from perishing?
Greg Sheridan’s article “Great leaders knew immigration truth: populate or perish” from Saturday’s Weekend Australian assails “the decisive turn by…
Since when was common sense discrimination?
Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton’s remarks about white South African farmers, including possibly granting them special immigration consideration, evoked charges…
If you don’t fight, you lose
A concatenation of events can sometimes resolve a conundrum, and that happened when, on Sunday, I was watching Sky News’s…
Dis-con notes
No more shilly-shallying When Parliament sits on Monday, it will (I assume) be greeted by another Newspoll. The last one…
Enough is enough: we are all Australians
After 50 years of unremitting failure in Aboriginal affairs, it’s time to say, “Enough is enough”! Our once boundless goodwill…
Dis-con notes
Toughen up, snowflakes Another parliamentary sitting week has passed, with nothing done to confront the fate that has been staring…
The recognition racket
Given the outcome of last week’s grand talk-fest at the lavish Sails in the Desert resort at Yulara, near Ayers…
Constitutional recognition? Tell ’em they’re dreamin’
In Canberra today the Constitutional Education Foundation of Australia will hold a Forum on the constitutional recognition of Aboriginal Australians…
Time to talk frankly on immigration
Last week The Australian editorialised on Australia’s immigration policies, noting that the Prime Minister’s “reception this week at an invitation-only UN summit on…
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