Abbott – the next Liberal leader?
It might be a little unfair to describe the announced departures of very senior Liberals Julie Bishop and Christopher Pyne…
The man the Left fears most
The seat of Warringah, on Sydney’s northern beaches, has never been marginal and has always been held for the conservative…
Clive spends big on Clive
Is it possible to buy your way into the federal parliament? It seems that we are about to find out…
If the Libs don’t represent the right, someone else will
Among political insiders, I detect some relief that the two-party-preferred Newspoll gap between the Turnbull government and the Shorten opposition…
Turnbull, winner?
It may be far too early to declare Malcolm Turnbull a potential winner of the next federal election but it’s…
Opposition to e-cigs is running out of puff
In 2003 Hon Lik, a Beijing pharmacist, developed an electronic cigarette which attracted interest from industry. Decades before, Hon Lik…
Three billboards outside Canberra, ACT
Back in 2009, when Malcolm Turnbull lost the federal Liberal leadership, the feisty Bronwyn Bishop said that the members had…
Re-discovering Cook
Despite an unpleasant resurgence of anti-British, anti-European political correctness, Captain James Cook (1728-1779) remains one of the world’s greatest explorers.…
Australian notes
Shorten must be stopped For once, Malcolm Turnbull’s current travails are not all his own fault. The Prime Minister could…
Abbott’s mission
As Adam Smith once observed, in most nations there’s often a lot of ruin. His point was that it takes…
Point of no returnbull
The first duty of a leader is to keep the team together. This is Malcolm Turnbull’s biggest failure. The federal…
Identity politics
The budget week just gone has marked the moment when both sides of politics officially gave up on budget repair…
Dance of the budget veils
Conventional wisdom holds that an elected government’s first budget should be its bravest. Albeit with a micro-majority, Malcolm Turnbull is…
Judging Turnbull
Recently, Malcolm Turnbull has from time to time tried to act like the centre-right leader of a centre-right government, which…
Tarnished crown jewel
With Malcolm Turnbull hanging on by a one-seat majority federally, the devastating result in the Western Australian state election leaves…
One Nation’s chief recruiter
Most of the media just don’t ‘get’ Tony Abbott. They think he’s critical of Malcolm Turnbull because he wants his…
One Nation’s chief recruiter
Most of the media just don’t ‘get’ Tony Abbott. They think he’s critical of Malcolm Turnbull because he wants his…
Turnbull is toast
Most people are bemused when I predict that Malcolm Turnbull won’t be prime minister by the end of the year.…
Turnbull is toast
Most people are bemused when I predict that Malcolm Turnbull won’t be prime minister by the end of the year.…
