Backwards & Forwards: towards the campaign black hole
The week in politics, the week to come. Looking back Last Thursday, the eternal sunlight of the spotless mind erased…
Backwards & Forwards: Billy boy’s electric cars and a Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow budget
Looking back Josh Frydenberg and Bill Shorten had their budgetary pissing contest. My surpluses will be bigger than yours, my…
The Coalition needs a bazooka to stop Shorten. Try this one…
In my Backwards and Forwards column on Monday, I said that if Bill Shorten gave a barnstorming, grievance-pandering, promise-laden speech…
More an epitaph than a budget
Looking at the reaction to Josh Frydenberg’s first budget, its beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It has…
Backwards & forwards: the NRA blows budget week to pieces
The week in politics, the week to come. Looking back Were you looking for pre-Budget leaks last week? For big…
Shorten’s secret friend and helper: Pauline Hanson
Thursday 28 March was the day that the Coalition guaranteed it lost May’s election. It had its good, bad and…
Backwards & Forwards: Glad’s back as Scott sees salvation
Looking back: Berejiklian’s Glad to be back On Saturday the Coalition government of New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian was…
Backwards & Forwards: the week in politics gone, the week to come
Looking back Last Thursday, with millennials convulsed by the unprecedented crash of Facebook and Instagram, New Zealand’s Canterbury Police tweeted…
Backwards & Forwards: the week in politics, the week to come
Looking back If there’s a week to be rued by the Coalition if they lose the upcoming election badly, it’ll…
Did the wrong woman get Higgins?
The Prime Minister’s wish has been granted. Outgoing member for Higgins and Cabinet minister, Kelly O’Dwyer will be succeeded by…
Pawns take Bishop
Julie Bishop has pulled the plug on her political career. The effusion of love in the House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon,…
Can you bank on Banks?
Renegade Liberal MP turned independent, Julia Banks, continues to tease. Having spat the Liberal dummy over the self-immolation of Malcolm…
Peta Credlin: better on the outside
Nine’s dead tree division published a long comment piece by Speccie contributor John Ruddick that amounted to a political love…
Dutton’s on the button, but…
In a wide-ranging interview with the Brisbane Sunday Mail , Peter Dutton unleashed on Malcolm Turnbull. His comments were calculated…
Victorian Liberals must choose a new party president who knows the score
On Friday evening, the Liberal state assembly in Victoria is meeting to select an acting president to replace resigned Svengali,…
Are you an Innie or an Outie?
The Institute of Public Affairs infuriates the Left. The IPA’s success in being the public face of centre-right thinking, even…
The Victorian Liberals caused their own catastrophe
Now the dust of last Saturday’s electoral bloodbath in Victoria is starting to settle, it’s time for some sober reflection. …
Victoria votes: Daniel Andrews re-election looms
With one day ago, published opinion polls indicate joy for Labor premier Daniel Andrews and despair for Liberal leader Matthew…
Very public health
I’ve known health minister Greg Hunt for over twenty years. When he is convinced about something he doesn’t hold back…
Victoria votes: short termism rules, OK?
Now a fortnight in, and the Victorian election campaign was all but cancelled for lack of interest this week. The…
Victoria votes: Tammany Hall v Keystone Kops
One week into the formal Victorian election campaign, and it’s becoming clear we have a contest between Labor’s Tammany Hall…
The Wentworth defeat has many fathers, not just Malcolm Turnbull
So it has come to pass. Wentworth has been lost by the Liberals with the biggest by-election swing against a…
The Opera House is not a billboard – for anyone or any cause
I have a reluctant confession to make. I sort of agree with Bill Shorten. Sort of. The Sydney Opera House…
The ‘tampon tax’ is not sexist. Removing it is
The price of a name-brand pack of ladies’ sanitary pads with wings is around $5.00. A packet of name-brand extra-absorbent…
MBT: Malcolm Boycott Turnbull?
In the annals of Test cricket, there’s never been a cricketer as self-centred, single-minded and selfish as English batsman Geoffrey…
