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It’s not the just Liberals. It’s the political class
It is certainly convenient and natural for media and political insiders to focus on the personal conflict between Abbott and…
Tony Abbott must return
If the country is to be saved from impending disaster, Tony Abbott, like General MacArthur must return. (This will probably be…
18c: they just don’t get it
The failure by the Coalition-dominated parliamentary review to recommend changes to Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act is another sign…
WA votes amid a tax and spend addiction
The Western Australian state election is looming around the corner with almost two weeks until the state government is reshuffled…
Fake news meets 18c
Earlier this month Professor Andrew Jakubowitz of the taxpayer-created Cyber Racism and Community Resilience Research Group attempted to debunk a…
Hey guys, check out David Morrison’s latest
He’s become the gift which keeps giving, though, like a spinster aunt’s annual Christmas socks and hankies, it’s a gift…
Chicken Little on workplace relations — and plain old chicken
There’s been more chicken than Colonel Sanders himself could handle in Canberra this week, as the debate about Sunday penalty rates…
The people versus Milo Yiannopoulos
The furore surrounding the curious case of Milo Yiannopoulos has blasted through the media. Journalists, commentators, and the Twitterati are calling for Milo…
Newspoll: the Liberals, not just Turnbull, are the problem
With the latest Newspoll showing the Coalition trailing Labor 45 to 55 2PP and One Nation at ten percent otherwise, a mob…
Language, law and liberty
Law and language share a critical relationship in preserving freedom of expression. One of the peculiarities of totalitarian societies is…
Newspoll listening suggestions for the Liberal Party
So what about that Newspoll, hey? Not much hope there for your average Liberal backbencher. Quite a few frontbenchers, too.…
Milo: the assassins have failed
The sanctimonious Left are in their dizzy element. “The Milo show is over,” they laugh, dancing on the shredded paper…
The Liberal Party is beyond help
It probably doesn’t matter what I think, but the best course now is for Cory Bernardi and the Australian Conservatives…
Wherein Tony Abbott answers some questions…
Well, well, well. Just the other week, I was crying out for someone to tell us how Burkeans within the…
Is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
After 75 weeks of indolence and drift Paul Kelly did his level best in The Weekend Australian to pick the…
Greg Craven’s strange nightmares
Professor Greg Craven seems to have had some awful nightmares about the collapse of constitutional government in Australia. But neither…
Keysar Trad: where are the feminists?
Listen carefully. Responses trickling in after Keysar Trad’s comments about violence against women have been extremely telling. Trad, president of…
The loopholes in Daniel Andrews’ death laws
In what is clearly becoming a drip feed exercise, Dr Brian Owler, head of Premier Daniel Andrews’ advisory panel charged…
Four year terms are a bad idea
The election of Donald Trump, the vote for Brexit, and the return of One Nation have all threatened the centre-right status…
Penalty rate revision a win for jobs and commerce
Earlier today, the Fair Work Commission announced that Sunday and public holiday penalty rates for hospitality, restaurant, fast food, retail and pharmacy workers would be reduced…
The desecration of the Australian worker
Today’s disastrous decision by the Fair Work Commission underscores an attack that has been waged on the Australian worker by…
How would you define marriage?
Last week a Senate report was released, following the Inquiry: the Select Committee on the Exposure Draft of the Marriage…
Do you want politics with that?
Politics used to be confined to newspapers and stuffy government buildings — it was considered an impolite topic of conversation. Now, it has become the norm for political agendas to appear in every aspect…
Freedom of religion recognised in marriage equality report
The much-anticipated Report of the Senate Inquiry into the Commonwealth Government’s Exposure Draft of the Marriage Amendment (Same-Sex Marriage) Bill…
When 50 per cent off is no bargain
Reducing the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount is one of a welter of tax ideas to receive attention…
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