Lucky country tossing away its advantage
ANY comparison with other Western nations demonstrates that Australia is the luckiest of countries – yet the Gillard Labor-Green-independent government seems hell-bent on destroying this legacy.
Piers Akerman
Welfare should not be a deadly weight
THE Coalition should not need reminding that consistency of policy and certainty of outcome are essential to good government. The damaging record of the incompetent Gillard Labor-Green-independent government and the dysfunctional ego-driven Rudd government are still fresh in the memory of most adult Australians.
The Clive and Al show rolls a divisive tax
SELF-PROCLAIMED global leaders Clive Palmer and former US vice-president Al Gore gifted Prime Minister Tony Abbott a sweet victory in his campaign to repeal Julia Gillard’s carbon tax.
Unrepresentative circus coming to the Senate
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Hog heaven
If you’re looking for the perfect Pacific bar, you would not be too far off course if you set sail for W174.98 S18.65.This will take you to within swimming distance of the Aquarium Café, proprietors Mike and Lori Smith, whose claims to fame are increasing daily but include the fact that they are the only Smiths in the Tongan telephone book.
Lie of the land easily exposed
AUSTRALIA’S political culture is so debauched that the public is no longer shocked when the incumbent Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, is called a liar.
Enough already, Julia
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard cannot be believed – on anything.
Besseling is on a bus to nowhere
THE sad tale of independent State MP Peter Besseling’s campaign bus really tells it all.
Julia rows against tide of common sense
LET’S get this straight. Labor minister Chris Bowen is the one trying to revive the failed multicultural experiment, not the Coalition’s immigration spokesman Scott Morrison.
The lies just keep coming
THE Victorian election result and the continuing decay of Labor governments federally and in every state the ALP still holds highlights the failure of Labor’s claim to be the party of good management and the problems of its shift toward the Green-Left.
ALP’s only agenda is retaining power
SURPRISE, surprise, federal Labor is apparently stuffed, was stuffed under former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and continues to be stuffed under Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and that is the near-unanimous view of ranks of senior Labor officials.
Border policy as leaky as smugglers’ boats
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard last week took ownership of a new record for asylum-seeker arrivals.
Truth better than fiction
FORMER prime minister John Howard’s devastatingly complete memoir should end the time-wasting what-if debate about his handling of the succession of the Liberal Party leadership but, of course, it won’t.
Victory of truth in a war of words
IT is sad but true that few Australians would have followed the debate on the engagement of our troops in Afghanistan.
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