CLIVE Palmer’s buffoonish presence in federal parliament is a continuing indictment of the voters in the Queensland seat of Fairfax. Whatever could they have been thinking last September when they elected the erratic twerker to represent them?
“OUR” ABC and the late US senator Joseph McCarthy have a lot in common.
IF you wish to be politically correct you might remove coconuts from your shopping list and start to roll your lamingtons in some alternative form of confectionary coating.
THERE is no denying that Treasurer Wayne Swan’s first Budget is a Rudd Labor Budget.
BEFORE the casual reader even opens Commissioner Ted Mullighan’s report into the abuse of children in the Anangu, Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands in the central desert in South Australia’s northwest, there is a confronting caution.
Reporter Paul Raffaele, who was injured in Afghanistan a fortnight ago, has returned to Australia and is recuperating from shrapnel wounds to his head and arm.
THE ALP’s moral core has been placed under scrutiny with the pre-sentencing hearings of former NSW minister Milton Orkopoulos, allegations of harassment involving the Western Australian Premier Alan Carpenter and senior MPs and charges of rank hypocrisy laid against the federal ALP by the ACT Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope.
LAST July, then Opposition leader Kevin Rudd made what is now known as the “Cost of Living Speech” at Melbourne’s Cranbourne Secondary College.
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd opened yesterday summit of his government’s anointed self-righteous with a call to let “fresh air†into Australian thinking but the quotes from New Age poet Kahlil Gibran and the soundtrack from Over The Rainbow gave his retro game away.
WHEN Australian families start asking what killed full employment, two answers can be guaranteed: trade union wage claims and the cost to industry of compliance with the Rudd government’s panicked response to the climate-change bogey.
AFTER five months in office, the Rudd Government’s modus operandi has become clear – another day, another stunt – in this case another political exercise to get petrol prices off the front page.
When former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser said “life wasn’t meant to be easy”, he might well have been predicting the lot of the Zimbabwean people under dictator Robert Mugabe.
IT is usually impossible to avoid hearing the former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser apportioning blame for the world’s problems on his most recent Liberal successor or the Great Satan – the United States – but in recent days he has held his counsel.
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