Piers Akerman
Stop pandering to addicts with taxpayers’ funds
The Daily Telegraph’s shocking disclosure that complicit doctors are assisting drug addicts obtain a taxpayer-subsidised heroin substitute for injection at the NSW State Labor government’s protected shooting gallery is a further argument for closure of the facility and a re-direction of the State’s resources.The black market in oxycodone, a prescription pain killer subsidised under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and the Repatriation Pharmacuetical Benefits Scheme, is fuelled by greedy doctors and accelerated by the encouragement drug addicts receive from the welcoming staff at the government’s King Cross facility.
Greens don’t have a prayer of replacing God
BEREFT of significant nation-building policies, acting Greens leader Richard di Natale, has launched a crusade to axe the Lord’s Prayer from the formal opening of parliamentary sittings.
Bill Shorten just a blast from Labor’s past
LABOR strategists trying to promote their current leader Bill Shorten should note that the public didn’t warm to the story of convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby.
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Maxine cancelled – lack of interest
Rudd over wax, on the wane
ONE of the biggest problems faced by the political commentariat in this election is its lack of focus.
Rudd of many faces
OPPOSITION Leader Kevin Rudd will strut his stuff during tonight’s big debate but exactly which Rudd will be appearing before the nation?
Ready or not, it’s time for answers
OVER the past two months, Opposition leader Kevin Rudd complained that the Coalition was afraid of calling an election.
Rudd is not fit to rule
Phone calls from Kevin Rudd to his friends in the media, which once included me, always begin – according to members of the press gallery – with the words “this conversation has never taken place, right?”
Winning race to be biggest hypocrite
FEDERAL Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has launched a low-key attack on the Government’s decision to cut back on the number of African refugees after earlier offering support to the controversial policy, according to his supporters at Brisbane’s Courier-Mail.
Barging into face of fire’s fury
THE local West Pittwater volunteer firefighters’ antique barge collected me shortly before 7am yesterday. It was the start of bushfire season and we were off to fight the first fire in our area.
Rudd haunted by an affair of the heartless
Gang rape, shredded documents, smear campaigns. Is the Heiner Affair the skeleton in Kevin Rudd’s closet?
Trust Labor? You are Dreamtiming
WHEN voters begin to focus more closely on this year’s federal election, they must ensure they carefully examine what Labor says and what the party actually means.
Rudd at war with his own shadow
THAT the world has starkly changed in the six short years since al-Qaeda launched its terrorist attacks on the US mainland was evidenced by the security necessary at last week’s fantastically successful APEC summit.That Osama bin Laden’s murderous assault on the West and his jihad on its freedom-loving culture has also had an effect on Australian domestic politics is just as apparent to those who take the trouble to look behind the spin of the current election cycle.
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