Piers Akerman
Big gamble by Gillard will deliver only lemons
IT’S a sure bet Julia Gillard’s fragile Labor-Green-independent alliance Government will be sorely tested by her commitment to anti-gambling MP Andrew Wilkie.
Seismic shift shapes nation
NSW delivered a tectonic shift in Australian politics yesterday – a shift so dynamic it has the capacity to alter the cultural course of the nation for the next decade and longer.
Watch this space, Rudd’s plan will leave us all in a jam
FOLLOWING GroceryWatch, FuelWatch and RefugeeWatch, the Rudd Labor Government intends to launch CityWatch – a centralised city planning operation to develop state capitals.
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Flying flag of Anzac pride
THE Anzac tradition risks being undermined and debauched by politically correct post-modernist teachers, as evidenced by the Simpson award-winning essay extracted yesterday in The Daily Telegraph.
Rudd and all that jive
OPPOSITION Leader Kevin Rudd has flown to the US to demonstrate his fitness to manage the crucial Australian-American alliance – leaving a lot of unfinished business in his wake.
Rights of fiends protected
IN ANOTHER outstanding victory for the civil rights lobby, two HIV-positive men in Victoria and South Australia were permitted to run wild by health officials, passing on their infection to as many sexual partners as they could, because their right to privacy was deemed paramount.
Brave woman who rose above politics
SOMETIMES one person can make a big difference, as Senator Jeannie Ferris who died in Canberra on Monday, proved.
Hicks is guilty: get over it and accept the truth
THE Left likes to take its information pre-digested, with pre-formed opinions offered by wannabe celebrities. Whether its Al Gore’s hyperbolic disinformation on global warming or a curtain call of aspiring actresses bleating about maggot-free sheep, the fellow travellers prefer the easy intellectual road.
Claims on an empty victory
FORMER NSW premier Bob Carr has taken due credit for the return of the Labor Government, now led by his successor, Morris Iemma.Though Carr was kept under wraps by the Iemma team throughout the election, he told The Australian newspaper of his deep personal satisfaction as successful Labor candidates referred to the millions his government had committed to infrastructure in every seat in their western Sydney electorates.
Biggest loser is NSW electorate
A FOURTH victory for the NSW ALP would be a win for the professional political class and a huge loss for voters across Australia.Premier Morris Iemma and his team offered no bright vision for their state, they had no record of achievement they could point to, but they did use all the political skills they could muster to convince voters that their Conservative opponents posed an even greater risk.
Howard carrying wounds to battle
JOHN Howard may face the biggest challenge of his prime ministership when Federal Parliament resumes today.How he handles Labor’s planned assault on the integrity of the Coalition could well lay the pattern for the election expected in October.
A catalogue of disasters
Less than a week out from the NSW State election and the electorate is in need of anti-depressants.The Galaxy poll conducted in five marginal seats last week for The Daily Telegraph indicates that the Carr-Iemma Labor government will be returned virtually unchanged by disgruntled voters.
Unions crash bridge party
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