PRIME Minister Tony Abbott should begin the new parliamentary session tomorrow with an apology to the public for the systemic misuse of the misnamed parliamentarians’ entitlement scheme by Coalition figures.
HUMAN Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs is the last person to lecture anyone on the human rights of children. But that’s exactly what her commission’s politically inspired report into children in immigration detention attempts to do.
THE world dodged a bullet when Malcolm Turnbull refused to endorse Kevin Rudd’s tepid candidacy for the UN Secretary-General’s job.
OPPOSITION leader Bill Shorten’s blatant lies during this election campaign have gone well beyond just messing with the minds of ordinary voters to the corruption of the Australian political process.
ON the morning of the Nice massacre, I walked past Cafe Procope, the oldest restaurant in Paris and a favourite of the great scholar Voltaire, who is wrongly credited with the quote: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
TONY Abbott will deliver a make-or-break address at the National Press Club on Monday. It will be the last chance he has to begin any recovery from his self-inflicted wounds before the Liberal Party room meeting on February 9 and the beginning of the parliamentary year
MALCOLM Turnbull is going to be smacked in the face by tough reality at tomorrow’s party room meeting.
THERE’S nothing worse than having a throbbing hangover after a party no one really enjoyed.
THOUGH the votes have long been cast and the seemingly interminable election campaign has finally ended, there is no real sense of relief.
GLARING omissions mean Chris Masters’ book Jonestown must be disqualified from the NSW Premier’s Literary Prize immediately.
AUSTRALIANS are asking what in halal is going on with religious food certification and demanding an end to being forced to pay for Islamic blessings on ordinary supermarket food items.
ABC approved Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will conduct his first foreign foray this weekend, visiting our Kiwi cousins across the Tasman.
EITHER Kevin Rudd is finished or the Labor Government he leads is for the chop, according to some of the most senior voices in the federal ALP caucus.
THERE was a time, earlier this century, when Malcolm Turnbull was the full bottle on the Muslim religion.
LIKE sludge oozing from a sewer pipe, the election is slowly advancing on the electorate and while many voters are preparing to peg their noses as they vote, they aren’t reaching for the baseball bats.
OPPOSITION leader Bill Shorten maintains that his career with the AWU was devoted to providing fair wages and conditions for its members but it seems that is not necessarily so.
IT’S passing fashionable for members of the chuckle-headed chattering class to say there is now no difference between the Coalition and Labor.
WE may look back on the past week as the period Labor lost the election, barring any huge surprises over the next 34 days.
SHOULD Labor leader Bill Shorten win office in 41 days, homosexual marriage will become a reality across Australia just 100 days later.
THE notion that a slew of disgruntled conservative voters will strap on suicide vests and blow up the Liberal Party is a fantasy.
HISTORICALLY, it was always the wealthier, better-educated young men and women at the best of the Western world’s universities who were suckers for socialism. These groups even flirted with Communism as leftist philosophies paralysed intellectual and economic progress across the world.
UNLESS there is a dramatic change between now and the July 2 federal election, Australian voters will be presented with a choice between a fairly moderate centrist government led by Malcolm Turnbull and the most left-wing government the nation has ever had the misfortune to suffer under, led by Bill Shorten.
THE decision by the Turnbull government to enter exclusive negotiations with the French-government-owned and French trade union-run company DCNS to design Australia’s new submarine fleet only makes a little sense if there is a secret plan to upgrade the conventionally powered diesel-electric submarines to nuclear power at some future stage.
SLIM Dusty reckoned that there was nothing “so lonesome, morbid or drear than … a pub with no beer” but then he hadn’t heard of Bill Shorten’s plan for an airport that would effectively ban airplanes from flying.
THE ABC’s favourite counter-terrorism “expert”, Dr Anne Aly, an apologist for the deluded convicted criminal and terror sympathiser Zaky Mallah, claims violent right-wing extremism in Australia is rapidly reaching dangerous levels.
DESPITE signing off on a series of significant policy triumphs, the Coalition hasn’t finished the year with a tick from the public in the opinion polls.
REVOLTING in their arrant hypocrisy, the luvvie crowd — well supported by our ABC — has resoundingly demonstrated its preference for self-confessed terrorist trainee and amateur poet David Hicks to good news about the release of children from immigration detention.
THE bookies are backing German Chancellor Angela Merkel for this year’s Nobel Peace prize for welcoming the Islamic invasion of Europe.
THE twin curses of multiculturalism and populist pseudo-psychoanalysis have totally confused any rational discussion of the very real presence of Islamic terrorism in Australia
OPPOSITION foreign affairs spokesperson Tanya Plibersek could not utter the word “Christian” yesterday when discussing the range of characteristics that might make a victim out of a person stuck in the Middle East conflict.
ABC managing director Mark Scott is to order a review of issues covered on the broadcaster’s flagship program Q&A, after facing accusations the program has a left-leaning bias.
THE rise of Malcolm Turnbull saw an immediate drop in Liberal Party membership despite claims to the contrary.
ALL politics is local and for Australia, that means putting our nearest neighbour Papua New Guinea front and centre. Except we don’t. This year we will give the 40-year-old nation $554.5 million in aid which is supposedly linked to three objectives — the first of which is effective governance and the rule of law.
AS Christians and Jews celebrate Easter and the Passover, the holiest days in their calendars, this weekend with family gatherings and prayer, radical Islamists continue to demonstrate ambiguity of Koranic teaching by slaughtering nonbelievers.
COMMISSIONER Dyson Heydon’s reasons for remaining in charge of the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption pass the sniff test, the pub test and any other test the frightened rats in corrupt unions and their lackeys in the Labor Party may demand.
THE last time Malcolm Turnbull led the Liberal Party, he was brought down by his obsession with climate change.
WITH the accession of Malcolm Turnbull to the prime ministership, “their” ABC and the Fairfax media highlighted congratulatory messages from two quite irrelevant groups, the homosexual lobby and the republican movement, whose combined support could not swing a federal election.
THE Greens, the refugee lobby and their media supporters are going to sickening lengths as they strive for the moral high ground.
FROM the loneliness of political exile, Tony Abbott is urging conservative members of the Liberal Party not to walk away from the party he led into government two years ago
THE almost daily accounts of gunplay around NSW indicate that the current firearms laws aren’t working. Those who should be most alarmed — after the victims — are legitimate gun owners, farmers and sports shooters.
THE NSW government is hell-bent on pushing for council amalgamations but bigger is not necessarily better and, beyond the borders of Clover Moore’s absurd fiefdom, many residents want to keep things in local hands, not become part of a giant super council.
IT’S a safe bet that Opposition Leader Bill Shorten’s claim to be “on the side of the angels” in the matter of the China free trade agreement won’t be tested by the ABC’s Fact Check Unit.
PROMPTED by Twitter twaddle and the indistinguishable and mendacious ramblings of The Sydney Morning Herald, a dishevelled group of protesters milled outside The Daily Telegraph office on Sunday.
THE body of a small boy lying dead on tideline of a Turkish beach has become the powerful new image of European failure. Failure to take a united stand against Islamist barbarism, failure to abandon a disastrous policy of multiculturalism and failure to reverse its liberal immigration policies.
IF workers can’t trust Labor, who can — the answer is the Greens. In an extraordinary betrayal of miners in the Hunter, and those who work the port of Newcastle, the biggest coal-exporting complex in the world, Newcastle Council’s Labor and Green councillors voted to steer the council’s investments away from banks that hold funds in fossil fuel projects.
TREASURER Joe Hockey lit another exploding cigar when he agreed to join the sorry circus which is the struggling Republican movement. Without consulting Prime Minister Tony Abbott, he accepted an invitation from his friend Peter FitzSimons, a bandanna-wearing media performer who heads this largely irrelevant political force, to become co-convener with former ACT Labor chief minister Senator Katy Gallagher of a new parliamentary friendship group agitating for an Australian head of state.
POUR a little acid on Labor’s lies about free trade, the environment and same-sex marriage and the Abbott government’s policies shine as beacons of hope in a landscape dominated by malevolent propaganda.
LABOR yesterday failed to bring down its nemesis, trade union royal commissioner Dyson Heydon, but the Liberals’ patchwork defence of the former High Court justice was indicative of poor management skills.
HOMOSEXUAL marriage is a minor issue for most Australians but it is being pushed to the forefront by the ABC and other agenda-driven organisations hell-bent on marginalising religion in their push for a secular nation.
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