Six years later, Rob Oakeshott is still talking…
This election is about to get exciting: Rob Oakeshott is back. Yes, the man who took 17 minutes to announce his support for the Gillard government is enthralling us with a new speech.
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The election campaign unfolds via twits and Twitter
YOU might think elections are won on te campaign trail as pollies interact with voters. Wrong. It’s all happening on Twitter, writes Joe Hildebrand.
Why the Greens are rotten to the core
The problem with the Greens is that they are ideologues, more consumed by an imaginary post-capitalist utopia than they are with real people in the real world.
Blitz on corruption, rorts at all levels
MAJOR corporations and political parties could be investigated for corruption under a push to establish a new national watchdog launched today.
Australia can’t negotiate with ISIS
Our government is too soft when it comes to confronting the greatest security threat the West is facing this century, great upheaval in western Europe and an existential crisis in the Middle East.
Grief of wife’s loss floors boxer Billy
CHAMPION boxer Billy Dib has opened up about the shock death of his young wife, saying it “tears you to shreds” and that he still visits her grave every day.
A Walla-beating for the cowering Kiwis
ANYONE worried about Australia falling foul of New Zealand in the Rugby World Cup final this weekend need only remember one simple fact.
The Politically Correct Guide to History
If we must refer to the terrorist attack in Sydney earlier this month as “politically motivated”, perhaps we should go back through history and apply such political correctness to other major events.
Grab Joe’s cash and let’s get spending
THE small business revolution has begun. Now Joe Hockey hopes the jobs revolution will follow as the money from his small business tax breaks starts to flow through the economy
An unholy initiation into the horrors of food poisoning
IN a week that was otherwise unremarkable as far as milestones go, I did at least manage to tick one item off the bucket list — and never has the word “bucket” been so apt: I finally succumbed to food poisoning.
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