We’ve hit a Triggs-er point on mind control
OH, MALCOLM, whatever happened to the warrior for free speech that you once were? Now you’re in the corner of the discredited Australian Human Rights Commission president Gillian Triggs.
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Mal, stop waffling and fix the bludgers
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull needs to do more than have a beer with a local in an outback pub if he wants to connect to the voting public.
Gun debate distracts from watchdog issue
LABOR MPs, and their allies at the ABC and Fairfax are dangerously distracting the public from the destructive forces of union thuggery eroding the economic health of the nation, Piers Akerman writes.
Mal needs a phoenix, not a bunch of galahs
REVENUE Minister Kelly O’Dwyer incredibly and unthinkingly endorsed an amendment from Labor’s Dr Andrew Leigh that called on the government to explain why it had “failed to close tax loopholes and increase transparency in Australia”.
Societal cancers left to fester for too long
OPINION: THE death on Friday of friend and colleague Rebecca Wilson sharply illuminated one of the evils that confronts us — the scourge of cancer, writes Piers Akerman.
Lots of wind but no power in greenie SA
SOUTH Australia was forced to close this week — no jokes, please — because of its government’s failure to ensure a guaranteed power supply, Piers Akerman writes.
Left’s gender views defy Darwinian logic
IT’S not as though there is a lack of global problems (65.3m displaced people, 23m victims of human trafficking) but Australian leftists seem obsessed with sex, Piers Akerman writes.
Leaks in subs should sink French project
AFTER a year of stagnation, the Coalition’s late-night breakthrough on superannuation is a tiny step in the right direction, Piers Akerman writes.
Zero to show after a year at nation’s helm
PRIME Minister Malcolm Turnbull may well be the most over-qualified underachiever ever to occupy the Lodge, Piers Akerman writes.
Are do-gooders doing damage? Affirmative
IT IS a little too late for Labor’s Linda Burney — the first Aboriginal woman elected to the House of Reps — to say she doesn’t want to be stereotyped, writes Piers Akerman.
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