Sinking feeling over unions’ $50b sub deal
THE decision by the Turnbull government to enter exclusive negotiations with French company DCNS to design Australia’s new submarine fleet only makes a little sense if there is a secret plan.
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Bill’s Badgerys policy is unsafe for takeoff
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.
Voters realise all that glitters is not Malcolm
IT’S past six months since Malcolm Turnbull’s successful coup unseated Tony Abbott from the prime ministership but the usurper has yet to convince the public of his authenticity.
Aussie of the Year panel miss the point
DAVID Morrison was named Australian of the Year and it didn’t take long for the custard to start flying. His principal protagonist Malcolm McGregor, a transgender who prefers to be knownas Cate.
The Kiwis kucked back over the dutch
ABC approved Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will conduct his first foreign foray this weekend, visiting our Kiwi cousins across the Tasman.
Labor loses, no matter which way Heydon goes
LABOR is in a lose-lose position whether or not royal commissioner Dyson Heydon recuses himself tomorrow from continuing to hear evidence before the Royal Commission Into Trade Union Governance And Corruption.
Shorten’s quid pro quo QCs
PRO bono legal aid is emerging as the latest off-the-books assistance enjoyed by embattled Labor figures, including Opposition leader Bill Shorten.
PM Tony Abbott must kick pollies off their gravy train
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.
Halal good buy? I don’t know why
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.
The rights and wrongs of a Labor luvvie
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.
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