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Ian Royall
Ian RoyallReporter and Opinion Editor

Ian Royall is a general news reporter and opinion editor for the Herald Sun, with more than three decades’ experience in journalism, home and abroad. Covers MotoGP too.

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Minister for Energy Josh Frydenberg during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, June 20, 2018. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

Political upside to power price pain

DOES the Andrews government want to spend energy blocking a scheme that is supposed to save people money and deliver a steady energy supply? There are obvious political upsides to shifting responsibility for power prices, writes Matt Johnston.

Opinion
Dozens of police some in riot gear gather near Lonzo Park in Taylors Hill . Police also  blocked off part of Gourlay road. Picture: Jason Edwards

We need police to protect people, not statistics

POLICE in African youth crime hotspots tell us there is a problem: they’ve had to don riot gear and face it. The police union believes problems like this one are left to fester and emerge in part due to the current model of policing in Victoria, writes Wayne Gatt.

Opinion
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Stop throwing gold into the bin

DID you know that those broken phones, tablets and computers contain a whole range of precious materials — including gold, silver and copper? We are literally throwing gold into the rubbish bin, writes Sustainability Victoria CEO Stan Krpan.

Andrew Bolt
Boodua dairy farmer Ashley Gamble fears he will lose everything due to the drought and lack of feed for his dairy cows. Boodua. Drought. August 2018

Vultures feeding on drought disaster

THE drought has been terrible, and here they come — flap, flap, flap — the global warming vultures to feed on the disaster. Sadly, the Chief Vulture is our Prime Minister, writes Andrew Bolt.

James Campbell
Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger leaves the Federal Court in Melbourne, Thursday, June 14, 2018. The Victorian Liberal party are in a dispute with their biggest donor, the Cormack Foundation, and its $70 million war chest. (AAP Image/David Crosling) NO ARCHIVING

Liberals’ preselection strife continues

THE longstanding hostility of Liberal Party members to admin preselections — and their heartfelt desire for party democracy — has been clear for many years, writes James Campbell. Which is why the latest decision is so unpopular.

Andrew Bolt
Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May speaks before the signing of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh on August 7, 2018.  / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Jane Barlow

Why Theresa May should be embarrassed

HOW much hope is there for the West when even a conservative British Prime Minister kowtows to a medieval oppression of women by demanding Boris Johnson apologise for mocking conservative Muslims who put women in sacks, asks Andrew Bolt.

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