Lord Mayor Nick Reece has spent almost a decade on council and 100 days in the top job, but Melbourne’s CBD remains a graffiti-smeared homeless haven with no-go zones resembling the bad old days of New York.
A moving weekly ceremony at the Shrine is under threat because of savage cuts to Victoria Police. The Premier’s response to the funding crisis left me wondering how anyone, let alone a political leader, could be so tone deaf.
Shane Patton tried to be the top cop, the tough cop, the bloke in charge of all of Victoria Police — but he also tried to play politics, and in the end it was the politics that burnt him.
Restrictive laws around youth crime mean we’ll never see the faces or learn the names of the teen offenders terrorising Victoria. No wonder they laugh at us — and at police — but how dare I ask what kind of parenting is going on.
Victorians have been living through a terrifying crime wave like nothing we’ve seen before but the state’s top cop, Shane Patton, thinks he should be rewarded with a lucrative new five-year contract. Spare me.
Next weekend should mark the beginning of the end for the hated Victorian state Labor government, with voters able to send a strong message at the Werribee and Prahran by-elections.
The mindless idiots who creep around in the dark vandalising and destroying our history will only make ordinary Australians more determined not to be divided by race.
Donald Trump is the king of cut-through political slogans and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton should grab the best four-word catchcry the US President has delivered yet.
As I celebrated my 70th birthday this week I was buoyed by the fact it is clear growing numbers of young Australians are waking up to the fact the radical left has failed them.
Fast rail has been promised by all sides of politics for years only to crumble into a heap of expensive broken dreams and as we close out 2024, we’re about to witness more hollow promises.
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