Price: Tackling the failing ABC could reignite Dutton’s campaign
Peter Dutton must offer tough alternatives to Labor if he wants to win the federal election, and there’s no better place to start than the money pit that is the ABC.
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Price: Lucky or lazy? Australia’s becoming a handout nation
The notion of a hard day’s work for a fair day’s pay has been lost in a vote blitz buying circus of handouts and freebies we all have to pay for. Our ancestors would be rolling in their graves.
Price: Clock is ticking on Allan’s leadership
Out of control youth crime, along with punishing property taxes, should be the political death of this Premier. How Jacinta Allan sleeps at night is beyond me.
Price: Cyclone Alfred blows apart Albo’s election plans
Cyclone Alfred disrupted Anthony Albanese’s plans for a short, sharp election campaign and showed the PM looks more comfortable being a DJ at a music festival than taking charge in a crisis.
Price: Time for a new slogan as we make Victoria great again
After a decade of Labor and Daniel Andrews’ Covid torture, it’s time for a new number plate slogan for our state as I reveal what I love and loathe about living in Victoria.
Price: Four months in, Nick Reece desperately needs help to fix Melbourne
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.
Price: Tone deaf Premier’s ridiculous response to Shrine security crisis
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.
Price: Patton now Allan’s sacrificial lamb amid Vic’s law and order dramas
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.
Price: Rampaging teenage thugs are laughing at us but where are the parents?
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.
Price: Vic needs an old-school police chief to fight crime — not Shane Patton
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.
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