In failing to perform better against a deeply underwhelming government, Liberals have to accept that we’ve let ourselves down. What’s worse, we’ve let the country down. But we can improve.
We can’t look to the US for the leadership it’s in no mood to give. Other countries need to be more adult about their global responsibilities.
We claim to be the world’s most successful immigrant nation but can we stay that way, based on official bromides such as ‘our diversity is our unity’ – in other words, that all we have in common is that we don’t have anything in common?
Because Labor is so good at smoke-screening its own failures, my fear is that we could be somnambulating into long-term, perhaps irreversible, decline.
Why shouldn’t it be India that offers a division of troops to police any ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine? Here’s a moment for India to declare itself as the world’s other democratic superpower.
The President’s claims Zelensky is a ‘dictator’ and continues the war only to keep on the American gravy train do not reflect reality – but they do reflect Trump’s frustration with allies that are more of an encumbrance than a force multiplier.
Conservative governments have tended to be in office but not really in power – because they lacked an agenda of their own or because what agenda they had was thwarted by a leftist establishment.
Countries have a right and even a duty to keep their character. Having a non-discriminatory immigration policy doesn’t mean accepting everyone from anywhere all the time.
The PM must work as closely as possible with the US president of the day regardless of personal preference.
How can a country that’s the least racist and most colourblind on Earth really be a product of invasion, oppression and exploitation? My sense is that Australians are waking up to the travesty foisted upon us.
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