It took just five seconds for an electricity grid, supplying nearly 60 million people, to collapse in Spain and Portugal. That’s what is in store for us if the Albanese Labor government is re-elected.
Penny Wong conflates wholehearted Australian support for same-sex marriage with some sort of potential future support for the voice.
Noel Pearson speaks with clarity and wisdom over the continued shortcomings of the national curriculum
Australia’s economy is in dangerous territory exactly because of all the Labor policies, and rating agencies know it. All the budgeted decade of debt will soon be at higher interest rates.
What happened in Spain might happen here if Labor continued its zero-emissions policy. Perhaps it is time to start referring to solar and wind as “unreliables”.
The sooner we have a government committed to a pragmatic and balanced energy mix to save us from the inevitable disaster from the renewables superpower fantasy the better.
Doing deals, not good policy, will be the future parliamentary brawl of the day, pleasing media which has been correctly blamed as major contributors to our accelerating political decline.
One cannot expect to have the financial and moral support of hardworking Australians while devaluing their citizenship. Without them, Indigenous people would not have so many life choices.
Anthony Albanese’s skilful displays of smoke and mirrors and deception, cunningly obscuring or concealing the truth, demonstrate that he could have made a marvellous magician.
Peter Dutton was spot-on in the fourth debate to link the proliferation of welcome to country ceremonies to Anthony Albanese’s failed voice referendum.
We keep hearing Labor is on the nose but people feel the Coalition is not ready to govern. I would say to those of that opinion: How ready do you have to be?
Anthony Albanese is like the skipper of a boat in the ocean with a hole in the hull. He is bailing furiously but the water comes in faster than it goes out.
Renowned historian Geoffrey Blainey reminds readers that Australia was ill-prepared for war in 1941 and that we are making the same mistake in 2025.
It is time for us to have a conversation about the Welcome to Country.
You can be sure that after the election there will be a list of bad news for our future, whoever wins.
Compulsory voting adds disparity by including large numbers of first choice votes that are essentially blind guesses from people who really don’t want to make a decision.
The first responsibility of a national government is the security of the nation. The Labor government has shown it is incapable of this and makes false promises of increased defence funding.
This election campaign promises bread and circuses. Unfortunately, the price of bread is rising and the circuses are moving offshore to get a reliable supply of cheaper power.
All Australians lose and the carpetbaggers, mostly overseas operatives selling our renewable future, are off with the heist.
For its wilful neglect of defence and all aspects of national security, the ALP deserves to lose this election on this issue alone.
It has been clear in last three debates Peter Dutton and the Coalition need to present much more strongly and not be afraid of offending some groups.
Pope Francis described climate change as a “profound moral crisis” and recognised its effects on humanity, especially disadvantaged people.
Commentators have rightly signalled the urgent need for increased defence spending. It is disturbing that the need for this reminder for both the government and the opposition should be necessary.
Anyone who bothers to think about the nation’s defence will surely feel the chill winds of vulnerability starting to blow around their ankles.
Pope Francis consistently warned that we were “close, almost, to a world war”, that the “third world war in pieces” was turning into a “real global conflict”.
What a shame that no member of the government, the teals or the Greens is old enough to recall the disastrous big-spending policies of the Whitlam Labor government that destroyed our economy.
The government’s major failings are these: defence and electricity supply failures are promised to continue; and quick declines in our standard of living are rendered invisible by blame games.
We live in one of those lands where religious freedom prevails, so far, but even here we can have chills down the spine as we see some of the anti-Jewish rallies of recent times.
All Peter Dutton needs to say is: “Are you happy for prices to increase further as they have during the past three years, plus future blackouts? If so, vote Labor.”
It seems the media is signalling to the electorate to vote for minor parties, giving them a standing many do not deserve. Is this the means by which the government’s failings can be papered over?
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