Peta Credlin The Australian April 13, 2023 With Labor’s constitutionally entrenched Indigenous voice to everyone, on everything, going to be the dominant political issue for the year – and with the Coalition now officially and firmly saying No to this activist voice – Peter Dutton is in the fight of his life. This will makeContinue reading “Jacinta Price is the warrior Dutton needs”
Category Archives: Conservatives
Menzies warned us
The Voice can never ‘close the gap’ Features Australia David Flint [Getty Images] David Flint 8 April 2023 9:00 AM In the event that the Voice referendum is successful, one thing is certain. It will not, indeed cannot, close the gap. The fundamental requirement for referendum success is the government come with clean hands, asContinue reading “Menzies warned us”
Australia’s Labor Dark Ages will end in a Liberal victory
Flat White Tom Switzer Getty Images Tom Switzer 11 April 2023 5:00 AM These are dark days for the Liberal Party. Labor governments now dominate the Australian continent while deeply divided Oppositions are in the political doldrums. When safe seats like Aston suffer big by-election defeats, some Liberal backbenchers are bound to wet their beds.Continue reading “Australia’s Labor Dark Ages will end in a Liberal victory”
Staying the Liberal course: with wall-to-wall red, blue politics is on the ropes
Sean Jacobs Flat White Sean Jacobs 12 April 2023 4:00 AM It’s not difficult to determine that the Liberal Party appears in trouble. With wall-to-wall red states minus Tasmania, a popular Labor prime minister, and a presently unpopular Liberal leader, blue politics is on the ropes. Many are now speaking of a permanent Liberal declineContinue reading “Staying the Liberal course: with wall-to-wall red, blue politics is on the ropes”
Dutton’s first victory: Julian Leeser moves to the backbench
Flat White Screenshot ABC Flat White 11 April 2023 3:26 PM The Liberal Party’s Shadow Indigenous Australians spokesman and Attorney-General Julian Leeser has defied Dutton’s leadership decision to support the ‘No’ campaign and instead quit the frontbench to join the ‘Yes’ case. Good riddance. He has been holding Dutton back from principled conservative decisions forContinue reading “Dutton’s first victory: Julian Leeser moves to the backbench”
Don’t go chasing the doctors’ wives
Conservatives can never win by aping the Teals Features Australia James Allan Getty Images James Allan 1 April 2023 9:00 AM Shortly after my family and I first arrived in Australia at the start of 2005, the Commonwealth and every state in this country soon had Labor governments. Indeed, at one point the most seniorContinue reading “Don’t go chasing the doctors’ wives”
Natalie Ward schooled over Kean ‘delusion’
Sean Burke Politicom April 2, 2023 Leftist Liberal MP Natalie Ward has been schooled live on air after defending her factional boss Matt Kean’s hard-green policy agenda. The former State Roads Minister was brought to task by former PM Tony Abbott’s chief of staff Peta Credlin during last Saturday’s Sky News election coverage. If youContinue reading “Natalie Ward schooled over Kean ‘delusion’”
A diet of political insects
Flat White Alexandra Marshall Getty Images Alexandra Marshall 27 March 2023 11:42 AM Speccie Editor Rowan Dean has already described the New South Wales election perfectly in this morning’s leading article. His remarks must be true, because they whipped the Left up into a frenzy on social media when he uttered them during his Sunday morningContinue reading “A diet of political insects”
The Liberal Party and its lost cause for liberalism
Flat White Timothy Dragan Getty Images Timothy Dragan 28 March 2023 5:00 AM Another nail in the coffin for the Liberal Party. What a travesty that we have lost New South Wales, too, to the Labor Party. Australia, other than Tasmania, is now predominantly governed by Labor. None of this surprises me. For a longContinue reading “The Liberal Party and its lost cause for liberalism”
QED
In Defence of the Right to be a Conservative Timothy Cootes Ever since the events outside Victoria’s parliament last Saturday, I have seldom seen so many members of our political and media class quite so eager to parade their stupidity. I refer, as you may have guessed, to their apparent inability to count beyond two.Continue reading “QED”
Conservative Australians should be very angry
Flat White Rowan Dean Screenshot ABC Rowan Dean 27 March 2023 3:30 AM John Howard was a conservative. He won, again and again and again. Tony Abbott was a conservative. He won a landslide. Scott Morrison dressed himself up as a conservative and won his first election before shedding his conservative clothes and lost hisContinue reading “Conservative Australians should be very angry”
What happened? Where did conservatism in Australia go astray?
The answer is not one thing, it is multi-faceted. Taken together, these seven trends over the past 78 years have produced the current predicament for conservatism:
The Conservative Party
The natural political home of 80% of Australians VET Universities and Vocational Education and Training Australia’s system of post-school education is a mess. There is no national consensus as to what our universities are for, or what their priorities in teaching or research should be, or how their research should be funded. There is aContinue reading “The Conservative Party”
Weak-kneed Coalition, Labor too scared to block foreign takeovers of farmland
Dec 9 Posted by Editor, cairnsnews Cubbie Station is now 80% controlled by China textiles giant Shandong RuYi Scientific and Technological Group following a deal in 2019. Inset: Bob Katter, MP for Kennedy, Keswick Island, off Mackay, where a Chinese developer is blocking local residents’ and visitors’ access. BY Editor, CAIRNS NEWSWHILE Keswick Island localsContinue reading “Weak-kneed Coalition, Labor too scared to block foreign takeovers of farmland”
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