In response to Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement of a ‘climate policy’1, many people seem to have resorted, inappropriately, to the old aphorism that ‘the definition of stupidity (or insanity)…
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Back in 1988, Walter Scott was the Liberal candidate in the NSW state election for the seat of Port Stephens (just north of Newcastle), and he lost to the Labor…
Soon, hopefully, we will have a federal election, and it will be one of the most important in recent decades. Why is this so? It is because the current government…
Recently, someone asked me why so many independents are from the right of the political spectrum. The questioner was mostly referring to people like Tony Windsor, Rob Oakeshott, Kerryn Phelps,…
In one of the best pieces of comedic timing I think I have ever seen, the mirth-inducing former Liberal minister and self-styled opinionista, Amanda Vanstone has written a piece urging…
Columnist for the Australian ‘newspaper’, Peter Van Onselen has described the Coalition’s campaign against the Medevac Bill as ‘sickening’. However, he considers it hard to feel sorry for the Labor…
Grahame Morris is a former chief of staff to former Prime Minister John Howard, and former adviser to Alexander Downer and Andrew Peacock. He is currently the Chairman and Federal…
Recidivist ‘ruperter’ Simon Benson, who was recently caught indulging in some fundament osculation with Tony Abbott1, has acted as stenographer for Scott Morrison, repeating the drivel the latter came out…
Tony Abbott has told dodgy radio station 2GB that asylum-seekers are “having a lend of us” because most of them are “economic refugees”1. While commenting on anything Tony Abbott says…
Some time ago, I wrote a piece about the federal government ‘going full Trump’ in that members of parliament seem to believe they can get away with bald-faced lies and…
