Quite often, I have been so incensed about some government policy, hypocrisy, lying or criminal behaviour, that I feel I must write something, only to find that someone has done…
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Poor little Malcolm Turnbull! How nasty of Bill Shorten to criticise him for being wealthy and benefiting personally from the tax cuts for big business. These appear in an attack…
Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese gave a speech, the Gough Whitlam Oration, where he laid out a future for the Labor Party. It almost goes without saying, that the Murdoch ruperters’…
Predictably, Andrew Bolt is foaming at the mouth again. This time, it is about the demise of the single-use plastic bag from supermarkets. He hilariously started off his rant with:…
There is a quote often erroneously attributed to Benito Mussolini or Giovanni Gentile which states “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism since it is the merger of state and…
When you google ‘Georgina Downer’, the Liberal candidate for the seat of Mayo, one of the first sites that comes up is ‘Georgina Downer, Author at IPA – The Voice…
Chris Berg appeared on Andrew Bolt’s low rating television show and stated that: ‘One of the reasons [the left] set up the ABC was to be a counter party to…
It remains, as ever, an axiom of conventional wisdom that the use of propaganda as a means of social and ideological control is distinctive of totalitarian regimes. Yet the most minimal exercise of common sense would suggest a different view: that propaganda is likely to play at least as important a part in democratic societies (where the existing distribution of power and privilege is vulnerable to quite limited changes in popular opinion) as in authoritarian societies (where it is not). It is arguable that the success of business propaganda in persuading us, for so long, that we are free from propaganda is one of the most significant propaganda achievements of the twentieth century.
At a national level, the coordinating body of the Liberal Party is the Federal Council. It comprises 14 delegates from each state and the Australian Capital Territory. These include the…