Budget notes
Stealing Shorten’s shorts In 1845 Benjamin Disraeli said of Britain’s Tory Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, that he had ‘caught…
Dis-con notes
Decision time Recent events make it necessary for us Dis-Cons to ask where things now stand. Despite ever-mounting evidence against…
Dis-con notes
The next abbott ministry (part ii) On November 19 (‘Dis-Con Notes: The Next Abbott Ministry’) I canvassed prerequisites for the…
Dis-con notes
The next abbott ministry (part ii) On November 19 (‘Dis-Con Notes: The Next Abbott Ministry’) I canvassed prerequisites for the…
Dis-con notes
The next Abbott ministry Writing here on October 1 last, I said: ‘The Liberal Party now desperately needs a leader…
The recasting of conservatism
Last month Paul Kelly wrote an interesting article about Britain’s future under its post-Brexit Prime Minister Theresa May, based on what he rightly called May’s “historic speech” to the then…
Dis-con notes
The next Abbott ministry Writing here on October 1 last, I said: ‘The Liberal Party now desperately needs a leader…
Dis-con notes
How long, O Lord, how long? In ‘Del-Con Notes: Election Post-Mortem’ (06/08/16) I surveyed the Liberal Party catastrophe wrought by…
Dis-con notes
How long, O Lord, how long? In ‘Del-Con Notes: Election Post-Mortem’ (06/08/16) I surveyed the Liberal Party catastrophe wrought by…
DEL-CON NOTES
With the House of Representatives composition now known, though with the Senate still to be finally decided, this note is…
Del-Con Notes – D-Day
With the election only days away, it may be useful to re-state the modus operandi Del-Cons should bring to the…
Del-con notes
After Turnbull, who? With three weeks to the election, and the government still labouring despite what should have been a…
Del-con notes
After Turnbull, who? With three weeks to the election, and the government still labouring despite what should have been a…
Budget notes
Rabbits, hats and a poke in the eye It is bad enough that the 2016-17 Budget contained so little of…
Del-con notes
With the Labor-lite Budget behind us and 49 days to the election, conservative Liberal voters – who Liberal Party pollster…
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