Dis-con notes
14 and counting As the Parliament resumed last Monday for its final sitting prior to the winter recess, Newspoll again…
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…
