The women’s reshuffle
Do a word search of the transcript of the Prime Minister’s reshuffle press conference yesterday and you will find the…
Scott Morrison is being convicted of the crime of being a decent man
Compare the pair: Scott Morrison and Bill Clinton. Morrison, a prime minister undergoing a horror stretch of what seems a…
Here’s a disaster area. Oh. And some floods, too
If the Morrison government loses the next election, yesterday will likely be seen as the day the rot really started…
Mentors and managers MIA on the Hill
When the Brittany Higgins allegations first surfaced in February, as a Howard-era senior staffer I wrote that the type of…
Nicolle Flint eviscerates Labor over its own woman problems
On Tuesday night, outgoing Liberal MP Nicolle Flint gave Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese, former deputy leader Tanya Plibersek and Labor…
Victorian Liberal MPs: you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things
Earlier today, a motion to spill the Victorian opposition leadership of Michael O’Brien failed to get the numbers after challenger…
Mathias Cormann owes his big break to Tony Abbott
I’ve known Mathias Cormann the better part of twenty years. When I was a senior adviser to Tony Abbott as…
Justice in the internet age
After days of speculation, and mounting media and political pressure on the Prime Minister and his government to act on…
What’s the solution to aged care squalor? Us
The Royal Commission on Aged Care finally reported yesterday. The two commissioners, Tony Pagone and Lynelle Briggs, between them made…
In defence of Linda Reynolds
Defence minister Linda Reynolds is a decent person. She is honourable and compassionate, as well as someone whose talents and…
The Battle of the Bergs boosts Josh’s leadership ambitions
In the words of Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, Facebook has re-friended Australia. Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg agreed to Facebook once again enabling…
Can Parliament House become a less ugly workplace?
Federal parliament this week has been rocked by revelations by a former adviser to the now Defence minister, Linda Reynolds,…
Daniel Andrews, the Premier who massacred Valentine’s Day
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. It was supposed to be a celebration of love. It should also have been the biggest…
Vic Libs in a right muddle over Daniel Andrews’s conversion bill
It seems the Victorian Liberal-National Opposition is taking strategic advice from the same people who are advising embattled Collingwood Football…
Aussie rules
Closing the borders worked Down Under. Could it work here?
Australian style quarantine for visitors to the UK? Terry Barnes speaks to Spectator TV
Boris Johnson has adopted a form of Australia’s coronavirus quarantine for Britain. Will it work? The Spectator Australia’s Morning Double…
Doug Anthony: the original All Star goes out
The death over the weekend of former Country/National Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister, Doug Anthony, breaks the last link but…
There was nothing like this Dame
It’s barely raised a ripple in the media, but senior Fraser government minister Dame Margaret Guilfoyle died on Remembrance Day,…
If that’s how you clean up your messes, Mr Premier, we pity your poor family
Today was supposed to be the day that Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews was going to shine a light on how…
Appointing Tony Abbott to the Board of Trade is an inspired move by Boris
Whatever one thinks of the reported appointment by Boris Johnson of Tony Abbott as a Co-President of the Board of…
Barra Mundi is toxic for the Coalition
If the counting trend continues, Labor’s Kristy McBain will win the Eden-Monaro by-election by a mere handful of votes. Just…
Eden-Monaro: why so little focus on a seat so significant for both leaders?
For all its reputation as a “bellwether seat” usually going with the government of the day, Eden-Monaro has not been…
Liberals must be careful wading into Somyurek’s derin bok
As the lurid text messages of the Adem Somyurek sting federal MP, Anthony Byrne, dominate today’s news cycle, it’s clear…
St Jacinda walks among us – virtually. So what?
Social media, The Grauniad and the ABC’s fanbois and girls have worked themselves to a state of near orgasm knowing…
Annaliese Van Diemen shows covidiocy is contagious
If you saw my reflection yesterday on the “shame industry’s” degrading of the James Cook 250th anniversary from a celebration…
