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No time for goodies and giveaways
After 30 consecutive losing Newspolls, knives are out for Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Peter Dutton, Scott Morrison, Julie Bishop and…
Monash
According to his biographer Geoffrey Serle, in the 1920s Sir John Monash was ‘broadly accepted, not just in Victoria, as…
Resurrection unlikely
Could there be a better time of year than this for the Australian cricket team to decide to crucify themselves,…
Window display
On too many fronts, the Turnbull government’s embarrassing timidity is constantly on display. It is a timorousness fuelled as much…
Manna from Shorten
Just when the thirtieth consecutive Newspoll loss for the Turnbull government is looming, and it looks ‘Goodnight Irene’ for Malcolm…
Marshmallow fists
The tragedy is that even if Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull were to ‘take the gloves off’ in his battle with…
Trump, Turnbull, McCormack
Conservative and mainstream Australians can only sit idly by and watch the ‘Trump revolution’ with a mixture of envy and…
Bucking Barnaby
Something doesn’t quite add up. On the one hand, the Prime Minister’s spouse, Lucy Turnbull, proudly announces via a soft…
Exorcising Malcolm
Those close to the Prime Minister talk of ‘good Malcolm’ versus ‘bad Malcolm’ – the two sides to Mr Turnbull’s…
To stay or go?
Senator Lucy Gichuhi’s decision to sit with the Liberal Party is a small but important step militating against the fragmentation…
Shorten’s integrity trick
Now that same-sex marriage is out of the way, the banking royal commission hastily agreed to, and the Australia Day…
Mr Abbott’s agenda
The once and possibly future Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, this week started 2018 strongly. Writing for the Australian and speaking…
Save Australia Day
There is only one way for Australians to show their contempt for the stifling political correctness and bullying left-wing activism…
Trial by #metoo media
The Golden Globe awards have come and gone, with Hollywood emblackening itself and making self-righteous declarations against sexual harassment and…
True friend?
Exactly a year ago on this page and on our cover we denounced the Obama administration-sponsored United Nations Security Council…
Season of goodwill
Australians deserve a long, hot, glorious summer of beaches and barbies and to indulge themselves in a joyous Christmas break…
Two-faced on Israel
Australia has stood against the more rotten and anti-Semitic resolutions of the United Nations. Now, however, it has distinguished itself…
Queensland was about you, Malcolm
The Queensland election has come and gone. While votes are still being counted, it’s clear premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and her…
Good government ‘canceled’
The decision to cancel this coming week’s sitting of parliament is typical of the entire Turnbull Political Methodology: obfuscate, prevaricate,…
Yessssssss
The devil is in the detail. And the snakes are in the grass. This week’s cover by Sarah Dudley and…
New Year’s election?
What a mess; and, for once, it didn’t start with Malcolm Turnbull. The citizenship fiasco is a consequence of the…
Julie? No thanks
There is now a real prospect that Julie Bishop will become our next Prime Minister. Alas, such an outcome would…
Age of Endarkenment
All around us, we are seeing the cultural lights of Western civilisation flickering, if not being dimmed or even switched…
Just another hoax
Two out of three ain’t bad. Or so we are supposed to believe. So let’s start by accepting that the…
Goats, volcanoes and Turnbull
‘Contrary to the breathless assertions that climate change is behind every weather event, in Australia, the floods are not bigger,…
