Even before the Liberal Party found itself in an existential crisis, whispers were circling South Australian Senator Alex Antic and his future.
Will he defect to One Nation?
Will he stick it out with the Liberals…
Then there was that infamous beer with Cory Bernardi, who has since been elected to the Legislative Council.
Statement from Senator Alex ...
In the pantheon of Trump adversaries, Robert Mueller may rank at the very top. Everything about Mueller – his rectitude, his formality, his blueblood ancestry, his lifelong marriage to his high school sweetheart – was anathema to Trump who has sought, as far as possible, to disestablish the Washington establishment. Yesterday, Trump engaged in a round ...
Last week the Australian government made an abrupt policy reversal. Energy Minister Chris Bowen, who championed Australia’s ultra-low sulphur petrol standard in late 2025, approved a temporary relaxation from 10 parts per million to around 50 ppm for 60 days. The trigger was localised fuel shortages in regional Australia, driven by Middle East ...
My friend Ian Plimer, in a recent TV interview, made the bold suggestion of creating the Coalition of Three.
While this would raise the eyebrows of some party policy hacks having to deal with ‘yet another group’, I agree totally with Plimer. One Nation, the Nationals, and the Liberal Party should get their act together, and do it now!
As Professor ...
As he looks to his own coming wrestle with One Nation in the May 9 Farrer byelection, Angus Taylor can only take from Saturday’s South Australian result a sense of deep trepidation. One Nation drove a front-end loader through the conservative vote in the state election, slicing it in
The news that a British version of Saturday Night Live was in the offing raised an enormous gestalt groan throughout the land. A US show that was last a reasonable proposition in about 1996, reimagined for the UK? Why stop with SNL – there’s also Home Improvement, Murder She Wrote or Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. The besetting sin of firing Norm Macdonald ...
Immigration has come back to bite the government big time. Shabana Mahmood’s sage campaign to set up Labour as the party of effective immigration control by making it much more difficult to get indefinite leave to remain apparently got official approval and certainly showed signs of electoral promise. But the Home Secretary’s plan seems to have been ...
As political speeches go, it struck familiar themes. An island nation was being overrun by dangerous criminals, taking advantage of its asylum system. Word was spreading that the country was a soft touch. And as ever, millions of ordinary folks were paying the price.
The violence is largely confined to the ghettoes, and many struggle to see why ...
When Sarah Mullally started her pilgrimage this week, travelling from London to Canterbury, she wasn’t just embracing a tradition in England that once stretched back thousands of years, but speaking to a wider trend: the resurgent popularity of pilgrimage. The Archbishop of Canterbury, due to be enthroned next week, joins an estimated 250,000 Britons ...
In 2012, during a heated Labor caucus meeting, then-Foreign Minister Bob Carr reportedly issued a challenge to his colleagues that has since become a chilling piece of political folklore. Arguing against Julia Gillard’s insistence on maintaining bipartisan policy and not recognising Palestinian delegates at the UN, Carr allegedly demanded to know: ‘How ...
We should send a frigate to the Gulf. The government’s advice that it hasn’t been asked to send ships to support shipping through the Straits of Hormuz is pure sophistry. Perhaps no formal request has been made but I doubt whether Trump would have been shy in coming forward with a verbal request when he spoke with Albanese recently. The lack of ...
Throwing open the Hundred to foreign investment was intended to attract more elite players, boost attendances and position it as the baby brother of the gargantuan IPL. English cricket has succeeded in bringing in a lot of overseas cash: sales of stakes in the eight franchises raised more than £450 million. But it has also imported problematic foreign ...
Even before the Liberal Party found itself in an existential crisis, whispers were circling South Australian Senator Alex Antic and his future.
Will he defect to One Nation?
Will he stick it out with the Liberals…
Then there was that infamous beer with Cory Bernardi, who has since been elected to the Legislative Council.
Statement from Senator Alex ...
In the pantheon of Trump adversaries, Robert Mueller may rank at the very top. Everything about Mueller – his rectitude, his formality, his blueblood ancestry, his lifelong marriage to his high school sweetheart – was anathema to Trump who has sought, as far as possible, to disestablish the Washington establishment. Yesterday, Trump engaged in a round ...
Last week the Australian government made an abrupt policy reversal. Energy Minister Chris Bowen, who championed Australia’s ultra-low sulphur petrol standard in late 2025, approved a temporary relaxation from 10 parts per million to around 50 ppm for 60 days. The trigger was localised fuel shortages in regional Australia, driven by Middle East ...
My friend Ian Plimer, in a recent TV interview, made the bold suggestion of creating the Coalition of Three.
While this would raise the eyebrows of some party policy hacks having to deal with ‘yet another group’, I agree totally with Plimer. One Nation, the Nationals, and the Liberal Party should get their act together, and do it now!
As Professor ...
As he looks to his own coming wrestle with One Nation in the May 9 Farrer byelection, Angus Taylor can only take from Saturday’s South Australian result a sense of deep trepidation. One Nation drove a front-end loader through the conservative vote in the state election, slicing it in
The news that a British version of Saturday Night Live was in the offing raised an enormous gestalt groan throughout the land. A US show that was last a reasonable proposition in about 1996, reimagined for the UK? Why stop with SNL – there’s also Home Improvement, Murder She Wrote or Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. The besetting sin of firing Norm Macdonald ...
Immigration has come back to bite the government big time. Shabana Mahmood’s sage campaign to set up Labour as the party of effective immigration control by making it much more difficult to get indefinite leave to remain apparently got official approval and certainly showed signs of electoral promise. But the Home Secretary’s plan seems to have been ...
As political speeches go, it struck familiar themes. An island nation was being overrun by dangerous criminals, taking advantage of its asylum system. Word was spreading that the country was a soft touch. And as ever, millions of ordinary folks were paying the price.
The violence is largely confined to the ghettoes, and many struggle to see why ...
When Sarah Mullally started her pilgrimage this week, travelling from London to Canterbury, she wasn’t just embracing a tradition in England that once stretched back thousands of years, but speaking to a wider trend: the resurgent popularity of pilgrimage. The Archbishop of Canterbury, due to be enthroned next week, joins an estimated 250,000 Britons ...
In 2012, during a heated Labor caucus meeting, then-Foreign Minister Bob Carr reportedly issued a challenge to his colleagues that has since become a chilling piece of political folklore. Arguing against Julia Gillard’s insistence on maintaining bipartisan policy and not recognising Palestinian delegates at the UN, Carr allegedly demanded to know: ‘How ...
We should send a frigate to the Gulf. The government’s advice that it hasn’t been asked to send ships to support shipping through the Straits of Hormuz is pure sophistry. Perhaps no formal request has been made but I doubt whether Trump would have been shy in coming forward with a verbal request when he spoke with Albanese recently. The lack of ...
Throwing open the Hundred to foreign investment was intended to attract more elite players, boost attendances and position it as the baby brother of the gargantuan IPL. English cricket has succeeded in bringing in a lot of overseas cash: sales of stakes in the eight franchises raised more than £450 million. But it has also imported problematic foreign ...
