Suicide by targets
About this time of the year eight years ago, as a much younger, sprightlier and less grey (by at least a few shades) Chrenk, I was starting to watch from …
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Malcolm in the Middle
Federal Budgets generally give the government of the day a poll bounce, even if only a momentary one. Some fall flat and register barely a twitch. The Turnbull/Morrison Budget for …
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Surplus, somewhere over the rainbow
As St Augustine has once prayed, “God, give me chastity, but not yet.” And so it is with budget surplus, the Godot of Australian federal politics, last apparently seen over …
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Nothing budget about the Budget
Language constantly evolves to match the evolving society. Words get old and become obsolete, new words come in to enrich our vocabulary. We are witnessing at the moment another interesting …
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Peta PM? Oh please
“The most intriguing news of the weekend was the report that Peta Credlin is being touted as a possible future Liberal Party MP. Why stop there? Why not Peta for …
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Ciobo for PM!
Via Andrew Bolt, some interesting movement in the odds for the next federal leader of the Liberal Party and the next Prime Minister: I’ve been on record for a long …
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Here come Coryservatives?
Reports this morning all over the news and social media that over the next twenty four hours – before the first Coalition joint party room meeting of the year on …
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Vale Russell Trood
My late mother was Russell Trood’s number one fan, before he even by a flukiest of flukes got into the Senate. Sometime more than 15 years ago, another Liberal Party …
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Arthur & The Delcons
For all the fans of the 1950s’ rock’n’roll… …Or maybe I just have been having far too much time reading what strangers think about me. One of my Facebook friends …
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The Road to Perdition
At the beginning of last month, until I was rudely interrupted by my Jordanian hacker friend, I started writing a blog post with my thoughts about Niki Savva’s notorious “Downfall”-style …
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Vacuum, meet Pauline; Pauline, this is vacuum.
Politics, like nature only more so, abhors a vacuum. Liberal Party created vacuum, One Nation is now filling it. With a caveat that one should not get overexcited by one …
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Tony Hearts Government
A mixture of horror, dismay and disappointment amongst my right-wing Facebook friends greeted Tony Abbott’s “UK Diary†column in this week’s “Spectatorâ€, in which The Once And The Future Prime …
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The terrible truth about staffers
Poor Jack Walker, by now probably an ex-adviser to Christopher Pyne. Not only has he and his eight Sydney mates spent the past four days in the shadow of a …
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In defence of Wyatt “Earp” Roy
Yeah, I know; who would have thought I would ever write a blog post with this title. We truly live in strange times, and 2016 never ceases to surprise. As …
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Bring back Cossie
Should Peter Costello come back to politics and save the Liberal Party? So says the radio host Neil Mitchell, while rallying about the “current lot†of “amateursâ€: Peter Costello has …
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How we stopped worrying about the financial apocalypse and started to enjoy life (beyond our means)
Malcolm Farr asks the question this afternoon, “How does the Coalition sell its budget cuts when our economy continues to grow?†The short answer is: not very well. As Farr …
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