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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Turnbull, gone in 18 months
With our pollies going back to Canberra this week for the first time since the election, Labor Senator Sam Dastyari is shit-stirring, which I guess it’s one thing he’s good …
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The zombie candidacy of Kevin Rudd
Just like the man himself, Kevin Rudd’s candidacy for the United Nations’ Secretary General position refuses to die and stay buried, as it deserves to, with a stake through the …
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In which I agree with John Howard – the case against a conservative third party
Me and J-Ho? Not really shocking. John Howard at a press conference today: Mr Howard acknowledged that the Liberal Party was in danger of splintering when he reached out to …
Read More Chrenk’s election post-mortem-palooza
It’s possible that with Malcolm Turnbull as the Prime Minister, the Liberal/National Coalition avoided a landslide defeat at the hands of Bill Shorten’s Labor. It’s possible that had Tony Abbott …
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