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As the Liberals face a defining choice on net zero, the century-old partnership with the Nationals is straining under the weight of conflicting values and diverging electorates.
by Scott Prasser - 12/11/2025 - 8 comments
Australia is drifting toward one-party rule - not by suppression, but by Labor’s mastery of the political game.
by Scott Prasser - 9/10/2025 - 5 comments
Because Price failed to make a clear and immediate apology, a minor misstep became a public display of Coalition disunity.
by Scott Prasser - 12/09/2025 - 79 comments
Rather than attend, the Opposition should have run its own summit — a true government-in-waiting would set the agenda, not follow it.
by Scott Prasser - 22/08/2025 - 16 comments
Stuart Ballantyne, imagines a conversation with God in 2028
by Stuart Ballantyne - 9/07/2025 - 4 comments
There is a need for an independent review of staffing allocations—to replace opaque conventions with transparent standards.
by Scott Prasser - 1/07/2025 - 1 comment
Australia divvies up its GST to the states in a way that punishes success and rewards failure.
by Graham Young - 6/06/2025
Albanese Government hits the ground strolling - the problems of not recalling federal parliament sooner
by Scott Prasser - 5/06/2025 - 5 comments
To be blunt, what the Teals and Greens have achieved is akin to renovating the interior of an old heritage mansion, while leaving the rotting foundations untouched.
by Chek Ling - 23/05/2025 - 2 comments
'[T]his election…is a sliding doors moment for our nation,' declared Peter Dutton, and maybe he was right, and in ways he didn't quite intend.
by Graham Young - 19/05/2025
Historians picked Curtin. The public picked Howard. But who really made Australia better?
by Peter Bowden - 15/05/2025 - 19 comments
Labor has the ideal ABC for 2025-31 – a powerful and complacent woke-left propaganda-ministry. The broadcaster’s overdue shunt of overrated Laura is typical.
by Stephen Saunders - 14/05/2025

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