Category: Australian Politics
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Local Council candidates should be made to declare party membership
This October Victorians will all receive their mail-in ballots for local council elections. Facebook ads of candidates promoting their message are starting to appear in feeds. Truth is, most people are ambivalent and apathetic towards local council elections. Others are downright dismissive, so much so that they will preference candidates 1,2,3,4 and so on without…
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The left’s deranged hatred of Tony Abbott
This week, Tony Abbott joined the pack of politicians for the 2020 Pollie Pedal, a charity initiative he started in 1998 to raise funds and awareness for those who have served our nation. It gives members of parliament the chance to connect with people outside of the capital cities and raise money for a range…
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The Andrews disaster is a lesson on the dangers of woke government
Last week, during the world’s longest running lockdown that is sending businesses bankrupt and putting a record number of Victorians on the unemployment queue, the Andrews government appointed Victoria’s first ‘Public Sector Gender Equality Commissioner’ on a generous salary. Her role? To enforce regressive gender quotas in over 300 organisations in the state, demanding that…
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Dan Andrews does not deserve our sympathy
March, 2020: “I’m so happy we have Dan Andrews here in Victoria to lead us through this pandemic. Can we just have him in charge of Australia and not Scott Morrison?” August, 2020: “Leave Dan alone. It’s not his fault. He is doing his best.” How times have changed, and not in a good way.…
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It is about time the Andrews Government faced proper scrutiny
It is interesting that as we have moved back to phase 3 of restrictions, we have also moved to phase 2 of the Dan Andrews love-in saga. Phase 1: Us Victorians are so lucky to have Dan as our leader. So much better than ScoMo. He deserves full credit for our success. Phase 2: Leave Dan alone.…
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The Greens’ Economic Recovery Plan for Australia is worse than you think
I really did promise myself I would keep an open mind when I downloaded the Australian Greens’ Economic Recovery Plan for Australia. We are, after all, living in a time where all ideas should be considered on their merit. So it was with this open mind that I was fully prepared to give the party…
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Things people say to avoid giving Morrison credit for managing COVID-19
Australia, so far, has done remarkably well containing COVID-19. The numbers speak for themselves. As of Sunday morning, we have counted just a touch under 7,000 cases and 97 deaths. Comparing countries with varied populations is disingenuous, but if we take a measure of deaths per million in a country, Australia is doing remarkably well…
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The lesson from Malcolm Turnbull: try to please all and you end up pleasing none
There is a famous fable by Aesop called The Man, The Boy and the Donkey. The man and the boy take their donkey into the local market, but every time they pass somebody they are criticised. At first a man criticises them for not using the donkey to ride on, so the father puts the…
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Forget Scotty from marketing. Dan Andrews is the real marketing man.
‘Scotty from Marketing’ has become the favourite nickname for critics of the Prime Minister. Coined by the Betoota Advocate, a satirical news site, detractors of Morrison have leaped behind the term, and only a quick glance at Twitter will show you that #scottyfrommarketing is almost always trending. The name has its essence from Morrison’s marketing…
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Tim Minchin’s pathetic anti-Morrison song is a sad cry into the void
During the past week Scott Morrison legislated the $130 billion jobseeker payment, ran several national cabinet meetings, worked around the clock to ensure Australians were flattening the curve, and what did Tim Minchin do? He sat in his living room writing a pathetic song lambasting the PM for his response. If you ever wanted to…