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Tweet Hate and vitriol toward our prime minister, mostly by shock jocks, has reached fever pitch — an atmosphere unleashed by Abbott’s aggressive style. Michael Taylor comments. IF I WERE to be asked which side of politics indulged...
Tweet Though it tries to maintain the rhetoric, Australia’s 2013 Defence White Paper appears to signal a strategic withdrawal from our middle-power status, argues Murray Hunter. (Image: screenshot from Network Ten YouTube video.) AUSTRALIA’S...
Tweet Declare your enemy a kook, a klutz or a slimeball, proclaim you’ve already won and ostentatiously prepare for office — this is the tried and tested method Abbott and his acolytes are following, says Bob Ellis. Karl Rove receiving the...
Tweet Never before have we had a press so controlled, says Bob Ellis, with all the anti-Abbott or anti-Coalition news being deliberately minimised. (Image courtesy Tony Yegles / Australians for Honest Politics.) CLIVE PALMER started a new party...
Tweet Tess Lawrence says she is barracking for Clive Palmer – and Julian Assange and Bob Katter – in the next Federal election. by contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence I AM BARRACKING for Clive of IndieA in the Federal election. Every...
Tweet Tony Abbott has spent most of this year hiding from scrutiny and waiting for what the media say is a certain election win later this year — but have the wheels started to fall off his campaign in the last few weeks? Matthew N. Donovan...
Tweet The Murdoch media have launched a vicious vendetta against the Gillard Government since Kevin Rudd was toppled. Managing editor David Donovan pieces together Australia’s hidden political picture. WHEN THE Gillard Government announced...
Tweet The Age exposes the Australian foreign minister as an “agent” under US influence; Murray Hunter asks — is U.S. influence in Australian politics destroying policy objectivity? Foreign Minister Bob Carr (image courtesy ABC). JUST...
Tweet Tony Abbott’s greatest successes have been making Prime Minister Julia Gillard seem illegitimate and obscuring her government’s achievements. The media and public have been too hard on her. Clint Howitt explains. LAST MONTH’S...
Tweet Rodney E. Lever considers Rupert Murdoch’s visit to Darwin, as well as the suspicious timing of his disgraced apparatchik Rebekah Brooks’ visit to Australia. EVIDENCE IS steadily mounting, day by day, about Rupert Murdoch’s future...
