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What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
(This first letter is exactly what I'm pcking up. "..I've always voted Liberal, but not this time..") The drift away from the main parties to independents can be sheeted home to the parties themselves. They only have themselves to blame because they have treated the...
California Lawmakers Poised To Make It Illegal To Question Global Warming
The new Marxism, don’t question the state. It must be a pretty flakey and shallow debate when the only way you can win and convince people of the virtue of your argument is to shutdown and outlaw countervailing science and countervailing opinion.
Newspoll: One in four voters may spurn voting for major parties.
The latest Newspoll, conducted exclusively for The Australian, reveals support for other parties and independents has jumped three points to 15 per cent in the past fortnight to be at the highest level for this group during a formal election campaign in the 31-year...
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
Nick Xenophon: the 2016 Clive Palmer. Bryan Welsh, Tea Gardens, NSW Making David Morrison Australian of the Year is beginning to make Abbott’s knighting of Prince Philip look like a stroke of genius. Maggie Morrison, Mordialloc, Vic From memory, I think David Morrison...
Di Natale on Insiders
This bloke, Di Natale of The Green on Insiders. He's slippin' and slidin' like a mongrel dog on a wet and greasy lino floor. Just answer the question bloke. How big is your deficit going to be? My whaa?
And this is on his home turf. Malcolm Turnbull facing 10% swing in Wentworth as his popularity plummets
Malcolm Turnbull is facing a 10 per cent swing against him in his Sydney seat of Wentworth, according to polling that shows more than half his local electors think less of him since he became Prime Minister. The ReachTel poll conducted across the blue-ribbon Liberal...
Language Cop
An observation derived from one of the comments at the bottom of Miranda Devine's column on language, Chief Inspector, Oberfuhrer, David Morrison from the PC Diversity Council. How would he deal with someone with the name Guy "Chap"-"Man"? That one name contains...
Taking It To The Streets
Well, not quite the streets. More like taking it to the comfort of the air conditioned comfort of the mall.
Ya Gotta Laugh
Tim Flannery what a joke. What an absolute fool of a human being. These quotes have been around a while but in light of the weather over the weekend, worth another run. And the ABC still seeks him out as the sage oracle and guru on climate science despite having no...