by Jim Ball | Sep 22, 2019 | Blog, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Morrison Government, Random Notes |
Despite the Morrison government projecting an agreeable and congenial, hail fellow well met persona, it seems that we yet again have another of the same old, hand-wringing, vanilla and beige, milquetoast Liberal governments, transfixed like the proverbial rabbit in...
by Jim Ball | Aug 27, 2019 | Blog, East Timor, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Random Notes |
If you didn’t catch 4 Corners last night you can catch it in ABC Iview. It is a must watch if for no other reason than you can see and understand what goes on in Australia’s name by a totally corrupt political class. If youre not across it the backcgound to the full...
by Jim Ball | Mar 19, 2019 | Blog, Conservatives, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Politicians
You have to give credit where credits due. The left including Labor, GetUp, the unions and of course their media wing, the ABC and Fairfax, (9) and The Guardian play a brilliant ground game. They’ve got the strategy and tactics and the manpower on the street. They are...
by Jim Ball | Jan 18, 2019 | Blog, Elites, Labor Party, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Random Notes |
Reading Graeme Richardson’s column in the Oz, Things Grim for Most in the West in tandem with both the excellent Maurice Newman and Henry Ergas columns on the same op-ed page, it strikes me that what lifetime professional political players and lobbiests like Richo...
by Jim Ball | Jan 4, 2019 | Barnaby Joyce, Blog, Labor Party, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, National Party |
When, you read this and I suggest you do, you may well wonder, like me: what the hell is Barnaby Joyce doing on the back bench? I often rework Trotsky line on war: ‘You may not be interested in politics but politics is interested in you’ and in that respect this...
by Jim Ball | Oct 23, 2018 | Blog, Liberal Party, Liberal Party |
“..The Liberals are proving themselves unable to differentiate their product from that of the ALP and even veering close to the Greens. The rot started with John Howard and his “broad church” approach which welcomed soft socialism into the Liberal Party in an attempt...
