by Jim Ball | Aug 24, 2018 | Blog, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Random Notes |
What has happened to the Liberal Party is what happens when you’re not paying attention to what’s going on. The passive and in some cases, active smoking by the Liberals of soft, left of centre ideology spells the end of the road for the centre right,...
by Jim Ball | Aug 23, 2018 | Blog, Labor Party, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Random Notes |
I imagine Labor is sitting back feeling pretty smug at the moment as they watch the conflagration and implosion of the Liberals but they too better be careful and understand that this entire debacle foundered on the rock of climate and renewables and the spiralling...
by Jim Ball | Aug 22, 2018 | Blog, Labor Party, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Turnbull |
Cory Bernardi totally nails the white-anting, the malaise and what’s gone wrong with the Liberals. What has happened and the cancer that has metastasised, reminds me of the Kim Beasley (senior) comment about the Labor Party in 1970 on the occasion of his retirement,...
by Jim Ball | May 4, 2018 | AGL, Blog, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Photios, Tony Abbott |
Last month it was two years since world leaders converged with self-congratulatory ceremony and chilled champagne to sign the multi billion dollar Paris climate change accord. Next month it will be a year since our Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel AO, admitted the brutish...
by Jim Ball | Apr 19, 2018 | Blog, Liberal Party |
Thinking about the Libs and their “me too“ shift to the left, their timorous lack of confidence and conviction to wind back the excesses of the left when in government, is redolent of the quote from the Vietnam war that “we had to destroy the village to save it”...
by Jim Ball | Mar 31, 2018 | Blog, Government, Greg Sheridan, Labor Party, Liberal Party |
The senate is the problem. It is no longer a house of review but a house of resistance. They see themselves as a shadow government. Take newbie senator Tim Storrer. He’s the junior woodchuck who knocked the tax bill on the head earlier this week and who came into the...
