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...
by Jim Ball | Oct 20, 2018 | Blog, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Random Notes, Turnbull |
Does Peter Van Onselen have to work at making seriously dumb observations or does it come naturally? For someone who was apparently awarded a PhD in political science, Van Onselen struts and exhibits and incredible lack of understanding of even the most basic and most...
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...
