by Jim Ball | Apr 7, 2017 | Blog, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull |
Do not adjust your set. All you need to know about how worthless this Liberal Party in-house exercise in existential naval gazing is, is contained in the first sentence. This denial and suspension of reality, this post truth, is worthy of the Monty Python, Black... by Jim Ball | Apr 4, 2017 | 18C, Blog, Malcolm Turnbull, Triggs
For now at least the government may have lost the battle to tweak, tinker or even abolish 18C but with Gillian Triggs tenure about to expire in a few months there is another opportunity to bring the HRC and the application of 18C under control with the appointment of... by Jim Ball | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull |
How much longer can the Libs live with Turnbull? They are being hammered on every front and it’s only going to get worse. As David Crowe points out and it’s a powerful but simple cut through, populist message. Mr Squillionaire, Harbourside mansion, giving... by Jim Ball | Mar 4, 2017 | Blog, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott |
Laser accurate but blistering stuff. Lifts the wallpaper. An extract and below the full column… “..Yet parliamentary Liberals sit on their hands or, worse than that, accept and embrace the likelihood of a thumping defeat. In the days after Abbott’s... by Jim Ball | Mar 1, 2017 | Blog, Malcolm Turnbull, Random Notes, Shakespeare |
Reading Dennis Shanahan in the Oz this morning about how Turnbull’s plans for 18c “have turned to a bloody custard” got me thinking about, how on every front, the disunity inside the party and outside with the numbers in the senate, in the house of... by Jim Ball | Feb 19, 2017 | Blog, Labor Party, Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull |
In a case of a choice between bad or worse than bad, and as bad and as hopeless Turnbull and the Libs are, the alternative is diabolical and should fill you with dread. This is a sobering assessment that should hit most people in the face like a bucket of ice water...