David Flint
Mme $5 Billion
June 29, 2010
Kevin Rudd unleashed the federalism genie in the mining states, and Julia Gillard's only hope of neutralising this is by abandoning the super profits tax. And Madame $5 Billion will only regain her credibility by agreeing to a Royal Commission into the biggest financial scandal in the nation's history, the BER rort.
Read more...The politburo and pravda
June 8, 2010
If returned, on their record the Russ-Gillard politburo will bring in two great big new taxes, the ETS and the super profits tax, borrow without control and waste the proceeds. They will damage our country in a way no government, even the Whitlam government, has ever achieved before.
Read more...It's easy to condemn Israel
June 2, 2010
Critics of Israel ought to ask themselves this. What would they expect their government to do if thousands of rockets rained down on their cities, with hundreds of suicide bombers unleashing their evil on buses and trains and in crowded streets?
Read more...Nation falls as Rudd fails
May 17, 2010
The government managed to hide from most Australians the fact that if the budget does go into surplus in 2012, there will still be a massive debt of around $100 billion. That is why it is eying the mining industry to pay at least the interest.
Read more...Henry Review: another BIG tax
May 3, 2010
This government has wasted billions of dollars and put us into debt. Their massive incompetence means taxpayers have to pay billions of dollars in interest each year and somehow repay the capital. And what is there to show for this?
Read more...Henry Tax Review
April 27, 2010
The long awaited release of the Henry Tax Review will reveal Canberra'splans to plunder the wealth of Western Australia and Queensland. Instead Canberra should give the States back their money. A Convention to restore the Federation as the people intended may be the best way to achieve this.
Read more...Rudd the Keynesian
March 29, 2010
Perhaps the profligacy and lack of control in government programmes was deliberate. Perhaps Rudd and Gillard were only following Keynesian economic policy. After all, they kept us out of recession....didn’t they?
Prescription for chaos
March 11, 2010
The Rudd hospital plan was clearly not shown to constitutional experts before it was announced, which suggests that, like so many others, it is just another poorly conceived back-of-the-envelope proposal.
Read more...Profligacy, incompetence, and panic
February 23, 2010
The danger for the government is that its distinguishing features seem to be captured by the acronym PIP - Profligacy, Incompetence, and Panic. If the Howard battlers agree, a second term is no longer assured.
The people like Barnaby
February 14, 2010
Those in the media who say get rid of Barnarby are out of touch. Barnaby and Tony are just the sort of people the public want.
Read more...The US will be damned - again
January 5, 2010
The Blackwater case will be seen around the world as an imperialist US protecting the killers of innocent Iraqis. In fact it is the result of a criminal justice system more concerned with the perpetrators of crime than its victims.
Hiding the Crown
December 21, 2009
The Victorian Attorney-General’s word changes do not address the real problems of declining law and order and an effectively inaccessible civil law system.
Read more...Prove it, Prime Minister
December 14, 2009
It is bad enough when politicians refer to "the" science, but the Prime Minister of Australia demeaned his high office when he not only called those who question his infallibility “dangerous”, he went on to libel them with a totally unjustified smear.
Read more...Abbott and media duplicity
December 7, 2009
The commentariat wrote off Tony Abbott but now they have egg on their faces over the weekend by-elections. In just a few days he has changed the debate. And the electors like what they see.
Read more...Abbott wins - media loses
December 1, 2009
The choice of Tony Abbott as leader is a victory for common sense. He showed that in his first decision, which was to hold a secret ballot. The party then sensibly decided not to accept the government ultimatum to pass the ETS for the sole purpose of allowing Kevin Rudd to boast about it at Copenhagen.
Read more...ETS support is turning
November 28, 2009
Opinion is never set in aspic, as Fightback, Cheryl Kernot’s defection and the initial reaction to referendum proposals demonstrate. Scientific fraud, predictions not coming true and a strong and principled Liberal leader- not Joe Hockey - will see to this.
Read more...Rudd-Turnbull Coalition collapses
November 27, 2009
With the collapse of the Rudd-Turnbull coalition, the Liberal Party must choose a new leader from Liberals of principle, not another deputy to Kevin Rudd.
Read more...Time to stand up
November 23, 2009
Voters are crying out for a leader to expose the useless and damaging Rudd-Wong ETS and to provide strong border protection. Tony Abbott’s time is coming.
Read more...Whitlam Redux
November 13, 2009
Terry McCrann points out the Rudd government is on the way to, or has already become, worse than Whitlam’s. For more than 30 years he says, the Whitlam government has been “the -- unsurpassable -- benchmark for bad government in Australia.”
Read more...Goodbye doctors' wives
November 3, 2009
Unless Mr. Turnbull turns his back on the doctors’ wives of Wentworth, he will remain Mr. Rudd’s principal defence.
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