Double dissolution? Yes, please

by David Flint

October 13, 2009

The Liberal leadership should stop being afraid and welcome a double dissolution, using the opportunity to expose the global warming fundamentalists.

Howard and the Nobel Peace Prize

by David Flint

September 29, 2009

But for John Howard, East Timor would not be free. So why was the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Kofi Annan and the UN? Was it because of Howard’s refusal to go along with the hijacking of the Tampa?

Beginning a new day

by David Flint

September 22, 2009

Mr Rudd’s honeymoon has survived that of even President Obama – why? It is surely not a question of superior charisma.

ETS - Energy Tax Swindle

by David Flint

August 25, 2009

The Liberals should welcome a double dissolution and turn it into a referendum on the ETS, which has absolutely nothing to do with halting global warming and everything to do with damaging the living standards of the Australian people. 

Rudd’s dangerous obsession

by David Flint

July 16, 2009

Why do the elites so fervently pray for an ETS? What happened to common sense?

The PM had the last laugh: thanks to the besotted media

by David Flint

July 6, 2009

Isn’t it time the gallery got over its love affair with Kevin Rudd?  “Working families” will eventually realise they have been fed a diet of spin, and that will not be good for the future of a free press. 

Why did the media mislead us about President Obama?

by David Flint

June 22, 2009

President Obama was using an autocue in Cairo, but the media tried to hide it. This is testimony of a wider malaise.

A double dissolution election: not much room to move

by David Flint

May 25, 2009

Kevin Rudd has only a short window for a double dissolution election early next year – and the result is not guaranteed.

President Obama: “No we can’t.”

by David Flint

May 18, 2009

The retention of military commission trials at Guantanamo Bay shows how unrealistic much of the Democrat campaign was. George W Bush and John Howard are vindicated.

Towards a banana republic

by David Flint

May 15, 2009

A model in economic management eighteen months ago, Australia seems to be on the way to becoming a banana republic.  What went wrong?

The ACCC and Richard Pratt: a case to answer

by David Flint

May 4, 2009

When the ACCC pursued Richard Pratt to the end, were they acting as a model litigant as the government requires? Was the criminal prosecution harsh and oppressive?  How was it related to their campaign to have Parliament criminalise cartel offences? Only an independent judicial inquiry can answer these and other questions.

Stop outsourcing policy to the refugee industry

by David Flint

April 20, 2009

Kevin Rudd should follow the example of the Chifley government and take full control of our refugee intake. The government should stop queue jumping - the risk to people’s lives, including our sailors’, is too great.

Our children will pay for this madness

by David Flint

April 17, 2009

The government and its advisors do not know what to do about the financial crisis, but feel they must do something, however foolish. This is a tragedy; a tragedy  for which we and our children will pay.

Treading the world stage

by David Flint

March 30, 2009

Is the Prime Minister’s wish to strut the world stage damaging to our national interest? Is Australia paying too high a price for Prime Minister’s thespian ambitions?

Memory loss and dependency

by David Flint

March 6, 2009

With increasing welfare dependency, the obliteration of memory and rule by judges, the elites are seriously damaging our way of life.

The next disaster: Denticare

by David Flint

February 24, 2009

The socialisation of dentistry will be as much a disaster as the socialisation of medical practice, hospitals and universities has been. The elites know it, but this will give them wealth, more power, and the votes of a growing client class.

The green inquisition

by David Flint

February 16, 2009

From bushfires to shark attacks and with an aversion to spending on economic infrastructure, why do our politicians follow the agenda set by our green inner city elites?

Are they gullible, corrupt or just afraid?

A bigger mess than Whitlam’s, Keating’s or Kirner’s?

by David Flint

February 9, 2009

Not since Whitlam has a government been so profligate.  The latest, a massive $42 billion package with a $200 billion line of credit, is demonstrably the worst thing a government could do. It is elementary that it will do little to counter the recession, but every cent will have to be repaid – not by the Rudd government, but by the Australian people.

Come back Peter

by David Flint

February 3, 2009

Kevin Rudd, a fiscal conservative for the election campaign, has revealed himself to be an unreconstructed Whitlamite. When he could not go to Davos, Ms. Gillard implicitly heaped praise on the one man who probably knows what to do, Peter Costello.

As Kevin Rudd fritters away the surplus, and even plans to borrow against the future to continue this folly, it is time for Peter Costello to go to the front bench.

The Emperor has no clothes

by David Flint

February 1, 2009

While the Prime Minister accuses free market capitalism of being an emperor without clothes. But that is how the former NSW Labor Treasurer seems to see the prime minister. The government does not know what to do about the economic crisis. Its answer is just to spend. Already next year’s budget deficit is predicted to be $40 billion- approaching one half of Keating’s debt which Howard and Costello took years to pay off.