Some months ago, when Cory Bernardi jumped the Liberal ship and formed the Australian Conservatives, several Liberal MPs were scathing in their criticism of Bernardi. One, Michael Sukkar, said that…
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Waleed Aly opines that the cat-fight between Abbott and Turnbull is not solely about personality, as was the Gillard-Rudd barney, but is at least partly about ideas1. Insofar as Abbott…
Tony Abbott, in an audio recording of a speech he gave at assistant treasurer Michael Sukkar’s local Liberal Party branch meeting, bemoaned the “second-best, taxing and spending” budget that the…
Barack Obama was intelligent, highly educated, literate, erudite, personable, witty and seemed to have a happy family. The fact that he was also black led some to believe that, with…
I recently spoke to a right wing person who, of course, was a big Trump fan. Let’s call the person FW. After a succession of mild abuse, we got onto…