The whirlwind dumping of Tony Abbott as Liberal Prime Minister, in a very sudden and craftily orchestrated coup, has certainly now set the cat amongst the pigeons in conservative Australian politics.
On the surface, the decision by the Liberals to ...
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Disloyal deputy Bishop knifes Abbott, and Turnbull becomes the new PM
18 September 2015 3 Comments
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank: More than meets the eye [Why is the Abbott government giving away $3 Billion to China, when our people need it?]
23 April 2015 2 Comments
By APP National Chairman, Andrew Phillips
One can be forgiven for having a somewhat jaundiced view regarding any claims made by the Liberal Party in Australia. Particularly those involving concern for the national interest, defence of the ...
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Desperate Abbott takes baby steps — but still falls well short of the mark
24 March 2015 5 Comments
One may have noticed in recent weeks, a few populist policy announcements from the Abbott government, that appears (on the surface at least) to finally be acting on a few issues that have long required addressing.
With his Liberal-National ...
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Governor-General Cosgrove lets down Australia on Australia Day with Saudi Arabia visit
29 January 2015 3 Comments
[From our foreign affairs section]
It is extremely disappointing that Australia’s current Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove missed being in Australia for the 2015 Australia Day celebrations because of a trip to Saudi Arabia where he was to ...
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Abbott fawns over World War Two Japanese
12 November 2014 6 Comments
Contributed article.
It was with some shock that I read that Prime Minister Tony Abbott had said of the Japanese in World War Two that “We admired the skill and the sense of honour that they brought to their task although we disagreed with what ...
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Abbott government panders to ethnic minority pressure on 18C, backflips on restoring free speech
17 August 2014 2 Comments
In what he describes as a “leadership call”, Prime Minister Tony Abbott has broken yet another election promise, and abandoned proposed changes to section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which may have gone some way to restoring freedom of ...
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Can Tony Abbott be trusted?
11 August 2014 2 Comments
Many Australians were, quite rightly, unhappy with Julia Gillard when she promised, before she won the 2010 election, that her Labor government would definitely not introduce a Carbon Tax, but then turned around and broke her promise once she got ...
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Politically-motivated violence
A woman who (allegedly) attacked Natasha Fyles (Chief Minister of the Northern Territory), by smashing a cream-covered crepe into her face, has been charged with aggravated assault. Fyles was out at her local market, and wasn’t even engaged in a ...
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