Clive Palmer’s new party: Another nail in the coffin for Liberal and Labor?

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The advent of billionaire mining baron Clive Palmer’s “Palmer United Party” should be a good thing for Australian politics. Not because of who Clive Palmer is, or what his party’s policies are (as their policies haven’t been released yet, ...
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Banana Republic tactics in Queensland reveal political corruption

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The Liberal National Party in Queensland has moved to block Katter’s Australia Party from achieving official party status, by changing the law governing political parties. Shane Knuth , a Member of Parliament with Bob Katter’s party, has ...
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Are some federal politicians in parliament illegally?

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The Craig Thomson saga gets bigger all the time. It has now moved into the area of his New Zealand citizenship and whether he ever renounced it before taking his seat in Parliament. As most politicians would know, the High Court has ruled that it is ...
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The Labor Party’s hypocrisy on multiculturalism

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The Labor government’s ban on live cattle exports to Indonesia has brought economic issues over trade to the fore; however, one matter that has hardly been looked at is the cultural aspect of this issue. The Labor Party has had a long-held ...
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Liberal Party’s referendum hypocrisy

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The Liberal Party has recently called for a referendum on the issue of the Carbon Tax (although this has been termed a plebiscite; such a vote would not be binding on the government). As a public exercise to demonstrate widespread national opposition ...
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Silly old buggers

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The phrase infamously used by Bob Hawke during an election campaign when approached by a pensioner in Whyalla. BOB BELL: You get more a week than we get a year. BOB HAWKE: [inaudible] you silly old bugger. ABC Twenty years on, Labor's ...
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Gillard’s credibility in tatters

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Julia Gillard has only been Prime Minister for two weeks and already her credibility is shot to pieces. All three planks of her new leadership are riddled with termites. Her supposed resolution of the mining tax fiasco has seen three big mining ...
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Andrew Bolt: But if Gillard says it, it’s good

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An excellent column by Andrew Bolt on the utter hyprocrisy of the left over Gillard's offshore refugee processing: So gather round, children, and watch Mr Burnside, the human rights activist and QC, show what not to do. First, here is Principled ...
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