Are some federal politicians in parliament illegally?

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

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 commitment ...
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Liberal Party’s referendum hypocrisy

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

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

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

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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Julia may be an atheist….

But the devil is in the detail as far as her "new" policy on illegals: She said that even if all boat people were found to be refugees, they would still make up just 1.6 per cent of all migrants to Australia in a year. Daily Telegraph Gillard's ...
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Gillard can’t be trusted on border protection

Julia Gillard cannot be trusted on border protection, despite flagging a new “tougher” approach. By her own admission, Gillard was the architect of Labor’s failed policy which has seen more than 4,000 queue-jumpers arrive illegally since ...
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