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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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?]
Desperate Abbott takes baby steps — but still falls well short of the mark
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
[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
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
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?
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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The proposed referendum: Australia’s Aborigines should not become a divisive political football
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said he wants a “national crusade” to change the Constitution to recognise Aboriginals as the “first Australians”. He proposes to spend millions of dollars of taxpayers money to hold a public referendum on the matter ...
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Disloyal deputy Bishop knifes Abbott, and Turnbull becomes the new PM
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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