Brendan Nelson’s address-in-reply to the budget shows just how far away from finding the range on the government the Opposition is. While reducing fuel excise may be politically popular, it is short-sighted and will be wiped out by just a small increase in the price of oil. A more logical, and ultimately more politically productive, […]

Queensland Shadow Treasurer Bruce Flegg weighed into the merger debated this morning sending this letter out to members of the Liberal Party. This is a significant split in the parliamentary party, and an indication of just how fraught attempts to railroad Liberal Party members into the amalgamation deal could be. This amalgamation proposal could create […]

In a rare show of cross party charity Southport Labor MP Peter Lawlor urged the National Party to be careful with their due diligence on the Queensland Liberals. Lawlor’s immediate concern was the $1 million debt that the Liberal Party carries, which he thinks was amassed losing the last Gold Coast City Council election. That […]

Courtesy of our friends at MPTV we have some audio of the treasurer’s speech available.

Just as well the Queensland National Party is well-heeled. Knowledgeable insiders say that the Queensland Liberal Party has a debt of $1 million which will need to be extinguished as part of any amalgamation. So dire is the situation that it is said that the party has instructed debt collectors to visit a number of […]

Liberal Party interim president Gary Spence has been accused of dishonestly misrepresenting the views of members of the party’s state council, of fabrication and flagrant misrepresentation. One of the mysteries of reports of last Friday’s Liberal Party State Council was that only one person was said to have voted against an amalgamation. The explanation could […]

Lawrence Springborg has been spruiking a new conservative party for most of this year, but when we get to look at his bride, she’s actually not new, she’s 63 years old and calls herself the Liberal Party. She will have to change her name to Liberal National Party, but as she will be part of […]

I made a few guesses in this blog post as to how Boris Johnson beat Red Ken Livingstone. The skeptical part of the blogosphere, as in Global Warming skeptics, have thrown their vaunted caution to the winds and embraced the Johnson win as a defeat for global warming hysteria. I doubt it. The speculations on […]

Laser pointers may be endangering more things than aeroplanes landing at Australia’s airports. Brendan Nelson might be another casualty with a jittery laser pointer in his hands showing just how nervous he was when addressing the Brisbane Club yesterday. This, coupled to the fact he uncharacteristically read the speech, apart from the parts so well-rehearsed […]

Nearly every day some bright spark suggests in the letters to the editor that technology will save the world. One day the focus is on carbon capture, the next on GM foods. Desalinisation and nuclear energy are other scientific saviours. The reality is: only democracy can save the world. The coming crisis is one not […]