Victoria: Labor’s Gay Schools Plan Offensive And Unnecessary
A PLAN by the Victorian opposition to make a program to “support” gay students who “come out” compulsory in every state secondary school in Victoria is a ridiculous manifestation of the ALP’s obsession...
View ArticleParliamentary Quagmire: Napthine’s Only Way Forward In Victoria
LIBERAL-CUM-INDEPENDENT MP Geoff Shaw — in willing cahoots with the state ALP and its puerile leader Daniel Andrews — has transformed the Victorian state Parliament into an unmanageable and...
View ArticleGood Riddance: Geoff Shaw Quits The Liberal Party
IN A WELCOME DEVELOPMENT, rogue Liberal-cum-Independent state MP Geoff Shaw has resigned his membership of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party; whilst the move is likely to make no difference...
View ArticleMemo Clive Palmer: We Don’t Want You In Victoria
THINGS ARE BAD ENOUGH with the Communists Greens and the plethora of independents and single-interest parties chasing public election funds already on the loose without rewarding Clive Palmer’s...
View ArticleBig State Budget Will See Napthine Re-elected. Unless…
FOUR YEARS OF BALANCED yet high-spending surplus budgets are set to underpin the re-election of Denis Napthine’s Coalition government in Victoria, with tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure...
View ArticleVictoria: Time To Run Geoff Shaw Out Of State Parliament
THE EVENTUAL FARCE produced by Victoria’s knife-edge election in 2010 has entered its endgame; rebel Liberal-cum-Independent MP Geoff Shaw — found by the Privileges Committee to have misused his...
View ArticleVictoria: Geoff Shaw And A Punishment Fitting The Crime
WITH MUCH DISCUSSION of late suggesting miscreant MP Geoff Shaw should be expelled from Parliament — including in this column — it came as some relief to see Premier Denis Napthine table a proposed...
View ArticleIn A Lather: It’s Time For Tim Mathieson To Just Shut Up
BACKING UP from his entry to the political fray — launching an unsolicited, unwarranted and malicious attack on Tony Abbott’s wife — former “First Bloke” Tim Mathieson has struck again, threatening a...
View ArticleDid Baillieu Tape Leak Over Abortion? Sackings Should Follow
THE NOTION this week’s sensationally leaked conversation between a journalist and a former Premier may have been motivated by abortion as an issue is, as things stand, as plausible an explanation as...
View ArticleIt Leaked Stolen Baillieu Tape: Labor Unfit To Govern Victoria
APPARENT REVELATIONS in the Fairfax and Murdoch press today confirm what most observers and pundits had already guessed: that despite its denials, the Labor Party was responsible for the theft and...
View ArticleVictoria: Baillieu Resignation No Pretext For Kennett’s Return
THE ANNOUNCEMENT by former Premier Ted Baillieu yesterday that he will not recontest his seat of Hawthorn at the imminent election in Victoria has ignited a frenzy over who will be anointed in this...
View ArticlePolls, A Pox On Everyone’s House, And The Devil You Know
WITH A SLEW of state elections now imminent — and the perennial issue of federal voting intentions percolating away on simmer — opinion poll findings over the past week fail to paint any kind of...
View ArticleVictoria’s Election Endgame: Political Lunacy, Hypocrisy, Geoff Shaw
VICTORIA’S IMMINENT STATE ELECTION has had a new and ridiculous element added to the mix, with a surprise move by Premier Denis Napthine to seek the expulsion of notorious MP Geoff Shaw from...
View ArticleAn AFL Grand Final Public Holiday? It’s Just A Dumb Ruse
THAT “ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER” — an event hard-wired into the DNA of sports mad Melbourne — is today, and as he has for the past three years puerile brat and state Labor leader Daniel “Dan” Andrews is...
View ArticleState Election Season: Put Palmer, And The Greens, Last
THREE STATE ELECTIONS, directly affecting the governance of 17.9 million Australians, are scheduled to be held within 25 weeks, with Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales due to go to the polls...
View ArticleVictorian Taxpayers Foot Bill For ALP Election Campaign
IN AN OUTRAGEOUS DISPLAY of hubris, Victoria’s ALP opposition has been billing taxpayers for polling, political consultants, election brochures and other political material ahead of next month’s state...
View ArticleElection Pledge: Victoria – The Puerile State
DUMB STUNTS and meaningless slogans have characterised the resumption of Victoria’s state election campaign, with Labor leader Daniel Andrews promising to decree that vehicle registration plates carry...
View ArticleVictoria: Smug Labor Campaign Goes Too Far, Literally
IF LABOR LOSES next weekend’s state election in Victoria, then images of its campaign bus breaking the law by running a red light — and almost causing an accident — may well prove the turning point of...
View ArticleEndorsing Denis: Napthine The Clear Choice In Victoria
WITH POLLING STATIONS set to open shortly, voters in Victoria will today elect a government to lead the state for the next four years; The Red And The Blue endorses Premier Denis Napthine and his...
View ArticleVictoria: Opportunity For Liberals In Labor Election Win
LIKE IT OR NOT, Labor’s win at yesterday’s state election in Victoria was legitimate, outright, and captured the public mood; the Coalition ran a poor campaign that missed opportunities, did not sell...
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