FULL marks to Tony Abbott for highlight the appalling paternalistic sanctimony of the welcome-to-country ceremonies that every kumbayah coffee klatch has now embraced.
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has named mammal palaeontologist Tim Flannery as the head of the federal government’s new bureaucracy, the Coasts and Climate Change Council.
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SOUTH Australians will make political history should they elect Isobel Redmond their first woman premier next weekend.
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JAILED drug runner Schapelle Corby might gain some satisfaction in knowing that two artists have entered her portrait in this year’s Archibald art prize.
It is unlikely, however, to be of much comfort to Corby’s supporters, who believe she was wrongfully convicted.
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Attempts by Australian Muslims to build bridges to the wider community through Saturday’s open day at the Lakemba mosque exploded as dramatically as an Islamist suicide terrorist.
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WHETHER skiing with Seven media boss Kerry Stokes or golfing with Foxtel shareholder James Packer, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy is becoming quite the all-round sportsman.
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LAST Tuesday I received an email from London’s The Independent newspaper, asking about a quote attributed to Sir John Houghton, former chief executive of the British Met Office, which ran in a column of mine four years ago.
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WHEN Kevin Rudd was campaigning for the top job in the nation he was painted as Kev the Compassionate.
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PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is becoming increasingly rattled, say his Labor colleagues, who point to his uncharacteristic attempts to be nice to MPs during the past two meetings of the parliamentary Caucus as evidence of his shaken confidence.
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BEFORE the last election, Kevin Rudd promised he would not change superannuation laws.
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THE insanity all of those who have been engaged in running the great global warming scam is summed up by the decision to recognise belches and farts from domestic camels, and not those emitted by the feral camel population, when calculating a nation’s carbon footprint.
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AS Australians mark the first anniversary of the worst peacetime disaster in our history, the Black Saturday bushfires, it is worth asking whether anything has been learned from the tragedy.
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GLOBAL warming believer Kevin Rudd has adopted the strategies of radical ayatollahs to push his agenda for a huge new tax on Australians and a global wealth redistribution scheme.
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IT SOUNDS a little crazy but the deteriorating state of the mental health of Australians is not only being ignored by the Federal Government, but the professional supervising body for psychologists is accused of having some of the lowest training standards in the Western world.
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PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd, the man who said he would never “knowingly” tell a lie, should begin the new Parliamentary session Tuesday with a few admissions of deceit.
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