by DAVID HARDAKER | Jul 22, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
The federal Liberal Party is so diminished that it could hold its meetings in a small bus, with Sussan Ley at the steering wheel as Angus Taylor and the boys snigger up the back. Where are you taking us, Sussan? Next stop, a town called Oblivion. As the day dawned in...
by Nicole Chvastek | Jul 16, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
It appears we must brace ourselves for the Sussan Ley image makeover. No longer the dutiful deputy padding around behind Peter Dutton, Ley is now foreman material as opposition leader. We saw new Sussan during a TV interview with 10 News+. Here she was, the plucky...
by DAVID HARDAKER | Jul 4, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
Does lying still work in politics? It’s a question worth asking this week because Angus Taylor keeps doing it (or versions of it), despite his party being crushed at the polls so recently. As well, an integrity commission, the National Anti-Corruption...
by MURRAY HOGARTH | Jun 24, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
Seizing the moment is a pretty good tactic in warfare and politics. Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, the opposition’s most talked-about leadership contender-in-waiting, is proficient in both. The former SAS commando is on a media mission. His moment has been provided by...
by Nicole Chvastek | Jun 11, 2025 | Opinion, Politics
All eyes have been on the federal Liberal train wreck, but there’s trouble afoot in the state branches too — and nowhere more so than in Victoria, its traditional homeland. We kind of expect the NSW Rum Corps to be blackmailing each other and receiving brown paper...
