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Let’s be honest and admit that any discussion of mandates, either by a government or an opposition, is always going to be an argument of c...

I have had many unflattering things to say about Mr Abbott. However, according to our rules of government and the Westminster system,...

Thursday was a real dog-ate-my-homework day for the Coalition. First there were the long-awaited policy costings which, by their own calcu...

Following the news that Tony Abbott wants to rewrite the history curriculum , I wonder what a Liberal-approved Australian history curriculum...

Another morning, another press conference from Tony Abbott talking about how “adult” he is. Do you know how to spot an adult? They’re th...

I invite you, if you can stomach it, to listen to, or read , the speech of the deputy opposition leader and shadow minister for foreign affa...

Tony Abbott has gone completely MAD!!! Now he's offering cash for boats!* Fishing boats, passenger boats, a leaky old tinnie - Tony...

Matthew da Silva wrote a great observation on Tony Abbott’s ‘shut up’ moment last night, that it was basically Abbott reverting to type.  I...

(*assuming there is still any difference) There’s an old saying, attributed to several different sources but that’s not really the point, ...

After three years of saying ‘Let the people decide,’ (ignoring the fact that the people did decide in 2010 only it was a decision that he di...

The world barely blinked when we changed prime ministers late last June.  But now that there's an election campaign on, the world outsid...

To truncate a quote from Donald Rumsfeld, there are known knowns, there are known unknowns and there are unknown unknowns. Although he said ...

        The Murdoch press made it abundantly clear who they are supporting and who they think you should support with the Tele’s first fro...

BREAKING NEWS... BREAKING NEWS... B ritish MP Tom Watson , who became a hero to many for his pursuit of News International over the phone...

Whether or not the Liberal party has any actual plans at this moment to increase or broaden the base of the GST, we can learn from history. ...

This week provided a study in contrasts of how to manage an embarrassing story from the Liberal Party and the Australian Defence Force. Wh...

The latest line from the Liberal party and their leader is that, should they win the election, Tony Abbott expects to “grow into the job,” ...

Clive Palmer, the Queensland mining entrepreneur and until recently, major Liberal party donor announced yesterday that he is forming his...

[some time between May and September, 2013] Last night, Tony Abbott appeared on the ABC’s 7:30 programme for his second interview with ...

In a week when Fitch reaffirmed Australia’s AAA credit rating , making Australia one of only 9 countries in the world with a AAA rating fro...