Tumbrels roll in and heads roll out in NSW - posted by Graham

It's old news (yesterday's) but I should note that the New South Wales Liberal Party yesterday suspended a former President for giving an interview to the media. Michael Osborne was president for three years between 1997 and 2000, but he's... More

Queensland Liberals set to punish freedom of speech - posted by Graham

Spot the odd man ought - Dean Mighel, Joe McDonald, Graham Young. Not too difficult. The first two are union leaders who have been sprung threatening and standing-over employers, the second is Chief Editor and founder of innovative online journal... More

Playing politics with Aboriginal Children - posted by Graham

Imagine that the rampant paedophilia shown to exist in Aboriginal Communities had been found in, say, a set of church run private schools, what would the outcome be? Would we be talking about how to deal gently with the church... More

Optus follow-up - posted by Graham

Well, I might have been giving Optus incidental plaudits over the PM's broadband roll-out, but their telephony service still stinks. It took them until Tuesday last week to fix the phone line. The fault was all their's. (Read the previous... More

Howard's broadband - a better mousetrap - posted by Graham

John Howard's just delivered bandwidth hogs the best reason to vote Liberal. His broadband proposal is technologically better than Labor's and is a third the cost. He's also delivered a practical demonstration of the difference between Liberal and Labor in... More

Minneapolis backs Bishop on merit pay - posted by Graham

Following my recent US theme I noted today that while the ALP and unions in Australia are opposing Julie Bishop's merit pay proposals for teachers, unions and teachers in Minnesota, and a number of other US states, are enthusiastically embracing... More

Unions GOTV exposes ALP USA link - posted by Graham

There is nothing wrong with the ACTU manual and method for identifying and persuading uncommitted voters. It's just old-fashioned door knocking. What's more, in 1996 the Liberal Party did something similar. In Queensland we telephoned thousands of voters in marginal... More

Keating Cute - posted by Graham

Paul Keating's Wednesday night appearance on Lateline is more good news for Kevin Rudd. Rudd, Swan et al were suitably dour, with you-can't-speak-ill of the deadpan faces, but must have been inwardly smirking. Here's John Howard trying to paint them... More

To Optus "soon" means 91hours, 27 minutes sort of... - posted by Graham

I eventually received a response from Optus, 91 hours and 27 minutes after I gave up on their telephone system and logged a complaint through their online system. Only problem is that they want an email address that relates to... More

Australia the best - ILO - posted by Graham

The problem for liberals is that there are not enough of us to ever constitute a majority. So if you want to influence government you need to make an alliance with the representatives of labour, or capital. 31 years ago... More

To Optus "soon" means "never". - posted by Graham

I'm writing this post while waiting for Optus to answer a service call for our business phone. I've been waiting for close to an hour so far. It's not as though I haven't spoken to a human being. I have,... More

Is Everest really suffering from climate change? - posted by Graham

Today's Courier Mail and apparently at least 58 other newspapers around the world. have bought the Greenpeace line that Mt Everest is suffering because of climate change. With an average summer temperature of -19 degrees centigrade at the summit, it... More