September 8, 2018

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Poetry Letters & HumourSeptember 8, 2018

Greens and gangs The Greens’ Adam Bandt should face reality and not blame the Liberals for the criminal acts being perpetrated by African gangs in Melbourne. When Kevin Andrews, former Immigration Minister, dealt with the problem, he was labelled a racist and ridiculed. These gangs are responsible for much violence – the elderly bashed in their own homes, the victims of carjackings, the owners of jewellery businesses and their staff, who are scarred for life, both mentally and physically. Other victims do not appear in the statistics: the jeweller who closed his business for fear of attack; family and loved…

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EDITORIAL Turnbull the architect of his own demise

UncategorizedSeptember 8, 2018

Across the community, there is a deep sense of unhappiness over the internal conflict that saw the replacement of another Prime Minister by his own colleagues, the fourth time it has happened in Australia over the past nine years. Australia now has its sixth Prime Minister in 11 years, an extraordinary…

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CANBERRA OBSERVED Coal-Hand ScoMo pulls off an accidental coupCANBERRA OBSERVED,

PoliticsSeptember 8, 2018

How is it that the one name omitted from Scott Morrison’s new ministerial line-up was the one politician on the conservative side of politics who would be most effective in taking on Bill Shorten and denying Labor government at the coming election? The Prime Minister has offered Tony Abbott a carrot; or, is it a stick? In a bid to “move to the next generation” of politicians and bury the prolonged feud that has infected the Liberal Party for the past few years, Australia’s accidental Prime Minister Morrison opted to keep Tony Abbott on the backbench. Mr Abbott has been offered…

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ENERGY Daniel Andrews’ sun worship turns delusional

Energy & EnvironmentSeptember 8, 2018

In the world according to Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, the way to fix the problem of renewable energy pushing up electricity prices is for all Victorian taxpayers, especially the poor, to subsidise more renewables. The Victorian ALP government has announced a $1.24 billion scheme to subsidise households half the cost of new solar panel systems ($2,225 per home). After July 2019 (assuming the ALP is re-elected) home owners would be provided interest free loans over 4 years to pay back the other $2,225. This will do nothing to reduce power prices to those that cannot afford to pay back the…

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