Tasmanian State Election – Still a Hung Parliament

It’s been 14 days since the election and we have a result, but we still have a hung parliament. The outgoing government...

Whose Minority Government – Liberal or Labor?

While it will be after Easter before the final results are known, the Opposition Labor Leader Rebecca White has conceded defeat and...

Is Trump Worse than Benedict Arnold?

At least Benedict Arnold fought the British during the revolutionary war and later became a turncoat in 1780 and has gone in...

United we stand …

Many Australians are asking themselves – is the nation’s political system broken, are we becoming a banana republic with six prime ministers...

Murder, plain and simple

Only Donald Trump would buy the Saudi government’s claim that the journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in a fight in the Saudi...

Independents’ Day … ?

The canary at the bottom of the mine has sung for the last time for the Liberal Party in the seat of...

Address to Tasmania Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association … I acknowledge the President of the Tasmania Branch, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, the Hon...

The bitter harvest for Federal Tasmanian Liberals continues, 2 years on: The Turnbull legacy

First published August 27 In 1986 when then Treasurer Paul Keating referred to Australia becoming a banana republic he was referring to...

The Fake President …

*Cartoons: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner There’s no doubt that the US President Donald Trump is, as he recently...

Dumb deals from a dumb government …

*Cartoon: Martyn Turner, used with permission: https://www.facebook.com/martynturnercartoons/ . http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner US President Donald Trump is right to describe the refugee resettlement deal to...