Freelance journalist and broadcaster, columnist for The West Australian.
PAUL MURRAY: How many tinpot nations is Anthony Albanese prepared to bribe to realise his ambition of a piddling temporary place on the United Nations Security Council?
Paul Murray
The constant public criticism of the Cook Government’s spending priorities must be starting to bite.
It is a political truism that people who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS DISTRESSING DETAILS.
No wonder most Australians have lost faith in parliamentarians who appear more interested in playing politics for electoral advantage than fixing our problems.
Why would the Cook Government give hundreds of thousands of dollars to a mining company to explore for uranium when Labor has an effective ban on uranium mining in WA?
The big secret in Secret Harbour - the one some people apparently don’t want to know - is that today’s by-election for a seat in the WA Parliament isn’t really about State issues at all.
When Anthony Albanese arrives in Perth in the coming week, he will need to have packed something better than empty promises to protect this State’s ‘fair share’ of GST revenues.
Anthony Albanese and the ABC are peas in a pod. Both have transgressed acceptable community standards and tried to stare down demands to be properly accountable.
In hitting the panic button over One Nation’s soaring popularity, Cook went down a well-worn path of telling fibs about the southern rail link.
In case anyone missed it, that was the Cook Government waving a big white flag of defeat over Labor’s flawed energy policies on the front page of the Sunday Times last weekend.
If Pauline Hanson’s supporters think One Nation is a genuine party of government, then she has to be measured by the same metrics as any other political leader.
Labor’s once-every-three-years national conference is expected to dodge meaningful debate on two of the government’s most significant shortcomings.
