Increased Challenges Faced by Abbott -Responses Needed
As indicated by its failure to have the Senate re-instate the powers of the Australian Building & Construction Commission, and by anti-coal groups’s revealed use of legislation to stop coal projects and purporting thereby to protect “the environment”, the Abbott government is facing increased difficulties in implementing existing policies, let alone maintain policies which have hitherto been widely accepted as important to on-going development and employment. As Greg Sheridan points out (see “Shutting the door to growth” below), “Australia has created a public–political culture in which the avenues to block something from happening are endless”. More strictly, it is that certain groups, not Australia itself, which have created this culture and are now actively moving to apply it.
Islamic Penetration; Global Warming; Productivity Cn Report
In my 27 July Commentary I drew attention to the “discovery” that Islamic extremists have been preaching in religious programs at NSW government schools and to the announcement by Premier Baird of an audit and a suite of measures across 2,200 schools. I suggested that such preaching might well be occurring in other states too.
Shorten -More Critiques, incl of Abbott’s Responses
Further developments in the Shorten saga appear in the written media but the ABC seems to have “overlooked” them. The main developments... Read More
More Assessments Of Shorten’s RC Performance; Opportunities for Abbott
Assessments of Shorten’s performance at the Royal Commission continue and, in response to a request from AFR, mine is published there today... Read More
Shorten Problems Worsens
Reports and comments in yesterday’s and today’s media (including the Fairfax Press) about questionable deals with businesses concluded by Shorten when at... Read More
Counter-Terrorism-Can IS be Defeated- Colder Weather Could be the Real Danger
Counter-Terrorist Policy Today’s Financial Review has published my letter (see below) endorsing the decision to appoint both a minister and a coordinator... Read More
Political Outcome of the Budget; Treatment of Muslims in Aus; Tackling Islam Activity O’Seas; Immigration Policy
Budget Strategy My letter below, published in the Financial Review five days after the budget, provides some references which briefly illustrate the... Read More
More on Iran and Bishop -and on Iran/Clinton connections
Today’s Australian has published an abridged version of my letter (see below) criticising Bishop’s apparent “soft” interpretation of the ideology of the... Read More
Obama, Australian Polling, Greens in Aus and India
Today’s Commentary is partly a catch-up after my Easter break but also highlights some developments, mostly worsening, confronting us. Is the US still... Read More
Islamisim/Terrorism Spread More
In discussing the Sydney siege on Sunday I drew attention to how the Fairfax press and the ABC “lag badly in recognising... Read More