11 August 2022
State Liberals’ Integrity Blues Are Of Their Own Making
The travails of Dominic Perrottet and Matthew Guy show that if the public’s imagination is not captured by politicians’ policies, something else will get voters’ attention. What former US secretary of state Dean Acheson said about Britain in 1962, if adapted slightly, could apply to the Liberal Party in NSW and Victoria – and, for that matter, in every other
3 August 2022
Victorians Deserve A Government Which Guarantees Fairness And Justice For All
In Victoria we have a two-track legal system where those favoured by the Andrews government get a soft touch, and the rest get the book thrown at them. In Daniel Andrew’s Victoria, there is one rule for the favoured, and another rule for everyone else. The Premier has persistently sought to obfuscate and avoid scrutiny when it comes to questions
27 July 2022
Labor’s Net Zero Bill To Further Push Up Power Prices And Erode Energy Sovereignty
“As feared, the introduction of Labor’s net zero legislation today confirms it will fuel further increases in electricity costs by destroying affordable and reliable base-load power generation,” said Daniel Wild, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs. The Climate Change Bill 2022 introduced into Parliament today mandates that Australia’s emissions must be cut to at least 43% by
20 July 2022
The End Of An Era – Vale Patrick Michaels
There was a time when it was possible to point out an error by way of a rebuttal published as a note in a scientific journal – even in the journal Nature, even when it went against the catastrophic anthropogenic global warming agenda. The late Patrick Michaels had a note published back in 1996 (vol. 384, pg. 522) explaining that there
18 July 2022
Coalition Sells Out Victorian Families And Small Businesses For Inner-city Elites
“The Victorian Coalition’s pledge to adopt Labor-Green policy to legislate a 50% reduction in the state’s emissions by 2030 shows how out of touch they are with the concerns of families and small businesses facing crippling power bills,” said Daniel Wild, Deputy Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs. Matthew Guy’s commitment is also at odds with the Victorian
7 December 2021
Long Game Can Turn Underdog To Premier
As a lifelong Saints fan I was struck by former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas’ recent reflection on the club now holding the unfortunate record of longest premiership drought after Melbourne’s grand final win. He said “there are two types of teams in the competition – one that’s in the premiership business and the others that are sort of playing AFL.”
27 November 2018
Victorian Election: Liberals In A Wilderness Between Longman And Wentworth
The disastrous showing of the Liberal Party at the Victorian state election has spawned the same number of theories as the total of seats the Liberals are likely to lose. The left wing of the Liberal Party, the Labor Party, and the ABC are already saying Matthew Guy’s Liberals lost because their policies were too “right wing” for a supposedly progressive
