In essence, spending under the Coalition government has been increasing at about the same rate as GDP since 2013-14 with no sign of any intent to reduce the size of government. Treasurer Morrison has given this trend a once-over-lightly tickle but has not in any way slapped down spending

For the Coalition to have any chance of reversing its dire poll numbers and winning the next election, the Prime Minister simply has to be gone by the end of the year. That leaves just enough time for his replacement to address and remedy the big issue: our national energy crisis

Autumn's return has been marked, as usual, by froth-flecked assertions that we have just survived yet another of Gaia's warnings that humanity must abandon its planet-destroying ways. Laughing at hysterics isn't polite, but a sweeping audit of their gold-plated climate racket would definitely be in order

The Coalition pledged not to reform industrial relations during its first term. Promises are made to be kept, but the revelations likely to emerge from the just-announced Royal Commission will make a hands-off policy very difficult to sustain

The more the warmist Establishment screams of crises and popping thermometers, the more its numbers refuse to match the empirical evidence.

Unsettling details are emerging of the Islamist assault on the US consulate in Benghazi and what increasingly appears to have been a cynical and cowardly coverup. They paint a worrying picture of a president more concerned with electoral success than his obligation to defend American lives and property

As the echoes of the Boston bombings continue to reverberate in the US and also in Australia, the leaders who should heed them most have been overcome by a galloping deafness

If yet another bombing by Muslim extremists cannot focus US authorities' attention on the threat of domestic terrorism, what hope that their Australian counterparts will recognise the threat within 

First, the pundits and politicians preferred to blame white, homegrown "patriots" for the Boston bombings. When the identity of the killers emerged, the silence was deafening