Rudd & Co persuaded themselves that lies, spin, smears and broken promises represented a coherent philosophy of government. The voting public proved much smarter than that

Rudd & Co managed to convince themselves that theirs was the party of probity, honesty and sound economic stewardship, only to have those conceits rudely rejected at the ballot box. Yet Labor clings to those delusions even now, as do its apologists in the media

With such failures of prediction, people might prefer to use a clairvoyant rather than a climate change professor. Respect is now hopelessly lost.

To criticize the Chief Justice of the High Court looks like blaming the referee for a lost football game, it makes you look a bad loser and changes absolutely nothing in the result.

Life under communism was unbearable for me. I found a new home in Australia where I cherish my freedom. Lately, I am concerned, even alarmed, by similarities between some aspects of life under communism and here.