When an ABC reporter visited Morrison’s electorate, one chap said he liked Turnbull and, tellingly, Tanya Plibersek too. That's Morrison's challenge right there: to remind voters and colleagues alike that the days of Labor Lite are over, that there is a difference and it matters

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Trump is good because he has good policies, as did Thatcher and Reagan. Big deal if the Liberals get a new leader! Dutton or Hastie, whoever it might be, will inherit a dearth of good policies, bad ones aplenty, shifty colleagues and a party withered in root, branch and wallet. We need a new one

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Studies purporting to establish why conservatives and so-called progressives think they way they do have been all the rage of late, with brain scans and the like alleged to have established that political orientation is influenced as much by biology as reason. An interesting notion, it is well worth a closer look

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International trade isn't bad, having contributed mightily and indisputably to the prosperity of most nations. But free trade is not good , often leading to what might be called ‘overspecialisation' that undermines the integrity of the nation state on which our culture and security rest

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Bill Shorten and his economy-sapping policies are in the wings. The Coalition's leftist-inclined leader is a dud surrounded by wets. The corporate world's chieftains think their job is to promote fashionable social causes rather than profits. Yes, we've got troubles with worse ahead

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It is time for Australia to bring forth a political leader who will unashamedly put Australia and Australians first. This person won’t give away our advantage in cheap power, for starters, and will recognise immigration policy as the Ponzi scheme it is, a scam from which no long-term good can come

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There are people of goodwill who believe their non-belief in God will have no effect on our culture and its future. What they fail to grasp is that the very way they think and act and, indeed, the nature of the society in which they live, are based in and owed to Christianity

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Spend your career roosting comfortably in the nest of accepted wisdom and it can be more than a little hard to get one's mind about the left-field likes of Donald Trump. That he is delivering conservative agenda items in wholesale lots goes unremarked, as Paul Kelly's readers must surely be noticing

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An increase in an already excessive minimum wage is another manifestation of economic self-harm, along with business and corporate taxation, onerous regulations, environmental zealotry and crippling power prices. Who cares about those priced out of gainful employment? Not the ACTU, apparently

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Yes, the Book of Revelation says there are only four, but the New Testament wasn't written in a Swedish sauna by the man who would go on to create and head the IPCC. Actually, we're not sure it happened quite this way, but so much of the warmist creed is so thoroughly screwy it just might

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