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There’s growing anger over the Coalition’s support for the local govt referendum

AC | June 19 2013

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott doesn’t realise just how angry his base is about the referendum on local government and the Coalition’s continued support for it, the IPA’s Tim Wilson said today.
Federal government trying to “buy” the Constitution, Julian Leeser says

AC | June 18 2013

The local government lobby and the federal government are attempting to “buy the Constitution” through a massive funding imbalance between the two sides of the debate, “no” campaign spokesman Julian Leeser says.
Coalition launches policy to deport “non-citizens” for serious criminal offences

AC | June 16 2013

The Coalition today released its policy “to protect our streets and communities from foreign criminals” who have been manipulating our sense of a fair-go.
Family First will abolish the “insidious deadweight” of job-destroying payroll tax

AC | June 11 2013

If elected in September, Family First has committed to the abolition of payroll tax to boost small business employment.
Tony Abbott pays tribute to respected journalist Christopher Pearson

AC | June 9 2013

Conservative columnist Christopher Pearson has died in Adelaide, The Australian reports. The Federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott paid tribute to the respected journalist in a statement this evening.
With only 100 days to go, Libs say election is “most important in a generation”

AC | June 6 2013

The Coalition is ready to provide the Australian people with a clear and positive alternative to Julia Gillard and Labor, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said in a Liberal eNewsletter today.
Local govt referendum is really about an expansion of Fed. power, Minchin says

AC | June 5 2013

If passed, the referendum on the recognition of local government would see a “very dangerous expansion of the power of the Commonwealth to effectively undermine the federation itself,” Nick Minchin, says.
“Career mothers” get a raw deal under Libs and Labor, Family First says

AC | June 4 2013

Stay at home mothers will be thousands of dollars worse off than mothers in the paid workforce under both Labor’s and the Liberals’ new paid parental leave schemes, Family First says.
“Vote ‘No’ to local govt. referendum” group formed to oppose fed. “power grab”

AC | June 3 2013

A “Vote No to Canberra’s Power Grab” group that includes Peter Reith, Nick Minchin and Dr Gary Johns has been formed to defeat the 14 Sept. referendum on local government.

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Local govt. referendum funding “an absolute disgrace,” Dennis Jensen says

WA Liberal MP Dr Dennis Jensen comments on the funding arrangements for the 14 September referendum on the recognition of local government.

Tom Switzer interviewed on privatising the ABC

Tom Switzer, editor of The Spectator Australia, discussed his recent essay on privatising the ABC with 2GB’s Michael McLaren on the weekend.

The gas of global warming, or the bread and butter of life?

We are told, incessantly, that carbon dioxide is the main cause of global warming – it is not, argues Viv Forbes.

Stay-at-home mothers are the new “forgotten people,” George Christiansen says

Government policy now officially values the work of mothers in delivering their own personal child care as less than that of those who are in the paid workforce, and that is not only sexist but a great shame to this nation.

Growing support for 18 June anti-wind power rally at Parliament House, Canberra

There appears to be growing support for the anti-wind power rally planned for Canberra on 18 June.

National civics and citizenship curriculum airbrushes Christianity from the nation’s civic life, Donnelly says

While the spotlight has been on the Gonski Report and school funding, the Gillard Government continues in its attempt to impose a culturally left, politically correct curriculum on all Australian schools, Dr Kevin Donnelly says.

Tasmania still has much work to do to restore consumer and retail confidence

The 2013-14 Tasmanian Budget released yesterday offers little reward for consumers and retailers, the Australian Retailers Association says.

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- Why the ABC should be privatised
  
  Last December Tony Abbott told the Australian Financial Review: “There is still this left-of-centre ethos in the ABC and I hope that Mark Scott continues to address it.” Alas, the ABC’s institutional leftism is incurable.
- Lateline Thatcher coverage catered to left wing (dinner) tastes, Spectator Aust says
  
  There was a stark contrast in how ABC’s Lateline covered Margaret Thatcher’s death and the way it treated that of a prominent left wing hero, The Spectator Australia said this week.
- Don’t mention the war: Spectator’s Tom Switzer staggered by reaction to Iraq column
  
  There are important lessons to learn from the 2003 Iraq war experience, Tom Switzer says. But some Australian conservatives would prefer to ignore them.
- IPA calls on federal Parliament to reject Gillard Government’s proposed media regulation
  
  Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s proposals for media regulation are government licensing in all but name, the Institute of Public Affairs says.
- Oops! Contesting a seat for the ABC? Kerry O’Brien does it again …
  
  “I just wish those letters weren’t so … similar,” Kerryn O’Brien lamented last night after declaring that an ALP candidate was contesting a seat for the ABC.
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Popular Recent Stories
- Abbott reiterates Coalition’s plan to stop the boats
  
  Labor’s decision to dismantle the Howard Government’s policies has put the country’s security at risk, Opposition Tony Abbott said in a Liberal e-newsletter today.
- Labor’s local government referendum “unnecessary and dangerous,” IPA says
  
  Giving Canberra more power over local government will weaken Australian democracy, the Institute of Public affairs says in a fact sheet on the Gillard Government’s proposed Local Government Referendum amendment.
- The country has woken up to Labor’s spin and deception, Bernardi says
  
  Rather than confront the systemic failure that is built into its political DNA, Labor tries to cover it up with spin and the distortion of truth, Cory Bernardi writes.
- Victoria will oppose Gillard Govt’s proposed Local Government referendum
  
  Fears that Victorian councils could be worse off under Constitutional recognition of local government have been confirmed with the Gillard Government releasing the proposed wording, Victorian Minister for Local Government Jeanette Powell says.
- The carbon tax will go, tax cuts and pension benefits will stay, Abbott says
  
  The Coalition will abolish the carbon tax, provide immediate electricity and gas price relief, and will keep in place the income tax cuts and fortnightly pension and benefit increases, Tony Abbott said in his Budget reply address.
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