Brent Fleeton.WA Liberal Brent Fleeton argues that the Liberal Party should embrace plebiscites to preselect parliamentary candidates. He writes:
By combining the use of a plebiscite method together with systematic critical questioning of candidates, our reformed preselection process would lead to more true Liberals in parliament and our Party’s values and beliefs being translated into policy.
Read Brent’s opinion piece at Menzies House.
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.
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.
There are important lessons to learn from the 2003 Iraq war experience, Tom Switzer says. But some Australian conservatives would prefer to ignore them.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s proposals for media regulation are government licensing in all but name, the Institute of Public Affairs says.
“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.
The Liberal Party has launched a new TV and social media video campaign to highlight what it describes as “the ongoing chaos, division and dysfunction of Julia Gillard’s Labor government.”
The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed reported comments by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott that he did not expect the issue of same-sex marriage to come up in the life of the next Parliament should the Coalition win the election.
The Menzies Research Centre launches State of the Nation today, a book that brings together 15 distinguished and independent experts to critique policy and performance in diverse policy areas under the Rudd and Gillard governments since 2007.
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