Chris Uhlmann is proving to be one of the sharpest and most formidable interviewers in Australia, The Spectator Australia says in an editorial this week.
Andrew McIntyre picked up on an exchange between ABC1’s Q&A presenter Tony Jones and panellist Judith Sloan about growing, shrinking and sharing the economic pie.
In the wake of former Greens’ leader Bob Brown’s advocacy of a democratically elected bicameral world parliament, Quadrant editor Keith Windschuttle considers what such governance could mean.
The crucial question is whether the federal Labor government’s infatuation with propaganda is an aberration or an enduring feature of Labor’s degeneration into the political wing of a culturally powerful but narrowly based, sectional interest? John Muscat writes at Quadrant Online.
The “green brand” has been dying slowly since 2007-08 and the number of supporters are nearly now matched by the number of sceptics, marketing strategist David Chalke says.
New Greens’ leader Christine Milne is looking to cultivate more support for her party in rural Australia. Nationals’ leader Warren Truss says the Greens have a history of “just being around when there’s something to protest about”.
The Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance, a new activist taxpayer body that says it will be a “do tank” rather than a “think tank”, is set to launch in Sydney next week.