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Terry Barnes

Posts by Terry Barnes

Terry Barnes is a regular contributor to the Australian edition of The Spectator and a former senior ministerial adviser to Tony Abbott.

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Terry Barnes: I know Tony Abbott. He’s a good man with gay friends – nothing like the vicious caricature being sketched by his enemies

And he’s a skilled negotiator with a passionate determination that Britain should successfully make its way in a post-Brexit world.

Comment | By Terry Barnes | 4 September 2020 at 1:30 pm | 50 comments

Terry Barnes: Abbott’s trade appointment is a masterstroke

Australia’s former Prime Minister knows all about trade deals – and can supply insights both from his experience and an international contact book.

Comment, Highlights | By Terry Barnes | 28 August 2020 at 6:20 am | 37 comments

Terry Barnes: This miserable ghost. The embittered Turnbull memoirs – published without care for Australia at this time of national crisis.

It is incredible that he has allowed this attack on the Prime Minister’s integrity to be published now – amidst this existential global pandemic crisis.

Comment | By Terry Barnes | 21 April 2020 at 10:15 am | 14 comments

Terry Barnes: Rejoice in this poll-defying win by the centre-right in Australia – and ponder the lessons for the Conservatives and Corbyn

In less affluent suburban and regional seats, concerns about jobs and power bills trumped moralistic environmental activism.

Comment, Highlights | By Terry Barnes | 19 May 2019 at 6:45 am | 53 comments

Terry Barnes: The Australian election looks closer than might have been expected

Labour is still the favourite. Scott Morrison, the new Prime Minister, has had success in binding wounds and campaigning effectively.

Comment | By Terry Barnes | 17 May 2019 at 11:00 am | 10 comments

Terry Barnes: So you think May has problems? They’re nothing compared to the knifings and plots that engulf Malcolm Turnbull

With half his ministry on the backbenches, he looks isolated – and in denial.

Highlights, International | By Terry Barnes | 23 August 2018 at 3:45 pm | 15 comments

Terry Barnes: From the Anglosphere, we watch with horror as Britain bungles its Brexit chance to go global

British politicians are negotiating as if it were 410 AD, and still the Roman province of Britannia, asking permission to leave instead of flourishing a mandate to do so.

Comment, Highlights | By Terry Barnes | 15 July 2018 at 6:30 am | 136 comments

Terry Barnes: How Australia’s answer to Johnson may have just sunk the centre-right

A colourful, entertaining, and apparently Teflon-coated Deputy Prime Minister falls foul of a change in political culture.

Comment | By Terry Barnes | 24 February 2018 at 1:00 pm | 22 comments

Terry Barnes: A disaster for the centre-right. Its last effective Anglosphere government falls in New Zealand

It has been dispatched by one man – New Zealand First’s party leader, Winston Peters, who has Labour’s inexperienced leader in his pocket.

Comment | By Terry Barnes | 19 October 2017 at 9:30 am | 60 comments

Terry Barnes: British conservatives should watch the New Zealand election campaign closely

A solid but unspectacular centre-right Prime Minister, with a good economic record, is trying to fight off a charismatic, high-spending challenge from the left.

Comment | By Terry Barnes | 8 September 2017 at 3:29 pm | 34 comments

Terry Barnes: May would have seen her snap election fiasco coming, if only she’d looked abroad to…Australia

A massive poll lead. Going early. A wooden leader. Mindless mantras. A despised opposition. And then collapse. The parallels are uncanny: why didn’t Crosby warn her?

Comment, Highlights | By Terry Barnes | 13 June 2017 at 6:20 am | 40 comments

Terry Barnes: The Prime Minister and her advisers should learn from John Key’s management style

Bill English, his successor, worked co-operatively with him and Wayne Eagleson. There’s a lesson here for Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill.

Comment, Highlights | By Terry Barnes | 12 December 2016 at 6:30 am

Terry Barnes: How Australia’s Liberals came unstuck

A lacklustre campaign, a complacent leader, and a ruthless opposition have not just clipped Malcolm Turnbull’s wings, but ripped them off.

Comment | By Terry Barnes | 4 July 2016 at 11:00 am | 11 comments

Terry Barnes: Australia’s election is a tame affair compared to what’s happening in Britain right now

Malcolm Turnbull has run a “safety first” campaign – and is expected to win.

Comment | By Terry Barnes | 2 July 2016 at 11:00 am | 11 comments

Terry Barnes: Tony Abbott – a good man who fell victim to a culture of hostility and hatred

He will be treated more kindly by history than by his contemporaries or the opinion polls – having begun to repair a Budget destroyed by Labor profligacy.

Comment, Highlights | By Terry Barnes | 16 September 2015 at 6:55 am | 20 comments

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