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Posts Tagged: Australia

Terry Barnes: The further woes of the Speaker’s favourite official

Carole Mills is tangled up in a burqa ban – and a Select Committee report that it was misled about her knowledge of an Australian parliamentary controversy.

By Terry Barnes | 8 December 2014 | 4 comments

Peter Riddell: What would a minority government be like?

They are likely to be less stable than coalitions because of the lack of a majority. That does not prevent them enduring,

By Peter Riddell | 20 November 2014 | 19 comments

Lord Ashcroft: Happy Red Tape Repeal Day, Australia

50,000 pages of rules have been removed – including nearly 10,000 separate regulations and a thousand Acts of Parliament. An idea for the Conservative Manifesto?

By Lord Ashcroft | 29 October 2014 | 10 comments

WATCH: Tony Abbott on the 70th anniversary of the founding of Australia’s Liberal Party

“It has changed the current of Australian politics – and so much more. We have helped to build modern Australia.”

13 October 2014

Terry Barnes: Carol Mills is a decent person who has been left by the Speaker in an impossible position

She is being hung out to dry by John Bercow’s determination both to get his own way and save his parliamentary skin.

By Terry Barnes | 5 September 2014 | 6 comments

Before promising tax cuts, repeat after me: The deficit hasn’t gone away

If we go into the next election with too much tax cut talk it will risk our reputation for fiscal responsibility.

By Tim Montgomerie | 1 August 2014 | 80 comments

Terry Barnes: Faced with a crisis, Tony Abbott becomes a statesman

Sometimes it takes a searing crisis for a political leader to reach beyond their political comfort zone.

By Terry Barnes | 25 July 2014 | 9 comments

Interview: Fox propounds his points-based immigration policy – and agrees it would mean a fall in family migration

The former Defence Secretary gives his view on quitting the EU, its appeasement of Putin, and the reshuffle – “what’s done is done”.

By Andrew Gimson | 23 July 2014 | 28 comments

Alex Deane: All hail Senator James McGrath!

Forced out of his role as a Conservative aide in Britain, now a legislator in Australia, McGrath has delivered a maiden speech to remember.

By Alex Deane | 17 July 2014 | 3 comments

In the battle between coal and renewables, we should side with the future not the past

Getting rid of the carbon tax won’t stop Australia’s solar power revolution.

By Peter Franklin | 17 July 2014 | 10 comments

Mark Field MP: Why Britain’s best future lies inside the European Union

We must be clearer about what we are trying to achieve within Europe if we are to obtain reforms that suit us.

By Mark Field MP | 20 May 2014 | 32 comments

Has Tony Abbott just committed Australia’s version of the “read my lips, no new taxes” sin?

This week’s Budget clashes with his “absolute guarantee” on tax.

By Tim Montgomerie | 15 May 2014 | 2 comments

Andrew Lilico: Which friends does Britain want?

Collectively, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK have a surface area larger than Russia and the fourth largest economic area in the world

By Andrew Lilico | 14 April 2014 | 72 comments

Nima Sanandaji and Stefan Folster: Why left wing governments which pursue free market reforms get re-elected

Bold support for economic freedom makes you more likely to win elections, particularly when it comes from surprising quarters.

By Nima Sanandaji | 21 March 2014 | 3 comments

From the ‘Anglosphere’ to ‘Eurasianism’ geopolitical theories are bunk

Once you start bickering about who committed the fewest atrocities overall, then, unless your number is zero, you’ve already lost the argument

By Peter Franklin | 12 March 2014 | 12 comments

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