A political “insider” in Canberra asked me last week: “What is Tony Abbott’s worst nightmare?” While I hesitated, he answered his own question: “The election of Malcolm Turnbull.” Think about it: Abbott is so consumed by hateful vengeance that he may prefer the election of Labor’s Bill Shorten to that of his nemesis, Malcolm Turnbull….
I trust someone will phone ABC Radio presenter Amanda Vanstone, the former Howard government immigration minister, and ask why she granted known Mafia figure Frank Madafferi a permanent visa. Madafferi, a notorious Calabrian criminal, applied for permanent residence in July 1996 but his application was turned down by then immigration minister Philip Ruddock. When Vanstone…
With very good reason, most of the coverage of the US presidential primaries is occupied by billionaire Donald Trump, a New York real estate huckster. Regrettably, however, it has overshadowed the performance of Bernie Sanders, the Democrat senator from Vermont and self-described socialist. The 74-year-old Sanders, born in Brooklyn in 1941, is being outpolled by…
As predicted, Tony Abbott, aka The Revenant or the Mad Monk, is on a vengeful mission to destabilise Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. As a bonus, he’d also like to reclaim the nation’s top job from which his own party room sacked him six months ago. It’s still early days, but the main elements of his…
