This is yet another excellent analysis of political reality by John Roskam. He has correctly identified a number of issues, starting with the delusional thinking of the political editor for the (gradually failing) ‘Age’ newspaper.
The statistics John Roskam provides on the ‘youth’ vote are particularly interesting. The Green-Left political parties assume that they effectively ‘own’ the ‘youth’ voting demographic, just as they so arrogantly assume that they ‘own’ the migrant and aboriginal votes. These assumptions are Labor’s Achilles heel, if only the Liberals would understand that.
The term ‘Moderate’ to describe the Left-Wing faction of a nominally conservative political party was not in common use in Australia twenty years ago, but then it was imported from the U.S. by Green-Left media pundits and so went into common usage. In the current political context, the term ‘Moderate’ is a euphemism. It is used by the media in an Orwellian sense – meaning that it is designed to mask the real underlying Green-Left ideologies of these nominally-conservative ‘Moderate’ political factions. That way, media reportage by people such as this lady from ‘The Age’ can bamboozle those unsuspecting voters who interpret the term to mean something like ‘a reasonable middle-of-the-road politician’ – which the political invertebrate ‘Moderates’ in the Liberal Party are most definitely not.
The big challenge that faces the Liberal Party is how to neutralise the negative influence of these so-called ‘Moderates’ – an influence that will continue to lead the Liberals to defeat after defeat if not dealt with – as in the sad case of Malcolm Turnbull, for example.
While the current high income earners may be Teal voters, the aim of the tax cuts was to not discourage upwards movement. They were aspirational. That is Liberal territory.
I don’t know much about the Victorian Libs but it amazes me that they failed to lay a glove on Dan Commercial who must rank as Leader of the most corrupt government in Australia since Whitlam’s in 1972/75.
I moved from Cowra to Sydney in 2000 and took up a temporary 12 week appointment with NSW Police Legal Services which lasted 7 years. I was appointed Senior Manager Commercial Law after 6 months.
Soon after that I received instructions to prepare a lease of premises in Kings Cross for use as an Injecting Room. I had never come across drugs in Cowra and my initial reaction was one of horror.
But I had witnessed people shooting up in a laneway not 50 metres from Kings Cross Police Station and observed countless syringes in gutters nearby. The opening of the injecting room almost overnight saw gutters devoid of syringes and people shooting up. Deaths from overdoses plummeted.
Suffice to say, I changed my opinion.
I don’t know if pill testing would be successful but I’m leaning towards giving it a trial.
This is yet another excellent analysis of political reality by John Roskam. He has correctly identified a number of issues, starting with the delusional thinking of the political editor for the (gradually failing) ‘Age’ newspaper.
The statistics John Roskam provides on the ‘youth’ vote are particularly interesting. The Green-Left political parties assume that they effectively ‘own’ the ‘youth’ voting demographic, just as they so arrogantly assume that they ‘own’ the migrant and aboriginal votes. These assumptions are Labor’s Achilles heel, if only the Liberals would understand that.
The term ‘Moderate’ to describe the Left-Wing faction of a nominally conservative political party was not in common use in Australia twenty years ago, but then it was imported from the U.S. by Green-Left media pundits and so went into common usage. In the current political context, the term ‘Moderate’ is a euphemism. It is used by the media in an Orwellian sense – meaning that it is designed to mask the real underlying Green-Left ideologies of these nominally-conservative ‘Moderate’ political factions. That way, media reportage by people such as this lady from ‘The Age’ can bamboozle those unsuspecting voters who interpret the term to mean something like ‘a reasonable middle-of-the-road politician’ – which the political invertebrate ‘Moderates’ in the Liberal Party are most definitely not.
The big challenge that faces the Liberal Party is how to neutralise the negative influence of these so-called ‘Moderates’ – an influence that will continue to lead the Liberals to defeat after defeat if not dealt with – as in the sad case of Malcolm Turnbull, for example.
While the current high income earners may be Teal voters, the aim of the tax cuts was to not discourage upwards movement. They were aspirational. That is Liberal territory.
I don’t know much about the Victorian Libs but it amazes me that they failed to lay a glove on Dan Commercial who must rank as Leader of the most corrupt government in Australia since Whitlam’s in 1972/75.
I moved from Cowra to Sydney in 2000 and took up a temporary 12 week appointment with NSW Police Legal Services which lasted 7 years. I was appointed Senior Manager Commercial Law after 6 months.
Soon after that I received instructions to prepare a lease of premises in Kings Cross for use as an Injecting Room. I had never come across drugs in Cowra and my initial reaction was one of horror.
But I had witnessed people shooting up in a laneway not 50 metres from Kings Cross Police Station and observed countless syringes in gutters nearby. The opening of the injecting room almost overnight saw gutters devoid of syringes and people shooting up. Deaths from overdoses plummeted.
Suffice to say, I changed my opinion.
I don’t know if pill testing would be successful but I’m leaning towards giving it a trial.
Thanks John. Spot on analysis as usual. I watched both videos. Never seen this guy before but he's got my vote.