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My editorial from the latest The Bolt Report on Sky News - the new Senate gives new voice to conservatives, and leave Malcolm Turnbull caught between Pauline Hanson and the Greens:

On The Bolt Report and radio tonight - Lushsux,Hanson and the persecution of Bill Leak

On The Bolt Report on Sky News Live at 7pm tonight: 

Editorial: Malcolm Turnbull veers Left, but his Senate has just got a lot noisier Right. Pauline Hanson’s four Senators will put the stick about.

My guests:

Artist Lushsux, who has outraged a Melbourne council and set the US alight with his murals. He actually makes a point or two.

Helen Andrews, from the Centre for Independent Studies, on her new study showing that our...

On The Bolt Report and radio tonight - Lushsux and Pauline Hanson

On The Bolt Report on Sky News Live at 7pm tonight: 

Editorial: Malcolm Turnbull veers Left, but his Senate has just got a a noisier Right. Pauline Hanson’s four Senators will put the stick about.

My guests:

Artist Lushsux, who has outraged a Melbourne council and set the US alight with his murals. He actually makes a point or two.

Helen Andrews, from the Centre for Independent Studies, on her new study showing that our...

Pleasing Tim Flannery, outraging conservatives

Malcolm Turnbull’s hijacking of the Liberal party continues - and I wonder how much longer Liberal members will allow this to go on:

Climate Science lobby, The Climate Council said new Science Minister Greg Hunt ordering CSIRO head Larry Marshall to re-hire climate scientists was a good step, but Australia needs to grow climate science capacity to meet international commitments.

One of Mr Hunt’s first acts as Science Minister has been to order Mr...

Hanson gains third seat. UPDATE: And now a fourth

Pauline Hanson is a force for Malcolm Turnbull to reckon with:

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party has secured two Senate seats in Queensland, putting her party within striking distance of overtaking Nick Xenophon Team as the fourth-largest bloc in the upper house.

The Liberal National Party won five Senate seats, while the Labor opposition won four, and Greens deputy leader Larissa Waters was also returned after preferences were distributed today.

Ms...

Savva on Turnbull: reverse pike with nervous splash

It is so embarrassing for a columnist to back a bungler.

Take, Niki Savva, who last week thought Malcolm Turnbull had finally, after 11 months as leader, shown the leadership she’d long predicted.

Fears that Malcolm Turnbull might have lost his compass as well as his confidence in the wake of the election were dispelled early on Tuesday morning when the Prime Minister announced a royal commission into the treatment of Aboriginal children in detention...

Book attends christening

My book is living better than I am, visiting Ho Chi Minh City, Santorini, London, Lake Como, Ithaca, Scotland, the Bay of Naples, Dubrovnik, Fiji, Aileron and the Andes. In between, it’s done some work in Kalgoorlie and the coal seam gas fields of Condabri, Queensland.





Now Worth Fighting For is travelling on the XPT from Newcastle to Brisbane - who knows, perhaps in time for tomorrow’s book launch - with Gil and wife Margaret:

Actually, Gil...

Column - No one this biased should head a royal commission. Gooda must go

THE decision of Attorney-General George Brandis to make Mick Gooda a royal commissioner is a farce and a scandal.

How can Gooda, a professional Aboriginal activist, possibly be an impartial judge, jointly presiding over a royal commission into juvenile justice in the Northern Territory?

How can he be considered impartial when he’s already declared the key defendant guilty — attacking the Northern Territory Government as incompetent, vicious, dead to...

Bernardi: no to Gooda

Mick Gooda is a good man, but Cory Bernardi is right: he must go.

Jared Owens:

Cory Bernardi has questioned the appointment of Aboriginal leader Mick Gooda as a royal commissioner and lashed the ABC as biased for reporting torture-like conditions in juvenile detention system on the eve of a Northern Territory election.

The conservative South Australian politician [on Wednesday] ... drew attention Mr Gooda’s “intemperate” tweet in the aftermath of last...

Turnbull Government may consider a treaty with Aboriginal tribes

Tell me this is not true. Tell me that no conservative government could possibly consider making a treaty with some of its fellow citizens - and on the basis of the “race” of some of their ancestors.

Belinda Merhab:

Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion insists the federal government will consider a treaty if that’s what indigenous people want.

Senator Scullion says he’ll await the outcome of the government’s Referendum Council, headed up by Prime...