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Voting against Turnbull’s team

Jared Owens says this was a protest vote against Turnbull:

Labor’s success against Coalition MPs in marginal seats was underpinned by a flood of preferences from right-wing candidates who instructed their supporters to punish Malcolm Turnbull…

Analysis by The Weekend Australian suggests conservative minor party preferences were crucial in toppling Wyatt Roy in Longman and Fiona Scott in Lindsay, and have dragged Ewen Jones’s battle in the Townsville seat of...

Turnbull buys the Liberal Party and breaks it

Laurie Oakes:

Turnbull ... would have recoiled when he saw yesterday’s front-page headline in The Australian: “PM’s $1m bailout for Liberals"… It was “Moneybags Malcolm” and “Mr Harbourside Mansion” up in lights again…

But it is not just the impact on public perceptions about him that makes the magic million headline a problem for Turnbull. It also stirred discussion among Liberals about the effect such a massive donation from the leader might have on the...

Column - We cannot keep living in this fear

LOOK now at Nice, the latest Western city to have its streets run red with the blood of the victims of Islamic terrorists.

We in the West cannot live like this. We cannot keep living in this fear of catching a plane, standing in a crowd or even opening our mouths.

We cannot keep making excuses for these attacks — in New York, Paris, Brussels, Bali, Sydney, Melbourne, Boston, London, Madrid, Orlando and dozens more of our cities.

Nor can we keep letting...

Tips for Saturday, July 17

Pass on your news tips here. Apologies for two things - that we don’t have weekend moderators to publish comments, and that posts will be light today, since I am spending time with the family.

UPDATE

Thank you so much to the nearly 400 people who turned up for the Sydney launch of my book yesterday. I am so grateful and humbled by your support. It was wonderful to meet so many people I admire, and to finally identify people who have helped on my blog,...

Another terrorist attack in France. At least 70 reported dead

At least 70 people are reported dead after a truck loaded with arms and grenades ploughes into a crowd in Nice during Bastille Day celebrations, with the driver shooting at police.

Pro-Islamic State groups are celebrating, but we don’t yet know what motivated the attack.

An apparently Muslim witness interviewed by CNN - in an interview rebroadcast by the ABC - suggests this might have been the work of “an alienated” person “under pressure”. That kind of...

Turnbull’s $1 million shows his policy stank

Malcolm Turnbull’s own wallet is the proof that he lies when he claims his super changes did not affect the election. Sharri Markson:

Turnbull donated $1 million of his own money to bail out the Liberal Party during the federal election campaign, so desperate was the party for finances…

The party was so desperate for funds midway through the eight-week campaign that it frantically approached powerful donors. Billionaire James Packer was one prominent...

Greens dying at last

Is Richard Di Natale the Meg Lees of the Greens? Or has the green religion simply peaked?  Simon Benson:

OF all the excuses offered for their abysmal election outcome, the Greens leader Richard Di Natale’s has to take the cake.

The reason the Greens did so badly, he claims, is because they themselves fell victim to a protest vote ... [P]eople have come to regard them as a major party.

And because this election was about protesting against major parties,...

IS recruiter cried: Syria is “the end of the world”

Spread the word on the streets of Lakemba:

Before Mohammad Ali Baryalei came to be known as the most senior Australian member of Islamic State, he sobbed during a phone call from the Middle East as he asked: “Why would you want to live this rubbish for?”

A cache of intercepted telephone calls .... were presented as evidence during the trial of Hamdi Alqudsi, who was on Tuesday found guilty of aiding men to fight in Syria’s brutal civil war…

In one...

Tips for Friday, July 15

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UPDATE

My editorial from the latest The Bolt Report - on Malcolm Turnbull leading the Liberals into a civil war:

On The Bolt Report and radio tonight - Turnbull declares war on his own party

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

Editorial: A defiant Malcolm Turnbull leads the Liberals to civil war.

My guests:





Senator Cory Bernardi - leading a new conservative revolution.





Rowan Dean on Culture Wars.

The panel: former Howard Government Minister Peter Reith and Rita Panahi.

Podcasts of the show here. Facebook page here. 

On 2GB, 3AW and 4BC with Steve Price from 8pm. 

Stubborn Malcolm...