Challenge Issued

This is the scene over Melbourne several weeks ago.

I don’t suppose any of you are game enough to interpret the photograph from a feminist chauvinist post-modern traditionalist perspective?

Not surprised

Well, this is what happens when the Opposition doesn’t oppose.

SENIOR Liberals are advising Malcolm Turnbull to review the Coalition agreement after Nationals senators defied the Opposition Leader’s voting instructions twice in one week.

The Coalition tensions come against a backdrop of simmering dissent on the right wing of the Liberal Party about Mr Turnbull’s policy direction, including the decision to give the Government’s industrial relations laws in-principle support, and his stance on the Government’s plans for an emissions trading scheme.

Seriously, there is virtually no right-wing voice in Australian politics nowadays and being effectively a one-party State is not healthy for a democracy.

Conservative Americans should perhaps take heed of this, too. After all, yes, whilst Obama may well state that it’s “the United States of America”, (“Well, I say to them tonight, there’s not a liberal America and a conservative America; there’s the United States of America.”) he is wrong by trying to put an end to the ideas of liberalism and conservatism. The United States, yes. The United State, no.