I’m still ploughing through the proposed Liberal National constitution, and I’m not sure that the National Party know what they’re letting themselves in for. A number of the features that make the Liberals prone to branch stacking are present, albeit as variations of the way they appear in the […] Continue Reading…

Mal Brough favours amalgamation of the Liberal and National Parties, but only on the right conditions. Speaking today at the Queensland Media Club lunch Brough stressed that an amalgamation should only happen after proper input from the membership and if it improved the chances of the current National and […] Continue Reading…

I’ve only just started to plough through the proposed Liberal National Party constitution, but there is already one remarkable thing about it. It bans a very small number of us from membership of the new party.
Under the definitions “Member” is defined as:
Member means a financial Member of the Party […] Continue Reading…

I’ve been sent a copy of some of the Liberal Party’s Agenda for its Convention this weekend. Never in the history of the Liberal party has an agenda arrived so late. Too bad if you actually wanted to research your reply to a motion. Although, one might […] Continue Reading…

Phillip Adams does a riff on some of the same themes about the Henson controversy that I attempted in this post.
I have to admit it’s the first Phillip Adams column I have read all the way through in decades, and as a result, it’s the best I’ve read in […] Continue Reading…

David Fraser is a recognised expert in Queensland elections and electoral boundaries, having been involved in most Liberal Party redistribution submissions since the 1970s. This is his take on the Queensland redistribution. Thanks to David for preparing it for the blog.
With the release of the proposed Queensland electoral […] Continue Reading…