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It is well documented that the Australian Labor Party sent staffers to work against Donald Trump in the 2016 campaign. The story was well documented and raised a bit of a stink in Australia because the operatives were funded by Aussie taxpayers. When will Dirty Cop Robert Mueller indict these foreign nationals? This makes the Russian influence pale in significance. In February 2016 Project Veritas released video of Australian Labor Party activists assisting Democrats in the US. The activists are seen assisting the Bernie Sanders campaign. This is a clear violation of FEC laws. Will Robert Mueller indict this foreign...

LABOR may have finally bounced off rock bottom but Australia's oldest political party and its leader are still facing a historic loss of public confidence and electoral failure. A three-point rise in the Newspoll primary vote for the ALP has avoided the unthinkable for the Gillard government of going to 25 per cent or below to have less support than the combined vote for the Greens and various odds and sods, but the broader view of this survey of public opinion about Labor - as well as the personal standing of Julia Gillard - is devastating. The electorate has not...

As a Jewish boy growing up in an Anglo-Christian country like Australia, I often reflected on my parents’ horrific experiences in wartime Poland. I remember being fascinated that, in modern times, in the heart of the civilized world, innocent men, women and children could be slaughtered by inhuman thugs while ordinary people looked the other way. However, what happened to my parents and their fellow European Jews never really frightened me, because I felt it could never happen in a place like Australia. “That could never happen here,” I would tell myself. “Australians are too decent. We’re all Australians here,...

So the Labor Party has decided to go in for another bout of bank bashing. This is a sport much beloved of the loonier elements in the party and the community generally, and it always goes well in the country. Fear of "the money power" has always been rife on the Left; and farmers and populists have always believed in the idea of cheap and unlimited credit, which is being withheld from them only by the profiteering owners of banks. It is surprising, though perhaps inevitable, that the Labor leader, Mark Latham, should have forgotten most of what he learnt...