Articles by Rossleigh

In the aftermath of the election, I noticed a lot of comments from people in the parties that used to be known as the Coalition about the need to keep fighting. Stupidly, I presumed that […]

Scene: A counsellor’s office. Counsellor – I’d like to welcome you both and start by saying that this is a great first step… David – I’d like to point out that this was her idea. […]

Now General Sedgwick can rest easy in his grave. His famous last words were: “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…”. However, after the landslide Labor win, Peter Dutton’s assertion that they were the […]

‘After the election, Labor is now emboldened. And their objective is to inflict tax violence on wealth and deliver revenue for their spending agenda while crowing they’re balancing the budget from the blood they can […]

In June last year, I wrote a piece called “The Potential Labor Landslide”… Of course the downside to writing satire most of the time is that people tend not to notice that a lot of […]

There are moments that turn an election campaign… I mean, all of them. Every moment turns an election campaign because either something significant happens or it doesn’t. If it does then that’s significant but if […]

Imagine if job interviews were like election campaigns. “What skills do you bring to this job, Trevor?” “Well, Simon, the other applicant, is weak and lacks decisiveness and he…” “Yes, but your skills… what do […]

There have been times when the tactics of the Liberal Party in this election campaign have confused me. Apart from having Dutton do most of the talking, letting some of the other shadow ministers appear […]

There’s a certain hypocrisy about nearly all political leaders: We’ll see the happy family all up there for various events like campaign launches or victory parties, but then when someone asks a difficult question about […]

A few weeks ago, Labor were long odds to win and people were adjusting to the idea that the Liberals had come up with a potential answer to the question of: “How can any PM […]

While Dutton’s dream of Kirribilli harbour views is growing less likely than it was before the media started asking him difficult questions like: “Could you explain how that policy will actually work?” OR “So what […]