En Passant

There’s a new reporter in the House! IA’s Canberra correspondent John Passant delivers his first report as an official (and IA’s second) Press Gallery member, just as Turnbull ditches his signature NEG policy over #libspill speculation

It was indeed a Super Saturday, says John Passant in Independent Australia — for Bill Shorten and the Labor Party, that is.

If Malcolm Turnbull’s outrage at the suggestion that he will benefit from his own tax cuts is justified, he can just release his tax returns so we can judge, writes former assistant tax commissioner, John Passant, in Independent Australia.

Malcolm Turnbull must be tempted to call an early election, I write in Independent Australia.

  John Passant pens a 30th birthday letter to Malcolm Turnbull letting him know he is still the preferred PM, ‘compared to the other potential PMs growing in the sewer that is your Liberal Party’. Click here to read the whole article in Independent Australia.   https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/dear-mr-turnbull-happy-30th-newspoll-birthday,11382

#BarnabyGate has exposed the reality of the ineptitude of the Turnbull Government and the end is near, writes John Passant in Independent Australia

[Deputy Prime Minister Joyce (left) and Prime Minister Turnbull at the New England by-election, December 2017 (screen shot via @9NewsSyd).]   If a thorough investigation into the potential abuse of power and misuse of public funds in the Barnaby Joyce affair isn’t undertaken, then both the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister should resign, […]

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton is Australia’s Donald Trump, I write in Independent Australia.

  Facing defeat at the next election and with a record of failure, Dutton and the Coalition are conjuring up African gangs in a desperate attempt to enlist fear-based support, writes John Passant in Independent Australia