Worse than Whitlam?


Suffering from a crisis in confidence. Be not alarmed. This is not a personal crisis.  It is just that I see very little in the current Labor government to convince me that its redemption is likely; i.e., a radical change of course.

Let’s go back in time. Take the second and third Gough Whitlam ministries. Yes, some unhinged people. Jim Cairns, Rex Connor, Al Grassby and Lionel Murphy did not readily inspire confidence. On the other hand, there were some solid chaps, I think anyway. Men like Kim Beazley Sen., Bill Hayden, Frank Crean, Don Willesee, John Wheeldon. Where are their counterparts today?

When I look across the Anthony Albanese government I see him, his evasions and his bare-faced lying about the intake of Gazan Palestinians, and his evident inability to handle the job. And also most prominently Richard Marles, Chris Bowen, Jim Chalmers, Tony Burke, Penny Wong, Tanya Plibersek. Okay, Clare O’Neil and Andrew Jiles can’t play ducks and drakes with criminal illegal immigrants anymore. But, does Burke taking over from them remind you of the relief felt when Hayden took the Treasury reins from Cairns? No, it doesn’t. It is a frying pan to fire situation.

Sorry, but I can’t see a chink of hope. This latest god-awful decision by Wong to throw Israel to the wolves while expressing regret that she couldn’t go further shames us all. She is a national embarrassment.

Meanwhile, Plibersek cancels a goldmine on the filmiest of pretexts (with superciliousness on steroids) while readying to destroy Australia’s prosperity with her “Nature Positive” [Mining negative] bill to set up an Environment Protection Australia agency. She is hosting The Global Nature Positive Summit, dubbed threateningly the “United Nations COP”, in Sydney between October 8 and 10. She will want to make a commitment at whatever cost to Australia. Look, she felt marginalised by Albo and now wants to make a splash. Be afraid of this lady.

Meanwhile, Chris Bowen’s unreliable-energy antics are simply beyond parody. It is a matter of arithmetic that intermittent wind and sun cannot power a modern economy or any economy for that matter; and that batteries cannot conceivably store anywhere near sufficient power to fill the gaps. Thus it won’t work. As anyone with a brain, unlike Bowen’s, not addled by climate cultism, can see. We need fossil fuels and/or nuclear. Mythical green hydrogen and pumped hydro are just that, mythical.

Meanwhile, Chalmers has discovered a new economics whereby spending money and giving people free money, via rebates, to counter higher prices reduces inflation. Magic Pudding economics before our very eyes. On the side, he engages in the sport of Bullock bashing.

Meanwhile, Bourke when not having a policy-influencing weather eye on Muslim votes in his western Sydney seat of Watson was busy introducing industrial relations laws designed to reward union bosses and cripple businesses. And now he’s in charge of immigration. Really? Great choice Albo. Leaving aside the government’s utter dereliction of duty in secretly issuing tourist visas to Gazan Palestinians with nary a check, migrant flows show no sign of slowing – putting increasing pressure on cities, housing, hospitals, schools, transport, and that minor matter in our multicultural maelstrom called cultural cohesion.

Meanwhile, Marles our defence minister is doing his best to convince our adversaries that we are defenceless. Unless it is a clever ploy, our apparent inability to provide even one warship to support the US and other allies in the Red Sea might just be seen as a sign of weakness. Come and get us. We have few soldiers, no subs, no ships, no drones and no missiles. True, an exaggeration. But not that much of one to allow us to feel secure. Mind you, I am sure we are up there with the best of them in the military gender-bending stakes.

Obviously the ineptitude, recklessness and sheer bloody-mindedness goes beyond my brief account. Consider, as examples, Aboriginal affairs and the upcoming misinformation (censorship) legislation. It is all bleak so far as the eye can see. Is there any bright spot? I can’t see one. Can you? And just imagine if there are enough people in Australia to vote this government back into power, with the help of the execrable Greens and deplorable Teals. What would it say about us collectively?


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Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
September 21, 2024 3:07 pm

From the outside looking in, i really can’t see anything bright for Oz in the short term.

Given you will probably have a minority alp government in thrall to the Nazi Party (greens), i would recommend hiding or liquidating your assets and having an extended break offshore.

Roger
Roger
September 21, 2024 3:21 pm

What would it say about us collectively?

Let’s leave collective judgments to the left.

DrBeauGan
DrBeauGan
September 21, 2024 3:41 pm

And just imagine if there are enough people in Australia to vote this government back into power, with the help of the execrable Greens and deplorable Teals. What would it say about us collectively?

That we’re so stupid we deserve what we’re going to get.

Living with ignorant fatheads is a painful business.

Miltonf
Miltonf
September 21, 2024 3:54 pm

Some of us prefer to stay here and fight for something we love rather than run away and take snide pot shots from overseas.

nb
nb
September 21, 2024 5:13 pm

‘ineptitude, recklessness’. Perhaps. What if it is deliberate? It doesn’t take a capable person to destroy, especially when they have host of Pilgrim, Trilaterals, Blackrocks etc to kindly instruct (read ‘order’) them. They’re just little cogs in the big encroaching neo communo-fascist rule.

Wally Dali
Wally Dali
September 21, 2024 7:06 pm

Yep NB, “Nature Positive” is a -typically improsaic- banner to cover up the further parasitism of our lives to the globohomo blob of money lenders, rentseekers, ticket punchers and kid-diddlers.

Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum
September 21, 2024 7:26 pm

Miltonf

September 21, 2024 3:54 pm

Some of us prefer to stay here and fight for something we love rather than run away and take snide pot shots from overseas.

Some of us aren’t aust citizens, and i see no fighting going on.

But you do you LTCoL milton MC GGF

Rabz
September 21, 2024 7:47 pm

Is there any bright spot?

labore will eventually be voted out and the evil incompetent imbeciles in this abortion of a so called called government will all die (by natural causes or otherwise).

I’m hoping both eventualities will happen sooner rather than later.

Rod Stuart
Rod Stuart
September 22, 2024 8:11 am

The rationale for the departure from coal-fired power stations is to “combat gloabel warming”, which is nonsense because there ins none and fossil fuel have no relation even if there were.

There is no climate crisis anywhere on earth. This is a fabrication concocted & funded by globalists at the UN and elsewhere. Earth has been cooling for 50 million years and in an ice age for 2.58 million years. Carbon dioxide has no role at all in weather or changing weather.

Perfidious Albino
Perfidious Albino
September 22, 2024 10:27 am

That’s Deputy Prime Minister Marles thank you very much! (reportedly gets very shitty if people describe him as merely Defence).

Speedbox
September 22, 2024 3:57 pm

Miltonf
September 21, 2024 3:54 pm
Some of us prefer to stay here and fight for something we love rather than run away and take snide pot shots from overseas.

Whether we like it or not, Australia is politically left-of-centre. Our notionally conservative political party has largely surrendered the centre and there is no reasonable prospect that they will return to claim that ground. To be clear, nobody is suggesting we return to the Menzies era conservatism but the Liberal Party have gradually shifted to the left over the decades – and like a frog being slowly boiled, the conservative voters in the electorate have had no choice but to go along with it.

It’s fair to say that many conservative voters are either bewildered or disillusioned while recognizing that change is as inevitable as it is good. Conservatives are not so blind as to think that the values of 70 years ago are as valid today as they were then. The world is different and needs an up-to-date approach. And while conservatives have tried to accommodate many of those changes, the political landscape has shifted far more quickly to the left as conservative politicians chase votes. I suggest that many conservatives would identify with the saying that the Liberal Party has ‘moved to the left – the conservatives didn’t shift to the right’.

For those with any foresight of domestic and international politics and other matters such as personal freedom, it is undeniable that the political right (and personal freedoms) are diminished and the left of centre will do whatever is required to cement their power and control. President Trump is a case study.

Whether Trump is elected in November is, to some extent, moot. Even if he is elected, IMO, the left will perceive this as only a bump in the road. They will do everything they can to undermine his Presidency and in four short years, will have another crack at regaining the White House. Sooner or later they will be successful and the march to the left will resume.

Meanwhile, Canada, UK, NZ, France, Germany and a host of others have already, and profoundly, shifted left of centre with Australia in lock-step.

Therefore, and in answer to your comment, IMO the political war between the left and conservative right is lost. That does not diminish our affection for what Australia once was – but with melancholy recognition that it cannot be regained. We all fight on in one format or another but, from my standpoint, it is with the clear recognition that Australia is, and will remain, politically left of centre and will exercise increasing control over her citizens. If we choose to express ourselves from another country that more closely aligns with our personal views on politics and other subjects, that is our good fortune because remaining in situ in Australia will achieve nothing more.

Kim Howard
Kim Howard
September 23, 2024 11:59 am

It’s not Rocket Science and Industry still goes on since most investment is from the USA and Britain and our/ your Superannuation, get rid of any outside foreign Influence from the WEF, the EU, the UN , they need our money they produce nothing but hurt, then Build Dams and funnel the water inland not out to sea, delete all green tape, Black tape and all Government advisors, don’t allow senators to have a portfolio when they are parachuted into the Job, Wong and Young, what is it with SA

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