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?