Is Labor cleaning house?
We don’t like to mention the war, ie Covid but who remembers how many people Ayatollah Andrews pushed under the Dan Bus during those two god awful years? Andrews would be everyone’s best mate til they said the wrong thing, did the wrong thing or didn’t tow the party line. Dan would make a call to the Dan patrol and boot anyone he needed to straight under the bus. It worked. He never lost an election and today lives in peace and harmony with his fellow dictators.
With a state election looming in Victoria and with Allan about as on the nose as a phone call to a mate about some security for a quarantine program she is no doubt planning her own bus
Route. The first stop? Mick Gatto. Now Mick is a colourful character and why he was arrested by Victoria Police is a matter for those concerned but it appears he could well be the first one under the bus.
Allan has of course denied any wrong doing when it comes to the $15 billion that’s allegedly missing from the big build projects but now that she’s supposedly tightening up IBAC powers she’s on a mission to show she’s trying to make a difference. Allan has said she has time and time again she and her government are taking action on big build sites and taking a stand against crime gangs and so they arrest Mick and his wife?
While Mick was released without charge you have to ask who gets arrested next? If Allan is serious about cleaning up the big build and corruption on work sites then surely Mick Gatto isn’t the only one getting arrested? I mean the police and the government have other suspects don’t they? Ones that may not be so well known that can create headlines? They will arrest other people won’t they?
The next question though is who in the Labor Party circle is going under the Barbie bus? Andrews threw a number of his own ministers under his bus so who’s first under Barbies? I have a list of the ones I’d like to see but I bet I don’t see them go.
So many fingers in so many pies and Labor need most of them gone in the lead up to the election. Will we see any more arrests? Well it depends who Allan sacrifices or who doesn’t toe the line, but it’s going to be an interesting arse covering few months.
Australian population
Ok so we have a falling birth rate but an increasing population? So what are we doing about that? At the moment it appears nothing but we do actually need to work out what’s going on or we run the risk of losing who we are as a nation and as people.
Immigrants have made up so much of what Australia is but now it is time to close the front door to unskilled migrants and say you and your families stay where you are because there’s no cash here! We need to have more housing opportunities for the people that are actually citizens and are invested in the future of the country rather than those who are instantly looking for handouts.
Why is it that anyone that suggests we cut migration is instantly labelled a racist? The people marching down the streets, posting to social media or pushing for violence or aggression towards migrants absolutely need to be called out for being racist, but what about the ramifications of population growth? Where does any kind of common sense come into any of this?
We need skilled Labour and then we need to make sure we have the national infrastructure to house, feed and support people in their lives. We seem utterly incapable of coming at population growth and migration by any kind of sensible conversation. France has shut the door on all migration for three years. We’re not suggesting that, what we are saying is that we need to still have migrants arrive here, but they need to have skills we need and that we need to address housing and all the other issues that come with population growth. It’s not rocket science!
The problem with immigration and population growth is that immigrants mean votes. That’s what it comes down to and until that simple fact changes we will continue to see our population grow but our birth rate decline.
Stolen generations memorial…
We know that Lord Airness Nick Reece is a Labor Party stooge and that he’s onboard with the whole woke inner city council vibe, but he may be in a bit trouble with his latest project.
Reece as part of the whole reconciliation journey thing has commissioned a Stolen generations memorial in the Melbourne CBD. The council like the state and federal governments would much rather stand around a memorial than actually do anything of real value for the indigenous communities around Australia, but I digress. Reece needs some more dollar bucks from the state government to finish the project.
The multi million dollar project is short some $750,000 and Reece has gone knocking on the door of the Treasury to get it. This will be interesting to say the least. Reece is being pushed to get the memorial done asap because some the elders are getting on in age and they want to see it before they die, so the pressure is on Reece and now Allan.
The Allan government is all about multiculturalism and making a big song and dance about indigenous people but do very little to make a real difference, so a memorial is right up her alley. The question though is will she give Reece the money he needs?
To be fair she’s sort of stuffed if she does or doesn’t. The state is broke and can’t afford it but if she doesn’t hand over the dollars she is going to get hammered by all those inner city lefties. Lefty extremists who’d rather pour red paint on the Captain Cook cottage than go without a new place to make themselves feel better in.
It will be interesting to see what happens but to both of them, why not donate the money to helping indigenous kids get an education? Find career paths, to give them a new sense of hope instead of more work garbage that does nothing very much for the plight of indigenous people.
The stolen generation is indeed a shameful period in our history but while we absolutely must acknowledge the last we need to take steps to make sure nothing like that ever happens again. Education, housing, health care, support programs…the list is endless but addressing just one of those issues is better than a memorial that does nothing to address the issues being faced today by indigenous communities.
I bet Allan gives him the money.
Pauline a bit in shock
If I’d been a fish and chip owner 40 years or so ago and in 2026 found myself in a genuine race to become Australia’s next Prime Minister I’d be shocked as well, but that’s the reality for Pauline Hanson. The woman labelled a racist bigot by, well, not as many as we thought, could indeed end up in the top job of Australian politics.
The thing for Pauline is though, she now needs to start acting like a potential PM. Jimmy Carter was asked how did he feel about walking into the Oval Office for the first time, how did he feel about his first day as President of the United States and he replied, he had a job to do so got on with it. That’s what Hanson needs to start thinking.
Originally endorsed by the federal liberal win 1996 Hanson ended up running as an independent candidate, winning in the seat of Oxley. A year later she set up the party that is now leading in the polls as the preferred party of government in Australia. Now the lefty wokes will simply tell you that the current political situation is about protest votes, racism and division when really it’s about the simple fact people have had enough.
The bottom line for Labor is they’re broke. The country’s economic problems go well beyond the changes to CGT or negative gearing. The country is nearing a trillion national debt with no real plan to pay it off. Second hand subs from the US, interest rates on the rise, unemployment about to spike, food banks never busier and a government that refuses to stop spending money. Socialism doesn’t work but Labor didn’t get the memo.
While Hanson is I’m sure a bit shocked by the polls she now needs to do what Carter did when he became President. She needs to say we’ve got work to do and this is how we make Australia the lucky country again.
Could Hughesy swing an election?
I’ve never been a massive fan of Dave Hughes. We used to see him around St Kilda when we lived there and I always when was an arrogant wanker. A lefty comedian that wasn’t that funny and probably thought there were 56 different genders. Well I’ve changed my mind about Dave.
Hughes to his credit had never really been a political comedian when it would’ve been very easy for him to be one. Instead he’s always had the ability to make people laugh at everything but politics. Now though Hughes has taken to the state government of Victoria and he’s really not trying to be funny, instead Hughes is absolutely going after Labor.
Hughes is now regularly taking to the Allan Labor government and criticising it for a myriad of reasons, including crime, home invasions, machete attacks, cost of living, big build spends and so on. Hughes has seen the light and like so many of us is sick and tired of not feeling safe in our own homes and state!
Theo question though is, Dave Hughes is a hugely popular comedian so can he swing an election? The new minister for Boys and Men Paul Edbrooke, who is taking photos of him and his kelpie to supposedly suggest his manliness has asked (on social media) Hughes to have a coffee with him so they can discuss men’s mental health, but Hughesy isn’t having it. Hughes took back at Edbrooke saying no thanks and that the governments own poor economic management was key driver for poor mental health for men. Hughes is of course correct and Edbrooke is yet another over paid bureaucrat who thinks he can justify his new portfolio by suggesting he cares when we know he perhaps doesn’t.
Hughes isn’t holding back at the state government and hopefully his comments start a new wave of celebrity backlash against the government because we actually need it. While people can’t stand Labor the One Nation effect could see Labor remain in power and that we don’t want!
With the public service at record highs and with migration numbers remaining at current levels we need there to be voices of change no matter where or who they come from, including comedians you thought sucked.
Let Abbott loose?
With Tony Abbott now back in the Liberal party fold is it time to let Tony loose on the Australian public to try and claw back some ground the Libs have lost to One Nation? I think yes, I mean it can’t get any worse can it?
Ok ok ok, we know Abbott lost his seat, we know his government got turfed and we know he’s friends with the good folk down at Sky News, but Abbott could be the voice of reason for the Libs. He is quite genuinely the only one from within the party that has said he believes in freedom of the individual! That point alone should get people interested in what the Libs have to say given freedom doesn’t seem terribly high on the priority list for Albo and big ears.
Now the Libs are stuffed things up in the past but pushing Abbott out the front of the bandwagon could be exactly what they need. They could leave Taylor and Hume to the parliament and have Abbott out the front as the public voice. Despite the fact that Abbott may think he’s out of touch there are a lot of people who think he’s great and wound come back to the Libs if they could see real change.
Abbott is a god fearing conservative which isn’t that popular nowadays but if he could bring back the idea of genuine prosperity in the face of crippling adversity then maybe the Libs are on to something. The other side is that the Libs need to start countering what One Nation are doing and it could be that the calm experienced head of Abbott is there way to do so.
There is no doubt that a good portion of One Nation supporters are people who have had enough of the major parties. No, they are not racist bigots who want to bring back the white Australia policy, they’re families struggling, they’re small business owners, they’re people who can’t afford housing and they’re angry that this is where we have got to as a country. Abbott could be the voice of reason those people need to vote Liberal.
It could also make things worse for the Libs. They could become totally irrelevant and become a minor player in a new two party system, only time will tell. Right now though Abbott could be the best decision the Libs have made in years.
Albo and One Nation
There are those in the media that suggest Albo is very good at knowing where he can push and pull the voting public when it comes to garnering approval. That he knows what to do when things aren’t looking good and that he’s trusted by his parliamentary colleagues when it comes to getting through a rough patch. Now that is utter bullshit because look at how badly he fucked the whole Voice thing up and more immediately he’s being hammered in the latest opinion polls. Polls that now have One Nation as the preferred government, not so clever now is he?
Albo’s not skillful in understanding where to push and pull, rather he knows the election is two years away and that if he can hold onto his job and have more woke lefty media outlets protect his sorry ass he might MIGHT keep his job. BUT! What none of them have factored in this time is Pauline Hanson and One Nation.
There used to be a time when politicians could say and do whatever because it was them or the other lot. The other lot was usually a labor or liberal opposition that had been hammered or embarrassed at the last election so the present government had time to run riot and then make it up to voters closer to the election. Right now the libs are cactus so ordinarily Labor would be on easy street, but this time Labor are looking over at One Nation thinking, racists! How can they possibly be a threat? Think again Albo.
Kier Starmer knows all about how traditional politics is being replaced with populist rhetoric. Reform UK is more and more likely to form government at the next UK election and the same could well happen here, with Pauline Hanson becoming PM! Yes ok she’d have to win a lower house seat but right now that’s not going to be an issue because? Labor aren’t taking One Nation seriously.
Albo is indeed and arrogant little prick but unless he can wipe that arrogant little smile of his face, he’s going to be dealing with One Nation as either the opposition or the government. No matter how good woke lefty media thinks Albo is at keeping everyone happy he will not want to be sitting on the other side of the benches looking at Prime Minister Hanson. Time to sharpen up Albo…Pauline wants a word.
Abbott returns to save the sinking ship
At the height of the COVID crisis I could never understand why the state libs of Victoria didn’t revert back to their roots and say how important freedom was to them. They didn’t mention it and of course as we know let Ayatollah Andrews back in, but now with the return of former PM Tony ‘budgie smugglers’ Abbott to the party what’s the first thing he mentions? Freedom.
I think most people will tell you that going back to something is often a mistake, but while Abbott lost his own seat, lost government and was referred to as out of touch could he bring the Libs back from the brink? Many would say no, but people are really starting to hate Albo so maybe.
Recent polls suggest that Labor is on the nose, big time. While Labor stinks the Libs aren’t the ones seeing the support come to them, instead that support is going to One Nation. So the job for Abbott is to convince firstly conservatives to come back to the Libs and secondly for those protesting against Albo to vote Liberal because they’re the ones of believe in? Freedom.
Abbotts acceptance speech of the party presidency also noted that the Libs were the party of the patriots. Now patriot is not a word we hear spoken that often here in Australia but while no one in camp Liberal is offering to make Australia great again the idea of patriotism and nationalistic pride is definitely one people are desperate to hear again.
So, could Abbott be the Libs ticket back to office? Well, in the lead up to his election as president I thought ugh god no, but having heard his speech I think yeah maybe. The thing Abbott will have to bear in mind though is that his biggest opposition won’t come from Labor, it’ll come from One Nation. The last time Abbott was in power One Nation weren’t an issue now though they are bigger than Texas and Abbott will have to come up with a plan to counter them.
Who would’ve thought that the man in the budgies would be the saviour of the Libs? He’s for his work cut out for himself and assuming the party can keep themselves together they may have a chance in two years time, but my money is still on Pauline.
What happens if China goes for Taiwan
Australia is pretty much controlled by the socialist left nowadays, which many of us aren’t that wild about but it’s the reality of lefty governments. Former and current Australian politicians from the left have been to China to pay respects to our Chinese friends. Many of them make no secret of the fact of how much they love the mother country and yet are now having to work out what to do if China does go after Taiwan.
In recent months the world has been held to economic ransom thanks largely to Trump trying to take over key regions. The US attacks on Iran have done massive damage to global trade routes and here in Australia have played a role in interest rate rises. Australia is still part of the AUKUS deal that will at some point deliver submarines that will protect our trade routes from our biggest trade partners, one of which is? China.
In recent days US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth has commended Australia for stepping up and sharing the burden of defence in the Asia Pacific region. Mr America fuck yeah has also been complimenting Australia for increasing its defence spending although he still thinks it could go higher. The US has warned China not to try and take over Taiwan but what does that mean for Australia if China does try it on?
I suspect Albo would be rocking backward and forward in a corner sucking his thumb if war ever came even remotely close to Australia, but should China roll into Taiwan and the US takes military action Australia is stuffed. Stuffed because despite the whole we love socialism thing Albo and his lot have going on he’s not about to throw down against Trump. It will mean Australia’s biggest trade partner is off limits and we would be at the mercy of a megalomaniac in Trump who arguably stuffed the global economy deliberately. Where’s that leave us?
Albo has had decent success on the global diplomacy stage so maybe he and his minions of socialism can do more deals to keep Australia’s economy moving. The reality is that we are now so reliant on China that you have to ask would we be better off helping the Chinese over Trump? It’s a barely comprehensible decision to have to make, but on one hand you have the bloke who blew up the global economy deliberately and on the other we have our best trading partner…
It’s a difficult situation but will we be learning mandarin or yelling America Fuck yeah?! Let’s hope things never get that far.
Of course they don’t make the rules
I can hear it now. The PM, one of his ministers or some other government minion saying Anika Wells has now rectified the situation surrounding her husband working for a Labor party lobby group and that’s the end of the conversation. Really? Well, ummm no. Wells needs to go.
It’s not just Wells who takes the piss out of the tax payer with her blinding arrogance and taste for the finer things in life the whole political rort system needs fixing. Now Albo and Taylor will be out saying they don’t make the rules, everything is audited, that they’re just doing their work within the parameters of the rules. On and on it’ll go, but really we call bullshit and time on the whole system.
Wells we know is a professional piss taker, but politicians on all sides of the divide for too long been taking the piss with family trips home way out where ever. Has anyone ever really called them on it? Yeah sometimes, but if governments are serious about holding their MP’s to real account then they need to act. Will they? I wouldn’t think so, the gravy train is so luxurious who’d want to get off?!
Isis bride arrested
Six months after returning to Australia one of the so called ISIS brides has been arrested for allegedly being part of a terrorist organisation. Six months.
Now we don’t want to victimise anyone that isn’t up to no good, but if we are seeing the arrest six months later of people who have been allowed back into the country then I’m sorry how are we allowing that to happen? How do allow someone back in without checking them? Let’s talk Kayne West shall we? Or anyone else that is subject to entry restrictions…we seem to be pretty quick to ban an individual from entering the country but we are allowing people under investigation back into and then arresting them?
France is stopping all migration for three years. They’ve had enough of people using their country as an escape route from yes awful circumstances, but also to spread the love their religions and ideologies bring and yes that’s sarcasm. Here in Australia though we let people in and then ask questions, how are we supposed to protect our borders? How do we ever get on top of the housing crisis and fix the strain on infrastructure if we just keep the front door open and say, hey come this way.
Migrants have played a huge part in Australia becoming the country it is. They have, we have had a massively positive impact on the country, but these new migrants the ones who help Tony Burke get elected, the ones running around with machetes and care little about consequences it’s time to close the door on. If we keep allowing the open door policy we won’t be the lucky country anymore we’ll be the dumping ground for all that is wrong with global migration.
Labor and their donation laws
Can you hear it? Can you hear the government lackies, the corporations, the people and those with less than shinny resumes getting out their wallets in readiness to hand large amounts of cash to the Allan Labor government?
Allan and her minions of Nod are desperately trying to push through reforms to the political donation laws. Why? Because the more money Allan can get her hands on the more money she’ll have to fight the election campaign with.
Now there will be those that say Allan is fighting an up hill battle to win in November but regardless the reality is the more money she has the more her chances increase of winning. But who is handing her the money? Who wants to see her win in her own right? Well, you know how all those big build projects are over budget? You know those consulting firms making millions off government jobs? You know those people lurking in the shadows who make money off government contracts? Them.
See, Labor are a machine and when the Ayatollah was in charge he ruled with an iron fist that took from the poor and gave to pretty much everyone else that was of use to him. When he gave it away for guest appearances at dictator conferences Allan took up the reins and is now desperately trying to hang onto power and keep her spot on the gravy train. How? By allowing bigger donations to the government election campaign.
Back in the day saying to the Libs that they could have more donor money would’ve meant that the Portsea and Sorrento lot could open their wallets and kiss Labor goodbye, but no more. While there are still some very well heeled Liberal party supporters it’s Labor have all the financial support via these narcissistic self serving people and organisations with their finger buried deep in the Labor pie.
Allan will get her way and change the donation laws and it’ll help the greens, the teals and One Nation, but most of all it will help Labor hang onto power in a state that corrupt and broken.
The secret is out…we’re broke
Just in case you’re thinking Labor care one bit about you, your family or your business remember that there’s no cash here! No cash! Here there’s no cash. Australia is bearing a trillion dollar deficit. A trillion dollars! Now yes a good whack of that was all about how badly Covid was handled but Albo and big ears have really done sweet fuck all to fix any of the debt issues, in fact, they’ve made it worse!
See while intergenerational inequality isn’t a good thing a young person that wasn’t anywhere near being able to buy a house a week before the budget was no closer after it. While Albo and big ears will say we’re cutting out this and helping there the reality is they’re fucking broke and they need the money from the cuts in CGT and negative gearing. Tax! It’s the only lever Labor seem to think they have when it comes to raising revenue but sell it as they’re doing us a favour!
Jenny Wilkinson head of the treasury has come out now saying the cuts to CGT and negative gearing won’t do squat for housing rather it is as we say, a cash grab. The government has no money, they need to get it from somewhere so bang! Tax!
The petrol price excise comes off very soon, firstly watch the price spike and petrol that’s already been paid for, but the government needs that money. They will say it’s all about Trump fucking things up in the Middle East but they could keep the excise, they won’t though because? They need the fucking money.
The media are pushing this whole idea that Albo and big ears lied about CGT and negative gearing and they did, but the real underlying issue is that the country is broke. Until Australian governments start investing in Australia, until they shut the front door, until they actually start supporting the idea that Australia is one of the worlds great natural resources for a range of vital minerals we are rooted.
Trans debate just went insane
Ok, just work with me here…if a biological woman decides she wants to be a non biological man, ‘HE’ could get pregnant. If a biological man decides he wants to be a non biological woman SHE cannot get pregnant. Now the issues the whole she he they them Doug and Denise raise are long and complicated BUT! What is unquestionably true is that a biological man cannot get pregnant no matter what ‘SHE’ identifies as or what surgery ‘SHE’ has had.
While that makes some vague kind of sense it doesn’t to Sexual discrimination commissioner, Dr Anna Cody.
It could be true that if a biological woman that identifies as a man could get pregnant Dr Cody went to the Senate hearings yesterday to say…
“…men who identify as women deserve potential pregnancy discrimination protections…”
I’m sorry what?
Dr Cody when questioned by Michaelia Cash admitted biological men couldn’t get pregnant but then suggested men still deserved discrimination protections when it came to pregnancy. She wasn’t saying men who were women who could get pregnant deserve protections, no she was saying biological men deserve you know what…
This woman is a Doctor. She did quite a bit of study on human anatomy and yet on $400k a year, as the Sexual discrimination commissioner she’s backing biological men to have protections around pregnancy? Has the Doctor lost her mind? Where are the protections for young women, for girls for women in general from perverted weirdos storming into women only spaces? When did men get rights being women?
This whole agenda isn’t about anyones right to live as a pigeon, it’s about pandering to minorities that can deliver? Votes!
The Doc needs to get herself back to uni for a refresher and before that she needs to be sacked from her role because she doesn’t even understand the concept of genuine discrimination.
Pauline would make the ABC subscription model
Well I have to say I’d like to see Pauline Hanson become PM just to see the faces on the staff down at the ABC when they were told their days as the government backed broadcaster were over! Can you imagine?!
Pauline Hanson, not one to shy away from a cause has said if she was PM she would shift the ABC to a subscription service and pull its funding. Now look the ABC do do some good stuff but the fact that they are now nowhere near anything even remotely related to unbiased is a joke when the reality is they’re funded by the tax payer.
The recent performances of Patricia Karvelas who suggested voting for One Nation could legitimise the party and criticising Jacinta Price for going on the 2 Worlds collide podcast reeks of an organisation that is nowhere near unbiased. The fact that Karvelas faced zero consequences for her statements shows how out of touch the ABC are.
If the ABC were indeed presenting all side of an argument why wouldn’t they talk to Sam Bamford about his views? Why not discuss the impacts right wing podcasters like Joe Rogan have had on media credibility? But no, the organisation would rather criticise anything out of their orbit and cast it aside as irrelevant and beneath them.
Seperate to Pauline Hanson potentially defunding the ABC the broadcaster is losing credibility and given it’s funded by the taxpayer payer you have to ask why doesn’t it listen? Why doesn’t it take any notice of the changed world we live in? Why doesn’t it see both sides of an argument instead of putting itself out as the arbiters of truth and the only way forward. Well I’d suggest things will now only go more left because there will be those at the ABC praying they don’t see Pauline Hanson with Ari Golds paint gun any time soon.
The new party that could end the Libs
Well, well, well could a party formed by the Teal independents be the final nail in the coffin for the Libs? Sorry, a party formed by a wealthy individual who has zero love for the major parties especially the right wing ones.
There are reports floating around that a new party made up of all those smart independent, mostly women, are about to join forces and take it to the country. This is a major issue for the Libs at all levels. While the Teals have been more left than right, a party made up of strong worldly educated women is going to pull yet more people away from the ever failing Libs who are lost. Women aren’t that keen on One Nation, sure as hell won’t vote Liberal and while they may have voted Labor before they’re now disenchanted so the timing of Team Teal if it does come off couldn’t be better.
While any party that is aimed at unifying the Teal independents won’t take votes away from One Nation both the Libs and Labor will have groaned loudly when they caught wind of the proposed new party. The Libs are already losing ground to One Nation and Labor will see the female vote walk away for the Teals in some seats, which could end up benefiting One Nation. The Teals will never share preferences with One Nation but the Libs might which could see Prime Minister Hanson after all!
While the Teals could become the new kid on the block the survey Hoodies Media conducted suggested that if Pauline Hanson did win a House of Representatives seat she would become PM with 55% of the vote. Angus Taylor was next on 36% with Albo on? 7%
The global political landscape is changing and Australia is no different, why? Because people are sick and tired of the lies, the spin and corruption. Albo will no doubt have the same opinion of a Teal party as he does of One Nation but if the majors don’t start changing their tune and soon they will be wiped away to become a chapter in the political history of the country.
What happened to the Libs?
How many times do we need to ask it, but what happened to the Libs? A party born on the foundations of freedom and the support for small business is now staring down the barrel of being forced into irrelevance by a person that turned her back on them, Pauline Hanson.
The genuinely staggering things about the Libs is they think they’re still relevant. Think what you like about Labor but they’re still popular as are One Nation but the Libs are continuing to slide and don’t seem to know how to fix it. They ditched their first female leader and replaced her with a carbon copy of every other middle aged liberal party male and now think bringing Tony Abbott back is a good idea! Wha?!
In Victoria the state libs seem to have finally organised themselves to back a leader, but they still have to face a court case against one of their own, plus there’s the issue of Moira Deeming. Labor are toxic in Victoria so it could be the case that a high school debating team could beat them in the upcoming election but the Libs could struggle especially with the One Nation influence an unknown.
The remarkable thing about the Victorian libs is they’re in better shape than their federal counterparts who at the last election were a disaster. I mean they both ended up being a disaster but you get what I mean.
Freedom
Less government involvement in people’s lives
Support small business
Less spending on multi billion dollar projects
Less corruption
Less crime
Better support for disabled people
Less violence
Better housing policy
More job creation
More nationalistic pride
That’s about it really. It’s not rocket science but yet it seems an impossible concept for the federal party. At their core their biggest issue is arrogance and until they stop thinking they’re smarter than everyone they will continue to play second fiddle to Aunty Pauline.
Who is really pulling the strings?
I’m sorry but who is the one taking the piss out of Victorians?
Someone, somewhere hired expensive lawyers, went to court and had IBAC stopped from publishing an investigation called Operation Richmond. Why? Who’s in it? What does it say? What have they got to hide? And when is enough enough?
There are national security concerns that the general public have no right to know about. Near misses, threats foreign or domestic that should indeed remain confidential but an IBAC enquiry in to the UFU and the former Premier? The bloke who was photographed on a stage with three of the biggest dictators on the planet!
It’s really just a joke now. It’s hard not to believe that when we look back on this period in the history of the state we don’t do it without shaking our heads and asking how we put up either their crap for so long. Sadly though at the moment it seems we don’t have a choice.
There are so many fingers in the state government pie that there are powers around that do not want Jacinta Allan to lose come November. The bigger issue though is that there are people and organisations that are beyond government and are capable of decisions that damage the very fabric of not only democracy but of our entire legal system.
These are dark days and it seems they will get darker before they get any brighter.
New Labor Party agenda – Divide & Conquer
When Victoria was in the throes of the COVID crisis what did Andrews do? Turned those who didn’t agree with the lockdowns and restrictions into villains, they were people who weren’t doing their part for Victoria. When Albo tried to push the voice through he had his celebrity mates tell us that anyone who didn’t agree with it was Un Australian. Recently Paul Keating, the man who is on the pay roll of a billionaire suggested anyone that didn’t agree with the proposed changes to negative gearing and the CGT was greedy, cool! Thanks Paul.
Labor until recently have been a law unto themselves because they would sell their own grandmothers into slavery for a vote. The Libs on the other hand would have to check with their members if it was ok to talk to anyone possibly from a multicultural background. But because One Nation would bite the head off a bat for votes Labor no longer have it all their own way.
A recent poll has suggested that while Labor would win an election if it were held tomorrow, they would be a minority government with One Nation becoming the official opposition! The Libs? Decimated.
This weekends Labor party conference has Albo doubling down on his commitment to the budget and trying to reset the housing market. The issue for Albo is that while he may have good intentions it’s all too little too late. People are sick of hearing about the division of the haves and the have nots from politicians in $1,000 plus suits and LV handbags. Politicians with multiple investment properties and life long pensions for what exactly?
There is no doubt the country needs more affordable housing so if the government is serious let’s go back to the first home buyers grant, or maybe become the guarantor on low interest loans for small businesses, baby bonuses, cap rents, cap house prices…do something other than penalise those who have worked hard to enjoy life.
See Albo and big ears have forgotten where they came from. They’re no longer part of the working class where people are having to literally count coins to buy food or put petrol in the car. They have lived beyond all of that and occupy the place where they can say stand with us or against us and fuck anyone in the middle.
It’s not hard to see why Pauline Hanson looks set to become opposition leader because at least she seems to be able to connect with Australians who are struggling unlike Mr Divide and Conquer.
Justice in Victoria?
I’m sorry, I know we go on about it but when is enough enough in Victoria? When does anyone get justice or face any kind of it? IBAC have tabled a report that aims to rid the state of corruption at all levels and what happens? Someone with enough power and money takes them to court and prevents the report being made public.
Who is actually running Victoria? When IBAC hand down a report or when the media discover yet more money filtered off the tax payer slush fund, when someone is intimidated by a bikie gang who cleans it all up? Who hires the lawyers? Whose money is being used to cover it up? Who is making sure that the gravy train keeps in rolling? That democracy is abused to the point of ruin?
For years now Victoria has been the land of do as we say not as we do with no consequences. Bail laws are a complete joke, government responsibility has gone out the window, fire bombings are now a regular occurrence and crime is so rampant it’s run by overseas gangs that face zero consequences. So I ask again, who is genuinely responsible?
Is this all a case of government ineptitude or deliberate disregard for regulations? Is there actually a group of people controlling the state, which may sound a little far fetched but we seem to have the same things happening over and over again and let’s face it politicians aren’t that smart!
Crime gangs, politicians, a group controlling the state, individuals with too much money and power, whatever or whoever it is we need our state back and we need to start cracking down or Biff Tanin will be the new Boss of Melbourne!
Hey Albo! Socialism doesn’t work!
According to Paul Keating the former PM and the man who is on the pay roll of a billionaire if you are complaining about having to pay more tax via the new CGT changes you’re greedy.
According to Chris Minns Labor Premier of NSW paying a 47% tax rate means you’re working half of the week for yourself and the other half for the government and that’s not fair.
According to some letters in the Age everyone should have to pay their fair share to keep the country moving and the make things equitable.
According to the Media on budget night the budget itself was a good start in reforming the tax system that could well help first home buyers get into the market.
So did anyone need any kind of clarification that Australia was now run by the socialist left? Chris Minns may well be the most sensible politician in the country and sure as hell the only Labor leader to question the government’s tax rates, but Chris may be a solo voice on the issue.
Out in the real world where Australians are genuinely doing it tough people have had enough of this left wing approach to the economy. Debt? Who cares about debt?! We need to build big things…and give bikies money. The NDIS? We need to give everyone with a disability the opportunity to live their lives to the full…and let the system be rorted by providers. The tax system? Must be fair and equitable for all…except big corporations and tech companies they can pay what they want. The budget? The budget was the first stage in fixing intergenerational inequality…so long as you don’t mind paying more for rent and house prices staying the same or even going up a little.
I mean look the whole idea of socialism is great until other peoples money runs out, you’ve had enough of being poor and watching those in power walk around with LV handbags and wearing flash suits.
The blow back on the budget is now beyond the control of the mainstream media, the government and those in government aligned organisations that want to suck up to Labor, Albo and big ears are going to have to make changes asap! If they don’t they will be in a hole so deep they’ll having to throw the keys to PM’s bathroom to Pauline Hanson!
Hanson struggling with demand
Pauline Hanson has posted on her socials that she and her team of mostly volunteers are struggling to keep up with the demand for her time and with enquiries and concerns. Hanson posted that she was sorry the party hadn’t been able to keep up with demand but everyone was working as hard as they could to keep up.
It’s no wonder that Hanson and One Nation are in high demand. A recent mainstream poll had One Nation leading as Australia’s preferred political party. In our week long poll asking who would be your choice of PM if Hanson got a lower house seat, which is two days old, 244 people have voted with the results so far being;
Albo 5%
Taylor 38%
Hanson 58%
So it’s no wonder she’s busy, but it does beg the question, why did Albo cut staff to One Nation? Not important enough or a genuine threat?
If Hanson does pull off the unthinkable and win the next election imagine how much satisfaction there’d be from Pauline if she got to cut the number of staff in Labor’s office?! You have to ask though if we do live in a fair and reasonable democracy why aren’t we allowing for an even spread of money to be distributed to minor parties? And given One Nation is now creaming the Libs should they be given something extra? The answer from Albo is of course no, but how sweet a victory it would be for One Nation if they did win it all off existing party politics and rules set by those wanting to crush their competition.
Allan and her socials
One of the pitfalls of running a daily newspaper is that I have to read the utter diatribe posted by many a politician and I of course have to endure the posts of the Premier Jacinta Allan. People hate her! There is real toxicity aimed at the Premier most of which she has brought on herself but she’s is not popular on social media.
That the Premier is not well liked on her socials when she spends more on it than Daniel Andrews did you can’t help but ask what is she spending money on!? When Andrews was at his powerful worst he had legions of social media supporters, who remembers, the I stand with Dans? Post a comment on something supporting Andrews that was critical of him and look out! Everyone from PR guy to the Mad Witches would be all over you, but with Allan? Hmmm not so much.
Social media was a massive weapon in the Andrews armoury. He would have his team of social media minions posting opinions, covid rules, major announcements, policy changes, events and more all to massive amounts of support. When people became weary of the Covid rules he lost some of his social media appeal but if Allan had that level of support now she’d think it was Christmas.
The Libs have gone with the cheap natural approach to social media, they’ve basically done it all themselves which is actually something Allan should think about because what she’s currently got going isn’t working.
It goes to show though you don’t need to spend a fortune on social media to be relevant because there are those spending one who are running out of genuine followers.
How many fingers in Victoria’s pie
Everywhere you look in Victoria you see catastrophic failure. Debt out of control, corruption, incompetence, over spending on infrastructure, lost opportunities, lies and a government that seems unaccountable. Come the November state election Victorians again have a chance to have their say, but if Allan does lose then apart from the blood sucking parasites in government losing their seats who else stands to lose?
Victoria is a union town. Has been for decades, which is why Labor have down so well here, but what it means in 2026 is that it’s not so much about looking after the workers, rather it’s about how much money the CFMEU and their bikie mates rort the system for. $15 billion is supposedly unaccounted for in the big build project and more recently a police investigation is apparently under way for $6 million in rates to the metro tunnel. Victorian politicians make a base salary of around $190,000, which is good money, plus then they get allowances for managing various portfolios so say on average they get $280,000? Thats great money! But they only get that while they’re in office, what are they meant to do if and when they lose their seat? How are they to survive?! Surely they can’t be asked to get a job in the real world?
While governments feather their nests the ones making big money out of governments are consulting firms. Obviously we don’t elect politicians based on the skills they bring to the table, if we did the consulting firms would be stuffed, so roll in the big firms to show governments how to rip the average punter off! Now the Libs will obviously need some help unwinding the utter mess Labor has created if they do win in November but there would be a few consulting firms a bit nervous about their meal tickets after the election.
Labor controlled or influenced so called private industry groups, not that I’m stupid enough to name them, but have a listen to the ABC to get an idea of the industry groups that support Labor and who are shitting themselves if the Libs win.
Lobby groups, property developers, rich people and the list is endless of people who have their fingers in the Victorian pie. I mean even the crooks don’t want Labor to lose come November, one of them was even heard saying it! There so many people with their hands out in Victoria you have to wonder what lengths they’ll go to to hang on, but they can’t. They absolutely have to go and while Victoria is akin to the New York of the 70’s and 80’s they cleaned it up and we absolutely must do the same.
When will the left learn?
What is it with the lefties? Is it a case of Jack Nicholson? They can’t handle the truth? Or is their model simply to attack anything that threatens their supposed moral high ground?
The left wants status quo. In the UK labour wants the Tories to get themselves together and here in Australia the same, Labor wants the Libs to get themselves sorted. But neither UK labour nor Australian Labor are willing to accept that there is a new version of the right and like it or not it’s here to stay.
The right gets tarred with the extremist brush more than the left and at the moment in the UK there are two right wingers making names for themselves. Head of Reform UK, Nigel Farage and far right activist Tommy Robinson. Despite both men having no desire to support Labour or anything they stand for Farage stays well away from Robinson given his somewhat extremist views. Robinson was the key organiser of the UK protests over the weekend and has been labelled as one of those spreading hate and division. While that’s marginally true Robinson represents an ever growing voice against migrants living off government handouts. Farage has the same opinion but his are somewhat less enthusiastic for storming the barricades.
The reality for UK labor is that the right is on the rise and it’s not via traditional Tory values. UK PM Kier Starmer has gone a little way to accept the rise of the right but our own PM, good old Albo ridicules the far right, ie Pauline Hanson at every opportunity.
In Australia we have an ailing liberal party who seem to be incapable of doing much but fight amongst themselves and to try and work out what it is they stand for. They are quickly being replaced by the Pauline Hanson lead One Nation that is more akin to Reform UK rather than anything Tommy Robinson might come up with.
We all know that Pauline isn’t going to take a backwards step in her fight against Albo and she is indeed the populist right in Australia but where is any kind of acceptance of her as a genuine threat from Australian Labor? There isn’t any and that’s what could cost Albo his job. We know the left wants to play moral compass for all of us but there are a lot of people who are sick of them doing it.
Australians want a voice, they want to be heard and be offered cost of living relief but if that voice is raised via One Nation then woooo you must be a racist homophobic bigot! Disagreeing with Albo doesn’t make anyone a racist bigot, far from it but still Labor seems incapable of acknowledging that people are pissed off!
The left have had their chance to get the world sorted but they’ve stuffed it and people want change. If Albo in particular can’t work it all out then he’s in deep trouble but regardless the right is coming and they’re here to stay.
Labor falling, Libs lifting, but what about Pauline?
Political polls two or more years out from an election sort of seem a bit pointless sometimes but when you see what’s happening in Australian politics you have to say they make for fascinating reading and discussion.
Federal Labor in their post budget fallout have dropped to 28% with the Libs on 23% and One Natjon now on 24% which despite their lack of seats in the parliament kind of casts One Nation as the opposition, which begs the next question, what do Australians think about Pauline Hanson becoming the next PM?
Ok ok ok! We know Pauline would have to say goodbye to the Senate and run for a House a representatives seat, but she’s already flagged that and so where’s the question on preferred PM? These polls have Albo and Angus Taylor but why not throw in Pauline? So we have, over the next week we’re conducting our own poll to see who our LinkedIn audience prefers as PM, Albo, Taylor or assuming she got a seat in the House of Representatives Pauline Hanson…we will report back with the results in a week.
It’s pretty obvious that Nigel Farage is going to be the next elected UK Prime Minister but here in Australia the way things are going it could well be the case that One Nation either hold the balance of power or take over. Now we know Albo and mainstream media will laugh that off but I’d suggest they do so at their own peril.
There is every chance that if Albo keeps going as badly as he is in the polls and if inflation isn’t tamed soon Labor will be in trouble, in steps Pauline. Albo needs to come to terms with the fact that One Nation is Australia’s new political force and he can’t keep calling the party and their supporters a bunch of right wing extremist racists and bigots! These are people deeply concerned about the state of the country, about how they can provide for their families and their own futures. Real issues being faced by real people doesn’t make them racist bigots but will Albo only realise once he’s out of a job?
Our poll on preferred PM is open now, so head to my LinkedIn page, Ben Logan and cast your vote.
Are we seriously giving Dan a statue?
When the idea of a statue for the biggest prick ever to hold public office in this country came up in conversation did no one say FUCK NO! WHO was there for that initial conversation? His Mum? Wife? I mean seriously.
The Victorian tax payer is going to shell out not only $135,000 to have the statue of Andrews made but then the repair bills to maintain the thing because really, it is going to become the most vandalised piece of crap in the country!
Is this just a case of Labor saying he’s one of us and he served the state well, he deserves his statue or is this a joke? The man not only bankrupted the state but he was at a meeting of the greatest dictators on the planet and yet he’s still getting a statue? He was in a photo smiling with Putin, Xi and Kim! What the fuck are we doing?!
Has Victoria now become so delusional that piss taking is now just expected? I mean we have a Lord Mayor who seems to spend more time in the Qantas lounge than he does in his office, we have a premier who says she’s shocked by all the corruption on big build sites when her husband worked for the CFMEU, we have a $200 billion state debt and we have no end in site to a Labor government that is hell bent on seeing the state go broke. And then we decide to give a statue to the bloke who did fuck us over the most out of everyone?!
Unbelievable! Absolutely amazing that this is even being talked about but hey welcome to Victoria!
Is migration really the issue?
Australia was made on migrant labour, no one can deny that, but in recent years migration has become a political football that is sold to us as a good thing on one side of the political divide and a bad thing on the other. What’s the truth? Balance. We need balance.
Migrants built Australia, the only ones here that are genuine Australians are the aboriginals everyone else is descended from migrants. I am, my grandparents came to Australia after the Second World War, I am the first generation of my family to be born here. The same with countless other people. I always say if it wasn’t for the Greeks and the Italians Australia wouldn’t have the hospitality industry it does today…
In the last ten years migration has indeed gone from come here work hard have a life to come here, get a government house and jump on welfare payments. A gross generalisation yes but not untrue. Last night we heard Angus Taylor’s budget response which was to mainly cut immigration. Yes cut it but what we really need are more homes, better skilled migrants and to end the welfare state.
Housing is a key issue right across the world but in Australia we don’t seem to be in much of a hurry to build more homes. We scan roll out the plan to do it, we can wear the high vis vest and the hard hat but where are the actual homes?
Trades, teachers, child care workers, doctors, engineers, hospitality staff…these are the people we need not more and more of those who don’t think this is the lucky country. Yes new migrant groups represent more votes to one party or the other, but we need to get real and start pushing the fact that while migration is important, until we can house them they need to stay where they are.
Migrants have played a huge role in the developed of this great southern land but now we need ones that are ready to contribute not ones here to bring their own ways of doing things to our shores.
Pauline calls a spade a spade
What is the one thing that people value most? Honesty. What do people hate most about politicians their lies, I mean because Albo broke the promise around negative gearing and Capital gains tax Labor have absolutely tanked in the polls. Over at One Nation though their latest polling numbers have gone through the roof because? Pauline came in a went whack have a dose of reality which people love.
Even if the ABC’s Patricia Karvelas thinks that legitimising One Nation is a bad thing the party of what seems to be the average person is coming for Labor in a big way. While the majors are offering all kind of inducements to vote for them or at least donate to their causes Hanson isn’t pandering to voters with infrastructure and more money for the CFMEU. Hanson is saying people are doing it tough and can empathise with them. Yes she needs to start pushing policies but right now it’s all about making enough noise to lift the party brand and show the country that they’re capable of running the country.
One Nation are now effectively in the same position as Reform UK is. They’re not in government but the support is growing and will unquestionably give Labour a massive wake up call at the next federal election. Can it happen here? Absolutely it can and my question is, will that make those who had had enough of Albo racist bigots or will it simply be a case that people were done with the same old nonsense. The ABC may well say the same old nonsense is what kept the country moving but if Hanson did become PM or one of her colleagues I’m not sure the ABC would be around…
The quote from Hanson that will go down in the history books after the budget was that it was a shit sandwich Australians are being forced to eat, not very subtle but like it or not it’s what a good portion of Australians were thinking and that’s why people are turning to One Nation. Hanson isn’t going to suffer fools or the LV handbag holding MP who flaunts their wealth, while I’m sure she’s done ok out of her political life she’s connecting to Australians that for too long have been neglected.
Those people not in the inner city havens of the lefties are the ones getting behind One Nation. The people who feel forgotten, the ones who are doing it tough and have had enough of the spin. Will Albo wake up and see what’s happening? Well, he’s more likely to understand it than the Libs but right now the odds are shortening on One Nation taking over in a few years time.
Life outside the politicians
If the budget showed us anything it showed us that most political financing decisions are fairly irrelevant to most people. I mean really, if you weren’t thinking you could be buying a house before the budget it won’t be thinking you can buy one after it. Yes the idea of getting more first home buyers into the market is a good idea but realistically how many people can afford a home at the moment? And now with CGT and negative gearing going or being changed rents will only go up, then what?
Having dealt with the morning media flurry in the post budget sales push Chalmers was off to lunch with a few hundred of his closet friends. Business executives all wanting to hear from the Treasurer about how he’s helping the country…some happier than others but really does the average punter care about any of it? Not much.
Herein is the thing, budgets and government finances don’t mean much to the average person especially in the modern world. Why would they? The money governments are offering isn’t like the baby bonus was, it’s not like the $14,000 first home owners grant was, there’s no direct benefit to the average citizen so why exactly do we even bother with governments? It’s not like Australia has any charismatic leaders in the place we’d walk on hot coals for, they’re all mostly narcissistic liars so why bother? Why not forge our own paths?
The key reason people like Pauline Hanson so much is there’s no spin, she’s not out there making broken promises, rather she’s just being straight down the line. Of course liking anything Hanson says makes you a racist bigot but what if the whole country gets sick of Labour and Liberal? Is the entire country a bunch of racist bigots? Me thinks not…
The UFC founder Dana White said that the world is full of sooks, that there aren’t many people out there now willing to go it alone, to take risks, but if you did, if you could rise above the noise there is success to be had. Now while I’m paraphrasing White is not wrong when it comes to politicians, it’s time to run our own race, to make our own pile. While we’d still pay taxes on the pile it’s time we ignored the virtue signalling politician and said no thanks my pathway is different to yours. #politiciansareirrelevant
Victoria/CFMEU the big winner in the Budget
Victoria is the big winner out of the federal budget, sorry the CFMEU is the big winner out of the budget thanks to Albo handing over billions to fund yet another Victorian government infrastructure project. Oh by the way any news on the airport rail link? But back to the CFMEU, ugh sorry! The state government, they now have some of the money they need to dig more holes and employ more bikies!
You have to wonder how much longer federal labor will bail out Victorian labor for? Jacinta Allan is lucky it’s an election year in Victoria because it’s highly unlikely Allan would be getting as much money as she is out of Albo if it wasn’t. What all this does mean is that the rest of the country is pissed with Victoria, and why not?!
When covid hit dictator Dan locked Victoria down for a ridiculous amount of time leading to massive state debt which Frydenberg had to bank roll. In 2026 that debt is growing by the day because Allan refuses to make any kind of plans to pay it down but in rolls Albo with his money tree to save the day!
You’d have to think that whoever wins the Victorian state election come November will be having the money hose switched off. Labor or Liberal it’s time Victoria started paying its bills, but I wonder if Albo is secretly hoping Wilson wins because then if she does the money tree goes bear!
Who know what will happen come November but for now it’s the Albo and Allan show and god help all of us!
Normalised violence
What’s happened to Melbourne? Every morning we wake up we hear of another home invasion, another beating on the streets, another murder, another fire bombing, another break in…we seem to have become immune to all of it! Why? How did we allow this happen? How? Because it’s not really important in the news cycle now is it? Doesn’t get as many eyeballs on it as it used to, people have moved on.
The state government, the City of Melbourne, the ABC et all will all tell you how awesome Melbourne is when really it’s a mix of violence, racism, instagram posts and politics. How did we get here? A big part of it was pandering to minorities for votes. Yes immigration and the tolerance of appalling behaviours has also had an impact but at the core of our issues is that we seem to have become ambivalent to what’s around us.
The lefties will say we need programs to educate people, to have better drug support networks and the right wingers say lock them up and throw away the key BUT we don’t do either! The news is full of attacks, of fire bombings, of stabbings and home invasions and yet we don’t seem to be getting anywhere…
What we need firstly is less apathy and then we need to be cracking down on how the law can be used to see these people back out on bail so quickly. We absolutely need better drug programs, we need to deal with homelessness and we need to address issues around migration, but while the whole thing is run by a corrupt and incompetent government we’re cooked.
Go woke go broke? How about go woke and be
The budget
I find it all pretty repulsive when social media, Facebook in particular is full of people offering to do odd jobs for people for extra cash because things are so tight they simply can’t afford to pay their bills, but the federal Treasurer leaves the House of Representatives to wild applause and hand shakes from his fellow Labor members. Food banks are seeing record numbers of people come to their doorsteps hoping to get food for their kids and families and yet Chalmers is applauded? Hand down your budget, do your press conferences but don’t think for one second that you’re helping real Australians.
This budget goes after younger voters, the couples wanting to buy their first home, remember the great Australian dream? It’s trying to force house prices down, which is unquestionably a good thing but by how much and will it make the dream of home ownership a reality? Well yes and no, if you were planning to buy a house then yes it’ll be slightly cheaper but if you’re still trying to pull together a deposit or don’t have one then no.
Labor are trying to take some of the wealth and advantages older Australians have over younger ones and make the system make the system more equitable. Will it work? Maybe maybe not but what is certain is that more than 90% of people in a Herald Sun poll said they wouldn’t vote Labor at the next election.
While Chalmers and Albo have an eye to voters of tomorrow a lot of this budget relies on the war in the Middle East ending and not much going wrong, so we have to wonder what Slim Jim’s plans are if Trump invades North Korea next? The mainstream media lot, mainly those at Fairfax and the ABC have commended Chalmers for taking a chance for INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY but while Jess Wilson in Victoria is showing some real courage that could indeed cost her votes Chalmers isn’t talking about the $1.2 Trillion debt Australia will amass in the next few years.
Property investors and those using family trusts will be on the phone to the accountant today working out how to move the pieces on their chess boards and the tourism sector will be wondering what it did wrong to upset Chalmers and Albo but really, will the Labor budget change how much a litre of milk is today? Nope.
The bottom line of the budget and the astonishing vanity of the treasurer is that until the government can offer tangible and meaningful benefits to the average person then it’s all just economics on a level most people don’t care about. The media can say it’s a budget for the ages and that it’s helping young Australians, the average punter will look at it and say it’s just more of the same from a bunch of over paid wankers who don’t know what it’s like to struggle.
I have a question for the treasurer, how does this budget help the single dad, whose wife died, who has three kids is a chippy and is struggling to make ends meet? See, he’s working his arse off, he’s doing extra work to keep his head above water, he’s not on welfare payments, he’s working, hard and yet he gets, what? $250 back on his tax in 2028?
But hey, enjoy the applause Jim, a job well done for INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY and the marketing team.
Are the Victorian Libs immune from One Nation?
Can the Liberal Party of Victoria buck the national tide and knock off Labor AND One Nation?
There are many of us that believe that if the Libs don’t do a deal with One Nation in Victoria Labor will get back in. How? Because there will be those that have supported Labor for years but can’t stand what Allan has done, they won’t vote Liberal so will vote One Nation. There will be those that have voted Liberal for years but can’t stand what they’ve become so will vote One Nation, which will see the vote spilt between three parties. The spilt of that vote will see Labor get preferences from the Greens and independents and give Allan back the keys to Treasury Place.
One Nation doesn’t have a leader in Victoria really. There’s no one from the party standing out the front of the state election campaign for One Nation saying I want to be your Premier, so in realistic terms One Nation is another election cycle away from getting into government but what of the Libs? With a spilt right wing vote and a protest vote going to One Nation can the Libs win? Right now it’s 50/50.
The days when Daniel Andrews was Premier you’d have these ironed on lefties proclaiming undying love and support for the man, but with Allan, not so much. People hate her. That’s not trying to be divisive that’s the truth, so she’s not going to poll well, but with the deals Labor do on preferences she could legitimately hang on thanks largely in part to One Nation.
While One Nation is saying no way to any kind of coalition with the Libs they both need each other’s preferences. If the Libs can get the One Nation preferences then it’s all over for Labor, in fact if the Libs and One Nation do deals on preferences throughout the country Labor are toast but right now Victorian Liberals need One Nation more than they’re willing to admit!
Can Albo defeat the populists?
Albo hasn’t really made himself any friends since he became PM, it’s more like his opposition has been woeful, but what happens now given One Nation is on the rise? Given Albo has taken every opportunity he’s had to ridicule One Nation and say they’re the problem what’s going to happen now?
It’s hard to see how One Nation win the next election but it could be that they install themselves as the federal opposition meaning Albo could well be facing off against Pauline in the House of Representatives. Then what? Does Albo just sit there saying how racist and divisive One Nation is or does he offer the olive branch and say let democracy do its thing?
Albo has of late taken to our screens to proclaim how much of a good guy he is. To say that we don’t want hate, that we do have enough petrol even if Chris Bowen says we should be going for EV’s and that he knows Australians are doing it tough…and none of us believe a word of it. In fact people across the country are sick of both sides and their hypocrisy so with One Nation on the war path are those that vote for them really racist bigots? We think not, but at the moment that’s the type of brush Albo and the ABC are applying to the party and their supporters.
One nation are here to stay and right now Labor need to take a different tact that isn’t calling anyone that supports them racists, they have to be called people who sick of the spin, people who are doing it tough and want better solutions to the problems they’re facing. If Albo is going to continue with his videos in nice suits and talking to the Australian people he needs to bring the country together and show genuine empathy rather than the fake stuff he’s had since he became PM.
The rhetoric of One Nation being racist bigots needs to stop and be replaced with a story of unity, of being a country with a proud history and of unwritten stories of nationalism. The days of Labor attacking One Nation must end because that’s what will turn more and more people to them, if Albo wants to lead, to really lead now is the time to show us what he’s made of. Will he? Maybe, maybe not but regardless the Pauline express is on the way, so best get ready now!
Why Wells must go
A person has every right to wear, drive, live in or flaunt the shallow trappings of success. Buy a flash car, an expensive watch, have a hand bag worth more than the average family car, live in a house the size of Tassie…you may have earned all of it but when you’re a politician, especially a left wing progressive one, well you should possibly keep the flaunting of wealth to a minimum.
For most politicians it’s business wear, no fuss, hello good bye thank you very much, for Anika Wells though, it’s a bit more in your face. It’s obviously that Ms Wells likes the finer things of life, hand bags, clothes and travel to name but a few however some of it she doesn’t like paying for herself. She’d rather the tax payer pick up the bill for life’s little luxuries, like flying her family to her side so they can all get piste together…
Now I know there are those within the progressive left that will suggest I’m being sexist and I’m targeting a woman who acted within accordance of the rules. Further to that, when she did get busted she was sorry and repaid the money she was told to, oh bravo Ms Wells, thank you! And herein is the issue, she did repay the money, she did act within the rules, but did anyone think in a cost of living crisis where people are so hard up against it that maybe the rules are wrong?
Politicians at a federal level get a base salary of more than $230,000 per annum, plus they get allowances for travel and for taking on various positions within government or opposition. So the average MP could easily make $300,000 per year. Compare this to the average salary of a regular person of $90,000 it’s not bad money. $90,000 to feed a family, pay the rent or mortgage, bills, car…so when Ms Wells shows up in parliament with her LV hand wearing her Gucci suit you have to ask is she for real? Is Albo for real? And at what point do we ask politicians to stop taking the piss out of us!
When Jim Chalmers walked out of a press conference today it was because he’d had enough of answering questions about Anika Wells and her reprehensible behaviours when it comes to how she spends tax payer money and how she flaunts wealth…I’m sorry how does Wells still have a job? Aren’t Labor supposed to be the party of the working man? Fair go for all? Socialism? Equality? Or is that just for the minions?
Wells needs to go and so does anyone else that’s taken the piss out of the tax payer and shows up wearing Armani and Prada! No wonder people are taking to One Nation and at least RM Williams is an Aussie brand! Do something useful Albo grow some balls and sack Wells!
One Nation must go it alone
The Coalition of the Nats and the Libs is on life support. Not the actual unity of the two parties but rather their collective future and as much as One Nation is a right wing party they absolutely have to resist any temptation to join forces with them! Why? Because people are sick of the major parties and like in the UK with reform people want real change.
As much as Hanson did at one stage share the values of the Liberal party that she’s now come this far without them would suggest she doesn’t need them, but they sure as hell need her! Good old Albo and those down at the ABC are still labelling One Nation as racist and divisive when really a good portion of them are a party of Australians concerned for their country. If Farrer has shown parts of the media and the Libs anything it’s that One Nation is here to stay and labelling the whole party and anyone that votes for them a racist bigots is going to undermine any chance of voters going back to other parties.
With the Farrer win it seems highly unlikely that One Nation will ever do a deal with Libs or even form a new coalition, why would they? Hanson doesn’t need the Libs, she doesn’t need the Nats and the rest are of no interest to her. What Hanson needs now is firm policy at both state and federal level and she needs a leader in Victoria to take it to Jacinta Allan. The Victorian Libs apart from David Crisifulli on the Gold Coast are the best run Liberal party team in the country, which is saying something given where they’ve been of late, but they still have a long way to go…enter One Nation. Jess Wilson is saying she won’t do deals with One nation on preferences and so what? While it’s hard to see one nation winning the election in Victoria they’ll definitely take away votes from the Libs, if that happens Labor get back in, but if One Nation send preferences to the Libs then Labor are cooked.
One Nation are unlikely to get into power anywhere in Australia within the next election cycles, federal in 2028, state Victorian later this year…so if they going to pull it off it’s the ones after but by then they won’t need anyone! As much as it’s a quick fix for the Libs, the Nats and One Nation to do a deal the reality is Hanson probably won’t do the deal. She’s got this far on her own and I can’t see her changing her mind anytime soon.
Farrer today, the country next?
Well you have to give it to Pauline Hanson. When Susan Ley quit as leader of the Liberal Party it was always going to be tough of the Libs to retain her seat of Farrer, but no one expected it to be a blood bath. One nation didn’t just win Farrer they beat the Libs in a way they hadn’t been beaten before.
The Libs in Farrer got less than 12% of the public’s vote and One Nation more than doubled that, which is not just staggering it’s a massive protest against the majors. Albo will I’m sure suggest that it’s all just populist rhetoric but while he will refuse to accept One Nation are coming will see it as an opportunity to whack the Libs and this time really hard!
One Nation now has a seat in the House of Representatives and it’s a seat that used to belong to the Liberal Party leader but this is no small feat. This is a result for the ages and shows that like the UK two party politics is dying and that right wing parties can have massive influence on election outcomes.
The next thing for Hanson will be maintaining the rage so to speak and now building on her win. In the speeches last night Hanson shed light on when her policy positions would come and it seems her first one will be on gas. Now that One Nation are no longer just political noise they’re going to have to get used to Labor hammering them not only in being a bunch of divisive racists but also that their policy documents are rubbish! The war has only just begun.
For me though the next part of the One Nation shift is leadership. Hanson is the matriarch obviously but to really start taking it to the whole country she needs people with charisma that can sell the dream to the country. While one nation will unquestionably take votes away from both majors in Victoria the party needs a leader in the state but that operates outside the parliament.
So what now for Albo? Hammer One Nation again? Say they’re a bunch of divisive hate filled racists? Go after the libs? Say they’re the ones allowing hatred to infect society. Or does he soften the approach and accept that One Nation are the future? It remains to be seen but what ever way Albo goes, Pauline is coming!
Reform in the UK
Well to say that UK Labour are in trouble would be an understatement. In the local council elections held in the last few days the Labour Party has lost more than 1,000 councillors with Reform picking up more than 1,400. While the council results don’t have a direct impact on Federal Labour that they have suffered such a heavy defeat there are calls for Starmer to resign or be sacked.
Right wing parties across the world are back, again. In the immediate aftermath of Covid there was a swing to the right, but then Trump came along and did damage to the idea of right wing views. Now though and even with Trump being a key reason as to why the world is facing economic crisis society is saying enough is enough of the left.
Italy, France, the UK, Argentina and now parts of Australia are saying we’re not that keen on traditional political parties, we want a fresh set of eyes and new faces to make real change. Farage in the UK has been around UK politics for some time and faced several controversies but it’s almost impossible not to think he won’t be PM at the next UK election.
It’s not hard to understand why the world has had enough of the progressive left. Yes there are unquestionably things they bring to the table we should include in a functioning democracy but it’s all gone too far. Diversity is great but not if it moves out of the realms of common sense. Migrants are needed in every country of the world, but not if they themselves bring hate and violence. Yes let’s save the planet but not impose renewable energy solutions that aren’t fit for purpose and see people go without the most basic of human rights, ie heating and cooling.
Reform is now leading the world in the fight against political change. While One Nation in Australia has some way to go to match the UK powerhouse the momentum is building and don’t be surprised if One Nation are the ruling party in Australia in under a decade. For now though the progressive left have some major issues to deal with and no matter where they are in the world anyone that stands against them best be ready to be labelled divisive racist bigots.
Who are the Libs now?
Could it be all over for the Libs? Well, yes. A party that was built on these key words; Freedom of the individual, the right to live your life the way you choose. The party that was definitely based on traditional conservative religious values is staring down the barrel of extinction because it didn’t adapt, it didn’t take those conservative values and modernise them.
The Libs for all their hot air and attempts at accountability are still, for the most part, middle aged white men in suits who think they’re better than everyone else and don’t need to look to within. Now there will be those within the Libs that say that’s not true, that they are modern and they do include women, ok cool, but how’s that all being suggested to the general public who are turning their backs on them in droves?
The Libs are no longer the conservative right in Australia, that place is being taken by One Nation so it begs the question what is the Libs stand for? They aren’t willing to consider their original ideologies so what is it because white men in suits isn’t cutting it.
Ditching Susan Ley was a mistake and Farrer proves it, putting in yet another middle aged white male from the same era as Scomo et al was also a mistake but who else have they got? Andrew Hastie? Despite his SAS heroics he seems as wet as water, but then who? Crickets…
The Libs need to rebuild, which they say they’re doing but Farrer shows they’re just not. No, the Libs to really need to rebuild, they need to get rid of the Boomers, bring in quotas for women, start connecting with young people and stop pretending that they’re the only alternative to Labor because like it or not there’s a new party in town and they’re the new voice of Australia.
The ISIS Brides
Before we talk about the ISIS brides did anyone else see some of the gear the Muslim dudes that were at Melbourne airport to the meet the so called ISIS brides? Richard Mille watches and LVMH clothing were on full show for the arrival of the non government backed return of the women and their kids. Now it’s true that all this fancy gear could’ve been fake but this was not an operation put together by people with no resources plus there was a mini van parked out the front of the airport ready to wish away those that hadn’t been arrested. Me thinks the federal government and its agencies have very much underestimated this people and the operation they’ve put together.
There is no doubt that these women are Australian but while the US wanted the Syrian detention centre closed why wasn’t there a global plan to keep these women locked up given their alleged crimes?
Australia was totally unrecognisable last night when these women arrived into the country. They were shielded by men who were organised, were aggressive and were not mucking around.
The big question though is what now? The woman that we did see escorted through the airport will be housed somewhere, as will the children with her, so where is that? These are people that have been in a Syrian detention centre for a few years and they might be a bit upset about things so how are we handling that? Is there a legal case coming from the brides? Are they planning to sue the Australian government for inhumane treatment? It would appear they’re not short of supporters and people with money so instead of threats of violence are we going to see the battle head to court?
What a bloody mess. Seriously. Yes this has been going on via different governments and I’m sure Labor will blame the Libs and vice versa but really? Are our elected representatives so desperate for votes from the Muslim community they’re prepared to put common sense on hold? These women and their kids shouldn’t be here. They should be being held in an international facility by the UN or other international organisation that takes a stand against people who support terrorism and are a direct threat to the freedoms and lives of people throughout the world.
We already knew that Albo and his cronies were incompetent but the arrival back in Australia of these women and their kids takes it to a whole new level. Another job done badly! Well done Albo.
Albo still handing out money?!
At some level and even if you’re a life long Labor voter we have to give credit to Jess Wilson. While Labor just keeps handing out money to everyone that smiles at them, Wilson has said she would cut the public sector by $22 billion. In an election year and while Jacinta Allan is offering to help the ISIS brides Wilson is saying enough is enough.
It’s a brave move to say you’re cutting spending in an election year and will no doubt be met with shouts of ridicule from Labor, but where does vote grabbing stop and fiscal responsibility begin? Labor’s solution to inflation is give out more money! In the past that’s sort of been ok, but now with debt literally out of control and a state government pretending it’s got a surplus when the actual debt is nearing $200 billion it’s time to get real and fast!
In next week’s federal budget which will unquestionably have an impact on inflation and on interest rates it’s now clear that Albo plans to hand over another $3.6 billion to Victoria for the SRL project. A project that is not fully funded as yet, meaning they don’t know where they’re going to get the money from and that will be cancelled should the Libs win in November. I’m sorry but when does Albo turn off the money hose?
Finding fiscal balance during a cost of living crisis and when fuel prices are through the roof is indeed a hard thing to do. But when your only real solution to the issues is basically printing more money to keep voters on side people will eventually get upset. Upset because it means increasing taxes, it means inflation continues to go up and people lose jobs. Now Big Jim Chalmers is indeed faced with a massive problem at the moment, he knows he can’t afford to keep handing out money but he also knows Albo needs votes but you’d think at some point a man with a Commerce degree like the one Chalmers has would say ok we need to cut spending or we’re stuffed!
So while Albo keeps giving Jacinta more money for the CFMEU, while Tony Burke keeps letting in people associated with terrorist organisations, while Chris Bowen keeps suggesting EV’s are the future and while Anika Wells keeps shopping at Gucci who picks up the tab and suffers? Low and middle income families and you can’t help but ask, what does Labor actually stand for nowadays?
Is everything really Trumps fault?
So even Trump’s core supporters have in recent months turned on him. High profile names such as Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly have both criticised Trump and his seemingly senseless war with Iran. He’s single handedly helping to destroy the global economy and he’s of course tanked oil prices BUT! Is everything really Donald Tumps fault?
Here in Australia we are neck deep in government debt both at state and federal levels and while it’s indeed true that at least some of that debt can be blamed on Trump not all of it is his fault. Petrol prices, yep that’s Don, some parts of inflation yep that’s ok him, but while Australian politicians Labor ones in particular are blaming Don for the lot of it they themselves need to take some kind of accountability!
Trump has no doubt been responsible for a vast array of things but for how much longer can we bear it’s the impact on the cost of goods, on why supermarkets are blood sucking parasites, on energy prices, on petrol prices on everything! Yes Albo and Chalmers have a hard time of it at the moment but isn’t it time to take actions into our own hands? Get the country moving again!
Manufacturing, producing more tradies, building more houses, becoming less dependent on the US, building international relationships outside those of the US and China, lifting education standards, having better law and order outcomes, bringing in skilled migrants…it’s all well and good to blame everyone else for your failures but at some stage if you want to lead and stay in power you have to stop whining and actually do something!
Trump is unquestionably a key reason why Australia is in the economic turmoil it is but we’ve now had enough of the whinging politician who just drops the blame for everything at his feet. It’s time to move forward stop the blame game and make Australia great again!
When does the violence stop?
So with $200 million allocated in the state budget for law and order/community safety it’s not unreasonable to ask when do we get violence off our streets and our businesses protected?
In addition to the home invasions, the random shootings, the street violence, the shop lifting and the youth crime rate we now have hospitality venues being threatened by crime gangs. Now while there’s been money handed over to Victoria Police to bring in more officers when do we say we have a zero tolerance for crime no matter who it’s committed by?
See while Allan and her government are saying they’re tough on law and order how is it that violent crime gangs now think Victoria is the Wild West and anything goes? Yes Allan is talking about reviewing how we deal with crime we need to make it clear that we’re not putting up with the current situation anymore!
Do the crime do the time simple as that. Stricter punishments, stricter laws and police with more powers! Yes I know that last one will grossly offend the lefty progressives but imagine if you will a man in a park as he approaches a group of women. The police see the man and as he looks out of place tell him he’s going to be searched, turns out he’s carrying a concealed weapon and suffers from mental health issues. In another incident a business man walks out of a pub looking slightly under the weather, he’s holding car keys but is seen by a police officer. The police officer asks the man if he’s driving and when he says he is police suggest not to…
Now these are fictional examples of how stop and search powers of police can actually help the community. Stop and search powers don’t cost anything and while they might upset a few lefties here and there if those powers are keeping people safe then do it!
Law and order/community safety doesn’t need to cost hundreds of millions a lot of it is actually about working smarter not harder and giving police powers they need.
The whole country needs to crack down on crime because right now parts of Australia and just like the Wild West and the cowboys aren’t coming to save us at the moment!
Hanson to move to House of Reps?
With One Nation unquestionably taking votes away from the Libs in the recent by election in the Victorian state seat of Nepean the right wing populist party needs to lift its game. Lift its game so it becomes a credible alternative to the major parties. It first needs ti start showing up to elections with some actual policies but secondly to be a real voice at a federal level the party needs people in the House of Representatives and guess who’s thinking about that!?
For all of her political career Pauline Hanson has been a senator but given she is the face of the party it’s unlikely she could ever be PM from the Senate so Pauline could well be off to the House of Reps. Given One Nation are gaining voters they’ve stalled, hit a wall so how do they ramp it all up a gear? Put Pauline and possibly even Barnaby Joyce in the House of Representatives.
Hanson needs to get under the skin of Labor and could well become their major opposition after the next election so having the founder of the party in the House of reps makes sense. For that to happen though Hanson wound have to run as a candidate for the house of reps something she’s never done but I suspect her team are all over it.
It is highly unlikely that One Nation will form government any time soon, but if the woman herself does get into the House of Representatives along with a number of other successful candidates there’s no telling what she could get up to.
Hansons move to the House makes sense, it’s her party, she’s the leader and if One Nation are serious about one day forming government then why not get the leader of the party in the room and let them face up to her…
In ten years time we could well be talking about the government being One Nation, but in the mean time the woman herself isn’t ruling anything in or out and only a betting man would bet against her facing up to Albo in the House of Representatives in a few years time.
The Victorian Budget
We have joked around with the line from the movie, Chopper, that says, there’s no cash here, no cash, here there’s no cash, but when you look at Victoria seriously there is nothing anymore to joke about.
$25 million a day in interest. That’s what we have to pay, and when I say we it really is us and yet the state treasurer and the Premier are out trying to sell the idea we have a surplus in the budget. I’m sorry but what the absolute fuck are they talking about? I have a credit card, I have an income, I have a credit card debt, the money I make has to go to the credit card to pay off the debt. If I don’t pay off the debt I get hit with more interest and ultimately get into deep trouble if I don’t pay it off. I might have $5,000 on a credit card and $1,000 in my bank account having paid my bills, I have minus money! I don’t have a surplus! I’m still in debt! I need to pay the debt off as soon as possible but in government land a $200 billion debt can be pushed aside because there’s a mythical surplus? Jaclyn Symes when she became Treasurer, taking over from Big Dim Tim Pallas sent an email to staff saying, don’t use economic terms I don’t understand them. Well Jac, mate, here’s a break down for you in simple terms, there’s no cash here!
The budget is a train wreck and when Symes was on ABC radio this morning she didn’t even sound like she believed what she was selling. Yes she got a relatively easy time of things from Epstein, but the only time she seemed to become animated was when she asked where the opposition would find budget cuts.
Should the Libs win in November they have a massive job ahead of them. With interest payments sky high fiscal responsibility is going to arrive in the form of a massive sell off of government assets but should Labor win you have to wonder where Symes and Allan think the money is going to come from? They’re spending money like the RBA has warned against and they continue to push infrastructure projects that are unaffordable and corrupt.
This budget from Labor is a ticket to disaster and unless Labor are chucked out in November things will get a whole lot worse and may never get better.
Political success over long term prosperity?
Political ideology seems to be ruining the country. While both sides of the political divide have imposed their ideological positions on society during their terms in office the Albanese regime could well send us broke. The same for the Allan Labor government that is on track to have a near $200 billion debt despite trying to pretend there’s a budget surplus. The question is when does the hard reality of the economy take over from a party’s ideology?
When the charismatic Zohran Mandami gave his acceptance speech when he been Mayor of New York he said…
“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”
That little line got him cheers and applause from his supporters but the reality of that line is that New York is now facing some of the highest tax rates in the country. Yes tax the wealthy but what of the balance between rich and poor? There’s no real attempt to close it.
Here in Australia we seriously can’t take much more of what Labor are selling. Wage rises in the face of inflation is moronic at best and today when the RBA announces its rates decision they won’t be going down. It’s the same on tax breaks with Albo handing out $1,000 to everyone, capital gains tax on its way out and the new marketing company slogan of ‘INTERGENERATIONAL FAIRNESS’ all of it pitched at the Labor voting base rather than being about what’s best for the country.
The lefties will argue that the workers need more support and they’d be correct, but they also need to not take the piss out of the employers! Four day weeks, RDO’s, penalty rates, this allowance for that, different rates for different days and times, yes people deserve to be paid for the work they do but not at the cost of the business failing.
What would the Libs do if they were in government? Well they’d be the other end of this, they’d be cutting penalties, ditching four day weeks and no doubt going to war with the unions and for what? To appease the top end of town?
These are unquestionably hard times but right now we need balance not pandering to one side or the other. Albo and Allan today will hear how bad things are economically and while the Libs will ram it down both their throats now is the time for balance. We don’t need more spending, we don’t need more money for votes and we don’t need governments ignoring the advice of smarter people than them. Balance the budgets for the long term sake of the country or things will get a whole lot worse if they ever get better.
Protest votes yes, but it’s a race in two
So yes absolutely One Nation took votes away from the Libs in fact there was a 9% swing away from the Libs when compared to when the tennis doofus got elected but One Nation didn’t run a candidate at the last state election in Nepean. Now it won’t really matter to most people that the Libs have passed their first test since Jess Wilson took over as leader because they’ll mostly focus on One Nation, why? Because if one nation do actually get some votes they’ll be the reason Labor stays in power, and guess what? There are a lot of people who want Labor to stay in power.
The key thing now for Labor is make sure they get more votes, more votes for One Nation means less for the Libs and more chance for Allan becoming to the first female elected leader in the state. Great for women’s equality not so great for the financial well being of the state.
I’m not convinced that Labor power brokers are smart enough to get their people to say how bad one Nation are thinking they’ll get more people to vote for them, but what Pauline does need to do asap is come up with some policy documents!
The Libs based on Nepean should win the state election quite comfortably but if there is no deal to be done with One Nation it’ll be a tight parliament for the 2027 sittings of the house.
Nepean and Labor
Well the Libs won Nepean and as much as Kos Samaras and Labor party groupies will tell you that the posh lot in Sorrento and Portsea voted Liberal and the poor lot in Rye and Dromana voted One Nation the result was actually a lot better than the Libs were probably hoping for.
At last look there was a swing away from the Libs of about 10% but that’s because of One Nation who look like they’re in third place after the independent candidate polled better than anyone was expecting. So bottom line is yes absolutely was a swing away from the Libs but it wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been and that Labor are now in real trouble come the November election.
Since Sam Groth in his meat headed wisdom decided to say au revoir to the Libs there has been a focus on One Nation and what they could do in not only Nepean but also at the main state election. With the Libs being pretty dysfunctional and when they seemed incapable of having a leader that could survive their own party room people were indeed looking for an alternative, enter Pauline Hanson and One Nation.
The rise of the populist party movement is being seen right across the world and while One Nation have indeed attracted definite interest Nepean shows that One Nation aren’t a genuine alternative just yet.
For One Nation this Nepean result means they need to start offering real policies and real solutions or they’re going to become irrelevant very quickly. For Labor the Libs winning Nepean comfortably means people aren’t turning to One Nation in their droves. It also means that if the Libs maintain the kind of support they have in Nepean right across the state the election will be a disaster for Labor.
But what does Allan do for tomorrow? Well firstly it’ll all be hard hats and more money for maybe the hospitality sector in light of all the hospitality bombing attacks, but no matter what she does publicly it’ll be that she’s focused on doing a good job for all Victorians!
Regardless of what Allan says about this Nepean result it means that voters are angry with Labor and have had enough. Can the Libs keep it together til November? We can only hope!
We need a welcome to country, but…
It is impossible to hear about the murder of Kumanjayi Little Baby and not cry tears of utter sadness but then get angry about the conditions she lived in. How did she live like that? Who allowed it to happen? Well, we did. It’s all our faults.
Let’s go back a few steps though and recap. Treatment of indigenous people at the time of white colonisation of Australia? Appalling. Treatment of indigenous people when it came to the stolen generation? Appalling. Treatment of indigenous peoples throughout central Australia and mining communities? Appalling. Access to affordable food, utilities, healthcare, education and housing? Appalling. Number of apologies given to the indigenous people of Australia? Depending on how you define the apology then approximately 12 apologies have been given to indigenous people in this country.
So armed with poor access to affordable food, utilities, healthcare, education, housing and apologies how are we actually doing anything of relevance to help indigenous communities in this country?
How many events have we all been involved in where we hear an acknowledgement to country. Personally I do think it’s important given how badly indigenous people have been treated over the course of modern Australian history but only if we actually mean it! See, right now we don’t mean it, in fact it’s a token gesture to make white people feel better about themselves. And while that alone can be argued to be being a better option than doing nothing at all we need actual outcomes for our indigenous people.
What we want to see is indigenous people getting off booze, co operating with Police in the face of elders telling them not to. We want to see them have access to homes, to clothing, to education and we want them to feel like they actually matter. It’s time we stopped virtue signalling and started thinking about offering what is needed to help the indigenous community rather than doing zero about any of it.
As Paul Hogan famously said in Crocodile Dundee, Indigenous people belong to this land we call Australia and we absolutely need to be grateful for being able to live on but it’s about time we showed we actually are grateful. The bottom line is too many indigenous people die, too many go without the most basic of necessities and if we are really sorry and really want to continue on our reconciliation journey it’s time we really showed we mean it.
Albo’s first year of Term 2!
Now, I must say that Albo deserves his time in the sun, he’s the PM and as we have said before the office itself deserves respect but the latest photos of Albo seen in the Guardian shows a bloke who seems a little too concerned about his image. Yes he can sharpen himself up buy nice suits etc but these photos are a bit cringey. But speaking of nice gear did anyone see Anika Wells in Parliament during the week? A LV handbag and flash gear to go with it, great to see Labor being the party of the people, we digress.
The point of Albo and his cringey photos is that he’s just hit the year one mark of his second term in the top job and what a year he’s had. It’s fair to say he’s had his ups and downs but what we do now know is that Albo is well up for a third term! Yes folks despite a few rumours that he may hand over the reins to Mark Butler, wtfff, Albo is committed long term to making Australia great again! The thing to point out at this moment is that if Albo does indeed go round again and sees out a third term he will surpass Bob Hawke! Who would’ve thought that was possible when Albo took over from the man that should’ve been, Bill Shorten?!
Albo has quite rightly played down any comparisons with everyone’s favourite PM in Hawke, but why he has said is that he doesn’t think populist politics has any place in Australia and after the Nepean by election he might be right. In the UK Kier Starmer not only shows they give away Knighthoods in cereal packets but that populist politics is something to be genuinely concerned about. The rise and rise of Nigel Farage has Starmer worried and polls suggest he’d be right to be concerned but here in Oz Albo is suggesting our version of Reform UK, One Nation is on the slide.
Hanson and One Nation haven’t done themselves any favours it must be said. They’ve bought into the world of Avi Yemeni, don’t really have leadership outside of Hanson and Joyce and don’t really have policy documents to support their agenda. All this means that Albo has a relatively easy time passing them off as populist and with Nepean going the way it did he may be right.
Albo is not Bob Hawke and this last 12 months in many ways have been a nightmare, with Bondi, war in the Middle East, cost of living, Trump and inflation but who’s his competition? It’s not One Nation really and the Libs are still living with their heads in the sand so even with all that’s happened in the last year for Albo it seems Bob’s record is there for the taking. The real question for Albo though is as he rolls through his second term is, does my butt look big in this Anika?
Distrust in the media
The recent demands by the federal government will see the likes of Meta, Google and Tik Tok basically start paying for news content in Australia. Before we go on, not much has been said about how Ai uses the Australian media, but I’m sure Albo’s all over that? So tech companies need to pay for news content in Australia and fair enough. No one gets anything for free, but the list of news and media companies that Albo and his minions are supporting are all of the usual suspects.
A key reason why Albo is getting onto Google etc is that he and his government want to crack down on misinformation and this is where things get a bit murky. Again, tech companies need to pay taxes and for content but not at the expense of smaller independent media outlets being pushed to the side as misinformation by a government that likes to control the news narrative.
The mainstream media outlets will say they’re not influenced by governments and that they’re independent and we’d like you to sell you some magic beans and a unicorn if you believe that, but that’s the line the media is sticking to. The overwhelming issue in all this though isn’t really about making tech companies pay tax and for content it’s the fact that people don’t trust the media anymore and the feds don’t like it.
Remember when we all watched the nightly news and men in suits told us the truth about the world? None of us would’ve dreamed any of that was dare I say propaganda. Jump forward 50 or so years and how many people actually watch the nightly news and then who trusts any of it?!
It’s true people get news from all manner of sources nowadays. While it’s unlikely tech companies would pay for every bit of content they use we must not allow mainstream media to have the government rid them of their competition. While Albo has at least some good intentions when it comes to making tech companies pay for content he can’t be allowed to be dictating who survives and who doesn’t in the ever changing world of media and information.
Can we ban Allan promising money?
How many times do we need to say there’s no cash here? Victoria is $160 billion plus in the hole and yet all Jacinta Allan is doing is saying she’s to spend more money! We know that the sands of politics are shifting and yet Allan seems hell bent on buying her way to the election.
Inflation data is due out today and it will no doubt show a worrying picture not only thanks to Trump but also to Labor and their spending at state and federal levels. Governments simply can’t keep spending money and hoping Trump puts away the guns! Australia needs to start showing some real fiscal responsibility or we are cooked for much longer than we need to be.
When the inflation data does drop today I guarantee that Allan in particular will be out asking the RBA not to raise interest rates. She will be pushing the blame of inflation onto everything but herself and her government and yet a good portion of the blame will lie at her feet.
In stark contrast Jess Willson is out saying she intends to cut back on high salaries of bureaucrats and government officials. Yes she’s going to bring in more police and sort find money to revamp the justice system but she’s not throwing out empty and expensive promises!
The old saying of you have to spend money to make money is true but in government while you do indeed need to spend money you have to show some responsibility to tax payers and not hand out cash to your mates! Allan and Labor are utterly irresponsible when it comes to finances and we can only hope that the state doesn’t buy what she’s selling in November.
Australia, let’s talk
Life used to seem so much simpler before everyone got offended about everything. Can you imagine a TV network making a show like Kingswood Country today? Would Hey Hey it’s Saturday get a run today? Maybe, maybe not but it was unquestionably a time when offensive material wasn’t taken to heart like it is today.
Now that’s not to say people don’t have a right to be offended, but we need to just track back a bit and say ok let’s just work out what’s important and what’s not.
I remember standing in the outer at Victoria Park watching Collingwood play in the late 70’s with my dad drinking tinnies and me playing in the dirt. As long as I live I will never forget the language he and those around him used when yelling at players. If mobile phones had been available back then the text messages the ground complaints line would’ve got would’ve blown up the system! Things needed to change and have for the better, but has footy gone too woke for the sake of sponsors and ticked a box rather than done much of any real substance?
The introduction of the Welcome to country at major events is controversial. Why do I need to be welcomed to my own country? Why do I need to listen to it? The debate is long and divisive and never really takes about until an event comes along where it’s said. The ANZAC day commemorations saw a number of welcome to
Country speeches booed and I don’t care if you support them or not that’s not on. We should be having conversations about issues before they’re aired in public!
Should we have welcome to country? Yes if we’re actually changing how our indigenous communities are being treated, but if that’s a no then aren’t we just virtue signalling? The same with Australia Day.
Every year when Australia Day comes around we have invasion day rallies, we have the burning of the Aussie flag and we have people vandalising statues commemorating famous Australians, why can’t we talk about all of this before hand? We can’t we have actual conversations about the pros and cons changing the date? Instead we wait til the day of and say oh well sorry about all that.
It’s the same thing with migration. How does anyone think we’d all be here without migration? We need it and while we need more housing for them to live here we are all migrants.
Welcome to country, Australia Day and migration, three issues we really need to talks about but never get around to, but we need to. We need to say yes or no to these issues and more because with the world unsure of its future we need our identity back to redefine us for the next hundred years.
If we are sorry, if we’re acknowledging elders past and present then let’s do and put away the virtue signalling. If we’re changing the date of Australia Day then let’s do it! Find a new date, relevant to all of us, but if we’re not then let’s keep it on January 26th and come together ro enjoy being Australian. And finally migration is about coming here and making a contribution to how the country works. It’s about more housing and it’s about trying to bring in skilled labour that can indeed contribute to the country they’re coming to.
There are countless other issues that need addressing here in Australia and while we know the government won’t do anything about it, maybe it’s time a group of adults got together to make some hard choices? There could be something in letting the adults make some decisions because some of the ones of late have been rubbish!
The Libs strike back?
Could this be the turning point in the upcoming Victorian state election? First up the Libs have signed up to do a deal with One Nation on preferences. That’s massive! While Labor, the Greens and the Teals will now say that the Libs are an extremist racist group of bigots the reality is that if the deal between the Libs and One Nation goes ahead Labor are cooked! Cooked in the real sense of the world!
The second thing that will unquestionably help them is the soon to be announcement that former federal campaign director, Brian Loughnane is going to be the new state
President of the Victorian liberal party. Brian is also the husband of? Sky News host, Peta Credlin. Seriously if the Libs can’t beat Allan now then they need to sell everything they have and just hand it to Pauline.
This next week from Labor will be all about how racist the Libs are and while it’s expected if they can rise above it and say we’re not racist we’re proud Australians, it will cut Labor down to size. Loughnane who is liberal party royalty has the job ahead of him to unify a party that until quite recently seemed hell bent on self destruction. Multiple different leaders, disloyalty, rogue MP’s and more bitchiness than a group of year 9 kids Loughnane is going to have to bring the party together and say, this is it! This is the best opportunity we have had in years to knock Labor off and take back power.
Can it be done? Yes of course but can the Libs unite and say we’ve had enough of Labor? That remains to be seen but with Credlin, Abbott, Loughnane and more than likely Murdoch Junior pulling the strings they’ll never get a better shot.
Allan in a giving mood
Well with the Libs possibly on the rebound and One Nation an ever growing threat Jacinta Allan is in a giving mood, but there is a massive flaw in her planning. There’s no cash here! No cash! Here! There’s no cash!
Allan in her infinite wisdom has of late given away more than $1.5 billion in government funding. The funding is to various noble causes and to the general public in an attempt to prop up her failing numbers. We are now in April, nearly May and it appears that Labor will keep Allan as leader but while that seems suicidal you can’t help but ask where the money is coming from to find what she’s handed out already and what she plans to do next.
Victoria is in more than $160 billion with projections suggesting it could hit $190 plus by 2029 and yet Allan seems to think that the next state budget can get it under control? Under control and give more stuff away? Look we all want cost of living to ease, we all want cheaper petrol, we all want free public transport and we all want infrastructure that aids in the functioning of society but it’s time to get real! We simply can’t afford the infrastructure projects, we can’t have free public transport and we can’t afford to be handing out money we don’t have.
In business cost to revenue is the way in which the system works and yes in government there is the opportunity to spend other people’s money on all manner of things but we need money spent on crime prevention, on education, on mental health and on things that will ultimately save us money not kick up the debt even higher!
Allan is in desperation mode and is giving away money she doesn’t have and if she did win the November election would never hand over anyway, but instead of making false promises she like her colleagues need to get very real very quickly or the state will be permanently broke.
Fat Dad and the minions of Doom to clean up Melbourne!
So how do we clean up Melbourne? Well the first thing is we stop allowing the City of Melbourne and the state government to keep on saying the streets are safe! They’re not, we know they’re not and it’s time to face facts.
Not only do we see graffiti from lefty nut bags on days like ANZAC Day but we are seeing crime run rampant with weak bail laws and the justice system without enough resources to keep the little pricks locked up. This isn’t about making sure everyone’s feelings are ok anymore it’s about clips in the head, punishment fitting the crime and action rather than empty words.
With all that said let’s have a look at Melbourne and how we clean it up Hoodies style…there’s a new sheriff in town, he’s called Fat Dad and he’s bringing his minions of doom
So, boom! One councillor or politician saying the streets are safe they get a night in jail or a $10,000 fine. With them dealt with we’re bringing in more judges, we’re holding more hearings and we’re not going to be so fast on granting bail to little cherubs who get out and do the same thing again. Oh and when they get to youth detention they’re going to behave because we’re going to hire more prison guards who won’t be putting up with teenagers thinking it’s holiday camp.
With the advent of youths being paid $500 to $1000 to petrol bomb hospitality venues we’re going after the handlers. The delightful thugs paying teenagers to deal drugs, to carry out their bidding and to take the fall for their crimes. While we’re locking up repeat teenage offenders their handlers get at least 5 years for the procurement of underage kids to conduct nefarious activities.
Then we move to my favourite thing to hate, drugs. The last time Fat Dad looked drugs were all still illegal so guess what? Get busted at a corporate meeting with a gram of coke? 30 days jail and a criminal record. So all those wankers doing lines in toilets in cool restaurants and clubs? Gone. Then we move to the streets, busted with any kind of drug that’s not a commercial quantity, jail 30 days and a criminal record, but then we move to the people, sorry the scum bags moving product. Get caught with a commercial quantity of any drug five years minimum in jail. Serious drug dealers, 25 year minimums. Oh and we’re building more jails.
Assault? Punches, 12 months jail. Weapons other than guns used to commit violence 2 years jail. Gun crime, 5 years minimum. Seriously wound someone via any of the above 10 years, kill someone? You are going down for life and never seeing mummy again outside a prison wall.
Home invasions? 5 years minimum. And again you cause serious harm including mental trauma 10 years.
Fat Dad and his minions of doom will not care who you are, what you do for a job or who you’re friends with, you do the crime you suffer the consequences…enough is enough! We don’t care if you’re rich, poor, white, black, Muslim or Christian if you’re a crook in this town you are finished because we are coming for you and you will not escape Fat Dad and the minions of doom!
NDIS & the Labor blame game
There’s no doubt that the NDIS is a rort. A system that is so broken that the internet is full of videos and comments of people suggesting they’ve bought boats and fast cars thanks to the NDIS. Yes they’re extreme opinions but the point remains its become a joke how easy it is to manipulate a system that was set up to help rather than exploit it.
Several new media outlets have taken NDIS suppliers head on in various sectors and in all cases have been found to be rorting the system. Companies that aren’t doing what they’re supposed to be doing and getting very upset when some of these new media companies show up to ask questions.
Cases of ADHD, autism and mental health have never been higher and while the first reaction of government is to medicate kids there are unquestionably those that need much more support than a little blue pill. In the post Covid world the mental health of kids isn’t great but now we’re going to see massive cuts made to supporting kids in particular because the government can’t get its act together.
Listening to various radio stations across the yesterday people who need NDIS support are now terrified they’re going to lose their pitiful benefits and won’t be able to survive. One woman talking on the ABC said she had been a nurse all her life and now in her late 80’s was relying on an algorithm to decided if she would keep or lose her NDIS support.
The humanity in all this is what Butler has missed, people need help but the system is being manipulated for financial gain by a range of providers who now it seems aren’t the target of these government cut backs. It’s the providers that need accountability!
While yes I’m sure there are people taking the piss out of the NDIS if the government are serious about fixing the broken system the NDIS is then they have to go after the providers who may well have bought boats and fast cars on the tax payer dime.
Excuse us Premier, there’s no cash here!
$1.5 billion! That’s how much Jacinta Allan is spending in the lead up to the next state election! Jacinta! There’s no cash here! No cash! Here! There’s no cash!
What’s the state debt now? A bazillion dollars? I mean the state debt is more out of control than an Instagram influencer at the opening of an envelope! We have crime riddled streets, we have massive cost of living pressures, we have youth mental health at all time lows, we have teachers on strike, we don’t have enough police, we have a bail system that is not fit for purpose and yet we have Barbie running around handing money out like it grows on the tax payer tree!
Jacinta! Stop spending money! The IMF told governments that they shouldn’t be funding projects to prop up the economy during this current round of Trump insanity! But it’s not just Barbie who’s handing out cash, it’s Albo as well! $1,000 tax break to all Australians! What?! Hey we all want more money but what the absolute fuck are they doing?!
It’s staggering really that we are not only beholden to a buffoon of a President running around causing havoc in the Middle East but also lefty politicians just handing out money like it’s not a problem. For all our sakes just stop!
Moira Deeming takes to Tik Tok
For those of you that don’t do Tik Tok Moira Deeming has got herself an account and well she’s doing a decent job at content.
In a recent post the Liberal MP stood outside the office of Natalie Hutchins to ram home the point that the minister for women couldn’t say what a woman was. The best part of the post was when Hutchins herself rolled up to ask if she could help Moira. Deeming basically door stopped Hutchins asking her why she couldn’t define a woman. It must be said that Hutchins handled herself pretty well, but it did beg the question why aren’t the Libs doing more of this?
Deeming is her own woman and regardless of what you think of her views she has to be given credit for taking a stand on the topics she has, but we have said before, to beat Labor the Libs need to really stick it to them. Daniel Andrews would’ve done and did anything to win but the Libs, not so much.
The Libs need some fight about them and right now they actually need to be taking a leaf out of Deeming’s play book and saying you want some? Then let’s go!
Does Australia really need the US?
With Donald Trump not showing any signs of caring about anyone or anything outside of the world of Donald Trump is it time to tell the President that’ll be all now?
Australia may well have export and import deals with the US, but really, do we need America? Given Australia is pretty much run by lefty governments most of whom seem to love running off to China at every possible opportunity would we be better off hitching our wagon to China? I mean Taiwan? So what if China wants it? The US seems to blaze into whatever country it wants oil from so why not China?
So while Australia is working out who it should side with when it comes to geopolitics the reality is that we could for a substantial part do without both. Yes we need trade partners like China and the US is handy for, ummmm NFL? But Australia is the resource capital of the planet so shouldn’t we at least start acting like it? Or at the very least start charging other countries for it!?
Australia has key minerals the planet needs especially, lithium and iron ore, so why wouldn’t we refine it and sell it? Gas! Tax the bloody stuff! It’s almost like we’re apologising for having it! We should be one of the wealthiest countries on the planet and yet what are we doing?!
Manufacturing! Energy, food and agriculture and of course key minerals! All of them worth billions and I’m sorry what are we doing? Importing and not supporting Australian products and companies!
For local manufacturing why aren’t we offering subsidies for local producers? Tax incentives? Government funded training?
Workforce! What happened to TAFE? Why aren’t we encouraging more kids to be tradies? Incentives for finishing a trade…it’s not rocket science to work out that a plumber is likely to be making more than a uni graduate with five years of finishing their training! Builders, sparkies, chefs! And then targeted migration. What’s so complicated about bringing in skilled migrants rather than allowing just anyone in that has zero skills and nothing to contribute?! Again! Not exactly rocket science.
But the big kicker…given our remoteness to the rest of the world, why aren’t we stock piling critical goods for circumstances like the one we’re currently experiencing?!
Ok we get that politicians can’t think past votes and that the decisions they make are based on who will vote for them but a) shouldn’t we be preventing decisions being made with political bias and b) Isn’t it time we got real?
It is staggering that a country with so many of the world’s most critical minerals is in the state it is. It is a direct result of weak and poor government policies that have zero eye on the future. Policies aimed at staying in power and that do nothing for the advancement of the national economy.
It is well past time the grown ups took over and the politicians handed back the keys!
One Nation on the slide?
Well no one pays attention to polls until they matter, but for One Nation these polls do matter and are indeed a reflection of the voter concern about ever increasing cost of living numbers. The problem for One Nation is that they haven’t really convinced voters they have policies that can stem the tide and they need to change that and fast.
One Nation has so far grabbed hold of the protest vote. They’ve picked up people who are totally over the major parties and who want their vote to make a difference. One Nation has to some degree been their voice, Hanson and Joyce have been out and about criticising the government for their policies and decisions but have failed to say what they’d do differently and that’s what needs to change.
If Hanson is serious about one day running the country then it’s time the party started showing how they’d do it because if they don’t then as much as they’ve gained traction they’ll end up just being the party of the protest vote.
Campaign finances
So it appears that the upcoming November state election is going to be a financial free for all and I for one can’t wait! One Nation have Gina, The Teals have Holmes a Court, Labor has the bikies, the Libs have…well some old rich family and the independents have whoever wants them in power.
Now the whole Labor banning of donations was them rigging the system, but now that it’s been challenged and chucked out it is literally anything goes come election campaigning. It will of course mean that the level of corruption needs to be seriously monitored given people in low places aspire to have other people in high places but what it does mean is that Labor can’t hold other candidates to ransom.
Allan will hate having this sort of thing happen but it could mean she’s handed the election given the money Gina will now be able to pump into One Nation. That money going to One Nation does the thing the libs really don’t want and that’s a loss of support for them. So while it’s a good thing for the state election that the campaign finances aren’t restricted it could well mean Jacinta Allan does become the first ever elected female premier of Victoria.
Minister for men and boys
Paul Edbrooke MP for Frankston is the first Victorian minister for men and boys and while we’re not exactly sure just yet what Paul will be doing at least he’s male!
While there was no specific details from Allan as to what Edbrooke will be doing she did say the role was established to make sure gender equality was being achieved for men and women. It was also in reaction to the idea of Manosphere where toxic masculinity was openly promoted and encouraged.
Now this is all well and good but it’s also in reaction to polling data that suggests men are becoming disenchanted with labor and they’re feeling left out. So what does Allan do? Gives men a minister who will bring them back to the fore. It’s very clever and justified but the proof as they say will be in the pudding.
Are the Libs trying to be One Nation?
Angus, Angus, Angus…don’t do it mate. Don’t go down the path chasing One Nation votes!
We know migrants are a great way to get press and to rattle the cages but going down that path is also a free swing from Labor with the racism bat! The Libs don’t need a One Nation approach to policy or rhetoric, what they need, as we’ve said is to remind people what they stand for! It’s not rocket science!
Yes the Libs need new voters but they’re not a populist party looking to pick up protest votes, they are still a main political party with a strong history. However if they can’t unify, if they can’t come up with a messaging and if they can’t run their own messaging then they absolutely should pick up the phone to Pauline Hanson and say ok let’s do a deal!
The Libs have in recent times been called Labor lite but right now they’re not Labor lite instead they’re One Nation Lite and they shouldn’t be because right now is their last chance to be themselves.
Can the Libs finally take it to Labor?
Can they? Well it has to be said if the Libs can’t knock Labor off come November then they should just throw the keys to Pauline Hanson and leave it to her, but there are some signs of life.
The Libs like keeping amongst their own so it’s regular trips to 3AW, Sky after dark, the Herald Sun and of its a national issue the Australian. So while Angus Taylor has been out not doing the liberal brand any favours having a crack at migrants for being self serving (unlike the libs obviously) Jess Wilson has been on 3AW.
It’s never taken a rocket scientist to work out why Labor MP’s don’t really like going on AW but the Libs love it. Yesterday Wilson showed she has come a long way since becoming leader as she could flick away a question with a long winded non answer like a veteran but she did say that it would be more police and more gas. She was a bit hazy on firing back up oil and coal but it appears the young liberal leader has some of the priorities right.
Yesterday Jacinta Allan saw three of her key ministers quit which several months out from an election isn’t a great look. It’s true in more prosperous times the resignations of three key leaders could be seen as a job well done but given that the state is absolutely stuffed this is easily seen as rats abandoning the sinking ship. While it’s not great for Allan it’s an opportunity for Wilson to attack.
Back in the Covid days where we were subjected to the whims of a certain former premier the Libs had zero attack mentality. To beat Andrews you had to play at his level, be absolutely ruthless and be prepared to do what ever it took, the Libs never did and lost, but now have another shot and must be ruthless.
Wilson has great intention, the party itself is dysfunctional but if Wilson can develop a ruthless take no prisoners streak then maybe they have a chance in November. If however the Libs can’t unify and can’t find their ruthless streak they’ll lose again and it’ll be up to Aunty Pauline to try and take out Labor.
The battle of Victoria begins
And so it begins, the battle for Victoria. Yesterday the Libs perhaps caught Labor slightly off guard by announcing a policy that would see the Libs invite police from overseas to join the force here. They’d be offered a cash incentive and help fill the 1500 or so vacancies currently within Victoria Police.
The opposition who was yesterday just Sonya Kilkenny said the policy was not a new one and that the government was listening to and taking advice from the Chief commissioner. It was asked of Ms Kilkenny if she didn’t think more police and more open stations was a good idea to which she didn’t really answer but was visibly caught off guard.
While Bendigo Barbie was on her day off by the looks she will no doubt roll into work tomorrow with a counter to the Libs plan and then a range of policies that will aim to undermine the Libs. Allan will no doubt come into this campaign with a big box of treats for Victorians but have absolutely no intention of delivering on any of it if she actually wins. The Libs though need to be sure they can win and have to come armed with policy that they can follow through on.
This week I think is going to be brutal and the gloves will come off so welcome to the Battle for Victoria 2026, who will win? Who really cares just so long as it’s not bloody Labor again!
Is Chris Bowen delusional?
Being energy minister in 2026 isn’t an easy job we have to give Chris Bowen that. I mean he’s got to walk the line of actual government responsibility but then also pander to the delusional lefty nut bag environmentalists. The same lefty nut bag climate change groups that in the 90’s said the Arctic would be gone by 2013, that cities would soon be underwater and that by the 2010’s polar bears and snow would be things of the past.
We all know we need to take better care of the planet and that we should look to other forms of energy to support civilisation but not at the cost of people’s lives. Bowen has been in the news a lot since the Iran war. He kicked off the fuel crisis by suggesting it was all an opportunity to focus on solar because the sun basically wasn’t interested in going to war with anyone. He’s since jumped off that bandwagon because he’s realised that pushing an agenda for renewables when it’s plainly obvious they’re not fit for purpose.
The Bowen messaging on renewables and on the governments ludicrous usage targets for them by 2030 has been dictatorial and the old Labor idea of, if you’re not on board then you obviously don’t care about your fellow man. The same one Andrews had during Covid, you’re obviously selfish and don’t care, when really people do care but can’t afford not to work or live the way Labor wants them to.
A few weeks after the fuel crisis arrived on our door step Bowen’s language did ease a little on the whole renewable energy issue but he wasn’t really answering questions properly nor was he willing to go very in depth about the crisis. This was shown up when veteran journalist Liam Bartlett showed up at a Bowen press conference asking the energy minister why he wouldn’t ask deep dive questions and also why he wouldn’t go on Bartletts show? The energy minister slipped his way through questions suggesting it was selfish of Barlett to prevent his colleagues from asking questions but the truth remains, his come Bowen can’t answer in depth questions?
The reality is that Chris Bowen is a politician and they don’t like answering questions which is why we all detest them, but it’s also why journos like Bartlett have had enough. We’ve had enough of the utter bullshit spin that does absolutely zero to help people with cost of living and sees them with zero accountability.
While Bowen is an annoying little twat he’s not the first energy minister to paint a picture of doom and gloom but here’s hoping with journalists starting to ask real questions and people turning away from the major parties that he’s the last!
Labor rats leaving a sinking ship?
Are the rats from within the Labor party all starting to abandon ship before as the state election draws ever closer. It was reported yesterday that not only is Barbie about to have a cabinet reshuffling she’s also looking at Mary-Ann Thomas bailing along with Danny Pearson and Lily D’Ambrosio. Add these names to the ones from within the bureaucracy of resignations and Barbie is looking at a whole new team of bloodsucking parasites should she win come November.
Over at liberal party HQ it could be the case that Liberal leader Jess Wilson will have a fight on her hands to keep her own seat. The suggestion is that One Nation and independent candidates could see Wilson lose if she doesn’t get back amongst her people and convince them she can not only help the local community but also run the state better than Barbie can!
It could well be the case that the Libs will find themselves in power not because they’ve been so amazing, especially of late, but because Labor are now just that bad! The only reason Labor won the last time was because the Grand Ayatollah was such a manipulative bastard but Barbie isn’t her former boss and maybe can’t play the game as well as he can, plus who do you know that actually likes her?!
There are usually a good number of MP’s that exit the world of politics come election time. Exit for greener pastures or in Danny Pearsons case to become a kitchen hand at the Burvale, but when it comes to this election it could be the case that some of Allan’s team can see the writing on the wall and are going before it gets ugly.
We all know there are vested interests in Allan winning in her own right come November but we can only hope that those vested interests all head off to rehab, jail, overseas or back under whatever rock they crawled out from under because we are sick of all of them!
Enjoy those shifts at the Burvale Danny, at least you’ll finally get to hear the Cold Chisel cover band!
Matt Canavan’s revolution
I think Matt Canavan has to be commended for being one of the few politicians that is actually starting to think about changing the world and country we live in. The Libs don’t think they need to change and that people will at some stage want a dysfunctional rabble to run the country, Labor have no real need to change because there’s no competition and One Nation haven’t really, as yet, offered policy documents on profound change, so Matt thought he’d have a crack.
Canavan’s changes aren’t really ground breaking and are easy to cast aside by the lefty tree hugging EV driving wokes but he’s not wrong;
- Scrap Net-zero
- Fire up oil production in Australia
- Dig for more coal
- Cut migration
- Increase the birth rate
- Re-establish Australian manufacturing
All of these are good ideas but given Australia is run by socialists the chances of much of it happening are slim, but not impossible especially if One Nation does actually get into power. The point of Canavan’s pitch though is that he’s absolutely right to be suggesting we need profound change.
Australia isn’t what it was in the 1990’s, we’ve lost our identity and while we need to reclaim it we also need to get very real about what it is we are doing to, dare I say, make Australia great again. The stark reality of net zero is that it’s a pipe dream, the fuel crisis has showed that we are not ready to rely on renewables so we need to produce more oil and coal and we need to do it here to avoid having to be reliant on overseas producers. No that won’t make the inner city E-bike riders happy but who cares? I guarantee that when the farmers have to put prices up the inner city lefty will be the first one to complain about the price of their that goats milk latte!
Migrants helped built this country, we’re all migrants, but migration becomes virtually impossible when we can’t produce housing! If our younger generations are struggling to find places to live what on earth are we doing for people who come here in hope of a better life? But migration goes beyond housing it goes to skilled labour, it goes to education, it goes to social services…the NDIS is already broken and the social services system struggles how do we add more migrants to the system when it is barely fit for purpose already? So yes! Cut migration!
The issue with manufacturing is the cost here in Australia so the only way it does work is with government subsidies and if migrants are going to come here then perhaps the government can subsidise their wages? There are all of ways we can restart manufacturing here in Australia but we have to invest in ourselves before we do deals with the likes of China to produce things we can do here!
Canavan is right to be suggesting profound changes to Australian way of life it’s just a shame that his ideas will more than likely be cut down by lefty wokes who think socialism is still the best way forward.
Ben Roberts-Smith
After the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre US president George Bush stood on the wreckage of the Twin Towers and vowed he would bring to justice the people who brought down the towers. Bush sent all the might and fury of the US Military to Afghanistan and although it took several years ultimately had Bin Laden killed. In the process of finding those responsible for the World Trade Centre attacks the US Military and Intelligence Services had a by what ever means necessary ethos to hunt down and capture Taliban operatives.
When the CIA got hold of suspected Taliban leader Abu Zubaydah he was supposedly water boarded 83 times. Let’s be clear here I have zero sympathy for anyone that has anything to do with terrorism. These are people who don’t wear military uniforms, these are people who hide behind women and children, these are people who torture and maim innocent people for the sake of their delusional beliefs so if a few of them get water boarded so be it. But the point here is that no one at Guantanamo Bay that allegedly tortured anyone has ever been charged with a war crime.
With the arrest and charging of Ben Roberts-Smith we can’t help but ask, when does Trump face charges of war crimes at The Hague? When do we see accountability for Putin? For Xi? For Albo sending airborne assistance to the Middle East? When do we see the senior officers of the SASR face charges? When do we see military leaders across the world held to account for war crimes?
Australia has charged one man, one SASR soldier with war crimes and he’s the only one sitting in a jail cell. Who are we now? Who are we that we seem to be beholden to forces that hold sway over government decisions that lead to votes. Who decided that Ben Roberts-Smith needed to go to prison? Because someone did, someone somewhere decided that one of Australia’s most decorated war heroes needed to be charged with murder.
The charging of Ben Roberts-Smith changes how the military fight battles, it changes how we think about accountability and it changes us as a country and none of it for the better.
It’s all a Murdoch plot?
The almost angelic face that The Age has had on its online paper of Peta Credlin would suggest that butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth, but ask Phil Davis about what he thinks about Credlin and I’d suggest Phil would say Peta is far from angelic and while she might not melt butter she’d probably pour hot lava on anyone that stood in her way. See, it appears that there are those within the Liberal Party that want uncle Rupert to hold sway over the party and there are others that want the party to side with truth justice and the way of the leftists, ie The Age, but no matter who wants what this is all music to the ears of Jacinta Allan!
Phil Davis, the state liberal party president has suggested in an interview with The Age that there are those within the party that have a hotline to Credlin and that the Murdoch empire is pushing for things to head the way in which they want and that’s nowhere near the left. That’s not to suggest anyone in the party wants to steer away from the right rather they want different version of the right.
Davis believes the Murdoch hit squad want the party to team up with Aunty Pauline and One Nation which Davis and his camp are absolutely against believing the Libs can win in their own right come the November election. Now that remains to be seen but what is true is that if the Libs can’t get on the same page and soon it’ll be Allan that becomes the first female elected premier of Victoria.
The whole Moira Deeming saga recently came back again to haunt the Libs via some members of the party’s in vain attempt to ditch Moira. Some within the party had lined up a candidate that did actually beat Deeming in preselection but then had to drop out because he’d been a character reference for a convicted pedophile. Davis admits that the selection process of certain potential candidates wasn’t what it should have been, but did say background checks were done by a party backed intelligence company. We’d suggest that process might need some updating? Regardless of the process it left egg on the faces of the whole party because it had tried to shaft one of their own and failed. It also saw a party member in Louise Staley offer her own opinions on Deeming’s initial preselection loss, which was along the lines of good riddance, not exactly a unified message now was it?
It’s interesting to read Davis suggest that Murdoch press wants to make inroads into the state Liberal Party and force a union with One Nation. While One Nation is possibly the future of Australian politics the Libs are dying a slow death and moving towards irrelevance so maybe it’s a plot from the Murdoch empire to bring one nation into the fray but it’s a risky move asking them to get onboard with the Libs.
You kind of think that Murdoch would think a bit more outside the box of trying to control the dysfunctional liberal party or at least wanting to have a hand in its future. But I remember being told by a senior member of the Murdoch team some time ago that they have zero interest in changing the direction of their news service, which I thought was pretty short term thinking but what do I know?! So maybe Credlin and Davis will shake hands and make up and if it is true that Murdoch, senior or junior is pulling the strings on the direction of the Liberal Party Phil wants to watch out because the Murdochs rarely lose a fight.
Is Trump the Libs way back?
Could it be that Trump is doing the Liberal party of Australia a massive favour?! Now while One Nation is now the leading political party in Queensland according to new polling data they still don’t really have any evidence of how they’re going to change the country. Yes ok, we get the whole cut migration, ditch net zero, ban the burka stuff but where are the actual policies? Hanson is a big fan of Trump and while she hasn’t been out waving the flag of team America lately her commitment to the Don and another Trump supporter in Gina Rheinhart is unquestionably going to bite them all in the arse.
As global supply chains continue to be impacted by Trumps war on everyone support for the Don is running out. Countries are turning their backs on the US as are political parties with the Libs being one of them. Recent criticism of the Trump administration from the federal liberal party has seen it criticised as being Labor lite but really it’s the right move.
One Nation’s jump in popularity is a direct result of political dissatisfaction and with the Libs at an all time low in their popularity they need to start a rebuild. That rebuild is getting away from the right of US politics and offering a new version of conservatism in Australia. One that does believe in freedom, entrepreneurial spirit, less government control, but also that Australia needs its own identity away from the super powers that dictate and or try to control global affairs.
The Libs need policy and strategy to show why they’re a) not Labor lite and b) why they’re a much better option than One Nation. As long as One Nation continue to run with zero policies and back Trump the Libs have a chance to reestablish themselves as the genuine alternative to Labor. But the Libs to start thinking about their future and taking it to
Labor because if they miss this opportunity and Hanson does start dropping policy documents that voters do get behind the Libs are indeed finished.
Deeming wins preselection of stupidity
Well Moira Deeming wins preselection for the Liberal Party after no one ended up standing against her and really two things need to happen on Tuesday morning. The first is that Phil Davies need to resign or be sacked and the second is that Louise Staley needs to apologise for her social media post or resign and if she doesn’t do anything then she should have her party membership cancelled.
I mean seriously how more dysfunctional can a political party be?! The Libs obviously wanted Deeming gone but fucked the whole thing up! They brought in an Indian bloke with serious credibility issues that no one did due diligence on, they then ran a second vote and tried to get other people to run against her but bounced one of them for not filling in the paper work properly? And the other pulled out! I mean seriously!
Jess Wilson is I’m sure trying her hardest to change the party but short of walking into the party room with a machine gun or tearing strips off the party itself you have to wonder how this absolute rabble gets into power. The only way the Libs actually knock Labor off is if they have a Steven Bradbury moment, meaning Labor end up being so toxic and so shit that not even Daniel Andrews would vote for them!
How did the Libs get here? I mean seriously they are supposed to be a professional political party that can rise above the noise of their varying opinions unify and show why they can be the alternative government. Right now though they are literally handing Labor everything they need to continue to criticise them and show why they’re unelectable. It’s staggering! I am sure there are things within the party we don’t know and that are major issues but look at Labor! Love or hate them outside the party room they are a united force that is unwavering in its support of the common good! The Libs? Well they look like a bunch of rats in a sewer.
Victoria deserves a hell of a lot better than what’s it’s currently being dished up, but until the Libs can offer a solution to their infighting Victoria is Labor town and things will only get worse before they get any better.
Recession by September?
Are bank economists the new epidemiologists? Remember when all those science people were let loose on the pandemic? It was lockdown for months on end and we should be wearing full burkas for a year to slow the spread! Some of what they came up with was fair but most of it was absolute rubbish! So when the bank economists have their moment in the sun as Trump continues to be an unhinged maniac be assured the end of the world is nigh.
It is true that if we see negative growth in September we will be in a recession but are we going to get there? Given petrol prices are through the roof and despite economists, podcasters and the media all saying the RBA will hike rates how can they? Can you imagine the RBA sticking rates up at their next meeting? Yes anyone on $300,000 plus a year can but for us mere mortals it would be a catastrophe!
Down here on planet let’s storm the barricades things are tough and not getting any easier. Not only is petrol at record levels we are unquestionably going to see grocery prices go up because hey who wants the supermarkets to miss out on their profits! There’s absolutely no empathy from the big supermarkets is there? There’s no hey we’re all in this together, no, we’ve got you and we’re freezing prices on a range of products, nope, instead it’s let’s sell out all the Jerry cans and then fuck the minions on pricing of groceries at our stores!
Albo and Chalmers cut the fuel excise to keep prices a bit lower, but how about bashing the supermarket next boys? Or maybe picking up the phone to that imbecile Trump!? We have said before and will say again, Mark Carney was right! We need to look elsewhere for our key suppliers and resources because Trump is not coming to save anyone!
It is unquestionably true now that the high petrol prices are yes a small hangover from before the invasion of Iran but primarily as a result of a maniac trying to take over the world! In these hard economic times Australia has been found wanting on a number of issues and because of them and Trump things will get worse before they get any better but what a great time to be an economist at a bank, time to shine boys and girls!
How can the Libs really win in November?
I know as you get older you become more cynical about the world, but not even the most optimistic person could confidently say that the Liberal Coalition will win the state election in November. Who would? Theo libs have a 15 year old with a law degree running the party, they have a 150 year old running the party room, they have a bloke who wanted to cut a number of female candidates out as President and they members of their own party making posts on social media saying good riddance when certain MP’s lose their preselection bids.
But wait! There’s more! Not only are there the aforementioned issues the party is divided on its direction, divided on certain people being preselected and then divided on court action over issues of how people within the party have been dealt with. Everywhere you look within the Liberal Party you see division, you see people who aren’t on the same page and you see a party that can barely run its own affairs let alone a state with hundreds of billions dollars of debt! How did they get this bad!!?
Look it may be the case that the Libs crush Labor because people have had enough of Bendigo Barbie and her minions of bullshit, or it might be the case that the Libs team up with One Nation and do preference deal to chuck out Allan, plus with a local publican nominating for Allan’s seat she could well be out regardless of the main result, but really?
A lot of things need to go right for the Libs to win come November and right now they seem utterly clueless in how to win people over to vote for them. What it will need is a preference deal with One nation, a massive swing away from Labor based on them being crap and people saying we want a change. To get that done Labor need to lose on a scale not often seen, but it’s definitely possible, will it happen though? I’d like to say yes but right now voting for one or the other isn’t that different instead what we need is change, change that brings back some optimism and hope to the state, but regardless I won’t hold my breath.
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