So it begins. The most important five weeks of our lives.
The Australia that is born on May 3rd will either be a recovering addict on the way to being healed or a crippled, mutant gasping its last.
That is up to all of us. The stakes in an election have never been higher. Only two figures need to be top of mind: the million-plus migrants and the trillion-dollar debt. Both figures can only get worse, far worse, if Labor is re-elected and the damage will be largely beyond repair. Both figures can be reversed and the damage halted if the Coalition is elected. That is the clear, stark unavoidable choice.
The Coalition is far from perfect, but Labor is beyond salvageable. Jim Chalmers’ fraudulent Budget offered literally nothing in the way of a plan forward or a means of revitalising our moribund economy. The Budget papers Chalmers held up on the floor of Parliament were more rotten and stunk to higher heavens than the dead fish Sarah Hanson-Young held aloft in the Senate.
Peter Dutton’s Budget in reply was not the inspirational Gettysburg address many had hoped for. That speech has yet to be written, but it offered a credible path out of the current cost of living crisis. However, the logic of the Coalition’s argument was clearly flawed: if gas and nuclear offer economic salvation, then the culprit is clearly Net Zero. There is no other logical conclusion. And by definition, that means whatever benefits come from increasing the supply of gas would be multiplied and be even more immediate if Australia pulled out of the Paris Agreement and abandoned Net Zero.
The election campaign will be riveting, and you can follow it every step of the way here on The Spectator Australia. But make no mistake; this is no ordinary election. The ramifications will be felt for years. With any luck, the Coalition will win and be able to govern either in its own right or with the help of parties like One Nation. Unfortunately, Australia is cursed with its compulsory preferential voting system which corrupts and confuses the wishes of the electorate, but that is a fight for another day. Any efforts to coordinate independent candidates of the right is to be welcomed. A right-wing balance of power in the Senate would be an absolute boon.
But the most important message which needs to be spread far and wide is: Vote no to Labor, the Teals, and the Greens. For the sake of the future prosperity of this nation.
