They all have one thing in common; they are all students of socialism and communism.

During their lifetime ­– and their reign – they caused enormous suffering among their own people and destroyed their national economies. They were despots.

CLASS

Is it too soon to put Albanese in their class?

The answer is probably yes, but consider this: We are now in the fourth year of what will be a six-year reign of Anthony Albanese and his far-Left socialist government.

There are those who predict that Labor will win the next election, if that happens, they will be in power for nearly a decade.

There is little doubt that at both general elections it was not so much that Labor won, it was more a matter that they gained office because they had little opposition and they made promises, which the electorate believed.

It’s irrefutable that many of those promises turned out to be lies, some deliberate; think the claim that the Opposition intended to dismember Medicare and that nuclear energy would cause genetic mutations.

The man who is now our prime minister continually held up his Medicare card telling people that under Labor that the card was all they would need for medical services.

It was a bare-faced lie, but it didn’t matter because the same claim was made day after day after day and eventually the people wanted to believe; they wanted better times and that was what the PM promised.

Has the world of “1984” in George Orwell’s famous novel been adopted as policy by Albanese and the Australia Labor Party? It’s starting to look that way.

Orwell’s dystopian novel was published in 1949. He was deeply concerned about the effect political propaganda had on German and Russian citizens during World War II and what was happening in communist Russia post 1945.

In Russia and behind the Iron Curtain in 1949 all forms of opposition had been exterminated by Joseph Stalin and his Communist Party.

George Orwell’s book 1984 is what he believed the world, his world, Britain and Europe, would become by 1984, if communism prevailed over freedom.

Britain in 1949 had a Labour Socialist Government led by Clement Atlee. Socialism in Britain in those post-war years catered for all factions, many were close to communism.

Returning British industry to “the people” had started. The nationalisation of major British industries was well under way; Britain had started what would be known today by those who attend Davos, as the “great reset”.

The British industrial complex trying desperately to recover from WW2 was nationalised by the Labour government. Road, rail, steel and coal and anything else they could lay their hands on, was acquired and run by the State.

CONTROL

Orwell’s 1984 is a story of where the State becomes life, it controls everything. The term “Big Brother is watching you”, comes from the novel; where the family TV is in fact a two-way device.

Watch and be watched at the same time. In 2025 consider there are about 52,000 CCTV cameras in the UK and facial recognition is turned on when you don’t even know it’s there.

Orwell wrote about a giant screen in every citizen’s house blasting a constant stream of propaganda designed to make the failures of the Party a resounding success.

It is hard to believe that Orwell could be so prescient as to conceive that the State could use the media to change the people’s perception of reality, to turn bad news into good, barely believable fiction!

In 2024, Albanese’s Labor government spent $251m on advertisements. Did that spend of the taxpayer’s money have any effect on the result of the 2025 election? Did it make the lies into good news stories?

Did they tell us that there was ­– and is ­– a steady hand on the fiscal tiller of the good ship Australia? Of course they did, and now we know they lied, comprehensively.

When asked about the future, Labor said, “She’ll be Jakes, Jim Chalmers has it all under control”.

By the end of 2025 it is predicted that our gross debt will be $1.02 trillion or 35 per cent of gross domestic product. By 2028-29 it is forecast to be $1.22 trillion or 36.8 per cent of GDP.

In 1984, the Ministry of Truth is responsible for constantly altering the historical records to align with the Party’s constantly changing narrative.

Could that happen in Australia in 2025? Consider this; the economy of Australia is in trouble because gross debt is out of control; the government is spending more than it is receiving, so it is borrowing to make up the difference.

The Ministry of Truth in the Albanese Government consistently and deliberately keeps the national economic reality away from the electorate.

They do that with a mixture of lies and a fiscal cookie jar – or smokescreens and mirrors.

Treasure Jim Chalmers again and again tells the people that he and the Labor Government have done what no government has done since the Howard years and that is show a surplus; Chalmers boasts he has done it not once but twice!

The truth is that the surplus had nothing to do with his management and everything to do with commodity prices, particularly coal and iron ore, being higher than Treasury had forecast.

What this financial genius hasn’t told is that in spite of the surplus, the national debt continues to rise because he can’t stop spending.

How many Australians know that when the national debt reaches $1.02 trillion, the per capita debt for every Australian will be approximately $36,400 and they will have to pay at least the interest on that amount on top of all other debts?

So the lie is that all is good in the world, because of the surplus, when in fact the situation is diabolically bad.

The cookie jar to distract and hide the pain comes in many forms. Child care is a good example, so is the NDIS.

In Australia today all but the very rich need two incomes to support a mortgage or rent, a couple of children in school and a car or two to get to and from work.

In 2025 the State – and so all Australians – are helping young parents raise their children. Think about that.

Sixty years ago under Mao and the Cultural Revolution in China, all children were raised in a government day care centre freeing the women to work in factories.

The dependence of young parents on the government to provide day care so that they can take home the two incomes which are essential for the young in 2025, makes them vulnerable to rumour, innuendo and lies.

STRESSED

Who will the young financially stressed parents vote for the next time if a claim is made that child care will cease if the Liberals are elected.

Until about the turn of the century Australia enjoyed a high standard of living compared to the rest of the world and there was a controlled queue of people wanting to leave, mainly Europe, to live in Australia.

The secret was restricted migration. When Howard and Costello were beaten by Rudd in 2007, migration numbers started to climb as did the national debt.

In 2007 Australia was debt free and Costello left money in the bank, which Kevin07 was delighted to spend.

Ever since they were elected in 2022 the cookie jar for this socialist Labor government has been migration; unfettered migration.

The truth is migration has become a millstone around the neck of Australia and its people, but this government is pressing on undeterred by debt and a devastating housing crisis.

The Ministry of Truth and its embassies are keeping the truth from would-be migrants as they form orderly queues at airports in India, China and the Middle East.

These legions of hopefuls are not being told that there has been a sharp decline in the standard of living in Australia.

They are not being told that since Labor came to power, Australians have suffered one of the most severe declines in per capita household income in the developed world, with reports showing a fall of between 8-10 per cent.