by ROGER CROOK – “The morning after the night before.” For as long as I can remember, those few words have been the catalyst for many jokes and more than a few cold and clammy feelings of remorse.
There can be few more unpleasant experiences when, in the far-too-bright light of the morning after, memories of the night before start to creep into one’s consciousness.
- To make matters worse, the Coalition failed to counter Labor’s nuclear cost lies with facts.
- Labor convinced voters that debt didn’t matter – and we believed them
- Albanese and his mates couldn’t care less.
Thoughts that “it couldn’t have happened, could it?” are soon quashed by “honest” comments from partners, phone calls from friends and eyewitnesses all only too happy and gleeful to confirm and embellish your worst fears.
When applied to the political landscape in Australia after the recent general election, that particular Sunday morning after should have found the Liberals in no mood for jokes and many weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth; Liberal HQ should have been overcome with remorse and guilt.
FAILED
Having had three years to raise funds and plan, strategise and conspire with the Nationals to ensure that Albanese and his Labor Party became a one-term government, the Liberal Party failed the Australian people.
They failed to claim let alone demonstrate, and then persuade the electorate that they had the policies.
More importantly, they failed to prove they had the ability and – more importantly still – the people and leaders to form government.
In contrast the Labor Party pulled out their strategy from the last election and a great deal from the election before that; a simple tried and tested plan that worked; they were elected in a landslide.
With Labor’s version of conviction and sincerity they did what they have always done; they lied. They told lies about their performance over the previous three years.
Where they had failed, they claimed they had succeeded and they got away with it, they went unchallenged by what appeared to be a mute Opposition.
Labor failed to show how they could achieve what they were promising for the next three years, and critically, where the money would come from to pay for all of their promises; they convinced the voters that debt didn’t matter and we believed them; it was a three-card trick of unbelievable proportions and it worked.
They mounted scurrilous ad hominin attacks on Coalition leader Peter Dutton and laughed in the face of those who criticised them.
They frightened the old and the infirm by claiming the Coalition would abandon Medicare (Mediscare Mk III) and the NDIS. Labor showed how low they can go by quite deliberately frightening the most vulnerable in our community.
They made atrocious claims about the cost of a nuclear power industry and persisted with the unsubstantiated claims when challenged on their estimate of the cost.
To make matters worse, the Coalition failed to counter Labor’s nuclear cost claims with facts, they failed to tell the people any more about the transition to nuclear than they already knew. Incompetence, uselessness? You choose.
The bitter realisation the morning after is that in those electorates where a nuclear power station had been proposed, the swing to Labor was less than the national swing. That simple fact should make those who claimed to be Coalition strategists, dry retch.
When the votes were counted it was soon painfully apparent that the Australian people preferred the Labor liars they knew, to the demonstrably incompetent and policy-lacking Coalition that hadn’t spent the time getting to know them.
Apart from Britain (there are signs that they are also changing) the countries to whom we are closest and from where many of our people originate, America, Italy, Finland, Holland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, and the Czech Republic, are all these days governed by Right-wing, some even claim, far Right-wing Parties.
The same trend can be seen in France where the Republican government has been accused of harassing and frivolously prosecuting Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French National Rally (known as the National Front until 2018).
In Germany, the intelligence service (of all people) wants the right wing AfD banned “to protect democracy”.
With Nigel Farage leading the Right-of-centre Reform Party in the UK, sweeping all before it in the recent council elections and promising, when in power in Westminster, to stop illegal migration, the British Labour Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has undertaken to follow the Right-wing Parties of Europe and close Britain’s borders.
Yet, while all of that change is happening in Europe, here in Australia where we are facing the same monumental challenges as our cousins on the other side of the world, we have opted for far-Left socialism, why is that?
Leading up to the General Election a couple of weeks ago, the Australian Labor Party managed to divert public attention away from the three years of their manifest failures in virtually all portfolios.
With simple fiscal illusions (the truth will be revealed later) and factual lies, they secured another three years on the government benches.
There are some important matters which lying to the Australian people won’t resolve and for which, quite soon, we might well suffer.
SOCIALIST
It remains to be seen whether or not our involvement in the nuclear submarine programme AUKUS will influence President Trump to treat an Australian socialist government any differently to Europe and the EU, where he has told them they must increase their spending on defence.
On May 13, it was announced that the Trump administration wants to hear within a week how NATO’s European countries and Canada plan to boost defence spending to five per cent of GDP.
Ambassador Matthew Whitaker, ahead of a meeting with the Foreign Minister in Turkey insisted that “five per cent is our number. We’re asking our allies to invest like they mean it”.
He went on to say the (European) alliance is facing significant threats, on which he did not elaborate.
If there is anyone who does not believe that Australia, being an undefended island, is not facing significant threats, then they must be Rip Van Winkle.
The stark fact that in Australia we are unable to defend ourselves does not seem to worry this government. Currently we are spending far less than two per cent of GDP on our defence and it appears that Albanese and his mates couldn’t care less.
Worse still, it has been clearly shown that we are unable to even tell, never mind do anything about it, when foreign warships enter our sea lanes.
Apparently we have to rely on commercial airline pilots to raise the alarm and then, by hoping that they are listening to the right VHF channel.
INCAPABLE
And then, to add insult to injury, we found we are incapable of following the sea-borne foreign intruders because we cannot re-fuel our warships at sea; this is the stuff that inspired Gilbert and Sullivan.
Richard Marles is, without doubt, the “very model of a modern Major General”.
Being defenceless, understandably, is not at the front of the mind of the electorate when so many cannot find somewhere to live, and many among those who do have a roof over their heads, are suffering from mortgage and rent stress.
The evidence of stress in the community is there for all to see. Foodbank keeps on running out of food. Last year they told us that in 2023, 3.4m households ran out of food; at the average of three people per household, that’s over 10m Australians, at some time, went hungry more than once.
Foodbank also told us last year that 48 per cent of households with less than $30,000 in income are food insecure; 14 per cent moderately and 34 per cent severely.
That is Australia today.
That those atrocious, brutal statistics, the fact that there are so many people going hungry didn’t warrant a mention from any political Party during the recent general election gabfest is symptomatic of governments all over Australia today.
Governments today spend more time concentrating on being re-elected than they do on the critical and manifest needs of our most vulnerable people.
COLD
In Australia today the poor are going cold and hungry and their numbers are growing.
I live close to incompetent government; I can go and witness it every day. Our little town is on the south coast of Western Australia, population about 38,000; I have been known to call it Camelot.
Our town is blessed with public football pitches and tennis courts that cover hundreds of acres, where footy clubs and all others can train under lights, and play to their hearts content at weekends. All facilities are maintained by the city council.
We have a large public recreation centre with swimming pools, basket ball courts and a gymnasium together with a surf club which cost the taxpayer many millions to build and support. Surf life saving is vital on the south coast of WA, where the seas can be quite treacherous.
We know that there are at least 200 people who are homeless in and around our little town. It can be very cold and wet down here in winter.
There are more than 500 families on the social housing wait list and their number is growing by 20 per cent a year.
In our little regional town, to rent a room with shared facilities will cost $200 a week. A one/two bedroom unit $500 a week and a house more than $600. The median price of houses is close to $600,000.
You will be pleased to know that in spite of all of those challenges and in this Labor constituency, our State Labor government is going to spend at least $13m on an artificial surfing reef on our most used beach. I don’t know how many surfers there are in our town.
I know that some of the homeless sleep in tents in the dunes adjacent to that beach, and last night it was cold, and it rained quite heavily.PC
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Also remember BILL GATES meeting Albanese at Kirribilli House?
Allegedly, The Global Vaccinator BILL GATES , who has made a killing from vaccines , and alleged friend and associate of JEFFREY EPSTEIN and MAJOR FUNDER OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION, and many would allege that he is guilty along with many others, of the global lockstep enforcement of vaccines/medical treatments against the Will of countless people globally and his ubiquitous Vaccines/big pharma and WHO pushing and his association with JEFFREY EPSTEIN, on top of everything else, is a red hot smoking gun and the WHO Pandemic Treaty must be killed and the WHO defunded and shut down permanently.