When confronted with the news that One Nation had raised more than a million dollars as a result of his call to Labor supporters, Albanese scoffed at the claim, sneering and implying that it might all be a stunt.

At the time of writing One Nation had raised more than $4m with their “Fire the Liar” campaign. The average donation is reported to be about $50.

REPEATING

Now on YouTube and on Facebook there are songs of all kinds repeating time and time again “Fire the Liar”.

They make the Whitlam campaign song It’s Time with Little Pattie sound like a nursery rhyme.

“Fire the Liar” is designed to appeal to people of all ages and from all walks of life. Judging by the cross section of the population who have donated to One Nation there is unity among the voters of all ages, they agree, it is time.

It has long been known that in boxing parlance Albanese has a “glass jaw”. How will he react to a national campaign calling him, the Prime Minister of Australia, a liar and that he should be fired?

He gets grumpy and arrogant when confronted with facts he doesn’t like. When the world saw him fall off a stage he denied it. He said he just stumbled.

The Barbarians, aka One Nation are at the gates of Canberra; they are on the ramparts, and Labor have let the drawbridge down and One Nation are streaming into town.

The One Nation insurgents are telling the world of Albanese’s catalogue of broken promises and lies and that changing direction on policy, is as lame as a one legged duck

Albanese’s ambition to be a third term prime minister is threatened by, of all people, a woman and a Party he has mocked and derided for decades.

Over the years Albanese and many in the Labor Party, especially the malevolent Senators Wong and Gallagher have ridiculed and disparaged Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party.

“Vituperative Always” was the unwritten motto of those who became known as “the mean girls”.

They were given that moniker by one of their own; a gracious lady, Kimberly Kitching who died of a heart attack at the age of just 52.

After her death, it was alleged that she was mercilessly bullied by senators Wong, Gallagher and Kristina Keneally, both in the senate chamber and in her workplace.

Gallagher and Wong subsequently displayed their true colours and gave credence to their moniker when they ruthlessly pursued Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds, during what turned out to be the Britney Higgins litany of lies against Reynolds.

Now, as huge numbers of Australians from all walks of life and, surprisingly, of all ages, are telling the pollsters they will vote for Hanson and her Party, the country waits for the response from the liar they want to fire.

Over the past five years or so around the developed world, particularly in Australia, the people, old and young have been remembering the past, worried about the present and become disillusioned about their future.

There is a creeping malaise in Australia, a collective community melancholy, an unease caused by what many can feel, yet cannot articulate; an uneasiness of what appears to be a crumbling of the structure of the long accepted proud Australian culture and character.

Many are now realising that the changes to their way of life, to which they have been subjected, were not-so subtle adjustments, for which they did not vote.

That they were changes imposed by governments as they in turn conformed to the vagaries of opinion and behaviours that were occurring in other parts of the world, mainly in America and Britain.

These changes were not passing fashions, nor were they of the Germaine Greer, Female Eunuch, “burn your bra” type change.

CONFRONTED

Australians were confronted with a challenge that to be accepted into what others decreed was the new order, there were alterations to the way they were expected to think, conform and behave under the new rules.

How many outside of corporate and government bureaucracies fully understood what Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) really meant?

It turned out it didn’t matter, because its values were imposed across society by governments and their bureaucracies, by boards of directors and by human resource managers.

It became critical to create a racial balance, or even a racial imbalance against what many said was “white dominance” or patriarchy.

We saw it on our television where every government message contained people of all colours. Mixed race couples were and still are the fashion, together with, if possible, an indigenous person in the scene somewhere.

There was and still is a world wide debate on the definition of a man and a woman. Men pretending to be women demanded – and too often got permission – to play women’s sports, change in their locker rooms and even be incarcerated in their prisons.

All at the time when surgeons willingly chop up young people claiming compassion and the belief that chromosomes are not as strong as the scalpel.

COVID brought the emergency measure of working from home (WFH), all designed to keep the nation functioning during a pandemic.

People realised that it was easier working from home than travelling to work every day. Nobody was watching the hours. Nobody saw the time spent with the children and walking the dog or working in pyjamas and slippers.

Many liked that way of life so much they wanted it to be permanent. So their trade unions agitated until they got their way; in Victoria, where the people are staggering under the weight of record debt, there is now a law that almost everyone can demand they WFH two days a week.

WORST

Between 2019 and 2024, the COVID years, Australia’s Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) was minus three per cent and only beaten by Mexico to be crowned the worst performer in the world. (Macrobusiness 14/12/25)

Today, well into the second term of this Albanese Labor Government we are all subjected to the empty words and false assurances of an administration in chaos.

Inflation remains high. There is a housing and a homelessness crisis. Charities are running out of food, children are going hungry in a land that can grow anything it wants.

When an apple can cost more than a dollar and a small bag of potato chips three dollars, and a pint of beer ten dollars, the Drovers dog knows all is not well in the Australian economy.

This is Australia in 2025 and the people, young and old, male and female, are saying enough is enough – and they really have had enough.

As the weeks roll on into months, there is no real sign of improvement and every sign that it could get worse.