Labor has run out of money, run out of credibility, and run out of ideas.
There is no other explanation for their decision to brand the federal election as a ‘Mediscare election’.
The pathetic propaganda began with the Prime Minister posting a cringe tweet where he held up his Medicare card as if it were his Parliamentary Participation Award issued to the lowest performer.
‘This is all you should need to see your doctor in Australia, not your credit card,’ he said, pretending Medicare was funded by a magical cash tree and not the pockets of increasingly impoverished Australians.
Community Notes on X flagged the Prime Minister for spreading misinformation. No medical treatment in Australia is ‘free’. Everything is funded by taxpayers and the mandatory Medicare Levy.
In recent days, this has been followed by a swarm of posts from Albanese’s team and dozens of articles that have been left to tumble around the media landscape like feathers plucked off some poor bird during a head-on collision.
I am not one to nod in agreement with the ABC, but they correctly pointed out that on the cusp of an election campaign there is a #MeToo phase.
When Labor promised $8.5 billion for Medicare, the Liberals jumped in and offered $9 billion and then dared Labor to match them. (Why? Is this the Virtue Olympics?)
By doing so, Peter Dutton empowered what should have been a fleeting Labor thought bubble. He showed his enemies in the press that the Liberals fear Medicare campaign slogans to the point they are prepared to burn public money to make them go away.
These two leaders are using our money to scare each other in the headlines and I cannot be the only person tired of watching it happen every four years.
As if to soften the blow, Peter Dutton added that this Medicare promise would be funded by cutting thousands of jobs from the public service, whereas Labor is dedicated to expanding the bureaucracy. I understand Dutton aimed this at voters who dislike the majority of left-leaning public servants, but my question is, how much money are we wasting on the public service if we can casually cut nearly $9 billion? And was this waste there for the decade the Liberals were in power? It raises more questions than problems it proposes to solve.
It is also a very bad time to allude to public waste when DOGE is busy ripping the US Treasury to shreds and demonstrating the entrenched philosophy of government mismanagement that Australia almost certainly shares.
In a political environment where families are competing with migrants for homes and jobs, we have Labor spreading lies about Medicare, and in return, the Liberals talking about Labor’s bulk billing crisis. The peasants don’t care.
Both parties have chosen to ignore the real reason the healthcare system is broken … corruption, waste, a failure of the education system, and the inconvenient fact that they fired a heck-load of medical practitioners during Covid for no reason at all other than protecting the reputation of Parliament.
When it comes to things Australians are desperately worried about and want to see their political parties go head-to-head on, Medicare isn’t even on their list.
Australia is experiencing a cost-of-living crisis. An energy crisis. A housing crisis. A social crisis. A generational divide. A religious conflict. An education collapse. And a birthrate disaster.
There are criminals destroying our historic sites and beheading statues of Prime Ministers, meanwhile, elected members of Parliament are causally saying, ‘F- the colony!’ as if that isn’t a seditious declaration against the taxpayers who foot the bill for their salary.
Albanese and Dutton are obsessed with suffocating speech on social media while actual criminals roam the streets, often in gangs, terrorising the general public. People are more likely to get in trouble with the law for complaining about crime online than actually committing it.
Then we have really big problems, such as the lights costing too much to turn on, farming land is being eaten up by renewable energy, and race-based treaties locking people out of national parks.
Who is to blame for these things?
It is a joint failure. Both parties have been buddying-up on Net Zero and pouring our money into renewable energy projects that wouldn’t survive in a true free market. Meanwhile, the scars of Covid hysteria have festered into open economic wounds that manifest as ‘For Lease’ signs down what used to be the High Street but now looks like the third world slum of a Democrat-run city.
It is impossible for the Liberal Party to play its usual trump card of economic responsibility after Morrison shut down the economy and damn near killed it in a fit of health hysteria. Labor were right there in National Cabinet, cheering him on. The public doesn’t trust either of them to balance the books.
Voters have been very clear that their priorities are stopping migration, building real energy infrastructure, auditing the Indigenous activist industry, putting the Union movement back in its holding pen, and cutting tax to encourage business.
The most popular thing Peter Dutton has said in the last year was his threat to remove citizenship from migrants who act against Australia.
It makes no sense for the Liberal Party to engage with Labor’s Mediscare Agenda.
I am sure they think that throwing money at the problem will make it go away, but since that promise was made, Labor ministers have been growing their pile of tweets. Dutton’s pledge has been seen as blood in the water of an election campaign that hasn’t officially started. Labor is even using Dutton’s commitment to pick apart his nuclear energy pitch.
The Liberals need to work out what sort of campaign they want to present to the Australian people and stop following Labor around into whatever ditch and trap their strategists have laid.
