“The signposts of socialism point downhill to less freedom, less prosperity, downhill to more muddle, more failure. If we follow them to their destination, they will lead this nation into bankruptcy.” She continued.

Economist Friedrich von Hayek added: “If socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialist.”

DISHONESTY

I write often about the dishonesty of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, the socialist prime minister of Australia. There is no doubt that Albanese is a liar.

That is a serious accusation to make against anyone and particularly about the leader of a country; but in Albanese’s case it is easily proven.

I listened to him lying this morning when commenting on the meeting yesterday by the Liberal Party and their policy on net-zero.

Unchallenged by the Canberra Press Gallery, Albanese repeatedly asserted that renewable energy was the cheapest form of energy – and that his government was committed to its net-zero policy.

We know from all the information that has been produced from around the world and most of all we know from our own experiences over the past four years or so that this is patently not true.

Our back pocket tells us that this government has put electricity out of the reach of many of our poorest and oldest citizens; yet Albanese, a Labor man, dismisses those who once were the heart of his Party and believed in the “Light on the Hill”.

Labor Prime Minister Chifley, the working man’s prime minister, would be bewildered and then maybe filled with anguish by the wealthy elites from the leafy suburbs applauding and accepting the socialist ideology of a lying prime minister and cabinet.

Prime Minister Albanese is telling Australia that black is white and that night is day. He goes unchallenged by the Canberra Press Gallery and the majority of the media. Can they not see that the emperor has no clothes?

It beggars belief that the man who lives to “fight Tories” gets a free ride from the Australian media.

They are a disgrace to their profession; they have abrogated the revered creed of their profession, that of investigation and telling the truth.

As I write, the Liberals have decided to dump net-zero yet remain in the Paris climate accord, whatever that means.

Let us now hope, for the sake of this country, that the prevarication stops and the Liberals enter the debate with their coalition partners, the Nationals, and present to Australia an alternative to national decline and personal penury.

ZEALOT

The Nationals maintain that Labor’s net-zero plans, no doubt under the direction of that climate zealot Chris Bowen, will cost this nation a staggering $7 to $9 trillion over the next 25 years.

It is deplorable but understandable for this government of liars, that the Australian people have not been told what the governments “budgeted” cost for net-zero really is. The estimates do not appear anywhere in the accounts.

Based on current population an expenditure of $7 to $9 triillion amounts to $250,000 per person. The way costs are going what will that figure be double by 2035? And the decade after that?

Couple that debt with the soon-to-be net debt per capita (State and federal) of an astounding $45,183 and it shows that this and previous governments have saddled future generations with almost insurmountable debt.

Labor governments, all of them, have lost any vestige they may have once had of fiscal responsibility.

For a political Party to succeed and win elections it must find a way to communicate not only with those who follow its political philosophy but with voters of all ages and established political persuasions; basic stuff.

A swing of less than ten voters in a hundred, in many constituencies five in a hundred would change the government at the next General Election.

• Millennials (aged 27– 42 in 2025) and Gen Z (aged 11–26) combined, now outnumber the vote of the Baby Boomers.
• According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, more than 40 per cent of eligible voters in 2025 will belong to those two groups.

The Millennials and the older cohort of Gen Z are the group of young people who are now realising that they are not achieving an income and have not acquired the assets that their parents and grandparents had acquired at their age.

In other words they are looking at their parents and grandparents and wondering what has gone wrong with their lives in 2025.

There are more tertiary-qualified people in the community than ever before; there was a time when qualifications were the road to a better income than those with just a trade apprenticeship and a few certificates.

Now the world, not just Australia, is short of plumbers and carpenters and in our case soldiers and sailors and maybe even candle stick makers?

The world has been on a tertiary education binge; in Australia ever since the Hawke Government under the guidance of John Dawkins.

Around the world, skill-based Diplomas were turned into degrees without the necessary skills, and in Australia’s case, the community is now suffering.

There are some quite alarming statistics which never make it to the pages and currents affairs programs in Australia; those statistics tell us why we are floundering in a sea of debt and why our young are wondering whether there is a future for them in Australia.

LIARS

The reason these alarming figures are not being discussed around the coffee machine, water fountain and the dinner table is because, again, the main stream media deliberately keeps the truth from the people, especially when that truth reflects badly on our government of liars.

In The Financial Review of August 15 this year, Salvadore Babones, laid it all bare and the story he tells is one that the coalition Parties should note and publicly discuss.

If they did, they would realise that the price of electricity and the debate on net-zero is not the only debate this country should have. The other debate is that we are filling this country with people who have little to contribute.

Babones tells us that massive influxes of low-skilled migrants never get a mention by the Reserve Bank or the Productivity Commission.

Australia’s real GDP per hour worked is stuck at 2017 levels of 1.8 per cent.

Total productivity growth since mid-2017 in the European Union has been 3.7 per cent, in the UK 3.5 per cent and in America (wait for it) 10 per cent.

During COVID in 2020-2021 net migration was just 4300; highly skilled Australians were returning home, and low skilled temporary migrants went home. Productivity growth was a cumulative 4.6 per cent.

In 2022 the financial Damoclean Sword fell on Australia and it was the government who deliberately cut the strand of horse hair and started the destruction of the Australian economy.