If you blinked this week, you would have missed the ABC cutting short coverage of President Trump’s speech.
Mr Trump stunned everyone by announcing the release of security information relating to allegations of electoral fraud.
Our (their?) ABC, along with ABC in the US and CNN, decided that they know better than to stick with the leader of the free world. Yeah, right. Pull the other one.
Next time, you can watch it live-streamed directly from the White House account on X without interruption.
Speaking of not focusing on the main game, all we’ve heard this week is One Nation didn’t do this, and One Nation didn’t do that.
They came after Pauline, they came after Barnaby, and now they are coming for Malcolm Roberts. Not one of these One Nation politicians has sent mortgages through the roof, put the cost of renovations out of reach, and sent power bills into orbit.
A quick correction of the left wing media and their false, click bait stories. pic.twitter.com/otgXnNdK3T
— Pauline Hanson ?? (@PaulineHansonOz) July 18, 2026
And how about the CSIRO? Perhaps if we were focused on coal, our electricity bills would be cheaper.
What? Really?
But Mr Bowen told us we’d be $275 better off because ELECTRICITY IS CHEAP because of all that free sun and wind.
Sounds like hot air to me.
But that’s okay because we won’t be able to use uranium. We’re sending it to India instead. And that’s okay too because they don’t have free sun and wind like we do.
In Australia, we call it energy Zen. We would have called it Zen Energy, the proof of concept of free sun and wind, but that didn’t work out…
I’ve just reached next-level Zen by truck driving full-time for a month. But it seems that the Hume Highway has become the Cannonball Run for truckies. Seven trucks in the last while have caused fireballs just north of Gunning.
The other day, two B-doubles collided and smashed into three other B-doubles, two of which were carrying flammable materials. The Hume was blocked both ways with traffic diverted around my hometown via the Barton and Federal Highways. Talk about a road trip.
The first five-truck crash was cleaned up real quick and the second, where a road train and a B-Double collided this week, had the Hume blocked once more, but it reopened quickly. Perhaps the RFS and emergency services are experts in trucking collisions now.
But why are there so many truck crashes just lately? I even saw a truck on its side the other night. It’s not a random thing, it seems like systemic failure. With the rules recently changed to allow longer trucks on our biggest highway, including B-triples, these incidents may indicate a policy problem. Certainly there is a concern from truckies that something’s not right.
(If you want to know what a B-triple is, get your motorcycle learners in NSW and ride along the Hume at your maximum 90km/h. When a B-triple overtakes you, you’ll never forget it!)
It’s not just truck crashes that are all the rage at the moment. The Albanese government tried its hand at microeconomic policy and raised the wages of mostly unionised sectors. Then they meddled in the housing market. Then they watched the NDIS grow.
Now, they’re trying to get our superannuation connected to Centrelink. What part of super being our money doesn’t make sense to them? Oh, that’s right. It was their gift to us that we can’t touch while they keep changing the rules and thinking up ways to control our super.
PETER VAN ONSELEN: How Albo is about to cross a line with his superannuation meddling – as radical plan to merge it with Centrelink is exposed https://t.co/lNpTffKX9u
— Daily Mail (@DailyMail) July 16, 2026
The results of Labor’s economic meddling are in. Rents are going up, housing prices are coming down, mortgage repayments are going up, and Labor also briefly considered tinkering with the idea of charging capital gains tax on the sale of the classic car you’ve worked on forever. (They backed out of that last one pretty quick!) Your labour counts for nought of course.
(Unless you are at BHP, Australia’s biggest company, where 63 union members walked off the job in a strike that was meant to cripple the Pilbara. Quite the union hit job…? The final numbers are being debated and the unions are insisting it was a success.)
In other news, people are hearing about a tax on the sale of assets when one’s partner dies. Is this for real? Isn’t that called a death tax?
There are so many questions.
Apparently, Senator Andrew Bragg has discovered that government control is bad. It might even be socialist. Craig Kelly gave him a heads-up about the Morrison years and wondered if the good Senator’s socialism radar was broken back then.
One Nation socialism would bankrupt Australia even faster than the current Labor government intends.https://t.co/fihucJNZBB
— Senator Andrew Bragg (@ajamesbragg) July 13, 2026
If only the Opposition could get more airtime, then surely we’d know all about the many ways the Labor government is screwing us over.
Actually, the Opposition had stacks of airtime in the last week. All focused on One Nation. Alex Antic reckoned it was a bit silly not focusing on Labor and even Craig Kelly wrote that Gus is a bit alright but he needs to stop looking over his shoulder.
For what it’s worth I have always found @MRobertsQLD to be a clear thinker and a very decent bloke.
I wish more people in Parliament had his inquisitive mind and demeanour.
Play the ball.
— Senator Alex Antic (@SenatorAntic) July 16, 2026
Uniparty politicians tell us they know what it is like to work from the ground up. It’s as if they crept out of their orphanages and became millionaires through the sweat of their brows.
Whether they are born into the union movement, or part of the public service buffet, they are coasting through the cost-of-living crisis.
Politics and passion were always in fashion at the Copacabana, the hottest spot north of Gosford.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Is this another a song reference???]
All of which proves that Australians are big, fat whingers who are messing up the polls by supporting the wrong party… FFS people, get with the Uni-pogromprogram!
Donald Trump might be on to something, but you’d never know because the ABC is curating your news for you, you idiot.
Do you follow soccer? I was a rugby league lad but it’s all gone so Woke I can’t stand any of it, even the cricket.
But the funniest thing out of the World Cup following England’s defeat by Argentina was the Argentinian team holding a white flag with writing on it. Apparently, the last time Argentinians held a white flag towards the English was in 1982 but it had no writing on it.
So, what did you miss? Why don’t you ask your elite Uniparty local member? They know better than you, apparently, you filthy, free-thinking franchiser.
Dr Michael de Percy @FlaneurPolitiq is the Spectator Australia’s Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent. If you would like to support his writing, or read more of Michael, please visit his website.
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