By Christopher Kennedy
Liberal Party leader Dutton has come up with the nuclear option for energy generation as his ticket to be the next prime minister. Not since the National/Liberal Party cut funding in embryonic computer design in favour of cloud seeding has such stupidity been seen.
Nuclear power generation is pushed by a nuclear industry that needed some justification for atom bombs. Until fusion is safely invented we are stuck with fission reactors that, from my reading, (and I have worked as a science/mining journalist) are presently economically on par with renewables. Renewables also now have the advantage of massive research investment and the cost of power generation is dropping dramatically. Daily, even.
However, when newly-elected prime minister Albanese was asked why did the Labor Party win the last election, he answered (and I had to cringe); “The Labor Party won the election off it own bat by staying focused.”
I knew then we had a politician on our hands. The Labor Party did not win the election, apart from not falling apart; the population is heavily weighted to the many Baby Boomers who are at their conservative height in life. To put it another way, the Liberal Party was so inept that it lost the election with all the odds stacked for it.
So Dutton is a space cadet while Albanese a professional politician.
People are deserting the major political parties in droves. What is the answer? Is this the way democracy protects itself via dividing the populace. Democracies are very efficient at protecting themselves. The longest serving continuous democracy in the world is the 350 or so years of the USA democracy.
The job of a government is pretty simple. Feed the poor, educate the ignorant and stop corruption.
On the upside we have not fallen into recession with some manic treasurer saying it was the recession we had to have. That comment read the room wrong as well. It was an insult to the many on the newly elongated welfare lines. I am very thankful there has been no recession. I accept it has been very difficult to keep inflation down after the proliferation of private and public spending over the last Liberal governments. The feeding of the poor has been achieved.
However, Albanese was unable to make the senior civil servants and politicians pay for Robodebt. There should have been jailing and suchlike for such barefaced corruption and personal greed. He was unable to do so, as for why I do not know. So these creatures who undertook this horrible work are still around. Executive power is there to be used; this has been sloppy. So I worry about corruption.
He was also unable to get a deal going with the Greens many years ago over housing. This was highly regrettable, the rise of the Greens is part of the choices people are putting first on the ballot paper. Recognising and accepting it would have gained a lot of gravitas for the Labor Party. He read the room wrong, I feel he will be punished for this more than anything at the ballot box.
So who do you vote for? My Brother is a school cleaner and a schizophrenic. He lost about $800 to Robodebt but is so lost in his mind now that getting it back would be a nightmare. I would never vote for the Liberals after that kick in guts to the most vulnerable. And now that they are being radioactive idiots, I will be voting Labor to protect my brother and to stop the insane turning the parliament into an asylum.
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How people can be sucked into believing that that stupid evil bunch might not try something like that again, has got me completely stuffed.
Der Spud doesn’t have the intelligence to come up with a nookalearr scheme. I expect a certain very rich and incredibly greedy mining donor has been whispering continually in his ear for so long (we must remember that thought takes ages to find it’s way through the Roman concrete that fills his skull to the almost microscopic brain core) that he now thinks he came up with the scheme.
This Baby Boomer hasn’t voted for the Libs since around 1988. As I’ve aged I’ve moved increasingly to the left.
Your mention of Robodebt in the title is enough for me. I’m afraid people have forgotten this debacle and too many will be ready to support another. You are so right the Nuclear option is another Robodebt yet the LNP was NOT held accountable for this. The designers, including Morrison, have moved on to bigger and greater things. I’m staggered that they were not brought to account and Labor didn’t keep pursuiing it. What secrets do they all share in common?
I’m a 68 yr old Boomer, grew up during the Dunstan decade in SA then work moved me to North Qld where I saw the last years of the Bjelke-Petersen mess. I’ve never voted Lib/Nats.
Debt collectors were sent to round uo non-existent Robodebts,
but businesses which collected undeserved JobKeeper $ weren’t encouraged to return the funds !
$400+ million paid to 2 dodgy characters who claimed a Kangaroo Island fishing shack was their office after they were granted the funds post a non-tender application process ?
But Angus and Jane claim they are the “better economic managers ” ???
Traitors all of them concerned with Robodebt and got off scot free and they jail people for stealing a pittance ,the French solution did work and still would, but the French had the guts and the moral fortitude to act
Interesting the impact of ageing and longevity through bettter health, with permanent population on our electoral map and politics.
Very salient point ‘the population is heavily weighted to the many Baby Boomers who are at their conservative height in life.’
Heaving mass of GenX, Boomer ‘bomb’ and silent generations 7.5 million 55+ years of age, dominating electoral rolls*.
Many falsely believe that our long term permanent population growth is driven by short term temporary border movement ‘noise’ of the NOM net OS migration, dominated by students and mislabelled as ‘immigrants’ for a dog whistle.
Phenomenon that hath no name is ageing and keeping budgets healthy, but instead RW MSM and nativist influencers, try to keep the focus on the other etc. and claims that we are not ageing…
Like the rest of the developed world, but the Anglosphee is leading the way in white Christian nationalism, in denying immigrants agency and any positive value; quite disgusting for an immigrant nation to lie and dog whistle about ‘the other’, doesn’t say much about our ‘culture’?
Dirty little secret is that Anglosphere & European RW parties, media, fossil fuel think tanks and nativist NGOs are driving the debate, and avoiding good demographic analysis, why?
Because their electoral and demographic ‘powder’ for adopting talking points and success is contingent on middle aged and older ‘pensioner populism’ & ‘collective narcisism’, till ‘the great replacement’; even if RW policies end up going against the same voters…..see Brexit and Trump…
In the US GOP & RW MSM claims of support from young males, Latino ‘immigrants’ (3rd gen?) and African American males swinging it for Trump. According to many, that was marginal impact &/or not true, when it was a ‘silent majority’ of (mostly white) middle aged/senior conservative Christians and noisy MAGA following RW MSM, like last time, dittto Brexit and The Voice referendum.
Dutton in French means dud one.
Hey. everyone. It’s election time again. 2025 has come around so quickly. Hang onto your hats, folks. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Any normal, sorry, sane, oops, person with a memory would reckon that a fella connected with Robodebt was in dire straits in a Federal Election. If he then added Nuclear fuel to this binfire he would make him and his party unelectable. Especially if sportsrorts and covid rollouts and hose-holding et al are added during the campaign.
However.
Things are not normal, nor balanced, nor is the average voter (there is a conundrum in itself) capable of dealing with the tsunami of crap that will hit us with ever increasing ferocity over the next five months. The election of the tangerine tyrant across the Pacific, aided and abetted by his muskrat sidekick, proved that. Our mate Elon has promised to exert his considerable “social influence” on the upcoming UK elections. We can bet that another chance to muddy the waters Down Under will not escape the bastard, and with the msm landscape here being what it is, our major media players will follow like the baying hounds of hell they are when summoned by their own master and his minions.
“Robodebt and Nuclear”. As a single, simple phrase it should be a political death sentence for anyone with the ambition of residing at The Lodge and sitting in the Big Chair to Mistah Speekah’s right, but der Spud’s opponent is Albo. In 2022 he stumbled out of the gate on Day One on the election trail, and he’s proven on too many other occasions since that he is not a Big Moment bloke. His chairmans lounge denial took three days to come through “official channels”. He was completely incapable of justifying his purchase of the house he and Jodie will share when any explanation was unnecessary. Our prime minister is getting married later this year, and although he has postponed the nuptials until after the election, they are still a high priority. He is as likely to get the two words of his Marriage Vows mixed up too.
That question Albanes was asked, about why Labor won? Yeah, he buggered up his reply, but he got the answer wrong anyway.
Oppositions don’t win election. Governments LOSE them.
I nearly forgot.
Happy New Year.