I can’t be the only one tired of the sycophantic way in which the Prime Minister and his government are treated, without appropriate critical analysis.
There are issues which, had they been known prior to the election, Anthony Albanese would not be Prime Minister.
Had the electorate been told that superannuation would be taxed, Labor would not have been elected.
Had they been told that 10 million middle-income Australians would lose the low- and middle-income tax offset, at the next Budget, Labor would not have been elected.
That is a veritable tax increase.
Some of these 10 million taxpayers will have up to $1,500 less in their pockets.
Remember, we were told that, under Labor, average household power bills will be lower.
Yet the last Chalmers’ Budget papers told us that electricity bills will rise by 50 percent over the next 18 months, some say as high as 80 percent, and gas bills by 40 percent.
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Labor blames Putin and the war in Ukraine, yet that war started on February 24.
All these dishonest promises on energy prices, were being made right up until the election on May 21.
Make no mistake.
Bowen is an economic timebomb, the author of this national economic suicide note, otherwise called energy policy.
Then, of course, there is the Voice and I shall keep reminding people of what that means.
It is certainly not a warm, inner-glow constitutional change of little significance bringing the past into line with the present.
This will change entirely the way government is run in this country, and the Prime Minister has acknowledged that.
He won’t provide the details because the Voice is the thin edge of the wedge, or should I say a very thick edge.
The Treaty comes next and then sovereignty.
You think you own your house and land and you have worked all of your life to secure that asset; well, minutes in the compilation of what is now the Voice indicate that, down the track, if we listen to activist voices, Indigenous Australians will want a compensatory percentage of GDP.
Rent paid to them for the property you own.
I make this point because we have this sycophantic eulogising of the Labor government which does not pass critical analysis.
Instead, we get the demonisation of the allegedly unelectable Peter Dutton.
Remember they said that about John Howard.
It was the Bulletin Magazine on December 20, 1988, which headlined, on its cover, in relation to John Howard, the then Opposition leader, ‘Mr 18 per cent. Why on earth does this man bother?’
We know what happened to John Howard and how wrong the critics were.
Peter Dutton is as dinky-di an Australian as you will get.
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He has been in the Parliament for 21 years.
He has won the seat of Dickson in Brisbane, a notionally Labor seat, in eight consecutive elections.
He has held Ministries in Defence, Home Affairs, Health and Sport.
He has been on the National Security Committee and the Expenditure Review Committee.
There is no one in the National Parliament with greater experience at the highest level of government.
His parents weren’t well off.
Dutton started part-time work at a butcher shop, but he saved and bought his first house at 19.
He reckons if you work hard and put your head down, you can make it; and he wants those opportunities for everyone – if they are prepared to work.
Which brings me to the Voice.
Peter Dutton was formerly a policeman.
He worked in Townsville.
He went to many domestic violence incidents involving Indigenous communities.
He walked out on the apology to the Stolen Generation, and subsequently argued that was a mistake – I’m not sure he needed to apologise.
His reasons were perfectly valid.
As a policeman, he had attended violent incidents involving Indigenous communities; and he believed an apology should only be given when those problems are resolved.
He told me in an interview last year, ‘There are little boys and girls in parts of our country, in 2022, who slept in a shipping container last night to get through the hours of darkness in Indigenous communities.’
He spoke for millions of Australians when he said, ‘Going to a meeting here in Canberra and giving 10 acknowledgements to country, that is fine, and I don’t say that in a disparaging way; but I want to know how it is we are going to support those kids. I want to know how it is we are going to get better health outcomes and lower mortality rates, more kids through university, just finishing primary school and secondary school to start with.’
What we see today in the political world is very few Peter Duttons.
The rich seem to want to purge themselves of their unearned income by voting for the left and the Teals; but the battlers and the strugglers are looking to people like Dutton to be the architect of their future.
Let’s face it.
Labor, at the last election, gained 32.6 per cent of the vote, but won eight seats.
The Coalition won 35.7 per cent, not a good result, but lost 18.
Now, of course, Peter Dutton is being vilified for saying ‘no’ to the Voice.
He was in Alice Springs recently.
He met locals.
He repeated his call for the Albanese government to restore law and order.
In an outstanding piece by Janet Albrechtsen last week, she recounted a conversation with Peter Dutton to form the basis of a superb piece she wrote in The Australian newspaper.
With criticism of Dutton swirling around, demonised as much as fossil fuels by the other side, Peter Dutton said, ‘The intimidation has no effect on me whatsoever. I have been around long enough to know what I believe in. To stand up for what I believe is in our country’s best interest. And I won’t waiver from that.’
You will recall that Noel Pearson, a distinguished Indigenous figure, who, once Peter Dutton said ‘no’ to the Voice, Noel Pearson described that decision as a ‘Judas betrayal of our country’.
Peter Dutton’s response to that was splendid: ‘Noel Pearson is a person with whom I have worked over the years. And I won’t be the first or the last to be personally slighted by him.’
And then this point.
In a recent interview with Senator Matt Canavan, I asked him why big industrial outfits like Bluescope Steel, Orica, Rio Tinto, and BHP seem to be publicly supporting this so-called Safeguard Mechanism, where, allegedly, Australia’s 215 biggest polluters will be forced, by legislation, to cut their carbon dioxide footprint by about five percent a year until the end of the decade to deliver Bowen’s 2030 climate goal, while the rest of the world increases carbon dioxide emissions.
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‘It doesn’t take a PHD to work out that if the rest of the world is continuing to emit carbon emissions and we cut ours, it’s not going to do a single thing.’
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I asked Senator Canavan, given that this so-called Safeguard Mechanism will be immensely damaging to manufacturing plants, which are intensive producers of carbon dioxide – I asked what is the corporate world up to in supporting this punitive mechanism?
I argued that Australia’s corporates are gutless.
Matt Canavan was much more courteous to say they were frightened of government and tell him a different story when they speak to him.
Back to Peter Dutton who said, in relation to those people, in business and in sport, who have gone public in their support of a ‘yes’ vote, Peter Dutton nailed it when he said, ‘I think a lot of people and particularly a lot of leaders in business and sport fear the retaliation and retribution if they don’t sign up to the Voice. And I think that is regrettable and offensive in a democracy like ours.’
Dutton didn’t miss when he said, ‘I have never seen a more poorly run debate. I have never seen a more deceptive Prime Minister trying to starve the Australian public of information that they need. It is without precedent. This would be the most significant change to our Constitution since Federation. And I have never seen a more shambolic process by government.’
Dutton went on, ‘The rulebook of our country should not be changed without significant contemplation and open public debate and we haven’t done that.’
I call that leadership.
Dutton is articulating the problem for which he is given little credit.
I say, unapologetically, that, in this difficult environment in which we live, we need more Peter Duttons.
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