This week’s fraudulent interest rate cut is as good a portent as any for what to expect in the forthcoming federal election campaign: a set of fraudulent claims and promises from the economic frauds that make up this fraudulent government.

As is clear, the Reserve Bank of Australia buckled to unseemly political pressure to give Labor something – anything! – with which to try and build a compelling election narrative. There will be no more interest rate cuts after this one and in fact, in all likelihood, after a few months of holding interest rates at their current level the RBA will put them up again.

But who cares? Prime Minister Albanese now has a credible excuse to make a sudden sprint to the polls, with an ‘economic success story’ tucked in his belt.

But it is unlikely that it will be enough. The Albanese Labor government has been a clown show from the moment it launched its ill-fated Voice to parliament campaign only days after winning office. This was supposed to be the grand Albanese narrative, the great historical Labor moment of putting the (fraudulent) Aboriginal narrative of colonialism, disadvantage and dispossession and enshrining it permanently into our constitution. It failed spectacularly because the Australian people, like those of most Western nations, have an in-built minimum 60:40 preference for traditional and conservative points of view as opposed to progressive, radical activism. Or to give it its Trumpian term, for ‘common sense’.

This magazine was not only the first to predict the victory of the No campaign in the Voice (at a time most media were predicting Yes would easily win), but also the only mainstream media outlet to actively campaign for the No side. Similarly, we also predicted (virtually alone) that the Morrison government would win re-election in 2019 and we were the first to predict that Mr Morrison’s betrayal of his core commitment not to change any of the existing climate policies – which he did by disgracefully adopting net zero at Glasgow’s Cop 26 – would cost him the 2022 election. Which it did.

We have been predicting for nearly eighteen months that Peter Dutton will lead the Coalition to victory at the forthcoming election, potentially in a landslide.

The strength of character and purpose that won Mr Dutton the Voice campaign has been to the fore in his highly principled response to the vile antisemitism that has been unleashed onto this nation by Labor. At heart, the antisemitism is the result of a sinister combination of Labor political cowardice and complicity with the machinations of the more extreme elements within the Muslim community. If the election were fought solely on this issue, Mr Dutton would romp in in a landslide. The average Australian voter has no time for the vicious hatreds weekly exposed by hordes of pro-Palestinian marchers menacing people and hollering at them within our cities and universities, not to mention the disgusting attacks on childcare centres, private homes, synagogues and, most recently, the horrific comments by two repugnant Bankstown nurses.

Similarly, Mr Dutton has shown strength of purpose and character in his determination that Australian government departments should only be flying one flag, and that Welcome to Countrys need to be dramatically curtailed. This builds on his Voice success, so is hardly surprising.

Yet for unfathomable reasons Mr Dutton’s strength of character seems to wither under certain circumstances. His comments recently on Sky News Australia that he was inclined to leave Kevin Rudd in place as US ambassador is a case in point. America is arguably our most important ally; Mr has a long history of disparaging the current incumbent in the Oval office. The job requires a skilled diplomat with ‘people’ skills; Mr Rudd is a man whose own party turfed him out of his job as prime minister and who was soundly rejected by the electorate largely due to his manifest personal and professional failings. Mr Rudd is widely loathed by Australians; he should never have been given the job in the first place and it should be a matter of priority for him to be replaced.

Which brings us to the main issue of the upcoming election, the cost of living. This is where a Voice-like strength of character and single-minded sense of purpose could have easily won Mr Dutton the election, yet it it is here that Mr Dutton has dropped the ball. Voters need to be convinced – and genuinely believe – that a change of government will improve not only their own but their offspring’s long-term financial positions. If they are in small business, they need to believe that the economy will boom again as people have more money in their pockets; if they work in large firms they need to believe that they are likely not only to avoid the scrapheap but that their will be jobs-a-plenty for their children. In other words, they need to know that in the short term things will get better (rates will come down) and in the long term things will get better (more jobs). Labor are now in a position (a fraudulent one, for sure, but it will still be credible to many voters) to claim the worst of interest rate hikes is behind them and that there are more jobs under Labor (another fraudulent claim, they are nearly all government therefore non-productive jobs).

So the Coalition needs to offer a compelling argument for the future. The most obvious demonstration of this would have been for Mr Dutton to copy Donald Trump and commit to pulling out of the Paris Agreement and abandoning net zero in order to bring investment, mining, manufacturing and jobs, jobs, jobs back to Australia.

For many hard-pressed voters, by committing to remain in Paris at a time when all the world’s major economies are pulling out robs the Coalition of any credible long-term strategy for bringing down their bills and putting this nation back in the future prosperity game.