Andrew Bolt: Victoria’s differences from rest of Australia are shocking
For years, Queensland was despised for being different but now Victoria differs from the rest of Australia in a shocking way.
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Victoria is the new Queensland.
The Queensland that was despised for years for being, well, different.
More corrupt. More authoritarian. Even a bit sinister, and just that bit stupid.
All that was years ago, in the Bjelke-Petersen days, although the stink hasn’t quite disappeared.
But in Victoria there’s now a similar smell, actually a stench, even if many other Australians haven’t yet worked out what’s rotting.
For instance, unlike other states, Victoria no longer has financial sense. No other state is so deep in debt – projected to soon have the debt of NSW, Queensland and Tasmania combined.
No other state has ever proposed such extravagant gold-brick schemes, either. Premier Daniel Andrews’ government plans a gigantic suburban rail loop at a cost the Parliamentary Budget Office estimates at $125 billion, making it the most expensive – and useless – infrastructure any state has ever promised.
No other state is as woke.
None has universities like Monash, which ordered all students to take an indoctrination course on Labor’s planned Aboriginal-only parliament. (It’s since backtracked.)
Nor has any other state got a university like Melbourne, which made fake Aborigine Bruce Pascoe, author of Dark Emu, a professor of a fake discipline, Indigenous Agriculture, that he himself made up citing fake sources. Only in Victoria.
No other state has people so happy to be bullied by government. Melbourne was locked down for longer than any other city in the world during the pandemic, yet Victorians still seem keen on the premier who treated them so mean.
That’s bizarre, given no other state had lockdown rules so needlessly brutal. Why were children banned from playgrounds? Why couldn’t Victorians even go fishing?
But no other state has people so accepting of a tyrant’s whip that they put up with a police force that handcuffed a pregnant mother in her home for posting against the lockdowns, and fired rubber bullets at peaceful protesters.
No other state has so many Karens. More than 600 Victorians a day rang the state’s crime-reporting hotline during the lockdowns to denounce neighbours and friends for sneaking over to visit their parents or for not wearing face masks
No state capital is now so empty as Melbourne, where many public servants refuse to return to their offices.
Sydney’s CBD office occupancy in July was 52 per cent and Brisbane’s 53. Melbourne’s was 38 per cent.
And, oh, that smell. No other state is as sanctimonious, yet none has a Premier and government facing so many corruption investigations – at least four.
No other state has a police force which fitted up a Catholic leader, a conservative, with so many false charges. Police charged Cardinal George Pell with 26 charges of paedophilia against nine “victims” – every charge so ludicrous or even impossible that they all collapsed.
No other state has a Premier who showed such contempt for the High Court. When the court’s seven judges unanimously declared Pell innocent, Andrews tweeted to the “victims”: “I believe you.”
Not surprisingly, no other state is so Labor. Since 1977, Labor has lost the two-party preferred vote in federal elections only twice in Victoria. No state government has lasted longer than Victoria’s Labor one.
No other state voted so strongly for a republic – 49.8 per cent at the referendum.
No other state has a sports code so political as the Victoria-based AFL, which has held Indigenous rounds and green rounds, and had players taking the knee.
No other state has its own government-created Aboriginal-only parliament – the First People’s Assembly of Victoria.
Naturally, Lidia Thorpe, the abusive race-baiting Greens senator, represents Victoria.
No other state has such a lawless union. The most radical branch of the CFMEU is Victoria’s, led by John Setka.
Just why Victoria is so different in a mystery. I’ve read many theories: it wasn’t settled by convicts; it attracted feisty miners during the gold rush; it was the home of anti-free-trade protectionism a century ago; it’s still the home of the Australian Council of Trade Unions.
Really? So why was Victoria once famous as the “jewel in the Liberal crown”, recording 27 unbroken years of Liberal state governments until 1982, and producing Sir Robert Menzies, our longest-serving prime minister?
No, something has changed.
Is it because the ABC in Melbourne is more Left-wing than the ABC in other capitals? Because The Age has for years refused to hire conservative commentators? Because Victoria’s state education system is so captured by Leftist activists?
Whatever, Victoria is now different from the rest of Australia, in a way that shocks.
Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Victoria’s differences from rest of Australia are shocking
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