Piers Akerman: Albo’s election night promises were just delusions

In a world is facing the greatest uncertainty since the Cold War, Albanese, the leftist Greens and so-called “teals” cannot prove their policies will provide any real benefit, writes Piers Akerman.

The ABC greeted last weekend’s election result as Australia’s Obama moment.
Let’s pause and consider how unsuccessful that grand experiment in eloquence before substance was.

After being given a Nobel prize for no reason, Obama went on to fail every challenge he met.

Yet he said on winning the Democratic nomination on June 3, 2008, “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”.

Anthony Albanese laid out a similar line of tosh in his victory speech, beginning with his commitment to the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Labor Leader Anthony Albanese delivers his victory speech. Picture: Lisa Maree Williams

A proclamation few have read, fewer understand, and only a handful of educated urban Aboriginals will benefit from.

Linda Burney, one of 10 Indigenous members in the new parliament immediately touted the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission as a worthy predecessor to the new body. ATSIC was not only a total flop, it ripped off Aboriginal people – the very group it was meant to represent.

Two paragraphs after pledging to enshrine apartheid in the Constitution with the installation of ethnic-only bloc voting, Albanese said: “Labor’s team will work every day to bring Australians together.”

Nothing is more likely to divide Australians than a referendum on enshrining the right of one group of Australians to a separate pathway to influence government.

Those advocating for the so-called Voice to Parliament cannot even agree on who is Indigenous and whose rights trump other claimants, as we see being played out between competing Aboriginal groupings in the battle over the remains of Mungo Man and Woman right now.

The Uluru statement from the heart.

Bad laws follow bad precedents and the High Court has been particularly useless making new laws (like Mabo) on ethnic lines. Basing Mabo on Torres Strait Islander Eddie Mabo’s attempts to secure native title on his island of Mer’s garden plot led woke judges to stretch the distinct island horticulture ethos to cover the vast expanse of mainland Australia where any gardening efforts had been piecemeal (despite Bruce Pascoe’s historically unsupported claims of an entrenched gardening culture).

It was a huge misreading of culture and history.

At a time when the world is facing the greatest uncertainty since the Cold War, Albanese and the leftist Greens and so-called “teal” parties cannot show how their policies will provide any tangible national or global benefit.

With climate action the principal plank in the teals’ platform, MP Allegra Spender displayed her ignorance the day before the vote by praising China for “making huge transitions”, even though China was building more than half of the new coal-powered station capacity in the world last year.

She and Zali Steggall are the symbols of this victory of the vacuous. Green (teal) pressure on coal, gas and oil companies is responsible for closing mines and wells in Australia just as the prices of our oil and gas surge to the highest levels recorded.

and Zali Steggall.

Teal Independents Allegra Spender

Victoria has become so woke is has banned all gas exploration.

Albanese’s delusional view on election night was “we can end the climate wars”.

“Together we can take advantage of the opportunity for Australia to be a renewable energy superpower,” he went on to say.

The ugly truth is that renewables cannot provide the power needed to keep the remnants of our industry alive, let alone the lights on, while the cost of subsidising this fantasy is driving power prices through the roof.

Those hurt most by the increased cost of energy are those who contribute most to the economy – the mining and agriculture sectors, the tradies.

PRenewable energy wind turbines.

In short, the workers.

Those hurt least will be the elites who voted for the teals and Greens.

Albanese whined in his speech, noting: “I said I’ve been underestimated my whole life during the campaign.”

Voters still don’t rate him. Labor received its lowest vote since 1910 (just 32.7 per cent of the first-preference votes to the Coalition’s 36.2 per cent) which means about half a million people favoured Scott Morrison over Albanese.

The sea levels didn’t pay much attention to Obama and there’s no reason to believe a change in government or the emergence of teals will do anything but hurt Australians.