Piers Akerman: PM reckons he’s been underestimated his whole political life – he’s wrong
Anthony Albanese reckons he’s been underestimated his whole political life. Tell him he’s dreaming, writes Piers Akerman.
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Anthony Albanese reckons he’s been underestimated his whole political life.
He’s wrong.
This whingeing mistake of an arrogant prime minister grossly over-estimates himself. He’s a failure.
This holiday period has been the quietest in Australia since World War II when the war dampened celebrations.
Small businesses are going under in record numbers, families are watching every dollar.
Albanese took time out as 2024 drew to an close to tell reporters he’s been underestimated but was “focused on making a difference for cost of living, making a difference for plans that we have going forward”.
Clearly that focus is blurred.
The cost of living is soaring, largely because of Albanese’s support for the truly insane Net Zero targets.
The obscene cost of this farcical obsession with so-called clean wind and solar energy is the biggest single driver of inflation in the economy and it’s crippling the nation.
The wind doesn’t blow 24/7 and neither does the sun shine, and both of these energy sources need tens of thousands of kilometres of new transmission lines to connect them to batteries or pumped hydro facilities where they can be stored to deliver minimal back-up when needed.
Neither can provide the essential base-load power necessary to underpin and maintain the security of the grid.
Electricity inflation caused by this excessive investment is running at 16.5 per cent year on year and they claim the solution is to spend more.
This is as insane as Labor’s attempts to boost the economy by increasing immigrant numbers when the nation is suffering from a chronic housing shortage.
Not skilled immigrants, either, but members of minorities whose culture is at odds with Australian values.
The lunatic Left responsible for the Albanese government’s policies doesn’t see this as a problem.
It sees the Western canon of Judaeo-Christian ethics, the rule of law, as the issue and is working through the public service, the educational institutions, and the corporate giants to diminish the civil legacy enshrined in the Constitution.
The judiciary has started inventing laws that rely on the vibe, not on our elected parliamentarians.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s New Year message was plain: Let’s get our country back on track.
Easier said than done but it’s a more positive goal than Albanese’s more of the same but worse.
Dutton must dump Labor’s unachievable and catastrophically punitive Net Zero targets. There is no climate crisis, as any student of historical meteorological records will confirm. We have weather, we have always had weather, and weather changes in cycles.
Restore reliable dispatchable power, backed up by nuclear which is the cleanest and safest energy source.
International fence building is needed to repair the damage that Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s student grasp of politics has wrought.
Jumping into bed with the UN’s support for terrorist-infiltrated organisations like UNRWA has been one of the most repugnant examples of her ill-judged decisions. Until the Palestinians (aided and abetted by the UN’s dedicated refugee agency, UNRWA) halt the indoctrination of kindergarten kids, the endless, senseless violence will never end.
Israel has every right to exist under every law known to man, and Israelis have every right to protect their population.
Last year, I was among those who visited that country to see with my own eyes the horrendous evidence of unchecked barbarity, rape and torture.
To my utter disgust, Albanese and Wong have promoted the absurd idea that there is an equivalence between Hamas and the Israeli forces.
In all of Australia’s dealings, none is more shameful than this selling out of a trusted, reliable ally to win the votes from a bloc of extremist Muslims whose actions have demonstrated they are opposed to the Western ideal of law and order.
Islamist terrorism is again active in the US and Europe; no action has been taken against hate speech here.
And Albanese believes he’s been underestimated.
Tell him he’s dreaming.
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