Andrew Bolt: No wonder some Aussies feel they must leave the country to breath clean air

Rate rises, soaring power prices and the Voice — our country has gone crazy, and politicians are making things worse. No wonder some Aussies need to leave the country to breathe in clean air.

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney repeatedly refuses to say exactly what the Voice would get up to. Picture: Martin Ollman

Over the past seven weeks, I took a break from Australia. And, boy, did I need it.

Occasionally, someone would recognise me – especially on a cruise ship off Spain – and tell me they shared the feeling.

Our country had gone crazy, and politicians were just making things worse.

Coming home, I see nothing’s changed. I just saved myself seven weeks of astonishment and aggravation while fossicking among Roman ruins that remind us civilisations can indeed rot and collapse.

I see the Reserve Bank hit Australians with yet another rate rise and even said 140,000 Australians should lose their jobs to stop inflation.

Pardon? Yet the Albanese government still won’t do something far more useful and less painful to cut prices – like drop its insane plan to shut down coal and gas power plants and replace them with more expensive “green” power that it still falsely claims is cheaper.

Labor instead spent these past seven weeks pushing its plan to divide us by race with the Voice – a kind of Aboriginal-only advisory parliament. Yet it still hasn’t explained how apartheid will fix anything.

The Albanese government still won’t do something useful to cut energy prices. Picture: Martin Ollman

Instead, it’s told what appears to be porkies. Switching the TV back on this week I saw Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney repeatedly refuse to say exactly what the Voice would get up to, until blurting out it wouldn’t tell the government to, say, change the date of Australia Day.

Burney seems to be now just making stuff up. Experts confirm the Voice could indeed do what Burney says it won’t.

In fact, while I was away Thomas Mayo, a member of the government’s Referendum Working Group that designed the Voice, says it will be useful in “abolishing harmful colonial institutions”.

I also missed more proof that Labor cynically exploited the unproven rape claims of former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins to destroy the Morrison Government, and that Finance Minister Katy Gallagher misled parliament when she’d claimed she didn’t know about the claims before Higgins went to the media – that “no one had any knowledge”.

In fact Higgins’ boyfriend had sent her material on the case to get Labor’s help to trash the alleged rapist and smash the Liberals.

I see the Albanese government has also promised to spend another $2bn to fix a housing crisis it helped cause by importing nearly 400,000 immigrants just last year.

What madness. No wonder some Australians feel they must leave the country to breathe in clean air.