What exactly is the point of the Albanese Government?
At least Gough Whitlam could boast that, for all his incompetence, he brought in big reforms such as Medibank. This government is destroying our wealth, threatening our freedoms, insulting our allies and dividing our people.
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This past week confirms the Albanese Government is worse than even Whitlam’s – not just incompetent but shameful and dangerous.
It’s already made Australians poorer, with real disposable income falling per household over the last 18 months.
It’s also made housing almost unaffordable for the young and poor by foolishly importing a million immigrants.
But the last few days have brought four more extraordinary examples of how it’s destroying our wealth, threatening our freedoms, insulting our allies and dividing our people.
The latest example is Energy Minister Chris Bowen damaging us at the latest United Nations climate conference.
Bowen on the weekend helped negotiate a deal to make richer countries like ours give poorer countries $460 billion every year to supposedly cope with global warming.
That’s about $460 from every man, woman and child in countries like ours to be handed every year to countries including China, Iran, Taliban-run Afghanistan, Sudan and Syria.
Bowen tweeted excitedly that “getting climate finance right is vital for our nearest neighbours in the Pacific”, but what a dupe he is.
What are we compensating these countries for, when we’re getting fewer cyclones and bigger crops, and atoll islands are on average not drowning but growing – by 61 sq km in total this century, according to a 2021 survey of 221 atolls?
It gets worse. This government is now short of cash for its plan to make our economy run on wind and solar power instead of coal and gas, so Treasurer Jim Chalmers last week announced he’d raid the $230 billion Future Fund.
He’ll force this fund, meant to cover the unfunded pension payments of public servants, to invest more in green projects.
The fund’s two previous chairmen, former Treasurer Peter Costello and former Commonwealth Bank boss David Murray, are appalled, warning this supposedly independent fund will become a “political slush fund” and lose money.
The government’s climate crusade is already driving up power prices, costing jobs and destroying a reliable electricity system. Now it’s gambling our savings?
It’s disqualifying enough that it’s too economically and scientifically illiterate to run our economy. Appallingly, it’s also making our Jews scared for their safety.
Just days ago it banned former Israeli justice minister Ayelet Shaked from visiting, claiming she’d “incite discord”.
Discord from whom? From the pro-Palestine extremists who forced Myer to cancel the opening of its Christmas windows? The vandals who last week tagged cars and homes in Woollahra with “F … Israel” slogans?
These ferals now dictate which Jews may come?
Now add Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Jews who can’t visit Australia, after the International Criminal Court ordered his arrest on sight – here, too – for supposed war crimes.
This arrest warrant is a sick abuse of process. The ICC must intervene only if a country doesn’t have its own justice system to investigate allegations. It also relied on spurious claims that Israel used mass starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, and it broke its promise to first visit Israel to hear its response.
Yet Foreign Minister Penny Wong said she “respects the independence of the ICC and its important role in upholding international law”, and wouldn’t join the United States in denouncing its arrest warrant as “outrageous”.
How our Jew haters will celebrate as Labor panders again to Muslim voters.
True, the government did on Sunday at least scrap its “misinformation” bill, meant to muzzle free speech on the internet.
But that’s just because it couldn’t get it passed by the Senate. It’s still a threat to our free speech, and will this week move to ban children from using Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and X.
All this in just the past week.
Then add all the government’s past failures, like trying to divide us by race under our constitution; or banning a $1 billion gold mine on the say-so of unrepresentative Aboriginal activists.
At least Gough Whitlam could boast that, for all his incompetence, he brought in big reforms such as Medibank.
In contrast, only 24 per cent of Australians surveyed in a Redbridge poll could think of anything the Albanese Government had done to make their lives better.
Last week Treasurer Chalmers tried to remind them he’d at least produced “the first back to back surpluses in almost two decades”, forgetting to add they were built on windfall prices for our minerals and will now be followed by 10 years of deficits.
Yes, Whitlam spending, but without Whitlam vision. What exactly is the point of the Albanese Government?
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