Credlin: The Albanese government is the most left wing in Australian history

Labor used to be interested in putting more money into workers’ pockets, but now is only motivated in social engineering and destroying the way we live, writes Peta Credlin.

It’s a big deal when a city changes its name. Think St Petersburg becoming Leningrad and then going back. Or Saigon becoming Ho Chi Minh City.

Thus the Queensland government’s move to the Indigenous word Meanjin in place of Brisbane in time for the Olympic Games, even if it only lasted a day, is a sign of the green-left wave now breaking over Australia.

We’ve had wall-to-wall Labor governments before, in 2008 for instance but, in those days, Labor was more interested in putting more money into workers’ pockets than in social engineering.

That’s because it was the right faction that was then in charge. These days, with the left ascendancy, it’s climate change, identity politics and universal free access to abortion and assisted suicide. Green-left Labor has moved beyond economics to want to change the way we live, to change the way we think and to radically change our country.

There’s the ACT government’s move to offer euthanasia to people as young as 14, who aren’t necessarily in imminent danger of death.

The ACT government has taken over the Calvary Public Hospital. What’s next? Picture: Facebook

Having already moved to take over the Catholic-run Calvary public hospital, because it didn’t offer abortion on demand, the ACT government is looking at the compulsory takeover of Canberra’s Claire Holland Hospice, currently also-Catholic run, presumably so that the gravely ill might have easier access to doctor-assisted suicide, rather than just the palliative care it’s renowned for.

Then there’s all the hard-left measures being put up to Labor’s national conference in August: A proposal to offer free abortion on demand nationwide; a demand to close down the boat people processing centre in Nauru, even though the Rudd government’s earlier decision to do so helped to trigger the wave of boats that ultimately brought 50,000 illegal arrivals to our shores, plus well over a thousand deaths at sea.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has a lot of heavy lifting to do. Picture: David Swift

There’s also a demand that childcare be absolutely free, as opposed to just heavily subsidised; plus a demand that the Albanese Government rescind the AUKUS deal to get nuclear-powered subs, signed off by the Morrison government, but supported by the Albanese opposition.

Not all these proposals will be adopted immediately by the Albanese government but the direction Labor wants to take us is clear. Twelve months on from the election, the Albanese government is turning out to be by far the most left-wing in our history.

It’s not just more spending and higher taxes. It’s the assault on the idea that Australia has a right to control its borders and to deny entry to people who don’t meet our criteria for immigration. It’s the rejection of the idea that life is sacred and the preference for preserving it, not ending it, because we value everyone, even the old and the sick.

And it’s the reluctance to defend our country because of our history and claiming we have no real right to be here.

Australia has a right to control its borders and to deny entry to people who don’t meet our criteria for immigration.

Hence this rush, via the Voice, to give Aboriginal people a special say in how we’re governed, over and above that of the rest of us; as if it belongs only to some of us and not to all of us.

Before the election, it was all about “safe change”. All Anthony Albanese wanted to do, he reassured us then, was to change the identity of the person in the Lodge.

But now, almost everything will change if Labor has its way. It’s starting to look like a cultural revolution: An Australia utterly unlike that of a generation back, when families had the main responsibility for looking after children and grandparents, and when schools and institutions reinforced respect for the country we’d always been but were becoming even more so – free, fair, and proud.

Then there’s the economic change necessitated by Labor’s green-left climate agenda, starting with closing down all fossil fuel power, despite the damage this will do to heavy industry, jobs and exports, and the impact on power prices. Over this weekend, from July 1, power prices for much of Australia’s east coast have just risen by 25 per cent on top of massive increases already.

We’re hellbent on transitioning to renewables at a pace that experts say is too fast to ensure secure power supply. And for what? The biggest emitters like China and India have no such compunction; indeed they’re using coal and gas at breakneck speed. Remember how often politicians have told us that “renewables are the cheapest form of power”? Think of that when you open your next bill, and remember it when you vote.

The coal-powered Datang International Zhangjiakou Power Station in Zhangjiakou, China. China and India are using coal and gas at breakneck speed. Picture: Greg Baker/AFP

And if you think things are tough now, just wait until the emissions reductions start to hit transport and the food we eat as meat gets phased out because of herd emissions.

An Australia that’s further sapped by this green-left Labor push will be poorer, weaker, more fragmented, and ultimately much more miserable because the love of family will be replaced by the uncertain care of an increasingly larger and more interfering state, with the threat of being dispatched to the grave hanging over the lives of the old and anyone considered wretched.

But there is one thing we can do to stop this runaway train. It’s to hit green-left Labor where it counts at the ballot box. So much has been changing by stealth.

But coming soon is the vote on the Voice. That’s our chance to start to take the country back from those who want to change it beyond recognition with a resounding vote No.

WHY MASSIVE CHILDCARE SUBSIDIES A SLAP IN THE FACE FOR SENIORS

The trouble with subsidising anything is that the demand increases, the price goes up, and ultimately there’s rarely enough supply and there’s never enough subsidy.

Take childcare. Thanks to the Albanese government’s recent subsidy increases, Commonwealth childcare spending has just risen to $12.7 billion per year. And, as every parent with someone in childcare knows, every time the subsidy goes up, so do the fees. Partly, this is because it’s also Albanese government policy to dramatically increase the pay (and the unionisation) of childcare workers.

Every time the childcare subsidy goes up, so do the fees. Picture: iStock

At some Melbourne childcare centres, the annual fee, before subsidy, is now almost $50,000. This is more than the $46,000 a year charged by one of the country’s most expensive private schools, Geelong Grammar. With Labor now subsidising the childcare of households earning as much as $530,000 a year, much of this is on taxpayers.

Here’s the conundrum. Many families need two incomes in order to get by, especially if they live in a capital city.

But to earn a second income to make ends meet, the principal carer of preschool children, usually the mother, needs to find childcare. And childcare is incredibly expensive, especially as it’s been “professionalised” into “early learning” with strict rules over the ratios of children to carers.

Properly means-tested, it ought to be possible to find a way of paying families the current subsidy direct and allowing them to choose the childcare support that best suits them and their child.

Parents could then use it to pay childcare, use it to pay a grandparent or someone else to help out, or use it to help Mum or Dad stay at home given that’s what a lot of parents would love to do, but can’t afford with cost-of-living pressures.

And we must scrap childcare subsidies for those on half a million a year.

When there are pensioners who can’t afford to turn on the heater, this is outrageous!

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Originally published as Credlin: The Albanese government is the most left wing in Australian history