An Oil Tanker at Kwinana, Western Australia. Photo by Calistemon.
By Jo Nova
Like the US and UK — the political tides have shifted in Australia and our Prime Minister’s petty scorn of the rising right wing party will bite him
Dear PM, One Nation wouldn’t need to go begging to Asia for spare diesel because we’d be drilling for it ourselves…
Even the Labor Party is now worried about the meteoric rise of One Nation in the polls. So Anthony Albanese, the PM, tried to attack Pauline Hanson by arguing that she couldn’t go crawling to Asia for emergency fuel supplies (like he did), because Asia will remember what she has said. (Which is roughly that she wants to stop mass immigration from Asia (and everywhere else) and end the multicultural experiment.)
One Nation just need to point out the obvious — that a smart political party wouldn’t need to run off and beg for fuel in the first place, because they’d be self sufficient instead. It was his incompetence that meant Australia had only a 30 day supply of fuel, barely two refineries, and no merchant fleet (not one ship!) and had made it impossibly hard for explorers to drill. He’s knows this is true. After the crisis, his government has already bought at least one cargo ship, is talking about building refineries, and has promised to build up our strategic fuel reserve.
Labor and Anthony Albanese on the slide in three states, Newspoll finds
By Geoff Chambers, The Australian
The surge in One Nation’s primary vote in Newspoll over the past three months, hitting a record 31 per cent last month before edging back to 29 per cent in the most recent poll, has dented core backing for the major parties across most key demographics and states.
The Prime Minister on Friday took aim at One Nation leader Pauline Hanson for pushing for Australia to dump multiculturalism and embrace a monoculture. Mr Albanese, who is increasingly being forced to turn his political attacks onto One Nation given its poll surge, said Senator Hanson’s approach would have made her unable to secure fuel from Asian trading partners at the height of the oil supply crunch. “I reckon they (Asian leaders) probably remember what she has said about them,” Mr Albanese said.
And in the interim, while Australia restores its own oil and gas industry and builds back the refineries that the Uniparty have destroyed, a One Nation prime minister could easily ask the culturally aligned USA for oil and gas.
In any case, the Japanese Prime Minister would probably be pretty sympathetic to an Australian leader who was concerned about the rise of China, and one who understood why Japan chooses not to allow mass immigration, and wanted to have a similar policy.
The Labor Party have no idea what’s coming, and sadly, nor do the Liberals.
One Nation are now the Party of the long forgotten workers:
The news poll looked at nearly 5,000 voters in polls spread across the last 3 months. Just as many women as men supported One Nation, and there is a strong move in young voters towards One Nation.
One Nation dominates the non-university educated voter cohorts, with the quarterly analysis showing the party holding a commanding lead over the major parties in both the no tertiary (33 per cent) and TAFE or technical qualifications (36 per cent) categories.
University-educated voters are sticking with Labor (38 per cent), ahead of the Coalition (20 per cent) and One Nation (17 per cent). Support for One Nation among university-educated Australians has more than doubled since the end of December.
Among those with a household income over $100,000, Labor was the most popular choice, with 30 per cent of the vote.
And so it is, that the Labor Party have become the party of the academics and the wealthy, and the workers of Australia are realizing that they’ve been sold out.
Socialist parties nearly always represented the interests of wealthy and powerful Elites and faux “intellectuals”, it’s just that the allegedly “downtrodden workers” never realised it until the MAGA movement and the propagation of those basic ideas around the world.
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Sadly, the LNP had the chance to become the ‘workers’ party … but then they installed Turnbull and Morrison and all that momentum was lost.
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Turnbull was the best PM labor ever had.
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Milton Friedman would like argue as follows:
Friedman repeatedly highlighted the “iron law” of bureaucracy and concentrated interests.
Socialist policies involve heavy regulation, nationalisation, redistribution and price controls which create winners among politicians, bureaucrats, “intellectuals” and favoured industries who gain power, jobs and rents.
Workers and consumers bear the costs through inefficiency, shortages, inflation and lost opportunity.
“Intellectuals” which Friedman and Hayek would call “second-hand dealers in ideas” tend to be drawn to socialism because it flatters them with a communist-style central planning role and social-engineeeing role and self-identified moral superiority.
In Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman noted how academics and media Elites promote interventions that expand their influence while ignoring unintended consequences.
Soviet-style systems created a privileged new class of party officials. Even “democratic” socialism leads to regulatory capture where big business and government collude. E.g Friedman criticised corporate welfare and licensing that protects incumbents.
Friedman accepted that early trade unions delivered genuine gains via voluntary cooperation and market pressures but he emphasised that once government becomes the main tool of economic decision making, concentrated interests (Elites like powerful unions and industry interests like wind and solar subsidy harvesters who lobby effectively) dominate small ones (ordinary workers/taxpayers).
Friedman knew workers would respond to incentives so when socialism promises “equality” and delivers stagnation, they eventually notice (e.g. Eastern Europe after 1989). That’s what happened in recent years with the MAGA movement beyond this early recognition in Eastern Europe after the fall of the USSR in 1989.
Friedman stressed that economic freedom correlated with prosperity for the masses.
Capitalism, despite inequalities (not necessarily a bad thing, people are entitled to a greater reward for greater effort), raises living standards for workers far more than occurred in socialist experiments (e.g. Hong Kong vs. Maoist China or U.S. vs. Soviet Union).
Friedman might view MAGA-style populism as an understandable backlash against Elite overreach such as globalisation, excessive regulation and cultural imposition by social engineering “experts”.
However, unlike MAGA he was against protectionism or centralised industrial policy which just represents a centralisation of power which repeats the errors of socialism. (To be fair, MAGA-style protectionism is a response to unfair anti-free-market policies of others.)
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I would question whether Labor should get all the blame for getting rid of our home supplies of energy, in that this was also the policies of the Liberal Party (cue here Dennis!).
You might say that our politicians haven’t the brains of a raspberry seed, and you might well be true. But these are heavily influenced by our bureaucrats (who don’t get any adverse consequences unless it is more pay and better conditions) and the rabble rousers in the Unions and elsewhere who don’t see anything wrong with their rhetoric because they cannot see further than their noses.
All of them believe that there is a never ending source available from the taxpayers. The taxpayers are revolting.
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Yes. It was Howard the started Australia on the road to economic destruction with the introduction of “renewables” under the auspices of the Kyoto Protocol in 1998. He didn’t ratify it but that was irrelevant because it was all the excuse needed to introduce renewables. And Lib/Labs have been destroying Australia’s energy supply ever since.
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” One Nation are now the Party of the workers, and Labor the party of wealth and academics” AND ALL PUBLIC SERVANTS. Which is why Australia has the highest ratio of public servants in the world. You vote for your employer. Victoria under Dictator Dan hired every journalist who criticized him. That stopped criticism. And as governments take over all Education and Health, that includes doctors and nurses and administrative position in universities and the health system.
The ABC, CSIRO, SBS, Chief Scientist, all bound to the Labor party and Green parties. This was demonstrated by the persecution of Prof Peter Ridd. Infinite university money to destroy one individual who dared suggest fraud. What mattered was that the fraud was permitted and not to be criticized. That was ‘uncollegiate’. Rule of the mob. Everyone votes for more taxes. And this does not bother government employees as they can just strike for more money to pay the taxes and cover inflation caused entirely by printing money to pay them.
In Victoria 90% of new hires are into the public service. It totally hides rapidly growing unemployement, plummeting productivity and the government has infinite money. They just have to increase taxes on productive workers. The slaves just have to work harder to support the management.
There is increasingly an argument that people who work for the government should not be in a position to vote for their employer, universally seen to be the Labor/Green governments.
Consider that in 1870 universal education was finally law. And governments in the UK and Australia started building schools and taking over functions left to church bodies, social services, hospitals, education. These were never the function of any government. And since Whitlam’s National takeover of university funding, univerities have exploded in size and number 5x. And up to half the total are now administrators, huge businesses with a profit motive. And HEX because there is really no funding, so taxing all students, something not done before Whitlam.
All this is socialism. And that means more taxes, more public servants all wanting more money and more taxes. Labor/Greens are the party of the vast public service now as the workers have been pushed out of apprenticeships, technical schools and learning life skills as teenagers. Everyone has to have a degree, not a skill. Except there are few skilled workers left and no one wants to be a plumber, so the government in their wisdom imports skilled people. Except now a socialist government employs unskilled and often socially incompatible people who are on social security from the first day and vote for who let them in.
Australia has to adopt Argentina’s solution. Half the public service has to get a real job. And we need to train people in real life skills, not philosophy of the workers. And we need to make our own stuff, not import it from China with Alibaba.
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Because this explosive public service growth in size, power was an invention, the takeover of education, health services that they were never in the Australian Constitution. States retained these powers. So the Federal government controls them through ‘gifts’ which bypass the Constitution and give direct control.
Also not in the Constitution was a National Grid, electricity, gas, oil, coal except that all minerals belonged to the state. Which is why the Federal government wants to have a National Grid, run from Canberra. And they have to get rid of coal, because it is a state asset, not Federal.
The explosion of a rights determining Labor/Green government has been the biggest part of the last half century. It’s not only cancer cells which can metastasize. As the ‘workers’ find they are made uncompetitive and manufacturers collapse, there is always room in the Government because the government has all the money or can grab it. That’s creeping socialism, now rampaging through the Australian economy.
And who is going to have the courage to reduce the size of government? At the current rate, there will be no workers in the sense of the 20th century. No plumbers, electricians, laborers, builders, factory workers, tradesmen, engineers, doctors, nurses. No problem, we will just import them and they will all vote Labor/Green as we will pay their wages.
And there are thousands of public servants on wages of $0.5Million in departments which make no sense, like Human Rights which has no place in Autralian law or the Constitution. Or Chris Bowen travelling around the world pushing carbon taxes at our expense of hundreds of millions a year.
We need a real economist like Javier Milei. And we need bounds on the size and reach of government and on the solo ability of Anthony Albanese to blow a cool billion on a speculative and failing Californian Quantum Computer company because someone wants the cash? How much of Australia’s runaway spending from Snowy II to a $1Trillion National Grid is completely outside parliamentary oversight or even accountability or explanation or cost benefit? All of it.
Fire half the public service. And get out of our savings, our houses, our education. None of it is constitutional. It’s a runaway socialist cancer, feeding on itself and growing at the expense of the rest of Australians.
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