Careful what you wish for. After years of breathing life into woke-hating, coal-loving loons, the Murdoch press has birthed a Coalition Frankenstein monster:
An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian shows popular support for the Liberal-Nationals falling two points to 35 per cent, the lowest level of support recorded this term.
That spike can only be Craig Kelly’s runaway United Australia Party. TPP is where the rubber hits the road:
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United Australia, the right to die of COVID party, is displacing One Nation as the right-wing protest movement. With vaccine passports becoming a central feature of the reopening, the ani-vaxxer, anti-lockdown, anti-woke, anti-climate, anti-science suicide bombers are going to be excluded from the economy and anger will grow. This brings to mind two outcomes.
First, having butchered vaccines then championed them, Sly ScoMo is about to back-flip again to become an anti-vaxxer.
Second, he is going to lose power whatever he does from here.
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
