I have said many times that former PM Morrison has a unique ability to divide. Now he has divided himself entirely from his nation.
This week we witnessed a sight to behold in Australia’s leftie press. As the great ScoMo debacle unfolded, the leftie press – Nine, The Guardian and Crikey – all condemned the former PM for not allowing a gas junior to Swiss cheese the continental shelf directly adjacent to a stretch of beach running from Sydney to Newcastle.
Obviously, they only did so because they hate ScoMo. They would normally be in total apoplexy over such a prospect.
The leftie press is deranged by ScoMo. I can’t blame them. I was too. My better insight meant I could express it earlier is all.
Now, the slower-moving leftie press, in conjunction with Murdoch (take that in for a minute), is bloodletting over the former PM.
This is fine and necessary. But it is also distracting from disastrous decision-making by the Albanese Government.
It’s like the entire political economy is caught in some weird PTSD binary state in which ScoMo is pure evil and Albo pure good.
Doubtless, post-COVID angst is playing role in this, as well as ScoMo’s whacko behaviour and the Albo honeymoon period.
For this reason, ScoMo has to resign and get out of the way. This is not a matter for the Coalition. It is in the national interest.
Following on, we will likely see the new ICAC pursue ScoMo’s minions for another two years. Again, this is necessary to at least partially drain the swamp.
However, the leftie press must get over the false binary of Coalition bad, Labor good fast. The nation cannot afford another culture war.
Just as Australia needs ScoMo’s resignation, it needs to debate huge questions that Labor is being given a free hand on:
- A resumption of enormous mass immigration as Australian workers are being obliterated by crashing real income ensuring only that it continues.
- A return to growth of the ethnic Chinese community that is already distorting foreign policy calculations in Canberra because it controls four federal seats.
- A resumption of Labor’s China groveling as the CCP uses our shores to declare war on, and concentration camps for, Taiwan. In reality, that message was directed at us.
- The role of the energy cartels.
- A debate about what Albo actually stands for given he appears to be exactly the same as ScoMo in all matters economic (again, Murdoch is aligned with the leftie press right now, why?).
In the absence of an effective Opposition, the media and leftie press, in particular, should understand that it needs to hold Albo to account even as salts the earth around ScoMo.
If it fails now, and Labor is as whacko as it appears, then a few unfettered terms in power will be enough to jeopardise the fourth estate’s very existence as China readies its war on the IndoPacific and Albo declares peace in our time.
