Hi, I’m Albo from marketing, and here to help

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We’ve had a change of government and no change whatsoever.

We’ve simply gone from a Canberra that does conservative virtue signaling to a Canberra that does progressive virtue signaling while all of the real problems deteriorate.

Arguably, it is worse. At least the Fake Right is an obvious pack of arseholes representing a broken system. The Fake Left is the smiling wolf in sheep’s clothing.

On immigration, Albo’s nice guys will bring in close to 500k people this year alone. This preposterous figure has had zero planning or preparation. Zero capacity expansion. Zero engagement with the public. And it will crush wages in due course as wage theft skyrockets.

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On housing, we face the worst rental crisis in living memory. Albo has no solution for it. His ribald mass immigration program is making it worse day by day and his housing construction fund is an embarrassing joke.

On energy and the robber barons, Albo’s nice guys have failed to prevent a bill shock. They dawdled all year, cowering in fear of miners, and acted too late. Their measures are still insufficient. The poor will this winter choose between heat and food.

On climate, Albo’s nice guys are allowing the very same dodgy carbon permits of yesteryear to retard decarbonisation, as well as launching a carbon price that is far too low to make any difference.

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On interest rates, Albo’s nice guys are conducting an RBA review that excludes APRA just as the latter goes hog wild on corruption with the banks.

On fiscal policy, Albo’s nice guys refuse to help the RBA enough, and they refuse to pull back egregious tax cuts for the rich.

On employment, Albo’s nice guys misrepresent low joblessness as crisis, and swamp the jobs market with cheap foreign labour.

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On security, Albo’s nice guys are wedding us back to China complete with a burgeoning fifth column, rising economic vulnerability, and political bribery risk.

On policy, nowhere that I look do I see a rational process in the national interest. It’s all about engaging with stakeholders and managing interests. The Australian public is at the bottom of the pile.

Albo is another fake from marketing. Strutting about promoting culture war points of view while living standards plummet at an accelerating rate.

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Does it matter? The rise of cookie-cutter Fake Governments after Howard/Costello has coincided with Australians galloping backward:

Hi, I’m Albo from marketing, and here to help.

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About the author
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.