Peter Dutton has taken the Liberal party further to the right, as most Australians well know. His leadership of the LNP Coalition means that he brings the same intentions to his bid to become PM of Australia. Right wing parties don’t govern for all. Rather they come to the table with a slew of culture war inspired prejudices. Anti-immigration, anti-refugee, anti-trans, anti-renewables, and anti-public servant are all strong intentions they bring to their campaign to govern this nation. Dutton is inspired by Donald Trump and his extremist dismantling of government for all those he derides. DEI, USAID, the Education Department – all those lefties, non-whites, women and LGBTQI folk are the enemies of Trump’s America.
Right Wing Coalition Will Not Govern For Those They Deride
The LNP Coalition, in a similar vein, will take courage in a Trumpist America and start similar attacks on the fabric of government here. Every time the Coalition gets into power they attempt to take Australia further right toward the United States’ way of doing things. They hate socialised medicine and Medicare, which they tried to eradicate for 33 years, will be neglected in a bid to discredit it with the citizenry. Tony Abbott tried to privatise higher education to make our sandstone universities cash cows charging hundreds of thousands of dollars for degrees. The neoliberal right wing way is to privatise everything and make ‘user pays’ the credo for Australia. They believe in the power of market forces, despite the fact of the current housing crisis not delivering adequate shelter for many working Australians. The market has priced thousands of us out of having a home. In reality, it is tax scams that have driven the massive inflation in the residential property market downunder. A 50% capital gains tax discount, negative gearing, and superannuation as bolt hole for the very wealthy to hide their money from the tax man. This is not market forces but manipulation by the rich and powerful. The LNP governs for the oligarchs and the wealthier parts of the country. Remember the Stage 3 tax cuts, before Albanese made them fairer for all Australians.
Slashing The Public Service By The Trumpist LNP Coalition
Slashing jobs from the public service to the tune of some 36, 000 jobs is the keystone of the Dutton LNP campaign. Remember that Albanese was forced to rebuild the public service after 10 years of Morrison, Turnbull and Abbott. They had syphoned off tens of billions of dollars to their mates at PwC, KPMG etc to do the job of the public service at ten times the rate. The Libs had gutted the public service in their ideologically inspired but economically stupid purges. Reducing government means less transparency and more macro corruption, as the private sector fills the bill at ten times the cost. Government spending never comes down under LNP federal governments, they just move the figures around on the balance sheets and tell you what they want you to hear. Plus, their insider mates benefit from huge government tenders and jobs for the boys. The anti-public service stance of the LNP plays well to their perpetually disgruntled voters, who only ever think of themselves and their hip pockets.
The Right Appeal To The Greed Of Those Who Already Have More
Donald Trump has inspired right wing political parties to push unadulterated selfishness as a vote winner. The disgusting Trump is an unmitigated bully who picks on weaker opponents. Interestingly, Trump has only ever beaten female Presidential contenders. The only time he faced another bloke was a really old Joe Biden who beat him fair and square. What did he do? He lied about being cheated but was never able to provide any actual evidence that stood up in court for his repeated lies and false claims. Trump is a bad loser and has no class, zilch in this regard. Still, he inspires right wing folk like Peter Dutton, who never let the facts get in the way of sewing fear in the electorate. Divisive Dutton told his followers, during the Voice referendum, that “if you don’t know, vote No.” Another way of understanding this is the LNP preference for keeping folk dumb, as it is easier to manipulate them on this basis. Appeal to their innate prejudices and bigotry. Don’t ask more from the citizenry, rather, drill down into their comfort zones and appeal to their greed for more.
The Right Wing Parties Run A Zero Sum Game
Right wing parties don’t govern for all. A big part of their platform is demonising the other. Once again appealing to the polarising human trait, which seeks to punish others in the race. The right wing parties runs a zero sum game, where a few winners take all and there are losers galore. They demonise difference to make you feel better about your greed and proclivity to want to see others punished. Immigrants and illegal refugees are bad people, according to their propaganda. Gang members, rapists, paedophiles, and scammers – all evil and this government will punish them if elected. In addition, they demonise LGBTQI folk and especially trans people because they go against God and how nature intends things to be. This is a big vote winner, especially among non-college educated folk who don’t have any experience of gay people in their lives. This is because if you actually have a family member or close intimate who is one of these people you know that instead of being demons they are only human like you and me. Propaganda does not work when faced with direct experience running contrary to the lies being promulgated. I mean, what power hungry individuals and parties will do is unabashedly shameful.
Peter Dutton In A Constant State Of Alarm
Peter Dutton has called for the power for politicians, like him, to have the power to deport dual citizens. The courts already have this power, why do populist politicians want this power? Could it be to perform strongman acts on centre stage, where the biased right wing Murdoch owned press can applaud in print and across digital screens? What a powerful and decisive leader locking up the bad guys and then kicking them out of our pure country. Anglo-settler nations, like Australia, have a white European seam running through them. Right wing political parties appeal to this white supremacist undercurrent, this belief that white men are the natural leaders of the land. An ex-cop from Queensland who has repeatedly cried wolf about the dangers of multicultural Australia being antisemitic, after his junket tour to Israel. About the dangers posed by China. Dutton was alarmed about Indigenous Australians being empowered by the Voice to parliament. He was alarmed about stateless refugees all being dangerous criminals threatening the safety of the nation, as if they were a marauding force. Peter Dutton is seemingly in a perpetual state of alarm or could it be a political ploy to win votes via the anxieties of some Australians?
Don’t Let Australia Become A Mini Trumpist America
In Trump’s America undercover, masked police are picking up legally working academics on university campuses and disappearing them. These university professors and Fulbright scholars have written pro-Palestinian independence essays in journals but have done nothing to break the law. This is what right wing fascist dictatorships do to dissenting voices within their communities.
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This is not what we want to see happening in Australia. We need to stand like a beacon against such blatant misuse of power by the state. Right wing parties don’t govern for all. Rather, they look after their defined sort of people at the expense of diversity and equity. This is why they have demonised DEI initiatives through continual lies and exaggerations. Once again, appealing to the sensitivities of the already dominant white cohort within populations. This is called reclaiming victimhood status. They are disenfranchising the actual victims and making them out to be villains, so that the majority white population can feel better about always looking out for their own interests first and finally. It is disgusting behaviour on both scores.
The world is a complex place and there are no simple solutions, despite the BS put about by populist demagogues. If you hurt someone else they are going to come back and hurt you or yours. Divisive leaders who go around drumming up popularity on the back of promises of retribution will not make Australia a better or safer place. If we provide a fairer nation offering economic opportunity for all sorts of ordinary Australians things will be better for all. Don’t get sucked into believing the shite about there being bad people and strongman tripe about protecting the nation. This is all garbage, history tells us so, as none of this is new. Right wing parties, like the LNP Coalition, don’t govern for all. They are the party of the oligarchs and how they see the world, which is by making a buck out of you at the expense of our rights. Why don’t we tax extreme wealth in Australia? Why do we tax wage earners but not those who make much more money out of their capital at similar rates? Why is housing so bloody expensive? It is because the rich get looked after at the expense of the working poor. Over the last 25 years, the Coalition have been in power for 17 of those years – they have defined the economic conditions in which we live through governing Australia. The lack of competition in every sector on the back of mergers and takeovers approved by the ACCC. This has killed off consumer buying power. Capitalism doesn’t work properly if there is no real competition in the ‘so called’ free market. The system has been gamed by CEOs, boards, and complicit governments and their agencies in Oz. We have copied the Americans, of course, we bring out their business leaders and employ them on huge multi million dollar salaries.
Albanese is not a charismatic strongman leader; indeed, he lacks a lot in this regard. However, he leads a team of capable and dedicated ministers who have guided Australia through a tough economic period. The Albanese government has mended the many Chinese economic sanctions costing the nation billions following the Coalition’s behaviour in this regard. There has been modest wage growth, especially at the bottom, whereas no wage growth but rather stagnation occurred under the Coalition. This is because the LNP are the party of the bosses and multinational corporations. Things have become fairer under the Albanese Labor government for workers amid the winding back of labour hire abuses under the Coalition’s decade in power. Cost of living support has been sustained under this government despite the high inflation they inherited from Morrison. Economically, things are looking up after touching the bottom of the RBA enforced cycle. Inflation has been tamed at the cost of a sluggish economy, but that is always the way. Now, we can move forward together in a somewhat fairer economy. There is still a lot to do to improve things but now is not the time to listen to lies about the need for deregulation. Deregulation won’t help you; it will only make more money for the billionaires. It will make things less safe for your family and less fair for all Australians.
Oh, one last thing do not forget the lessons re-Robodebt. This LNP Coalition government scheme was an ideologically motivated attack on poor and vulnerable Australians. It cost people’s lives and us taxpayers $1.8 billion in a settled class action against the Coalition government. A Royal Commission and several NACC inquiries later, we are still waiting for someone to be held accountable for this illegal betrayal of 500, 000 ordinary Australians. Dirty deeds done by right wing idealogues in the LNP and upper echelons of the public service. If you want to see someone punished how about for this disgraceful abuse of state power.
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump.
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