My mum arrived in Australia with the first boatload of second world war refugees at the end of 1947. She dressed in Lithuanian costume to thank ALP Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell on the deck of the Kanimbla when it arrived in Melbourne.

I lost any respect for the Labor Party when they abandoned workers and embraced green ideology from the 1980s. Things have got worse with the Climate Craze. Labor governments have killed the sustainable, renewable, solar-powered native timber industry in Victoria and Western Australia. New South Wales will hammer the last nail in the coffin with the Great Koala National Park later this year.

It’s not an issue of jobs versus the environment. For example, koalas are in plagues promoted by Lock It Up and Let It Burn ‘conservation’ policies. They are breeding faster than ever on all the soft, juicy, and nutritious eucalypt shoots generated by the Black Summer megafires. But both major parties are now courting the rainbow watermelon inner city vote.

I realised how bad things were when Morrison listened to the vote counters after winning the Climate Election. He lost the ‘Real Climate Election’ to Albanese.

We’ve now got all the expected big spending, big government ‘work’ in progress. But I was gobsmacked when Albo’s government came up with a sensible proposal to reduce unnecessary expenditure, and the conservative media came out against it.

Sixty-day prescriptions will halve taxpayers’ contribution to pharmacies. When I officially became a senior, I was astounded how cheap pharmaceuticals can be without the dispensing fee. It’s got nothing to do with reducing pressure on GPs. The rules could simply be changed so that they could authorise 11 repeats instead of 5.

Peta Credlin has highlighted the danger of pharmacies closing and people losing jobs. I sympathise, but offer some perspective. Where I live in Eden, our two naturally sustainable industries of fishing and forestry have been slowly strangled by governments on both sides. At the same time, even though our population remains around three or four thousand, our pharmacies have doubled from one to two.

Businesses and jobs relying on dispensing fees are unsustainable.