In exciting news this week, the Prime Minister announced that a retired coal miner from Cessnock who now runs a sausage sizzle outside a Newcastle servo every Saturday morning to raise money for his local church and for Little Nippers, has been named as the 28th governor-general of Australia. Dave Smith, or Davo as he is known at his favourite watering-hole at the Merewether RSL, came to Australia as a ten-pound Pom in the late 1960s and achieved fame and notoriety in the Pokolbin Gazette when he once sculled three jugs of Resch’s DA in under 30 seconds to win the 1989 Molls and Bikies Meat Tray Raffle which he promptly donated to the Stockton Palms retirement village where his Mum lived and died and where he is now a volunteer gardener and handyman.

Of course, the above is pure fantasy. Forget about Labor appointing a typical local charitable Aussie battler to the role of G-G. Mr Albanese has instead appointed ex-Labor staffer and anti-nuclear, climate-obsessed activist and high-flyer Samantha Mostyn, whose CV reads like a comedy sketch of wokeness and ‘diversity’: top roles at Reconciliation Australia, the Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce, the Prince of Wales Business & Sustainability Programme, some union-owned super fund, a mob called Chief Executive Women, another mob called 1 Million Women, Virgin, Citibank, Transurban and several other woke ‘gender diverse’ and climate-obsessed board appointments, going right back to a stint working for Paul Keating. And as if we were in any doubt as to her virtue-signalling bona fides, she was a participant in Kevin Rudd’s pointless 2020 Summit. If ever a person could be found to fit the clichéd description of the modern, out-of-touch, pampered elite leftist, it’s Ms Mostyn. Perhaps we are being churlish, but one struggles to find any lengthy stints on the CV that the average battler would easily identify as a productive so-called ‘job’.

Ms Mostyn was, unsurprisingly, an adviser to the Teals, proving yet again that this motley group of pale-Green activists are merely there to prop up Labor’s nation-destroying climate change policies. Ms Mostyn retweeted that Australia Day is ‘Invasion day’ and she claims to have been ‘untethered’ by the Voice referendum result. ‘Unhinged’ might be a better word. We will soon have a governor-general who by her own admission is clueless about and disconnected from the opinions of over 60 per cent of the population of this country.

Rightly terrified of the scorn that would have been heaped upon him had he appointed his original pick, the hapless Linda Burney, to the role of first indigenous female governor-general, following her disastrous (mis)handling of the Voice referendum, Mr Albanese went for the lazy option, appointing a close Labor acolyte. In doing so, Mr Albanese has demonstrated yet again that the modern Labor party is entirely captured by wealthy inner-city climate-obsessed elites who have zero attachment to the blue-collar working classes of yore who actually built this country and made it great.

As one opposition spokesperson has said, ‘This is the most political pick for G-G in a long time.’

At a time when everyday Australians are struggling under soaring inflation and a cost-of-living crisis, brought on largely by Labor’s idealogical madness, the choice of our next governor-general is as dispiriting as it is patronising. Australians do not need more leftist causes to be championed at every level of government. Australians need cheap, reliable energy and an end to woke cultural obsessions.

There are literally hundreds of thousands of Davos and Doreens who would have been a much healthier pick for this critical and supposedly politically independent constitutional role.

Cash out

April 2 was ‘Cash Out Day’ across Australia, where, following a social media campaign, everyday Australians were urged to take some cash out of ATMs in order to shame the banks and those who are angling for a phasing out of notes and coins. Anecdotally, it certainly appears that this consumer activism paid off, with online reports of queues forming outside banks, of ATMs running out of both receipt paper and cash, and of shopkeepers reporting an upsurge in cash transactions.

Let us hope so. With the head of one of the big four banks, the CBA, calling for a $500 limit on the amount of cash customers can take out, it is time the public literally took matters into their own hands. Although there is much to be said for the convenience of online transactions and credit cards, cash is the ultimate guarantor of financial freedom. At a time when technology and bureaucrats are rapidly eroding all our liberties we need to keep this freedom well and truly alive in our pockets.