Labor and the Greens are thick as thieves – and thieving is exactly what they intend to do with the Treasury.
They are both members of the ‘everything is free’ ideology that bankrupts nations with ‘kindness’ and strips economic responsibility from the young.
Mathematically, Albanese needs preferences from the Greens but even he has scrunched his nose up in revulsion at the bad smell coming off their policies.
Adam Bandt’s Greens are starting to frighten the normies with their ‘shun America’ rhetoric and Free Palestine!!! campaign led by people who wouldn’t survive five minutes in Palestine.
Albanese tried to distance himself from this marriage of convenience for as long as possible, but in the dying weeks of the election campaign he has locked arms with Bandt in the form of preference deals.
As one example, Climate Change and (renewable?) Energy Minister Chris Bowen has the Greens listed second.
Labor has sent a strong message to Australia that the two parties are very close. Scandalously close.
Albanese is making a conscious decision to give the Greens more power while setting himself up for a minority government weighed down by Mr Bandt.
Remember the Prime Minister’s awkward slip of the tongue when he said, ‘Just to be really clear again, if you ask me, Do you rule out governing in coalition with the Greens? the answer is no.’
There were plenty of immediate denials, but it may ultimately prove true. Would Albanese hold hands with the Greens to keep his position as Prime Minister? Adam Bandt seems to think so. His tweets have adopted the slogan:
‘The Greens will keep Dutton out and get Labor to act.’
Which implies that they will either sweet talk or strong-arm Albanese into increasingly psychotic policy. The Greens are so confident they are running their campaign on their ability to control a Labor government.
Australia will be co-ruled in the most toxic way imaginable.
How many concessions will a future Albanese government make to the Greens?
How much of their radical agenda will make its way into Parliament despite the majority of Australians objecting?
So much for the voice of the people.
What we are seeing is the late-stage of the uniparty life cycle.
Originally, Labor and the Coalition hatched a survival plan of mimicry on unpopular policies to ensure the electorate had no way to democratically object. This frustrated voters and, exacerbated by the pandemic, the Westminster system allowed the rise of minor protest parties.
This should have created a Farage-Reform situation, but the progress of these parties has been hindered by changes made to the Australian preferencing system done by major parties in the past to hold onto power.
Our damaged system has created stagnation in which the primary vote of the uniparty remains in decline, with Labor winning government with the lowest primary vote since the Great Depression. They are winning elections, just, but very soon they will stop being major parties and start being major negotiators holding power in alliances as they do in Europe where government is more accurately described as a ‘bickering of socialists’. The Coalition have the power to stop this, but the wets refuse to listen to reason and so here we are, watching the demise of our legacy parties.
People who blame the minor parties for this situation vex me greatly. The minor parties are doing their job by attempting to correct the balance. The majors are the insecure conspirators of their own demise.
So it is that if Mr Albanese is returned to power, it will be as a partner of the Greens. Likely, this will include the Teals whispering in his ear.
If I were Peter Dutton, I would be hammering this point home every time someone from the press asked me a question.
He made one of his rare, perfect comments on this topic earlier in the campaign when he said: ‘I have seen Mr Albanese’s comments about working with the Greens for him to stay in power. Let me be clear: a vote for Labor is a vote for a chaotic Albanese-Greens alliance.’
If only he would repeat it.
Print it on a shirt.
Plaster it across the polling booths.
Honestly, Mr Dutton could run the rest of the campaign on that sentiment and win. How could anyone lose against a party shouting ‘Free Palestine’ instead of ‘Free Australia’?
Mr Bandt is making it sound as if the Greens are the soul of the Labor Party or perhaps that they are the ‘Nanny’ of the Big State. Nanny Bandt.
What a horrifying image. I apologise.
If Labor is to drag us into communism, we should remind ourselves what this future looks like beyond the Venezuela joke. Generations of young Australians have been misled by their over-paid educators into thinking communism is some sort of Utopia involving free iPhones, free housing, free UberEats, and a temperature-controlled planet set to ‘human’.
But what does a civilisation actually look like under the control of delusion, power, greed, and communal ‘kindness’?
I would like to share with you this short passage from Yang Jisheng’s Tombstone regarding Mao’s famine between 1958-62 where over 36 million starved to death for no other reason than political folly.
As he writes, ‘The basic reason why tens of millions of people in China starved to death was totalitarianism … the government monopolises all production and life-sustaining resources, so that once calamity occurs, ordinary people have no means of saving themselves.’
Those who published the stories of Chinese refugees were accused of spreading harmful misinformation. China ran a propaganda machine to fuel the Western press into hiding the crimes of the State. Some might argue that this operation continues in our universities.
‘Starvation was a prolonged agony. The grain was gone, the wild herbs had all been eaten, even the bark had been stripped from the trees, and bird droppings, rats, and cotton batting were used to fill stomachs. In the kaolin clay fields, starving people chewed on the clay as they dug it. The corpses of the dead, famine victims seeking refuge from other villages, even one’s own family members, became food for the desperate. Cannibalism was no longer exceptional. Ancient annals report cases of families exchanging children to consume during severe famines, but during the Great Famine, some families resorted to eating their own children … it is a tragedy unprecedented in world history for tens of millions of people to starve to death and to resort to cannibalism during a period of normal climate patterns with no wars or epidemics.’
I bring this up due to my very real fear about the similarity with Climate Change policy – an ideology pushed by Labor, the Greens, the Teals, and at times the Coalition. A policy which has already caused great misery in nations like Sri Lanka and is on track to create an artificial famine in the world’s richest food growing areas if allowed to continue.
Climate Change sits as the core policy in a Labor-Green government that seeks to destroy not only our farmland, our meat production, and our energy supply, but also the way in which we perceive private property and individual liberty.
Our right to transport, control over our homes, and even what we choose to eat are all on the totalitarian list. They even tax carbon, the building block of life on Earth.
This is manipulation on a grand scale and a breed of totalitarianism where Climate Change creeps over the policy border using its classification as an existential threat to invade every corner of Parliament.
It is insidious and dangerous, just like those politicians who use it for their own gain.
Climate Change is putting a stranglehold on our resources, intellect, media, and even the emotion of our species. Its soul is authoritarian and it will stick Labor and the Greens together like glue.
Albanese needs to lose this election, if only to save the Labor Party from its fate of a lift grafted to the Greens.
Let me leave you with Yang Jisheng:
‘The insanity and ruthlessness of the Great Leap Forward and the Great Cultural Revolution were the result of the degeneration and the great “achievement” of the totalitarian system. The regime considered no cost or coercion too great in making the realisation of communist ideals the supreme goal of the entire populace. The peasants bore the chief burden of realising these ideals; they shouldered the cost of industrialisation, of collectivisation, of subsidising the cities, and of the extravagant habits of officials at every level.’
Flat White is written by Alexandra Marshall. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.
