‘Do no harm’ is the supposed motto of our medical profession, although you wouldn’t have known it if you landed on Australia in the middle of the Covid pandemic. ‘Do no harm’ should also be the starting point of any political career, but again, Covid put the lie to that lofty ideal.

But one would have hoped the Prime Minister of Australia would have a similar motto – a determination to achieve his goals and political commitments without actually doing any major harm for future generations to have to clean up.

Alas, no. This entire Albanese government seems hell-bent on doing as much harm to Australia and our future prosperity as they possibly can in as short a timeframe as they can get away with. Exhibit A is of course the environment, where in the idiotic pursuit of net zero, charlatans and grifters are wreaking havoc across our beautiful landscape. Full marks to nature photographer and environmental activist Steve Nowakowski of Rainforests Reserve Australia for his magnificent efforts in documenting the horrendous damage being done to our rainforests by the rapacious renewables grifters and vandals. You can check out his ‘Truth Map’ soon on https://www.rainforestreserves.org.au/

For a good laugh, you’ll enjoy Judith Sloan’s piece this week on Chris Bowen (she calls him B1) and his use of alliteration to sell his madcap schemes.

‘With nary a hint of irony in his voice, B1 described his scary climate  report as “cascading, compounding and concurrent”. Gosh, if those killer adjectives  don’t convince you, then the gulag is the best  place for you.’

On top of which, as the conservative group Advance (www.advanceaustralia.org.au) have so accurately portrayed in their TV ads, the damage being done to farmers and farming communities, physical and communal as well as financial, will take generations to repair.

And as Mark Lawson writes this week in his scathing assessment of the government’s infatuation with the Paris Accord and net zero, ‘A dollar spent on flood mitigation is a vastly better investment than a dollar spent on reducing emissions.’

But climate change obsessions are only the beginning in the crippling harm being done by this government to our economy. ‘Australia’s transformation from fiscal exemplar to debt-laden cautionary tale is among the most dramatic in modern global economic history,’ write Dimitri Burshtein and Peter Swan in their column this week.

It’s a theme echoed by Louise Clegg in her cover story, in which she focuses on the ‘gathering storm of the over-educated’ in a must-read piece.

Not content with damaging us at home, however, Anthony Albanese and his gang of undergraduate socialist misfits successfully managed this past two weeks to sabotage our long-standing international reputation as a reliable and trustworthy ally.

As Alex Ryvchin writes in his Diary piece, around the world Australia is now known predominantly by many for its overt antisemitism. How Bob Hawke must be spinning in his grave. As this magazine opined recently, the recognition of Palestine without any preconditions was not only offensive and obnoxious but quite literally puts Jewish lives at risk. Every intervention by this government for the last two years has only fuelled the enthusiasm of Hamas to pursue their bloody pogrom; from endless calls for ceasefires to renaming the ‘occupied’ territories to recognising Palestine. As Donald Trump himself points out, this leftist foolishness has only emboldened the terrorists and delays their ultimate defeat, risking untold lives in the process. Day by day, the Albanese government’s Middle East doctrine is exposed as childish, stupid and dangerous.

To make matters worse, the Prime Minister has now come out and claimed some kind of credit for, or involvement in, encouraging the Trump peace plan. This is as asinine and idiotic as it is fraudulent. No wonder we are a laughing stock.

‘But wait, there’s more!’ as they say in the classics. Not content with alienating the leader of our most important ally, Mr Albanese then took it upon himself to alienate the likely next prime minister of one of our other most important allies and friends, Great Britain. Showing he has learned absolutely nothing from his pathetic and virtually non-existent relationship with the US president, Mr Albanese managed to not only insult Nigel Farage, but to also then rock up and grandstand at the UK Labour party’s purely political and highly partisan annual conference. A national leader, especially when abroad, needs to represent all views of the nation, not to behave like a grubby party hack.

We could go on and on. The obsequiousness of Immigration Minister Tony Burke pressing the flesh in the Arrivals lobby as he eagerly welcomed Gazan immigrants into this country was unedifying to say the very least.

The harm being inflicted on this nation, on social cohesion, and on our future prosperity by this government urgently needs challenging. But where is the opposition? Asleep at the wheel?