Labor’s May election victory, won by default and magnified by the electoral system, has created an unviable political situation.

So much so, that Mr Albanese is demonstrating that, to paraphrase  P.J. O’Rourke,  ‘hubris has become one of his great renewable resources’.

This was demonstrated in reports of his claiming credit for helping to nudge the US and Israel towards their Gaza peace plan.

This reads like something which could well appear in an episode of Fawlty Towers.

Next time, the report could be followed with an exclamation mark. If there is a next time. As Proverbs warns, ‘Pride goeth before… a fall’.

The peace plan apart, the question is whether Labor is, as elites claim , in government for the long term?

Yes, if the government has its way.

In due course, they will receive a concocted recommendation to enlarge parliament significantly. The real aim will be to disadvantage the Liberals.

The situation is such that, to paraphrase  Paul Keating, every galah in every pet shop is chanting, ‘The future’s Labor’s’.

But the same happened with the chant ‘The republic’s inevitable’.

That failed when, finally conceding a second republic referendum is doomed, Anthony Albanese surrendered unconditionally to Charles III as King of Australia.

So if it isn’t dead, ‘the’ republic is in long-term, suspended animation.

Capable leadership, with an army of Australians for Constitutional Monarchy’s foot soldiers, ensured that long ago.

Just as the next election can be won.

Incidentally, note the elite misuse of the definite article with ‘the’ republic, as if there were only one .

This is also done when they claim ‘the’ science confirms climate catastrophism.

This is to hide the fact that many very eminent scientists disagree.

As to Mr Albanese’s hubris, he probably did not believe his luck at the last election with both a mainly supportive media and a Liberal party heavily infiltrated by the Labor-lite.

This ensured the Coalition lost the election that was theirs to win .

The next election must be held by 23 September, 2028.

(Incidentally, Australians would be unwise to agree to four-year terms unless the constitution is also amended to allow them to do what only politicians can do, that is, call a referendum to change the constitution.)

The Albanese government has adopted the very measures in energy and migration  that President Trump says are destroying Western countries.

The Albanese government is certainly not guaranteed several terms in office for the following reasons.

First, not only is the Albanese government secretively our most left-wing, but it is also clearly the worst in our history. The destruction and the waste that they are imposing will, over time, become more evident to the electorate.

Second, at least some parts of the mainstream media, hitherto supportive of Labor, could change their minds.

Third, with the resignation of Andrew Hastie from the shadow cabinet, there is a significant number of powerful voices speaking from the Coalition backbench which will probably, in due course, be followed by a leadership that is strong like John Howard’s and Tony Abbott’s.

In particular, Andrew Hastie brings a background different from most but significantly important in political circles.

He has the integrity, the heroism, the intelligence and the good looks that come with the JFK tradition, without in any way bearing the taint of familial corruption or the burden of the inherited wealth of a political dynasty.

A graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon, his postings during his military career have included the Special Air Service Regiment as a troop commander with operational deployments in the Middle East, the Pacific and Afghanistan.

One of the very few Liberals in a metropolitan seat to record a significant swing towards him in the 2025 federal election, he does what few politicians do, he actually listens to the electors.

Widely read, well-informed and unashamed to reveal that he is religious, he has an unusually excellent understanding of the interests and concerns of rank-and-file Australians.

Returning now to the Trump peace plan, this is a sound, strong and generous basis for ending the Gaza war.

What Mr Trump calls the ‘fake media’ should at least report the fact that the Allies did not propose anything as generous to Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan.

Indeed, they demanded an unconditional surrender from both and instead of offering an amnesty, they tried and executed the leading war criminals.

Provided they claim to be committed to peaceful coexistence, and decommission their weapons, Hamas operatives ‘will be given amnesty’ and may leave Gaza for any country reckless enough to take them. (That, it must be feared, will probably include Australia under the Albanese government, who have taken Gazans whom no Arab country will touch.)

At the time of writing Hamas seems to be saying they would give back the hostages but have lost some, farmed out to people they do not control.

This is no doubt untruthful prevarication which President Trump sees through.

Even if they agree to everything, Trump knows that when you are dealing with the Devil himself, you cannot trust his word.

Chamberlain learnt that, but many naive Westerners still have not.

When Scott Morrison suggested an international inquiry into the origin of Covid-19, the criminal enterprise that is the Beijing government virtually shredded the Free Trade Agreement with Australia and  ignored the WTO obligations they agreed to when President Clinton naively allowed them into  our trading system.

Instead, they illegally imposed massive trade sanctions on Australia, the remnants of which are still there.

Having operated in the New York real estate market, Donald Trump knows how to deal with criminals, even the worst.

Even if Hamas sabotages it the Trump plan will have served a significant purpose.

It will be very difficult for the ‘fake news’ to continue down their antisemitic path favouring the terrorists.

With the exception of Rupert Murdoch’s, this is what most of the major international English-language news organisations have done, to their eternal shame.

They give the game away whenever they cite as their preferred source for casualties, not the lying Hamas terrorists but their pseudonym, the so-called Gaza Ministry of Health.