We need a Second Dismissal, a Dismissal 2.0, if you prefer. The Albanese government is out of control. It is ruining businesses, livelihoods, households, family fortunes, dreams, aspirations and social harmony. On every front, this is a government of failure, lies, deception and fraud. Fifty-one years ago this week a previous Labor government was sacked. Sadly, the same will not be happening anytime soon.

Frequently within these pages, our popular columnist and head of Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy David Flint has made the case for a new constitutional convention, based on the original Corowa conference of 1893 that debated and designed the ‘road map’ to our federation. Professor Flint’s frustration is clear, and his arguments become more and more compelling by the day. In essence, he believes there are several flaws in our current democratic arrangements, a major one being the inability of voters to express ‘buyer’s remorse’. In other words, the electorate has no way of either reversing legislation or putting the brakes on a fraudulent government other than sitting patiently on the metaphorical porch, with metaphorical baseball bats in hand, awaiting the next election.

Certain Western democracies have in-built mechanisms or release valves for enabling the electorate to influence the actions of government when they believe that government has abandoned or ignored its mandate, such as California’s citizen petitions or recalls. Professor Flint is a keen fan of the Swiss arrangement whereby citizens can force a referendum and, assuming the relevant constitutional requirements are met, the result then binds the government.

Currently, the Albanese Labor government is, to put it bluntly, careering off the rails. Everyday lives are being destroyed by the economy, businesses are being decimated in record numbers and the landscape is being trashed by rapacious renewables corporations in cahoots with an ideologically motivated climate cult. Arguably, no mandate exists for any of these actions. The suffering being endured by many Australians is simply unforgivable. Meanwhile, the ruling elites of Labor indulge themselves in splurging millions if not billions of dollars on their pet vanity projects.

The changes introduced in the last budget are a national disgrace, especially but not exclusively those to do with capital gains taxes and negative gearing. People will lose their homes, if they are not already losing them. Daily, more and more businesses go under, including once revered national institutions like David Jones. These tax changes were brought in despite repeated and specific promises by the Prime Minister that there would be no such changes. The lame excuse that ‘we changed our position’ is patronising and beyond offensive. People’s lives are being trashed because they trusted the word of Anthony Albanese. In any normal workplace or civic situation, Mr Albanese and his cohorts would be facing massive class actions for their mendacity and deception.

But that’s just on one front. We now also learn that, again despite all the promises, wholesale electricity prices are set to rise, perhaps even double, over the next two or three years. This is beyond disgraceful, and again, will drive companies and households to the brink.

Meanwhile, far worse than any comparable nation, our interest rates keep rising. Seventeen times, under this profligate and incompetent government.

And as Australians suffer, the Prime Minister and his cartoonish Energy and Climate Change Minister prance around first the Pacific and now the Mediterranean (with Mr Albanese’s brief trip to the Caribbean squeezed in) pretending they are performing some useful function vis-à-vis Planet Earth, squandering more millions of our increasingly hard-earned tax dollars.

No government before this one, with the possible exception of the Whitlam government, has treated the citizens of this country, and more importantly their savings, with such absolute contempt. As we mentioned at the top, this week fifty-one years ago the Governor-General Sir John Kerr did what needed to be done and pulled the plug on the wasteful Whitlam government. He organised a caretaker government and a fresh election for the people to pass judgment, at which, again quite rightly, that disgraceful mob of socialist ideologues and financial imbeciles were sent packing once and for all.

Sadly, today, there is no chance of a Dismissal 2.0, although the grounds are certainly there to warrant one. We have a weak, woke Governor-General who, to all intents and purposes, may as well be a member of the Labor party or the Teals. Parliament has no means of blocking supply so long as the Greens maintain their support for Labor. We are in a very sorry state. This government must go, but how?

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has voiced support for some form of constitutional reforms along the lines outlined by Professor Flint, including citizen-initiated referendums. And in 2023, Ms Hanson moved an amendment in the Senate to establish a mechanism for citizens to initiate constitutional referendums, including the various steps required, such as collecting signatures from two per cent of Australian electors within six months.

Under such a system, it is a fair bet that the Albanese government would be gone before the next Budget.

And deservedly so.