If the recent prediction in the Australian that the Albanese government will be in power for at least ‘nine years, perhaps longer’ is accurate, the result will be a significant decline in both the wealth and well-being of Australians.

This is the most left-wing government in the history of the nation, derelict in its duties and already delivering a defenceless and debt-ridden Australia.

While the leadership purports to be in the political centre, it is, at heart, locked into some Marxist time warp.

Substituting race and ‘gender’ for class warfare, latter-day Marxists are in alliance with ruthless antisemitic Islamists, while respecting the billionaire despots in the Beijing-led alliance, painted as Marxists or nationalists while enjoying and ruthlessly preserving their massive wealth and power.

The last thing our left-wing government wants is what Menzies saw as the basis of the Liberal party, individual liberty and responsibility, free enterprise leading to economic prosperity, and small government.

Unless and until the Coalition returns to this, drawing the obvious conclusions that would immediately terminate net zero and infantile climate catastrophism, and endowing a leader who can present this genuinely and persuasively, they will not prevail.

That winning is harder for them than Labor is their own fault. Not only the young, but also the middle-aged, have been tainted through the substitution of indoctrination for education. The result is their default position tends not to favour the Coalition.

But in power, that same Coalition has consistently failed, unlike Donald Trump, to take the corrective measures necessary to restore true education.

Meanwhile, as it moves the nation, as far as it dares, into Beijing’s orbit, the Albanese government’s firm policy is to erode our defences. This is a pincer movement to ease Australia gradually out of the Western alliance. For the naive, this is camouflaged by, for example, the worthless instruction eight years hence to increase defence spending to a mere 2.4 per cent of GDP.

This government is the first to undermine the centrepiece of our security since 1788, a core role for the leading English-speaking power, first the UK, and then the US.

Accordingly, while spending almost a week paying homage to the despot in Beijing, the Prime Minister remains wary of a White House meeting where the exposure of his far-left agenda could entertain the world, while being a source of well-deserved embarrassment.

While ensuring that we are defenceless,  this government is also pricing the young out of housing through out-of-control immigration and a five-per-cent deposit guarantee to all and sundry, which elementary economics concludes will significantly raise prices.

If this is not enough, government policy is to increasingly put the nation into hock.

Federal government spending now takes close to 27 per cent of GDP, with the result that gross debt (once famously paid off by John Howard) has increased by $125 billion to just over $1 trillion, with interest currently $31 billion per annum.

So what is the Albanese government doing with Australians’ money?

One scheme was to ‘invest’ billions in turning us into a ‘green hydrogen superpower’, which, of course, was a complete failure.

Then there’s the money poured down the drain on polluting wind turbines and solar farms, which will have to be both replaced and disposed of in a few years, as well as massive transmission lines. This has replaced some of the most affordable electricity in the world with some of the most expensive.

This means that the Albanese  government’s policy is to close down all manufacturing and mineral processing and as much small business as possible.

And as every politician knows, the billions spent on avoiding CO2 emissions will not change, even in the slightest degree, either the temperature or the climate.

Just follow the money, as it goes through the well-worn path of various toadies’ pockets to finally reach those communist banks  in Beijing. That money should have been used in part for something tangible and practical, for example, ensuring nobody in need would ever be refused a hospital bed. Another part could have been used to achieve something for nation-building of the standard of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme.

With less than a third of the debt incurred by the Albanese government, we could drought-proof inland NSW and Queensland under the Bradfield Plan, add in WA, and open up vast new food bowls for the world.

We could provide water, flood mitigation, hydro-electric electricity, places where many more homes could be built at reasonable prices, and jobs for workers, including many new skilled immigrants.

Instead, a view still prevails among many politicians that for almost any problem, Canberra will always have a uniform solution that can be generously funded by taxpayers.

The difficulty is that not many, especially Labor, politicians these days seem to be able to do what every successful farmer or anyone in small business does – run something efficiently while containing costs.

Take the NDIS. Commendably, this was  to make life better for those with a permanent and significant disability. Designed by Labor in 2011, we were told that when running, it would cost $14 billion per year.

For the current year, while looking after some needy cases, it’s one of the biggest rackets ever actually designed by government. Projected to cost over $46 billion this year, it will rise dramatically, some say to over $90 billion a year, notwithstanding the recent long overdue decision to deal separately with mild autism.

Finally, it will not be surprising, surely, that a government whose firm policy is to leave Australia both defenceless and increasingly indebted, that it should be frequently derelict in the performance of its duties.

This could go back to the very first days of the government. With the recent finding that she was defamed by her staffer Brittany Higgins, former senator Reynolds’ claim is surely strengthened that, by effectively not allowing her to defend herself in the one-day mediation where Ms Higgins was awarded an extraordinary $2.4 million damages, the Labor Attorney-General committed misfeasance in public office.

And that was only the beginning.