While the Treasurer plots how to take money out of our pockets in the next Budget, we discover the Albanese government has spent $20 million on an ad campaign to tell people to … conserve fuel.
Every little bit helps starts Monday across television, social media, billboards, and posters.
Excuse me, do we not already pay a billion dollars every year for the ABC?
Do MPs and Senators working in government have access to social media?
Can they hold press conferences where the media rock up and voluntarily report the requests of government?
I don’t mean to sound outraged and petulant, but can Albanese explain it to me, like I’m five, why we need to blow $20 million of hard-earned money on ads telling people what they already know?
I challenge the Labor government to find anyone in possession of a vehicle that doesn’t know about the fuel crisis.
Telling people to use public transport, walk, or ride a bike is utterly privileged horsesh-t from a political class that hops to-and-from Canberra in Commonwealth cars and on freebie flights. Did the Prime Minister swim to Singapore?
It has been reported that the Minister for Infrastructure signed off on the marketing campaign. Well, shame on them. Pay for it out of the coffers of ministerial wages. After all, we are only in this mess because generations of politicians ignored repeated warnings and overwhelming public demand to keep domestic refineries and expand our oil drilling.
Australians have had enough of this cycle where politicians create a crisis, spend money talking about the crisis, spend money advertising that we’re in a crisis, spend money micromanaging Australians, and then use money to buy their way out of the crisis.
The Opposition wants a website instead, apparently, that provides little dashboards to allow people to track fuel supplies, shipments, and distribution. How much will that cost us? If the BOM refurbishment approached $100 million, who knows! But it would be too much, that’s how much.
Neither an ad campaign nor a website makes the slightest bit of difference to fuel security or fuel prices.
Australians don’t want to track the nation’s crisis, or to be told in the most nannying way possible that ‘every little bit helps, from running errands in fewer trips to only filling up with the fuel you need’ they want politicians to fix their mess with the enormous amount of money they are already paid.
And if you think I sound annoyed, I wouldn’t dare publish the comments being put up on social media by real Australians who have had enough.
$20 million cannot be allowed to walk out the door. It’s a disgraceful waste of cash this country doesn’t have.
Next thing you know, the Treasurer will be hiking up taxes because of inflation rising out of nowhere. That’ll be your fault too.
