The bloke who sang leftie hits like US Forces, Harrisburg, and When the Generals Talk is set to go around the countryside collecting community opinions on Aukus. I wonder which way the audience will lean? It’ll be like watching most shows on the ABC but Unplugged.
AUKUS is the biggest defence project in Australian history and yet it still hasn’t been properly scrutinised. Good on the APSF for establishing the AUKUS Public Inquiry. Submissions can be made here: https://t.co/0Pu8VqrAAC#auspol pic.twitter.com/RGJzDqYjzz
— Andrew Wilkie MP (@WilkieMP) June 2, 2026
Rumour has it our first line of defence will be the Prime Minister wading out into the Coral Sea to get all staunch at aggressors. Who needs nuclear submarines when you have a world-class welfare system? Apparently, he’ll put a stop to those ‘uneducated’ people who want to vote for One Nation by loading them all on Labor’s gravy train.
The trouble is that the businesses paying for this first-class gravy train are all about to go off the rails. ASIC figures show that the number of business insolvencies has increased by 200 per cent since the Albanese government was elected in 2022. And that was well after Covid. Aspiration? Productivity? No.
If only the war in Ukraine could go on forever, the government would be able to farm endless excuses for our totally bished standard of living. Oh wait. I forgot the War in Iran. Maybe Albo could go all staunch in the Middle East and solve the world’s problems. Political excuses are something our nation can produce at an industrial level and export abroad if the EU needs a hand. It could be the only commercial product we have left.
Mind you, we do have self-propelled artillery again. And this time it’s not a dud. The AS9 (AS for Australia) Huntsman, developed from South Korea’s K9 Thunder, is a beautiful 155mm self-propelled beast. It’s one of the most advanced artillery systems in the world. Some of my artificer mates reckon our bureaucrats have already modified the AS9 so it won’t work as well as the original, but what can you do?
Anyway, each AS9 can fire three rounds at different charges and trajectories so that all three rounds land at the same time. As we gunners say, kerrumpah!
The truth is that Labor ruffles its feathers at the thought of any sovereign nation defending itself. They also cringe anything nuclear. They’d rather we sang along to the socialist kumbaya, otherwise known as The Internationale. If only they could end this capitalist nonsense once and for all… Trouble is, somebody has to actually make things.
Speaking of producing things, the ABC has hired former Australian of the Year, Grace Tame, for the Autistic AF podcast. Thankfully, I don’t subscribe to the ABC’s podcasts. Oh, hang on…
What else did you miss?
Illicit tobacco revelations this week prove the point that a greedy nanny state leads to black markets. Prohibition isn’t one of those things that societies did in the laughable past. It’s alive and well in Australia and particularly in Victoria. Critics of Premier Jacinta Allan’s attempts to curb the sale of illegal tobacco say the measures have been too slow. They’re urging the Victorian government to hurry up. Chop-chop! We wonder if these measures will be as effective as the machete surrender bins.
Speaking of Jacinta Allan, word is the Victorian Premier’s leadership is in ‘terminal’ decline. But that doesn’t mean she won’t be remembered. Victorians have a habit of immortalising their worst longest-serving premiers in bronze. Only this time bronze plaques placed at five Metro Tunnel stations were removed and replaced at a total cost (including the mistake) of roughly $70,000 after ‘Honourable’ was left out of the premier’s title.
Everything's worse under Jacinta Allan-they can't even get a plaque right, costing an Honourable $70,000 extra.?#springst #vicpol #PMlive pic.twitter.com/ziDeLg4aQs
— Timjbo ?? (@TimjboAU) June 1, 2026
Recent interviews suggest Paul Kelly isn’t a fan of One Nation. The veteran editor-at-large at The Australian reckoned ‘Pauline Hanson is not fit to be Prime Minister of Australia’. Our editor-in-chief begged to differ.
Meanwhile, One Nation will ban The Guardian from attending party events after the masthead allegedly admitted it used photographs that deliberately made Pauline Hanson look more sinister. The only thing sinister about Pauline is that she is putting the wind up the establishment that doesn’t give a toss about ordinary Australians.
While we’re on the topic of not being fit to be Prime Minister of Australia, Angus Taylor openly referred to Albo’s government policies as socialist. It’s about time somebody in high office stated the bleeding obvious. It seems the battle lines have been drawn.
It’s a good thing too because those ‘other people’ who have the money that socialists use are now mere mythical creatures. Unless of course you read the comments from all the leftie bots that ride on Albo’s gravy train.
Legislative trench warfare has commenced over budget tax measures with the Senate shaping up to be the next battleground. Labor’s wedge politics that tied tax cuts to their tax on aspiration sailed through the House of Reps as expected. Hopefully the Upper House will mess up Labor’s plans, but you never know what the cray-cray keffiyeh-wearing types will do. Anything that doesn’t benefit ordinary Australians, I bet.
Nationals Leader Matt Canavan has been kicking butt in Senate Estimates. Finance Minister Katy Gallagher wouldn’t answer his questions about how the tax changes in the budget will resuscitate our flatlining productivity. The Finance Minister reckoned it was all the Coalition’s fault, even though productivity has fallen ever since Labor was elected. What has Labor been doing for the last four years? Even the RBA couldn’t work it out, serving up a word salad at Australia’s Economic Outlook to explain why interest rates keep going up and up and up.
Not to worry, many Australians will get a pay rise on July 1. That will help you buy more. In the same way a dog that chases and actually catches its tail gets bitten.
Australia and the Pacific are stronger when we work together.
Today I met with Prime Minister Wale of Solomon Islands and we agreed to start negotiations on a new comprehensive treaty between our nations.
When there are challenges in our region and around the world, we'll… pic.twitter.com/qrbY2tNbws
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) June 3, 2026
In what has been called a diplomatic win for the Albanese government, newly minted Solomon Islands PM Matthew Wale made his first official overseas visit to Australia. It appears we will have a new strategic treaty with the Solomons. Meanwhile, the Solomons’ existing arrangements with China might be torn up but Wales couldn’t be sure because the non-disclosure arrangements in the arrangement prevent those who would otherwise tell him what’s going on from disclosing anything. Or something like that.
Last week while I was warm and cozy in my plunge pool in Vanuatu, I was poking fun at their Ministry of Climate Change as a political repository for climate guilt funding. Never mind that.
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution (passed with 141 votes in favour) that formally welcomes and seeks to implement an ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change. In principle, Pacific islands can now sue major emitting countries for climate-related loss and damage.
Many Pacific islands produce most of their electricity with diesel generators. I reckon we might see Chris Bowen flying around making the case that Australians must pay. With climate change departments ready to receive our money, expect the unholy trinity of Albo, Jimbo, and Bozo to remold our island neighbours in their own free energy image. Wouldn’t that be a hoot.
I don’t know what you missed, but it’s bloody freezing here in the Southern Tablelands of NSW, there’s no phone reception, and there’s no internet. So I must drive towards Goulburn to file this article. I miss the autumnal bliss of Vanuatu. But you can keep all the bluster from this week in politics.
Dr Michael de Percy @FlaneurPolitiq is the Spectator Australia’s Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent. If you would like to support his writing, or read more of Michael, please visit his website.
