Change by stealth is an old socialist tactic, often accompanied by the promise that tomorrow will be better if people are patient. Yet, as we are taught from childhood, tomorrow never comes.

What we are now facing as a nation is not only the litany of Labor’s broken promises, we are having to work our way through the catastrophes they have inflicted upon us, without warning, from the very first day they took office.

There are two ways of looking at Labor’s failure since they came to office. The first is that they are incompetent, stupid, and have no ability whatsoever.

The second is that their commitment to socialist ideology is so entrenched that they continue to pursue it despite clear evidence of failure – seemingly unable to accept that their approach may be wrong.

Before the 2022 election, what did Labor tell voters about their plans for increasing in net overseas migration and its likely effects on housing demand, infrastructure, and public services?

The answer is that they told voters nothing.

Like governments around the world, they acted because they had the power to do so. The question is whether they failed to consider the consequences or simply did not care about the effect on the Australian people.

Remember, they told us all they had used the ‘best’ modelling in the world to predict a reduction in our power bills, so they were using those agencies that could predict the consequences of a policy change.

According to Institute of Public Affairs analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics data, Australia recorded net overseas migration of approximately 1.273 million people between 1 July 2022 and 31 December 2025.

Net overseas migration is a population measure, not a count of people granted permanent settlement, but an increase of that magnitude should have been accompanied by a clear public explanation of how housing and essential services would keep pace.

When were you assured by the Australian Labor government that their modelling had shown that another 1.273 million people looking for somewhere to live in Australia would not affect the price of houses, flats, and rents?

The answer is they didn’t.

They didn’t tell you that the law of supply and demand, which has been around since before the Phoenician traders of 1,500 BC, does not apply to the housing market in modern Australia in 2026.

They didn’t alert you to the phenomenon that in their blinkered world of socialist paradise, when something is in short supply the price doesn’t go up, and when there is a surplus the price doesn’t go down.

At an Australian average of about three people per dwelling, approximately 433,000 additional dwellings were needed to accommodate the 1.27 million people Labor knew it was bringing into the country.

When did Albanese and his Minister apologise and tell you that they had failed you the Australian people, because in the 12 months to the end of March 2026 only 173,759 housing units were completed? A shortfall of 259,241…

What Labor, like Coalition governments before them, wanted out of the new intake of people plus all the million or more who came in on working and temporary visas was their money, it is as simple as that. They wanted the cash they would bring with them and spend here.

They gave no consideration and callously paid little or no attention to the inevitable dilution of facilities and services that would take place with a rapid increase in population.

The rate of homelessness in Australia, as a percentage of population, is wholly unacceptable for a nation that spends so much money on social welfare.

When were you told by the Labor government that Australia could not meet their targets for new houses and flats because there are not enough skilled tradesmen and women in Australia to meet the demand and build those dwellings?

When were you told that in 2024-25 the Department of Home Affairs approved 185,001 permanent migration visas and out of that number only 33 per cent of that intake were classified as skilled, the rest were family members of the ‘skilled’ migrants.

When were you told that almost none of the ‘skilled migrants’ possessed skills that could be applied in the construction industry?

How should we view the housing crisis in Australia today? Is it not self-evident that the Albanese Labor government deliberately increased the number of people looking for somewhere to live when it was also obvious that the country lacked the skills to build what was needed to meet that government-created demand?

The housing crisis raises a serious question about the Albanese government’s competence and priorities. Its migration settings increased demand for housing while construction remained constrained by shortages of skilled labour and an inadequate rate of new dwelling completions.

The critical area of health provides another test of the Albanese Labor government’s competence and honesty.

Australia currently has about four doctors per thousand people. When did Prime Minister Albanese and Health Minister Butler explain how adding 1.2 million people to the population would affect access to GPs, hospital ramping and waiting times for surgery?

That waiting lists to see a GP wouldn’t get worse; that ‘ramping’ at hospitals would not increase and that waiting times for surgery would not be affected.

We all remember Albanese gleefully waving his Medicare Card and telling the country and the world that all anyone needed to see a doctor or get medical care in Australia was the Medicare Card.

Albanese and his minister quite deliberately assured the people of Australia that all was well with the Australian health services, and everything would get better when they knew that wasn’t true.

There is a report by their own Department of Health and Aged Care dated August 2024, which predicts an immediate and serious shortfall in the number of doctors in Australia. (Australian Government. Supply and Demand Study. General Practitioners in Australia. August 2024.)

The report predicted a shortfall of 881 GPs in 2024, rising to 2,633 by 2028 and 5,560 by 2033. It is unclear whether those projections incorporated the full effect of the recent increase in migration.

The report recognises that between 2013 and 2023, the number of GPs increased by 2,533, however, this number was insufficient to bridge the gap in an industry being challenged by an ageing population and a high rate of chronic disease.

The report also revealed that the upcoming shortage of general practitioners is because fewer medical graduates are choosing general practice as a career path, and that regional and remote areas would suffer most from a GP shortage.

Now that you know the truth about health care in Australia today and what is predicted for the future, what do you think of the antics, the behaviour of the Prime Minister when at every opportunity he holds up his Medicare Card and proclaims, boasts to all and sundry that all one needs to get medical attention in his Australia, is a Medicare Card?

When in fact his own department has warned him and his government, based on current trends, there is going to be a serious shortfall in the health services in Australia, starting now.

The evidence points to one conclusion: Labor pressed ahead with its high-migration policy despite warnings that Australians would pay the price through greater pressure on housing and health services.

Under Labor, aided by a compliant mainstream media and the relentless churn of a three-year federal term, Australia appears trapped in a permanent election campaign—an environment in which Prime Minister Albanese seems entirely at home.

After nearly five years as Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese still appears to spend much of his time electioneering. Perhaps campaigning is simply what he knows best.

That view is hardly plucked from thin air. At a 2012 press conference, while announcing that he would support Kevin Rudd over then Prime Minister Julia Gillard, Albanese declared: ‘I like fighting Tories … that’s what I do. That’s what I do.’ The remark suggests that political combat has long been central to his public identity.

Australians are now watching the mainstream media, the Liberals, the Nationals and Labor devote their energy to telling voters that supporting One Nation and its leader, Pauline Hanson, is not merely wrong but foolish.

This self-appointed, cross-party political cognoscenti is lecturing the people – or at least the 30 per cent said to support One Nation – that they are stupid for doing so.

They sneer that One Nation has no policies. Yet which of the major parties has offered a credible plan for Australia’s recovery that ordinary voters can actually believe?

Labor has plainly failed. The Coalition, meanwhile, is busy reciting everything wrong with Labor and the country, yet it has not convinced Australians that it can solve any of the nation’s mounting problems.

Labor has spent the past four years breaking promises and misleading voters whenever it suited the government. Angus Taylor then reached for the familiar scare campaign, claiming that support for One Nation would be a backward step and would send Australia broke.

Would that leave Australia any more broke than it is now, after nearly five years of Labor and a decade in which Coalition governments also flung borrowed money around as though tomorrow would never come?

Taylor claimed that ‘an eternity of pain would follow a One Nation government’. Not content with that allegation and others just as inflammatory, he added this doozie: ‘You will not fix a problem by blowing up the joint.’

Really? One can only presume that, by ‘the joint’, Taylor means Australia itself.

This is Australian politics today: the leader of the party that aspires to govern telling One Nation supporters – said to represent 30 per cent of voters – that their choice threatens to wreck the nation.

What pomposity and arrogance from a man who, as far as I can remember, has never achieved a decisive political success during his long career in Canberra.

How revealing from a man who enjoys the support of his Canberra colleagues while polls suggest he remains largely unknown across this wide brown land and is the least favoured candidate for Prime Minister.

The polls are telling Taylor that he remains a stranger to Australians struggling to scrape together enough for rent, mortgages, education, heating, cooling, and food. They know little about him and even less about the policies he would pursue. Until that changes, his warnings about One Nation are unlikely to impress voters already searching for an alternative to the same tired political establishment.