Last week Senator Cash tweeted the…
Is it still correct to say “tweet”? I mean now that it’s X, should it be “Senator Cash Xed…”?
Whatever, Senator Cash put out the following message on the social media platform that was once Twitter but is now X:
“Australians should be able to choose what car they need for their family and their work – not the Prime Minister.”
So Australians should able to choose what car they need but they shouldn’t be able to choose the Prime Minister? That’s outrageous!
Yes, of course, that’s not what she meant; it’s just what she said. And yes, she was just trying to make a point about the government trying to impose more efficient vehicles on people when they want to waste money on less fuel efficient ones.
The Opposition have seized on this to complain about how this will make some vehicles more expensive while ignoring that a large number will actually be cheaper. I guess it doesn’t make a good scare campaign to suggest that most of you will be better off but those who want to waste money on a fuel guzzler may be given the opportunity to waste money up front by having to pay more for their car.
Still, the scare campaign has apparently worked a treat in the Dunkley by-election where the Liberal candidate achieved a magnificent swing of approximately 3.75%. The Liberals were overjoyed with this because if this was repeated in the general election then they’d repeat the result of losing Dunkley by less than they lost it at the previous election.
Personally, I couldn’t quite understand how they could be so happy with the result when they had so much going for them:
- Peta Murphy had a significant personal vote which would go a long way to explain why Labor’s primary vote was lower. Unfortunately for the Liberals it wasn’t. The fact that the primary vote held up should be the signal for a lot of soul searching in the Liberal Party, and if they actually find someone with a soul, then it’d be a great start!
- Scott Morrison was no longer leader and there was supposed to be a Morrison factor that went against the Liberals in the 2022 election… Mind you, in 2018, Morrison’s colleagues decided that they preferred him to Dutton, so the change in leadership may not be actually be the plus that commentators think!
- Anthony Albanese had just recently become the first Prime Minister to break an election promise and we can’t trust him… All right, he may not have been the first one to break a promise given Abbott’s paid parental leave and no cuts promises, John Howard’s “Never ever GST!”, Morrison’s Integrity Commission that he couldn’t introduce because Labor disagreed, but Albanese was the first one to admit that he was breaking one and that he was sorry.
- Australia has the highest rate of inflation of all the countries in a list of countries that excludes all the ones with higher inflation. The increased prices and the interest rate rises have caused a cost of living crisis because we only have crises when Labor is in power. When the Liberals are in power we have problems or difficulties or concerns.
- Similarly there is a housing crisis which is all Labor’s fault because when people couldn’t afford a house under a Liberal government, they just need to follow Joe Hockey’s advice and get a better paying job.
- Immigration is too high. Dan Tehan told us all on “Insiders” that it was too high but wouldn’t be drawn on what figure would be about right. No matter how many times David Spears asked, Mr Tehan couldn’t be tricked into revealing a Liberal policy because that’s against their strategy. Of course, he insisted that they have plenty of policies but none that can be released until closer to the election… In the past they’ve often waited till very close to the election date and by very close I mean a few days after they’ve been elected.
- In a by-election which won’t change the government, there’s an opportunity for a protest vote to let the government know that they better get their act together.
Yet for all this, the swing was merely consistent with what you’d expect in a by-election. In sporting terms, it’d be like saying that our team was expected to lose by 37 points and we did, so isn’t that a great result?
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