Good article Graham and unfortunately for Australia very true.

There is not much to disagree with in this common sense analysis, except maybe for the last sentence.

The last sentence suggests: "time to head on over to www.alp.org.au to see what the future holds". I am not so sure.

You only have to look at the TV to realise that Albanese has been given a makeover: been put on a diet, new eyewear, and more smartly dressed. Behind the makeover you still have a politician who has enthusiastically supported every past proposal to tax the middle classes in order to fund big spending.

The same has happened to Labor policies. The proposed CGT imposts and restrictions on the use of franking credits, which were unpopular at the last election, have been publicly dropped. Much of this is mere window dressing.

My suggestion is that. rather than going to the ALP website to see what Labor is promising, instead look at their past record, and then clutch your wallet very securely.

A Labor win will confirm to the rest of the world what the rest of the world has long suspected about Australians ! Particularly people from countries with a sense of patriotism.

I'm inclined to vote independent or minor party and I think many others feel the same. I think Albo would sent the country broke by throwing billions at lost causes such as peace treaties with the aggrieved. I can't vote for Morrison after what I regard as smart alecky or devious responses to emissions reduction. I think he should give Assange more help.

Both your Libs and your Labs want high immigration whereas I think Australia has enough people. An independent heavy House of Reps could surely not be worse than what we have now. If there are no half decent independents in my electorate the green slip will go in the box without being marked.

On the surface, it might look as if Labor and Liberal have different policy settings. When you drill down, timid Albanese follows in Morrison's every step. In the case of Net Zero, Morrison follows Albanese, but both parties are in hock to fossil fuels and their "commitments" are meaningless.

On the crucial issue of mass immigration, Labor and Liberal are joined at the hip, and voters have zero choice. Hence my standard joke, that I expect the Morrison-Albanese Government to be returned with a comfortable majority.

Albanese is promising one thing that Morrison hasn't - more money for the ABC, gawd help us. Still, after the best part of a decade, when he has had the chance, Morrison has done nothing to pull the ABC into line, or get rid of it. Albanese is, in effect, bribing the ABC to go harder against the Coalition.

Morrison, rightly, got most of the credit for winning the last election. He must take all of the blame for losing the next one.

I am not looking forward to an Albanese Green Labor government, but Morrison - mainly all on his own - has made the horror inevitable. Maybe, with a new leader, the Coalition might be able to drag itself back to the centre right with a term or two in opposition.

Let's hope as many electorates as possible are offered the UAP, Liberal Democrats and One Nation to put 1, 2, and 3.