Doing nothing in the domestic area. Add nothing much, or nowhere near enough in the area of defence. And the big, moon-faced grin doesn't hide that Australia has become an "illiberal country" - at least not from anyone with their heads not in the sand where too many Australians do have their heads because, to be frank, there is no evidence that many Australians are "feeling more concerned than ever about their future and their children’s future.” Complacency describes the average Australian these days; besides if they did care, what would they do? Vote Labor, because they have let themselves be convinced that the conservative options now available to them are 'white extremist, far right racists'. Many of the dopey buggers seem to like the "lurch to the left", the freebies and more of Big Brother in their lives.

Morrison's "disembowelment of the rule of law" is so appropriate, and I thank Gabriel Moens for it. That is the sort of language that might get people thinking about the real Morrison.

Big spending, businesses and jobs destroyed by Covid mismanagement because of Morrison's cowardice with state dictators: all true. Morrison doing everything in his power to "disavow conservative values": true. And, all very well if you are not conservative. But you already have the Labor party for that stuff. The Morrison Coalition will not be worth a pinch of poop as an opposition to a Labor government: it will go the same way as the Liberals in WA and SA; therefore, we need the UAP and One Nation to do that job. The word 'Liberal' in the name of the other option is not all that comforting.

Freedom of speech does not and never ever has included the right to indulge in falsehoods. Be it a flat earth or that gay people choose their sexuality! When the evidence in both cases, tell us that the opposite is the truth! Religious freedom has never been an issue, given the right to worship is a guaranteed right in Australia!

SSM was put to the people said yes in a landslide decision that some religious nut jobs want to overturn! And even those who disagree, like SoMo have learned to live with it! We the people have spoken and that's the end of it! No ifs buts or maybes!
Alan B.

Erudite and succinct. Without yet having read the book, it appears to well-summarise the fine economic pickle in which we find ourselves. Energy policies destroying access to cheap, readily-available and reliable energy needed to sustain our well-being are being encouraged by a government that continues to subsidise the fraudulent 'renewables' industry. No coal-fired power station could come within coo-ee of the recent monstrous emissions from Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai, a submarine volcano near Tonga. The spruikers of meaningless objectives such as Net Zero (with resultant policy settings) are clearly being directed by unelected overseas power brokers within the UN. Energy self-sufficiency is a top priority, yet we have only a few weeks of liquid fuel available, and depend on fragile supply lines from the Middle East and Asia to keep our cars and trucks on the road.
Our tax system is a relic of 19th century Marxist objectives of forcibly redistributing the wealth, at the expense of its creation. It is totally at odds with any anti-discrimination laws when it discriminates against age, location, race, income level, you name it, in favour of who would vote for some share of the resultant largesse.
An economic renaissance would result if the hidden taxes in everything sold were exposed, removed and replaced with a simple charge for the use of a government-issue currency, the volume of which, in turn, would be regulated by real-time feedback of the level of commerce with every tax return. When the cost of a loaf of bread is analysed, over half is taxation. Fundamental tax reform would literally be the greatest thing since sliced bread.
While ScoMo and Albo continue to sing from the same hymnbook, neither is fit to run this country. But may the story of the Road to Damascus have a re-run, and either or both see the light to provide another epiphany.

Politicians are a “type”. An evasive category. Failed used car salesmen.
God save us!

Dan

diver dan,
Yes and, voters are even worse !