First up, I’m not predicting that Labor will lose the next election. Governments need to be particularly bad to be kicked out after one term. Even a government as horrendous as Whitlam’s managed to win re-election. So, unless things completely fall apart for the ALP in the next 6 months, they’ll probably scramble back into government.

But things aren’t all that rosy for Albanese and co. This time three months ago they were cock-a-hoop. Their revised tax cuts were through. The electricity rebate was through, allowing them to sorta/kinda deflect the obvious criticism of the promise to cut power costs. They’re not within cooee of fulfilling that promise which was never going to happen, but now they can deflect by pointing to rebate ie they think they’ve bought off the people by giving the people some of their own money back.

Then there was inflation. All the ‘experts’ were predicting it to continue to fall leading to rate cuts before December. They kept telling us and themselves that their various budget measures weren’t inflationary. They’ve been proven wrong.

Three months ago, they were aiming for a December election based on falling inflation, falling interest rates, tax cuts and rebates.

Not anymore.

Inflation is headed in the wrong direct. Interest rates aren’t coming down this side of 2025 and may go up. The tax cuts have already been eaten up by inflation and will disappear if interest rates rise. The upshot is that Albo and Chalmers are diminished figures in the parliament and party.

Which leads us to Fatima Payman, the token Hajib installed by the ALP to demonstrate their ‘wonderful’ diversity. This diversity pick has left the party and claimed the PM was mean to her and he’s left floundering because no good Labor man can pick on a woman, particularly one with a scarf. People don’t commit political suicide if things are good.

Albanese was always a last-man-standing pick and he’s showing it. They’ll hang on past the next election but after that…? Things are going to get rather fraught. And not just for them, but for the nation.

Remember when Julia Banks left the Liberals? It was claimed by the ABC et al that it proved Morisson had a women problem. I suspect we won’t be hearing that from the ALP stenographers in the press as regards Fatima. Indeed, much of the ABC coverage of Payman’s treachery was trying to defend the ALP without pissing off the Muhammadians.
Strong, leaders, particularly strong PM’s, enforce their will and demand loyalty from their underlings. Albanese has lost that ability. Payman is just a symbol of the decline. She thinks she sees better opportunities with people of the left sitting outside Albanese’s grasp, able to criticise the ALP from the safety of the crossbenches. And all the PM can do is whine that it’s not fair.

As the economy unravels due to the profligacy of the government, born of their hubris and economic ignorance, the opposition smells blood in the water. Dutton et al are turning to illiberal populism to chase the votes. The decision to side with the Greens over supermarkets is appalling and a sign of the mayhem that the disintegration of the government will bring. The supermarkets are merely a scapegoat for the failings of the political class. They want to blame them for inflation that was in truth caused by the political class and their disastrous lockdowns.

A liberal party (small ‘l’) could never support this supermarket policy. We no longer have any liberals in parliament to speak of and won’t have until such time as things become truly bad. For both sides now, the only criterion for success is votes. That’ll never end well. The welfare of the nation isn’t even on the horizon. Albo was always going to be a disappointment. Dutton is proving no better.

Strap yourselves in, its going to get bumpy.

Was it ever ‘ravelled’?

The Albanese government is certainly the worst Labor government ever: even worse than Whitlam's; and Gillard's, even Rudd’s. And, I think, it is now vying for the worst government I can remember. And I was around before Menzies retired.

Albanese and his amateurs just haven't learnt a thing from all their mistakes and bungling. They are criticised for their stupidity, and then they double down on that stupidity. “We’ll show you who’s boss”, they seem to be saying.

Immature and childish.

Albanese is the worst thing about Labor, and he was apparently all they could dig up to 'lead' them.

Polls have 54% of Australians now thinking that Albanese is pushing Australia in the wrong direction. He is unlikely to be able to stop the number rising. Only 32% of Australians voted Labor at the election, and he sure has made a mess of things since then.

Labor losing the election will do absolutely nothing for this Nation. To restore social & economic stability the whole of the Public Service needs to be revamped, anything else is just pure waste of time & resources as per usual !
New Laws require old Laws to be dumped as should be the case with bureaucrats !