The current Prime Minister went to the 2022 election
with a "new politics" agenda. A collaborative style
agenda that sought to bring all Australians including
business, labour, Indigenous and non-Indigenous
together. His strategy was harder to implement in
government.

We keep hearing about Labor's lacklustre performance.
The old Coalition politics of culture wars and
denouncing Labor's economic and other policies are
still very much with us.

The housing affordability and supply crisis and other
problems long predates the Albanese government and Labor's
attempts to address the problems are currently being
stymied by the Opposition once again sandwiching Labor.

Once again from the look of things politics appears to be
a devisive terrain that Labor is finding challenging and
not easy to negotiate.

However, the government argues that it has been providing
extensive cost of living relief in the form of taxcuts,
energy bill relief, rental assistance, wage increases,
cheaper medicines, and reduced child care .

The problem is that such government measures are
continually undercut by inflation, price increases,
high interest rates, and the housing affordability and
supply crisis.

The government should not be blamed for things that are
beyond its control.

As for what we leave for our future generations?

Hopefully it will be a united, fear-free and hate-free,
hard-working nation.

As Ben Pobjie writes:

"We need to learn from Weary Dunlop and Caroline Chisholm
and Vincent Lingiari and all their historical kin, so
that we can become the Australians we aspire to be, and
more importantly create the Australia we aspire to live in".

"But even while we do, let's remember the words of a
great Australian - there's never been a more exciting time
to be Australian - than right now".

Hi Foxy,

"The government should not be blamed for things that are
beyond its control."

Do you see the contradiction? The RBA Governor has called on the government to reign in its spending as she sees it as a driver of inflation, yet you praise the government for a range of measures that entail increased expenditure, yet you absolve the government of responsibility for the consequences.

Hi ttbn,

Fortunately Australia is a democracy, and the majority of Australians, rightly or wrongly, want low carbon energy. Personally, I agree with you that coal fired generation is the best option, but were it a choice of nuclear vs wind and solar, I'd choose what works.

Hi Fester,

I don't absolve anyone.

I try to explain.

Things need to be looked at in context. Not just from
one perspective. I'm sure you'll agree.

Fester,

Yes. 59% seem to want it, 66% in the inner cities, where they don’t know where their food comes from,

I believe these figures expose people who only use the main stream media for information. I also wonder if the word 'carbon' (dirty black stuff) misleads them. We are talking about carbon dioxide, not carbon, but 'carbon' is used by the confidence tricksters because it sounds worse than carbon dioxide, of which we humans emit 4% globally - the 97% occurs naturally.

Just as Professor Ian Plimer can not get anyone to prove to him that CO2 is the cause of global warming, nor can anyone answer the question: 'why is the human-cause 4% a problem, while the 97% is not'.

No answers, no sense. It is all woke ideology which will have to run its course - ruining the economy and the environment with unsightly windmills and panels, and the loss of trees to accommodate the monstrosities, until the West collapses in a heap.

Fester

I don't how far electricity bills had risen when people said that they approved of getting rid of fossil fuels, but prices are going to keep rising.

I wonder what people will think when the government runs out of other people's money to subsidise renewables, subsidise the actual household bills, and hand out cost-of-living payments periodically.

The old FOSSIL doesn't know how much his FUEL bill has risen since whatever. The problem there is "The lights are on but nobodies home!" Up goes the bill.