Calm down boys. I'm not opposed to pollies interacting with other power centres like business and unions. I'd just prefer to see them do it before elections so they could tell the people what the policies are, rather than try to work out what policies they'll follow after getting voted in.

Its pretty clear Albo et al really don't know what do do about the faltering economy and are hoping to get some inspiration from people who actually outside the Canberra bubble.

"Our resident Trumpster must prefer the Donald approach,"

Yes, I do prefer the approach where a pollie says what he's going to do before the election and then actually does it after the election. I wonder if we'll ever get a pollie who promises to make Australia great again, sets out a series of policies to achieve it and them implements them despite furious opposition from those who will lose their privileged position. i don't see any such figure on either side of the aisleat the moment.

Another of Albanese’s rants, ‘Future Made In Australia’ will be shown in the future to be another lie.

Economist Judith Sloan reckons that Albanese's you-beaut ‘Future Made In Australia’ mantra has “Trumpion tones”. Pity there is no Trump to go with it. Trump could possibly pull it off; but Albanese, never. The idea is just to convince “low-information” voters that there is a plan to get Australia making things again.

Rather than investing in Australia, the private sector is moving out. And, of course, there's that little matter of very expensive and unreliable electricity; plus appalling red tape, green tape and a fat, incompetent public ‘service’ beavering away to make doing business harder.

We will be scratching to maintain the bit of manufacturing we have now (5% of total output, down from 10% thirty years ago) in the future, with Albanese & The Socialists calling the tune.

There is no way that we can restart manufacturing in competition with Albanese's mates in China, who flog stuff to us cheaper than we could ever make because they use cheap, coal-powered electricity - as we used to.

Ms. Sloan sees the FMIA as “total crock”. But that describes most things over the past 3 years: and the next 3, the future, will be worse because all those “low-information” people put Albanese back in power.

Albanese and Wong have got what they wanted: praise from Hamas in the form of Ghazi Hamad, who gratefully acknowledged their calling on Israel to cease fire. The Australian Jewish Association, on the other hand says that it means that Australia has abandoned Israel - or the Albanese government has abandoned Israel. Decent Australians have not abandoned them: even the Liberal Party is sticking with Israel.

Hamas started the war. They can finish it before they are finished by Israel and even more women and children have to die on behalf of Hamas terrorists and cowardly thugs hiding behind those women and children. If they are dying, that is; it could be another lie like the ‘thousands of babies” BS. Even when they are lying, Hamas is using children to try to make Israel stop doing its duty to protect its own citizens from these lying, murderous bastards.

Israel doesn't kill innocent civilians like Hamas does. They know what they are doing, and hopefully they will continue to do it until there is no trace of Hamas left.

Sucking up to China, Albanese wants Australia to be “a neutral Switzerland of the South Pacific”. Although, while Australia has less than 60,000 military personnel, Switzerland has more than 120,000 trained volunteers.

Just imagine getting that many people to volunteer in multicultural Australia!

And in 1939, neutral though it was, Switzerland still had 430,000 troops and more than 200,000 support personnel from a population of a little over 4 million.

“Not only is Australia greatly under-armed and planning to remain so, but people are showing a disturbing indifference to national defence”. The return of the Albanese government clearly shows how true that is.

According to the Lowy Institute, only 52% said that they would definitely defend Australia, 24% said they would not, leaving another 24% who might or might not. Remember, 30% of Australians were born overseas and still living; so we have a fair idea who we should be looking at.

Now, the truth will only come out if push turns to shove with a foreign power, but it's definitely something for someone other than the dicks who have just gone back to Parliament to worry about.

We know who has caused the problems; but we don't know who, if anyone, is able to fix them.

That is very kind of the gentleman that wants parliament to sort out the way forward while they are on holiday. Lots of thought went into that one.

Gotta give it to The Mad Katter, nutty as a fruit cake, but always good value. Bob refused to swear allegiance to King Charles III, at the opening of Parliament, instead Bob substituted "The Australian People". Strange character is Old Bob, not sure if he's a raving commo, (he did once say he might be a communist, but he wasn't sure) or some strange kind of fascist, or maybe a bit of both. The Clark Of The Parliament had to tell Bob the Member for Kennedy to "shut up" several times during the election of the Speaker, as he tried to interject. Imagine the Parliament if they elected Bob as the Speaker!

The members of Hanson's Fascists Party turned their backs during the "welcome to country" ceremony. I'm sure they were thinking; "Didn't our great grand paps get rid of that mob, a 100 years ago, now they're bloody well back!"