Big government, regulation, mass immigration, public welfare spending and fostering increased state dependency is being used by Albanese to stay in power.

For all we know, the Coalition would do the same thing if they ever recovered government.

It's called the Curley Effect in ‘honour’ of the mayor of Boston four times, James Curley, who used “wasteful redistribution and electoral largesse” to keep his job from 1914 to 1950. The wealthy left the city, and Boston went backwards, just like the whole country of Australia is doing right now under Albanese, as he “doles out bribes”, imports unskilled and poor immigrants into marginal electorates, encouraging state dependency. Cronyism and control of the mainstream media (helping to pay its wage bill, and over a $billion to the ABC to keep it barracking for Socialism).

The tactic has “conspicuous exponents” all over the world, says the author, particularly throughout the Anglosphere. As usual, Albanese hasn't thought up anything new. And it is not always restricted to the Left. We all need to bear that in mind at the next election. Given the success that the strategy has given Albanese, it is not wildly imaginable that his erstwhile-conservative opponent might do the same thing. Fortunately, like the UK, Australians now have another option; all they have to do is decide whether or not they want to take that opportunity or continue going down the gurgler.

(Source: Andrew Christopher, ‘The Curley problem of cynical vote harvesting’, Spectator Australia)