Judging from the constant attacking ads on TV
and the money being thrown around - we know
where the desperation and panic lies.
Voters are not stupid and they're not fooled
for one minute.

I was amused when Morrison referred to a reporter as "Mr Speaker" three times during an interview. To me it suggests his spiel is so well rehearsed he was running on auto-pilot and not paying attention to what he was saying.

Of course if it was Albanese saying the same thing we would now be discussing the onset of dementia or him being delusional.

The anti-China spear rattling and increasing fear campaign plus some biassed commentators increasing both the volume and pitch of their statements suggests there are many who think he is in trouble. Today's inflation figure plus the waiting legacy of restoring the fuel tax in a few months will be a poisoned chalice for whoever wins.

Morrison has chosen to inject "Jan and the girls" into the rough and tumble of the political debate. That makes them fair game to be lampooned from all angles. Morrison likes to project himself as having a 21st century Australian equivalent of the 50's fantasy American tee-vee family 'Ozzie and Harriet', where the worse thing to ever happen was Ricky forgot to put the trash out on Sunday night, it was all a life of peaches and cream.

Scotty; "Look folks I have the perfect family, Jan and the girls, look they've all got two arm, two legs and two heads!.....I am truly BLESSED!"

Having spent a trillion dollars of borrowed money like a bunch of drunken sailors over the past couple of years, and unable to stand on their record the Coalition are now resorting to their old favourites of FEAR and SMEAR to try and retain office.

Lets not talk about inflation, lets not talk about wages, lets not talk about the crises in health, aged care and housing No lets talk about Jan and the girls.

"Having spent a trillion dollars of borrowed money like a bunch of drunken sailors over the past couple of years"

Of course this was always going to happen.

The $ 1T was spent due to the lockdown. No lockdown, no $1T. The vast majority of the population were completely on board with the lockdown and with the government throwing money around to help everyone get through it. Only a few of us who opposed the lockdown were expressing concerns at the profligacy of all governments during this period. While some warned of the dangers of the spending, the louder calls were for more spending - extend JobKeeper, increase the dole etc. Paul, as I recall, was fully on board with the lockdown.

But now that the costs of those utterly unnecessary lockdowns are coming home to roost, suddenly all those who cheered the lockdowns and cheered the spending, are feigning distress that the cost was unsustainable.

I suspect the majority of the population are like Paul. They're upset that the country is in debt but forget that it was they who cheered the policies that got us into this disaster.

I had fun making up rhymes about leaders
and two of our minority political parties.
Here's one party I left out:

Next we have the Greens
who want to save the planet
Protect our environment so it won't die
Climate change is not real
So some people say
But bushfires, floods, and weather changes
Aren't going away

If nothing's done and we sit back
And keep on being simply slack
What can we expect to see
More devastation?
Probably

Should we continue to ignore
The extinction of creatures big and small?
Do we really want to be
On the ash heap of history?

We have a choice that we can make
For all of us and our planet's sake
To save the planet - not destroy
Bringing all of us much joy.

Get over this non-issue and contemplate real issues for the political goons to solve: e.g 5.1% inflation. $16K more on your already ridiculously huge mortgages. How 'blessed' does that make you feel? I look like being blessed with higher interest rates to hurry my modest investments along. Whoopee!