Beginning of end for Nationals

The Nationals are likely doomed if they don’t go back into a coalition. And they are likely doomed if they do.

Last week I wrote in this space: “The job for [Prime Minister Anthony] Albanese now is to concern himself less with the Coalition (which is doing a good self-demolition job all on its own) and concentrate on reversing the One Nation surge.”

Within 48 hours the Coalition had completed that demolition job – far sooner than I thought possible. And still One Nation surges in the polls.

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One Nation doesn’t waste a crisis

When asked what he feared most politically, Conservative British Prime Minister (1957-63) Harold Macmillan is reputed to have said, “Events, dear boy, events.” Well, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has a lot to fear over the political ramifications of Bondi.

Another Conservative British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, is reputed to have said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson and fellow traveller Barnaby Joyce certainly did not let the crisis go to waste.

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A new world disorder

Three times the world has tried. It has failed twice. And recent events suggest it is about to fail a third time. At what? Setting up an international system to prevent catastrophic wars between major powers that inflict massive civilian casualties and destruction of property and cultural assets.

The first time was the Concert of Europe after the Napoleonic Wars. The second was the League of Nations after World War I. And the third was the United Nations and related international institutions after World War II.

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Royal Commission knavishness

The manifold failures of 26 Australian Royal Commissions since 1980 to do anything much about the underlying sins, wickedness, and malfeasance that they were supposed to address should caution us against a repeat with the Bondi shootings.

However, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who promised accountability and transparency, has delivered too much secrecy and opacity over the past four years. Voters are seeing right through that opacity, and a cornucopia of concerned citizens have joined the call for a Royal Commission as a cleansing act and panacea.

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Of course it is about guns

The death of 15 innocent people has been used shamelessly and immorally as a political debating point. I hope the vast majority of Australians are disgusted.

Josh Frydenberg, no doubt gutted and shattered in the heat of the moment and therefore should be given leeway, should seriously now consider what he said. He said that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is personally responsible for the death of those innocent people, including a 10-year-old-girl.

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Reducing the One Nation danger

One is close family (cancer). One is a close friend (heart). One is first-name morning-walk nodding acquaintance (cancer). All have the same ghastly experience – diagnosis with a life-threatening illness facing a strained health system.

One had a rejection from a private insurer on a technicality and family came to a $20,000 rescue and early successful treatment. The second has to (and can with strain) pay $30,000 for cardiac treatment. 

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