It is widely predicted that Australians will re-elect the Albanese government as a minority government controlled by the far-left, antisemitic, so-called Greens and the Teals. This will be a government even more captured by the fashionable climate catastrophism dogma, the purpose of which is to enrich Beijing while impoverishing Australia.

It is elementary that it can have no possible impact whatsoever on the climate.

So will Australians really reward the nation’s most incompetent, wasteful and retrograde government, the first to behave as if it were some shady regime running a banana republic?

As a serious, well-resourced cross-media investigation revealed in 2024, underworld figures, notorious gangsters and bikers have, through the CFMEU, infiltrated and controlled employment access and contracting, especially to taxpayer-funded major construction sites. While the level of criminality was long obvious from the cases that had already been determined in the courts, this exposé was greeted by affected surprise in Labor government circles, federal and state.

As noted in this column, the Albanese government had abolished the only watchdog over the construction industry, the ABCC. The headline over a report on this by Aaron Patrick in the Australian Financial Review confirms that on this, the Albanese government behaved as if it were no more than a regime running a banana republic, ‘Albanese is responsible for the monster that is the CFMEU’.

As to the truth of Albanese’s claim the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) would take over the role of the ABCC, recall that when he denied falling off a stage despite it being broadcast on national television, Albanese demonstrated he is more allergic to the truth than almost any of the other career politicians who typically treat lying as a useful tool for advancement.

Observing that the ombudsman demonstrated as much interest in the CFMEU as ‘a teenager in housework’, Patrick pointed out that the FWO had not initiated one new case against the CFMEU and that thirty per cent of ABCC cases had been dropped or partially discontinued. In their defence, the FWO pointed out that under Albanese’s legislation they were not even allowed to investigate criminal conduct and had fewer powers than the ABCC. As Patrick cuttingly observed, this, of course, was Albanese’s objective.

Australians are now paying for this, not only in direct costs, but also the flow-on effect on the costs of house-building.

And they are now going to reward him?

Opposition leader Peter Dutton, with support from the Master Builders Association, says CFMEU abuse has increased the cost of major projects by 30 per cent. It was reported that apartments cost $200,000 extra if the project was large enough to fall under CMFEU control.

If this were not enough, in the important area of constitutional propriety during the campaign, the Albanese government, now operating under the caretaker conventions, is improperly refusing to brief the opposition on Russian activities in Indonesia.

Shades of a banana republic yet again.

That it is as embarrassed by its ignorance of Russian activity to the north as it was by the threatening behaviour of Beijing’s communist navy off Australia, is no excuse.

Then there is the cost of living exacerbated by the decline in living standards, which began under Albanese.

The Albanese government has accelerated a trend of Australian economic decline, notwithstanding our massive resources.

The fact is that Australians’ average income, annual GDP per capita, is now estimated by reputable international organisations at around US$47,000, adjusted for purchasing power parity.

Compare that with the equivalent for what was within living memory an impoverished former colony, Singapore. At around US$94,000 (also adjusted) and rising, theirs is now double Australia’s.

In addition, younger voters will no doubt be interested by the recent finding by Leith van Onselen from MacroBusiness that Canadian experience proves that the current housing and especially out-of-control rental crisis is a direct result of out-of-control immigration. He concludes that the Albanese government deserves to be ‘booted from office’ for ‘engineering the rental crisis via reckless immigration levels’.

As to electoral support, the Essential Report allows us to compare the two-party preferences of various age groups between the Albanese Labor government and the Dutton LNP opposition. These are expressed in percentages and unusually exclude the undecided. Among those aged between 18 and 34, it is an extraordinary 62:34. For those aged 35 to 54, it’s 54:41. Only the elderly reject the government, 39:58.

Given the young rely on social media, wholly disregarding the best sources of factual political information and informed comment, the Murdoch media and Nine radio, their support of the government is perhaps not so surprising. The real reason for this is the result of the long march through the institutions which successfully targeted education as its first trophy. Due to indoctrination being substituted for education not only are the young uninformed, the levels of illiteracy and innumeracy are substantial. The extraordinary aspect of all this is the complete failure of LNP governments to correct this.

I have previously mentioned that once, waiting to be interviewed on 2GB, I heard a noted commentator telling of the occasion when he was remonstrating with an LNP minister’s office over some problem with the education bureaucracy.

The minister’s media advisor responded: ‘Kel, you must understand this. We run the minister’s office, the Marxists run the department, and we can’t have a public stand-up fight with them.’

What is crucial for those concerned for the future of this country is to ensure their vote has the maximum effect.

Aware that the LNP is obviously riddled with too many Linos, Liberals In Name Only, the solution is to vote strategically, especially in the Senate.

This can be achieved by first preferencing One Nation, then any similar party the voter wishes, such as the Libertarians, Family First and Trumpet for Patriots, before preferencing the LNP.

The reasons for preferring One Nation are that it  has long been effective in Canberra and now stands a good chance of increasing its representation, especially in NSW and even in both houses.