What would Santa give a Bogan child for Christmas?

Balanced reporting would mean that 95 per cent of reporting would concentrate on the effect of climate change and Lord Monckton and the like would receive five per cent of the coverage. But that will not happen in a Bogan Country.

Climate change is not the only area where the Bogans reign supreme, but it is the easiest to document because of the blatant disregards for truth and evidence in favour of blind prejudice. Other areas include off shore processing of asylum seekers and the economy.

Will Australia really become a haven for terrorists if we embrace the concept of treating refugees that arrive by boat the same as those who arrive by air? Do we have two classes of refugees? Do we have the lower class of refugee who can only arrange a boat trip and will end up in indefinite detention, whilst the upper class refuges, which arrive by plane, can live in the community whilst their claims are processed?

If a terrorist wanted to enter Australia would they really use a method of entry that was going to subject them to intense scrutiny? Why not just arrive on a tourist visa? This is much easier than arriving on a leaky boat.

In the area of economic management, Joe Hockey basically called Wayne Swan mentally defective when Hockey used the Bogan argument that if the budget saved two billion dollars but spent three billion dollars the budget went one billion dollars further into deficit.

What Hockey chose to leave out was the forward estimates of three billion supplied by the treasury, which gave a projected reduction in deficit of two billion dollars. It may have been that Hockey knew exactly what he was doing and read the Bogan nature of Australia. It would be really scary if Hockey thought he was telling the truth.

Alan Jones reinforced Hockey's tactics on Bogan radio and sound economic management became the object of ridicule.

So what would Santa give a Bogan child for Christmas? I hope Santa will delay Christmas and make it Christmas in July (2012).

On July 1st 2012 the sky will not fall in.

The introduction of the first stage of emissions trading will not cause economic collapse. Not only will the economy not collapse, but most of the Bogans will be better off because of tax reform.

On shore processing of asylum seekers will be an eight-month fact and Australia will not become the world centre for terrorism.

The best present for Bogan Australia would be undeniable evidence that their thinking is in error and that facts and evidence do matter. Hopefully that will come with Christmas in July.

But my guess is that Bogan Australia will find a simplistic reason why it was all Julia Gillard's fault that the sky did not fall in.