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Record business collapses – why am i not surprised?

By Stuart Ballantyne - posted Friday, 3 May 2024


“Our Land Abounds in Natures Gifts” we sang last week at the Anzac Day services.  Most small businesses are not gifted with anything and require long hours and dedication to create something from absolutely nothing.

I take my hat off to anyone trying to build their own vision.

Imagine being gifted the Leadership of Australia!  A huge island nation with unimaginable mineral and agricultural wealth and an all year round climate for working and living.  What an absolute gift indeed, to any vision oriented leader!

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It’s a pretty easy job really, to implement policies that benefit the majority of Australians, using Natures Gifts to efficiently mine our minerals, create cheap energy, manufacture goods which are required to operate and defend the nation, to export products and create wealth and harmony for our citizens.

The alternative job is to implement policies that benefit the minority of Australians, who don’t like the flag, our history, our wealth, or having to work for wealth, our harmony or anything at all, but won’t sod off to the unhealthy, overcrowded swamp they came from. This same minority is trying to appease unelected bureaucrats in the UN and their unproven policies of climate change, gender bewilderment and disharmony of the nation with mass immigration of people openly hostile to our values.

These are the same minority who want to abolish Australia Day and Anzac Day!  Wake up!!!  This IS Australia and we have a wonderful and colourful history which we should be embracing and perpetuating, not trying to pretend our history hasn’t happened, just to appease the few malcontents.  If you don’t like our Australian way, go back to where you came from and stop trying to change us!

So the policies of Team Albanese, elected by a minority 32%, has been and still is, totally focussed on the minority, the unhappy and the lazy. Policies of Division, new EPA laws disallowing activities with Natures Gifts particularly coal and uranium, and Union control of running companies with obstructive IR rules, have been avalanching businesses.  No wonder they’re falling like flies, especially in regional Australia.

Now that Albanese’s popularity is plummeting, like Keating he grabs the ALP playbook to distract the media.  Last week it was Elon Musk refusing to obey Julie Inman Grant, a clearly evil shrew focussed on revenge and certainly not what’s good for the majority of Australians.

What will Albo’s red herring be for this week? His continued embarrassment by Pauline Hanson ?

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So you 8,000 business families on the recent coal face ALP inflicted cost of living crisis, don’t give up!  I know the weak politicians always say “we’re all in this together”, but it is always small business that carries the burden of pain, as happened in the Covid lockdowns

We have a wealthy nation, we just need a strong leader, that is focussed on what is needed and necessary for the majority.

Don’t abandon your dream!

 

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Stuart Ballantyne is just a sailor who runs Seat Transport Solutions who are naval architects, consultants, surveyors and project managers.

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