Voters spoilt for choice: Peter Albanese or Anthony Dutton

"Stakeholders" militate against voters

In the global north, the crisis of democracy and equality spurs scholars.

For Thomas Piketty, capital wins, tough luck about labour parties. Robert Kuttner shows globalism and the "market" hollowing out democratic social provisions. As in Germany and UK.

The American Musa al-Gharbi documents "symbolic capitalist" elites (hello Canberra) emoting for social justice, while flipping the bird to lower orders. With Eric Kaufmann, wokeness has become a stoush over "Western civilisation" itself.

Even Soviet Russia had dissenting artists. Down Under, even satirists and novelists toe UN line. Otherwise, they might be racists.

Across states, industry and unions, think tanks, academia and media, our sleepy discourse curates the Liberal-Labor "contest". Brainwashed (woke) Generation Z thinks housing is a "supply" problem.

Even though, Minister O'Neil admitted, Labor wants rising house prices. No wonder Population Statement demands 410,000 population top-up every year through to 2035.

Lamenting housing distress, hypocritical business leaders (exceptions Barrie and Tim Fung) still demand Big Australia, for confected "skill shortages".

Mogul net-zero mavens Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest squabbled over a "nation-building" energy cable to Singapore. Now "philanthropist" Forrest makes to deploy a gas import terminal. No market failure, rules competition watchdog.

Despite their own academics' State of the Environment evidence, our universities love open-borders net-zero. Which underpins their research and business models.

ANU, which has always propagandised big migration, follows UN line with their cross-campus "institute" for climate "solutions".

This December, ANU propaganda went next-level, claiming Labor's mega-migration never even happened. This sailed through to the keeper. Some "discourse".