Voters spoilt for choice: Peter Albanese or Anthony Dutton

Political duopoly deprives voters

From Curtin through Whitlam, prime ministers seemed to care about the people a bit.

Harder to say this of Scott Morrison or Worse Albanese. Savouring his clifftop retreat and investment properties, with protesters shuttering his electorate office.

Via Barrie, high income-per-head nations are also high electricity-consumption nations.

I'd tweak that. You can be a low-population energy-rich nation (Qatar, Norway) that creams the windfall to cushion its own people.

You can even be a low-population energy-pauper (Denmark, Singapore) using economic strategies (hard work) to deliver a reasonable domestic deal.

Or you can be like Australia:

An amazingly energy-lucky but environmentally-fragile and water-challenged continent, mushrooming its population to 40-50 million (paging Kevin Rudd) to guarantee a precarious deal for citizens. LAis us.

The dispiriting 2025 election

Turning low migration promises upside-down, UK Tory and NZ Labour governments got sacked. "Liberal" Canada is certain to follow. Albanese, he of the accidental on purpose population blitz, is in the same firing line.

Australia copped all-time drought/fire/flood/pandemic over 2019-21. Yet Albanese supercharged net-migration to 980,000 over 2022-24, 70% above Rudd's record. Nothing, including LA, can ever get environmental sanity onto the table here.

Instead of an election tackling the Volkswagen-sized breadcrumbs linking mega migration (and tax distortion) to housing distress (andconstruction dysfunction), we're getting personality and climate theatricals. A journalistic replay of 2010 and 2013.