Throwing the first stone

"No thanks, I'll stick with my beer". They kept drinking too while smoking their smelly joints while Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon boomed from the stereo, but before long they were spewing their guts out. A valuable lesson learnt.

Meanwhile, wide-spread sewage testing today reveals the extensive presence of illicit drugs, and The New South Wales Government could be accused of encouraging drug taking among youths by just approving pill testing at music festivals, paid for by tax payers.

(Good one Premier Chris Minns, like your gun buy-back scheme will stop the shootings on Sydney streets and homes every other day lately?)

Obviously, hypocrisy rules in politics, and when it comes to the leader of the pack, I couldn't go past our esteemed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

Take his recent attack on One Nation and Pauline Hanson. In a speech to the Labor faithful in Queensland he claimed " One Nation would do and say anything to win votes, including bending facts, spreading misinformation and turning Australian against Australian".

Three words, Albo: "Pot,kettle, black!" That's pretty rich coming from a man whose frequent fibs, porkies or "position changes" have included an assurance prior to the last election that:

Yes for the fiftieth time" there would be no changes to Capital Gains Tax or negative gearing, or that power prices would fall by $250 by 2025. Or that The Voice referendum "is not a matter of special treatment, or preferential power. It's about consulting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples on the decisions that affect you. This is simple courtesy, it is common decency.

Yeah right, we all know how those have panned out with house prices dropping drastically and rents rising after the recent budget changes to CGT and negative gearing, household power prices surging by about 40 percent, and The Voice overwhelmingly rejected in every Australian State.

There is also the "Melongate" podcast scandal, with Albo denying he was figuratively juggling the Japanese PM's "melons" in front of his chest after references to Pamela Anderson. And now there is the mounting "pork barrelling" scandal involving $409 million or 73 percent of Labor grant funding directed to targeted and marginal seats. This includes a $6 million grant to the Marrickville Golf Club in the PM's electorate, where he holds an honorary membership and still owns a nearby house.

Peta Credlin and other media have now highlighted a long history of public record announcements linking the Prime Minister to the venue.

But back to the issue of whether Warren Pickering should be eligible to run in the Victorian election, I think that's a given and any contrary claims are politically driven. I'm not saying he would make a better Premier than the capable young Liberal leader Jess Wilson who does seem to have progressed to the right on some issues she might previously have taken a more woke approach to. She has confirmed she fully supports her party's plan to abolish Victoria's Indigenous Treaty, despite previously breaking ranks as the only state Liberal MP to back The Voice referendum. She now agrees the new Treaty creates a parallel, or a separate system of government in the state.

Meanwhile Victoria's new Labor leader Ben Carroll is struggling to escape the taint of the Party's shady backroom deals, claimed links to the CFMEU, roads full of destructive potholes and the mountain of debt he has inherited from former leaders Jacinta Allen and Dan Andrews.

So the election on November 28 should be a very interesting litmus test for the next Federal election, following the recent wins by One Nation in the West Australian seat of Secret Harbour, Farrer in New South Wales and gains in the South Australian elections.

Bring it on, but remember the old adage, "People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".