Steve Waterson writes in the Australian
“I can spot utter incompetence, and grow tired of hearing our politicians are “doing their best”. I would “do my best” if forced to remove your appendix or land a passenger jet, but no one in their right mind would entrust those tasks to me, because it would result in catastrophic failure.
Yet this is what we tolerate in government: unqualified buffoons who issue permits to dig up coal and iron ore they’ve forbidden us to use, so China can turn them into ridiculous cars, windmills and solar panels to sell back to us at a succulent profit.
But where the climate’s involved, says the minister, “the cost of inaction will always outweigh the cost of action”, a facile mantra that’s hard to test, because the claimed cost of inaction is as high as best serves your zealotry, while the cost of action is stamped top secret and will never be revealed.
Meanwhile their mastery is on show in other areas of responsibility: a trillion dollars in debt; an immigration policy that is the envy of the (third) world; runaway rorting of NDIS and welfare payments; medieval antisemitism; Indigenous people worse off than their distant ancestors, despite the billions spent; kids leaving school with minimal education, but who cares, because there will be no jobs for them in our atrophied economy. And the pension-padded architects of this chaos smugly grin and tease each other for media soundbites across the parliamentary chambers.
I hoped we had hit the bottom of the barrel of government stupidity during Covid, but no, the shameless malfeasance and ineptitude, brazen lies and arrogant obfuscation continue to burrow away at the nation’s foundations, undermining our future while the politicians congratulate themselves on their brilliant achievements. Sadly, self-delusion remains the only field of endeavour in which they display any imagination or enthusiasm.
“If it weren’t so sad it would be funny,” people say, but of course it actually is funny. Our formerly serious, sensible, substantial country is being turned into a preposterous joke by an ugly mob of grasping, unprincipled, talentless clowns. If we don’t have the stomach to do anything about them, we should at least join in the fake laughter.”
AND LETS NOT FORGET VOTERS PUT THEM THERE, NOT ONCE BUT TWICE AND ACCORDING TO CURRENT POLLS WILL DO IT FOR A THIRD TIME,