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May I, as an observer of and participant in Victorian politics for 55 years, attempt to convey a few home truths to the commentariat and their readerships? Neither the Liberal Party nor the Labor Party is the same as its namesake of half a century ago.
Despite the absurd attempt to paint it as a party of religious extremists, it is just a collection of lost souls who have never realised that their 27-year “jewel in the Liberal crown” status was no more than a product of the Labor split of 1955, who throw money around to win elections, who attack the government for no better reason than attacking it and who have no central guiding principles.
He was also slagging off the Labor governments of WA and Queensland for their border closures, in an effort to derail their state election campaigns.That didn’t work, so when things went pear-shaped in Victoria yet again, he tried to rebrand himself by proclaiming in missionary tones that “we are all Victorians now” – as though voters wouldn’t see through this.
In fact, the only things they can be guaranteed to agree on are sensible things like climate change action, corruption action and the fact that the previous government was so bad that it just had to go.Earning extra revenue through “staking” eerily resembles conventional security lending, with the added twist: there is no security .
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