Prime Minister Tweedledum and Opposition Leader Tweedle-dee are yelling insults at each other in debates. One of them wants to give workers a pay rise which is unacceptably high and the other wants to abolish pay rises for all eternity. The Biggest Issue of our Time, Global Warming, is given scant mention.
One of them wants to export more fossil fuels and the other wants to export only slightly less fossil fuels.
The current Australian Government is one of the worst in recent memory and it deserves to be kicked out. However, if that occurs they will be replaced by a party which was kicked out of government only nine years ago because it, too, was a shocker. The party which once rewarded homebuyers with 17.5% interest rates on their mortgages.
As for the covid pandemic, to sweeten people as the election loomed, they opened up last October and progressively dismantled all the restrictions and mask mandates which had kept us relatively safe. It gifted the virus a springboard to take off like a rocket and as a result Australia very quickly leapt from being one of the least infected countries to one of the world’s worst.
A small country with a population of just 26 million, Australia is now the sixth worst nation on the Johns Hopkins table of reported monthly infections – and covid, the Second Biggest Issue of our Time, is also not even an election issue.