EXCUSES-PROMISES-AND IN DENIAL
Australia’s would-be prime ministers and their parties can’t plead ignorance to the cascading crises crushing the nation. The Treasury—supposedly independent—has known as long as the Reserve Bank about skyrocketing food and essential goods prices.
Tariffs loom like economic guillotines over ordinary Australians. Interest rates climb relentlessly. Hospital queues stretch longer, the healthcare system buckles, and floods and fires—worsened by reckless building on floodplains—ravage communities. Post-war roads, sewers, and drainage, designed for a fraction of today’s urban sprawl, crumble under the strain, amplifying rainy-season deluges. Then there’s the blind kowtowing to unproven climate change dogma, letting trees crowd built-up areas—fuel for the fire season’s death and destruction. No major party can dodge accountability here.
Yet what do we get? Photo ops, baby-kissing, and cash flung at identity politics cliques while pandering to the shrillest voices. These aren’t solutions—they’re distractions from existential threats. Both sides of politics know how hot Asian money floods in, laundered through real estate via complicit estate agents, lawyers, and accountants acting as shadowy trustees to skirt Foreign Investment Review Board oversight.
REGULATORY FAILURES- INSTITUTIONALISED CORRUPTION AND INCOMPETENCE RULE THE STATE
Then there’s the rot of regulatory failure: ASIC’s toothless watch, ATO corruption, self-policing legal societies, and state-appointed Legal Services Commissions colluding to prop up a flimsy, unaccountable justice system. None of this is new, nor a bolt out of the blue—decades of decay, trotted out with empty election promises, only to be betrayed time and again.
The latest outrage? Melbourne’s NDIS scam—a service provider raking in millions from the cash cow, warehousing disabled clients in squalor, plying them with free cigarettes, all under the nose of “responsible government.”
DEATH OF THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM-A SECTARIAN ALTERNATIVE EMERGES
Meanwhile, in Sydney’s Homebush, Bankstown and Lakemba residents are so fed up they’re ditching the establishment entirely, vowing to vote for Muslim and Middle Eastern candidates. “At least”, they say, “our own will protect us—even if it comes at a price”. That’s the damning verdict on a system too broken to care, too cynical to change. These aren’t just problems; they’re a slow-motion collapse. And the tired rhetoric won’t save us.
Dai Le the Vietnamese born former Liberal candidate for Fowler in NSW ditched her race insensitive party to face the darling of the privileged, the ABC loved white feminist set Kristine Keneally at the last federal elections. Against all populist predictions, Dai Le thrashed Kristine Keneally, a candidate never to be heard of again.
Dai Le and handful of Asian candidates from Melbourne’s eastern suburbs heard the clarion call for change and walked through the door prized open not opened by the force of Dai Le but by the incompetence of goverments, through marginalization of non Anglo Saxon Australians and voters by the two major parties.
Very few of these women like Dai Le support the exclusive feminist ME2 types and their gross waste of public funds which don’t benefit the nation or women as a whole. One reason being that the bulk of goverment funding for ‘womens’ causes are directed largely to conected lobbyists, media groups, advertising agencies and influencers the likes of Lisa Wilkison and her partner at the expense of the needs of the wider body of Australian women.
Experts are sounding the death knell for Australia’s two-party stranglehold, predicting a fractured parliament overrun by self-serving “independents.” Decades of power abuses by the major parties have gorged the privileged while trampling a swelling mass of underprivileged, disabled, marginalized, and discarded Australians. At the heart of their misery lies a justice system rotten with unaccountability: domineering, gender-biased Family Courts, exorbitant lawyers, and access to justice so costly it’s a sick joke. Homelessness spirals, living costs soar—crises well within the government’s power to fix. Yet the two dominant parties don’t even bother masking their election-time lies, only to break every promise in favor of loud, wealthy, connected elites each term in office.
Neither party has dared call for a royal commission into price gouging, entrenched poverty, NDIS exploitation, or the legal system’s abject failure to serve the poor and marginalized.
Now, the reckoning looms. People are waking up, tallying the betrayals, and weighing their options. Community leaders in forgotten corners are fanning the flames, and the outlook is grim: radicalized outcasts and a surge toward non-secular parties and candidates. The two-party edifice isn’t just cracking—it’s crumbling under the weight of its own cynicism. Time’s up.
Alexander Needham