Homeless Conservative

🚨 NEW: Federal voting intention 🟥 ALP: 29% (-4) 🟧 ONP: 27% (+10) 🟦 L/NP: 21% (-3) 🟩 GRN: 12% (-1) ⬛️ OTH: 11% (-2) DemosAU (MRP) | 13 Jan-3 Mar | n=8424 | +/- 5 Oct-11 Nov

Victim-survivors of family, domestic and sexual violence must feel safe to seek support. Having their private conversations with 1800 RESPECT handed over to their perpetrators, does not provide that safety. It just adds to the trauma they’ve already experienced.

Today the independent Reserve Bank Monetary Policy Board increased the cash rate by 25 basis points. We already had an inflation challenge in our economy but the war in the Middle East is making this challenge worse. At a time of immense global instability, this will put even more pressure on families and businesses. Many Australians were already doing it tough and are now feeling the impact of conflict in the Middle East through higher petrol prices as well. That’s why we’re rolling out responsible cost of living relief and taking action to give consumers a fair go at the bowser, through higher penalties, more surveillance and more supply.

Wrong call from the RBA today. Mums & dads, homeowners and young people shouldn’t have to pay the price of Donald Trump’s chaotic war. Inflation pressures from supply chaos is not the fault of everyday Aussies. They shouldn’t be punished because the war mongers have gone mad

"what radicalised you?"

Hawkish on Monday, panicked on Friday. The same political class that mocked Albanese for not leaning hard enough into Trump’s attack on Iran was, days later, crying poor over the oil shock that attack helped unleash. It is yet another example of why establishment politics, especially on the conservative side, is facing an existential crisis. Every event, every shock, every national challenge is now treated first and foremost as a political weapon. Nothing is processed with consistency. Nothing is weighed up beyond the next attack line, the next outrage cycle, the next opportunity to land a blow. And that is exactly the problem. Within weeks, often days, the contradiction is exposed. Demand a more aggressive posture abroad, then recoil from the economic consequences at home. Talk strength when the cameras are on, then complain when households and businesses wear the cost. It is politics emptied of strategy, discipline and seriousness. Voters are not stupid. They can see that much of the old conservative political class no longer believes in anything beyond immediate advantage. That every crisis is simply content. Every conflict is an opportunity. Every consequence is someone else’s fault. This is why trust for them keeps collapsing. Not just because people are angry, but because they are watching political actors contradict themselves in real time, over and over again. A system that politicises everything eventually loses the authority to manage anything.