The LNP Coalition Trumpian Playbook

Clio was the ancient Greek muse of history. so we all thought that she would be an appropriate entity to run this site.

Australia is on the eve of a federal election to decide which party will lead the country. Peter Dutton, the current Opposition leader, has taken his political party further to the right. The LNP Coalition Trumpian playbook is all about demonising enemies and alarming the electorate. How about a referendum to allow politicians to deport dual Australian citizens they deem unworthy? The courts already have this power but Peter wants to play politics with such authoritarian power invested into his own hands. The ex-cop from Queensland sees every complex issue as a job for the heavy hand of the law. Does this remind you of someone in the US of A right now?

Do You Want ‘Temu Trump’ For Aussie PM?

Our very own ‘Temu Trump’, the budget version ‘made in China’, sees dangers around every corner and demons under every bed. The little boy who cried wolf! The LNP Coalition Trumpian playbook demonises dark skinned immigrants and warns of the yellow peril. A whiter Australia is their underlying bedrock social policy. Divisive Dutton tours Israel on a conservative junket and comes back all fired up to attack multicultural Australians. Arabs are the enemy and ceaseless cries of terrorism at every genocide protest march by Aussies sympathetic to the 70, 000 women, men and children killed by the IDF in Gaza. Dutton and the Murdoch press whip up a media storm downunder amid bogus plants of caravans filled with ancient explosives and graffitied buildings with antisemitic slogans. Suddenly, the normally Jew hating far right have a new villain to demonise. The Trumpian playbook is to alarm folk and paint dangers at every turn. Seed the ground for voter demands of a strongman.

LNP, Trump & Mining Magnate Deals

Then, skull like Voldemort, the macho ex-cop from Queensland will step in to save us with draconian security measures. Behave or ‘Temu Trump’ will deport you! He will outlaw all opposition and follow the Trump Project 2025 model. Dismantle the Education Department because its full of socialists and lefties. Ban the media outlets he doesn’t like. Throw dissidents into prison prior to deporting them. This is the new ultra conservative playbook. Return Australia to his billionaire mining magnate mates like Gina Rhinehart.

You know all those bad deals made by politicians with fossil fuel companies for our resources where we get bugger all royalties and tax revenue. The LNP specialise in jobs for the boys and macro corruption.

Medal, copper, Mount Isa City Tourist Dollar [1982]. 47mm diameter by Stokes is licensed under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

Dutton Blame Game Politics

“Australian Unions warn if the Coalition goes ahead with its plan to cut $6 billion from public services, it will wipe out up to 36,000 public sector jobs. Australian Unions say the cuts would result in 1 in 5 public sector jobs being lost around the country, impacting services from pensions and veterans’ payments, to the operation of regional weather stations. Coalition Leader, Peter Dutton, yesterday declared he would look for savings of $6 billion a year by cutting public sector jobs to match the Government’s investment in Medicare. More than 20,000 of the new public sector jobs are based outside of Canberra, including frontline health and community workers, with large workforces in communities including Townsville and Geelong.”

(https://www.actu.org.au/media-release/australian-unions-slam-duttons-threat-to-axe-36000-public-service-jobs/)

The latest pro-Trump Coalition pre-election promise is to slash the public service to the tune of $6 billion. We had 10 years of this under Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison, where tens of billions were syphoned off to their mates in the private sector. You know, PwC and KPMG etc. The firm that betrayed Australia by revealing corporate tax law plans to their multinational clients like Google and Uber. This cost us billions in lost tax revenue. The LNP are counting on dumb Aussies buying the BS anti-government stuff that Trump fed the Americans. Wanting someone to blame is the name of the game in this stratagem. Diverting blame to another target away from themselves, when they had 10 years in power a couple of years ago. The economy takes time to respond to government policies. Indeed, much of the economy the Albanese government has faced is the result of a decade of Coalition governments.

man in blue and brown plaid dress shirt touching his hair — Photo by Nathan Cowley on Pexels.com

Dutton Plan To Wipe Out 36, 000 Aussie Jobs

It is interesting that Dutton is prepared to wipe out 36, 000 Australian jobs to save $6 billion when his government will spend some $800 billion on nuclear energy. This nuclear energy proposal is to be funded and operated by tax payers and a government agency because the private sector consider it to be fiscally unwise. Batshit crazy is another way of describing an Australian nuclear power initiative coming from zero experience and expertise. You know yourself, if you buy big things that you know nothing about you get ripped off again and again. People see you coming. Wake up Australia stop being mugs. This energy solution will take 30 years to get up and running and by that time the world and technology will be different places completely.

Remember how the Coalition went the cheap route on the NBN and how we are still going to have to spend billions to fix that up today. Imagine when they try this on nuclear power plants and what the upshot of that will be. I would not trust these people with a garden hose let alone deadly nuclear tech and waste. The waste stays radioactive for millions of years. This is not just Snowy 2.0, which Coalition initiative stuff up is costing taxpayers tens of billions of dollars, as we speak. Every project this mob has touched has ended up billions over budget and years behind.

In bipartisan terms, every large infrastructure project suffers from similar fates, so nuclear power won’t come online for decades, at least 30 years. It is a very, very expensive bad joke.

“Despite nuclear power being a component of electricity generation for 16 per cent of the world’s countries, it does not currently represent a timely or efficient solution for meeting Australia’s net zero target. Here’s why:

Nuclear is not economically competitive with solar PV and wind and the total development time in Australia for large or small-scale nuclear is at least 15 years.

Small modular reactors (SMRs) are potentially faster to build but are commercially immature at present.

The total development lead time needed for nuclear means it cannot play a major role in electricity sector emission abatement, which is more urgent than abatement in other sectors.”

(https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/articles/2024/december/nuclear-explainer)

man in black suit jacket with red heart on his neck

LNP Coalition Strongman Politics

The LNP Coalition Trumpian playbook wants villains identified so that their voters can revel in the blame game at the ballot box. Weak on immigration and illegal refugees – punish them. Weak on law and order – make em pay. Strongman politics is the flavour of the times. Will Australia play this way? The Right has captured victimhood status, claiming that ‘woke’ policies have disenfranchised innocent white men – who just happen to have most of the power and always have had. They make out that this accidental privilege is mere luck of the draw and not the result of generations of entitlement and wealth. History is not the best friend of right wing politics, so they just ignore it or lie about it. Trump is dismantling the government not just to end economic waste but to remake institutions in his own image. The extremist radical change happening in America is a Constitutional coup. What his forces are doing will provoke civil war. I mean, the American character will not stand for one side bullying the other to such an extent.