Same, same

The more things change the more they remain the same. That sums up the outcome of the recent federal election.

An inept federal government was addicted to “leadership” changes (like the ALP before it) and ignored remediation of ABC exposed ATO ethically bankrupt depredations and repeatedly refused a banking royal commission.

But an ALP federal opposition that was crazed with hubris and addicted to fiscal megalomania and prospective social engineering was even more unelectable. An alarmed electorate returned the Morrison and Co. roadshow.

Now the usual Coalition-ALP dingdong of mutual blame and responsibility evasion has been resumed. Watch it on Q& A on most Monday nights and see it derided on “Mad as Hell” on Wednesday nights.

The ALP has lapsed into its traditional venomous factionalism which is also reflected in the Liberal Party’s internal navel gazing derived from the Abbott and Turnbull eliminations. The introverted major parties have long been demonstrably irreformable and devoted to only one fundamental aim: the capture and retention of the spoils of office at federal and state levels for as long as possible.

The results of the last federal election must have confirmed their conviction that they can play “ins” and “outs” of office forever. But will the electorate forever tolerate the institutionalisation of party oligarchy dubbed “democracy” and periodically exchanged between the Coalition and the ALP?

Frank Carleton, Longwarry