TODAY IS THE DAY TO PUSH BACK AND ... VOTE FOR AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIA faces a fork in the road today...
Sometimes elections are about sending Canberra a message, sometimes they are about putting tired governments out of their misery and sometimes they are about pushing Australia past a point of no return.
This is one such election. While the passing of Bob Hawke scrambles many people’s ability to see today in the same way they did earlier in the week, we must calm ourselves and understand that today isn’t about giving one more win to an undisputed Aussie legend. Today is about who you want in charge for the next three years.
Do you want a government that seeks to punish those who put all their eggs in the basket of home ownership? Do you want a government that moves the goalposts for self-funded retirees when it’s too late for them to change their financial future? Do you want a government that won’t tell you up front who is going to pay to build the technology needed to meet their lofty goals of 50/50 renewable power?
Labor and their cheer squad in the media seek to punish anyone who questions their policies as a knuckle dragger or for the big end of town, but I refuse to be defined in that way. We are allowed to push back. How dare they belittle millions of people’s doubts about the inherit greatness of their ideas, dreamt up not because it’s what the country needs but because it gives them the patchwork of demographics to assume power for themselves.
While the government hasn’t won a single opinion poll since Turnbull ran the ship aground in 2016, it’s worth asking yourself why hasn’t Bill Shorten ever won a poll to be preferred Prime Minister?
While he may have been introduced to us all those years ago in Beaconsfield, for most Bill Shorten was the faceless man who introduced modern coup culture to Canberra. Our decade of PM killing madness was only made possible because he gave it the nod the night Gillard got Rudd. Instead of being marked forever, he is being hailed as the one to bring this culture to an end in some parts of the media. Shorten started the fire and now wants a medal for promising to put it out. No way.
Finally, it should concern all Australians that there are still so many gaping holes in Labor’s ‘agenda’. Who is going to defend our borders as Home Affairs Minister? How much should the pay rise be for low wage workers? What are you willing to give up to get something through the Senate with the Greens?
While he spent the last day of the campaign hoping to be the next Bob Hawke, don’t forget Bill Shorten chose to stand in the shoes of Gough Whitlam, not Hawke, at his last campaign speech. Shorten stood on the very stage where the ‘It’s Time’ speech was given in the 1970s to declare the plans to change Australia forever.
He’s telling us up front and you have the chance to push back.
Forget the media, the bookies and the polls. They all said Hillary would be President too. Today is your day to choose. Today is your chance to push back and stand up for an Australia that doesn’t have to be turned upside down so one man can live his boyhood dream of being PM.