The Darkest Recesses: A Great Suffering

 



When in doubt stay still, went the very old saying.

And so it was now.

Born on a battlefield, surrounded by enemies, walking on platforms filled with treachery, a dark evil that hid under the eves, multiple gnomes that could and would jeer at your death, an embodiment of the darkness which had gripped the Earth, and the evil which had been done here, he remained silent.

The election was over. It had gone on for an eternity. The months of the faux campaign. The truly pathetic performance of the Opposition.

Did Dutton deliberately throw the election? 

That's what it looked like.

All the perpetrators had fled, all the state Premiers, almost all of the dodgy health officers. To clutch their Pfizer millions in retirement. All of them. Perpetrators. Betrayers. Liars. Paid off. That's what he believed, or suspected, strongly. No, believed. 

They wouldn't have behaved with that intense, frothing intensity if there hadn't been $20 million or so on offer, "consultancy fees". Nor would they have fled so fast. That's what he thought. True or not, he had no way of knowing.

But these people had never had the health or welfare of the population at heart, and only cared for power. And money. It was the only explanation that made sense to him. 

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Greens leader Adam Bandt has conceded defeat in his Melbourne electorate, saying he had to overcome an “Everest” in order to win.

Bandt was defeated by Labor’s Sarah Witty, but he said the battle had come from all sides, including the Liberal Party and One Nation.

“People in Melbourne hate Peter Dutton with a very good reason,” he said.

“They have seen his brand of toxic racism on display for many years, seen his time as immigration minister, seen him make comments about Melbourne and…many, many of them wanted him as far away from power as possible.

“Despite us making it very clear that we shared their position, my initial take is some votes leaked away from us as people saw Labor is the best option to stop Dutton.”

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What went wrong? This time a year ago, Peter Dutton and the Coalition were riding high in the polls, still surfing the extraordinary Voice victory wave. In July of last year, we wrote: ‘The next federal election is there to be won. Peter Dutton and the Coalition have the ability to win it, although polls at the moment suggest a minority government one way or the other. So what does Mr Dutton need to do to turn a likely narrow miss into a narrow win?’


From thereon in, the Coalition simply turned to mush. No policy was made with any conviction, decisions were adopted then just as swiftly abandoned, and Mr Dutton lumbered around the election campaign all by himself like a lost new boy on his first day at school, eager to make friends of whomever he met.

A month ago, midway through the excruciating campaign, we asked whether Peter Dutton ‘had any of the mongrel in him?’ The campaign itself was not only devoid of meaty policies, and certainly nothing to force waverers to make a hard choice on (which is what occurred with the Voice referendum), but worse, had no fighting spirit to inspire undecided voters.

Australians deserve much better. 

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