Flee Before Us: The Power In Numbers

 


That strange coven. I hate to tell you but you've been compromised. He had fled so often into the undergrowth, into the leaf litter, that it had become a way of life. But you didn't know, and he didn't know, the time of choosing.

And so it was that they rose up in a single unified moment which defied all of previous history. For no one knows the time and the place. 

He was insulated and could hear all too many things. My team, my team, I need to justify this to my team, and my bosses, the bureaucrats and parasites and transcendental wonders who had settled, or were settling, on this place.

It was all very strange; yet he knew. 

The symbols, or the symbology, had become very confused. The population was dying, poisoned by air, by sea, by water, in their food and in their soil, eradicated, mercifully, some would say, eradicated for good.

Those futures that played god, those entities which wished to know the secrets to allmighty power, they were not to be trusted under any circumstance. For deception was their weapon and their modus operandi.

Tread carefully, you monsters, he said, as the horses reared triumphantly. Panic was yet to set in to villagers primal psyche. Let them have hope. Give them hope. For however brief a moment.


NEWS

“Hanson goes scorched earth after Albo speech.” Over the weekend Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Labor’s Queensland conference that “hard-right populists are on the march, peddling politics that is dangerous, divisive and downright dishonest,” adding: “We simply must defeat them. We owe it to history.” One Nation’s Secret Harbour by-election win still hung over the remarks. Pauline Hanson hit back that “this clown needs to hold up a mirror to himself,” calling Albanese a “liar” who tells struggling households the country is in “good shape.” Tabloids piled on with “‘Disgusting’: Albo speech goes horribly wrong” and claims the Prime Minister had been “brutally mocked.” 

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“Hanson accuses ‘Orwellian’ Albo of government censorship.” Hanson said Albanese wanted “more power over free speech” and that Australia should not be “building the Orwellian machinery for it.” Separate headlines had her “unleashing over neo-Nazi ‘slander’” and demanding the Attorney-General retract remarks that, One Nation insisted, slandered millions of its voters as extremists. The West Australian ran “Hanson’s bold vision for Australia under One Nation’s power,” while she also vowed to protect WA’s GST from east-coast “bludgers.” The Guardian noted a Coalition flag-burning ban and Labor’s line that the push had “an element of desperation.” 

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“Surprising One Nation twist in the polls” and “Pollster’s huge new One Nation prediction” kept the scoreboard in play even as a Guardian Essential poll said the party’s popularity had slipped while Albanese recorded his lowest approval as prime minister. Commentary still treated the WA result as a warning: “There’s no such thing as a safe seat in Australian politics anymore,” Hanson said, while analysts argued the win “shows the major parties should be concerned.” The running frame was familiar Australian media fare — Labor calling the party a threat to be defeated, Hanson calling the Prime Minister dishonest, and both sides claiming the voters had already sent their message. 

Away from the Hanson duel, the rest of the news cycle has been equally unkind to Anthony Albanese. A Guardian Essential poll this week recorded his lowest approval as prime minister, while other coverage lingered on cost-of-living strain, a Pacific forum clash with a reporter over a $20 million climate bill, migration tinkering, and Labor’s plan to crack down on social media algorithms. Opinion writers described a government in “midterm blues,” with one columnist telling him his “radar malfunctioned again.” 

Even stories that were not about One Nation kept circling back to trust: broken promises, a stubborn style, and a sense that the Prime Minister was telling people the country was in better shape than they felt it to be. That sourness is loudest in the comments. Under news.com.au’s write-up of his “defeat One Nation” speech, readers called him an “absolute hypocrite,” an “embarrasing excuse for a prime minister,” and said “nothing you have done has benefited Australians.” Herald Sun pieces on the same fight and on Credlin’s attack over a royal commission drew hundreds of comments, while another tabloid invited readers to “have your say” after “Albo called them ‘dangerous’” and angry Australians “fought back.” 

The pattern in those threads is consistent: voters treating the Prime Minister as out of touch, dishonest on the economy, and newly reckless for picking a public fight while his personal numbers keep sliding. 


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