The End of Time

 

After a brief few days of summer warmth, the cold gripped them again. They were surrounded by fraud. A disillusioned population was limping past the goal post, although there was no goal post. There was nothing but those abandoned buildings on the outskirts of the village, a miasma of indulgence and despair.

The authorities had pepper sprayed the population with meth amphetamines, sourced from the Chinese. The betrayal was so absolute future historians would struggle to make sense of it, in those days before cybernetic and genetic enhancement became the norm. 

They were fascinated, just as humans of the 20th and 21st Centuries had been fascinated by their predecessors, before the wide adoption of electricity changed everything. 

As if they had discovered a sole surviving tribe of Neanderthals deep within the highest, most remote valleys of some future kingdom.

The white cranes rose from an ancient swamp, the predecessors to birds flew high over the rich planes, and these memories, of the miraculous beauty of those times, remained with them still. For no one could see, but they could see.

So he could see those strange visions, and make no sense of them. Why here, why now? Why at this juncture in time, when the greatest betrayal was afoot, when the suffering and injury on the ground was testament to a remote cruelty, a staggering cruelty, and how a blinded populatoin dwindled to their own death.

We were on the precipice of great change. And not all of it was for the good.

NEWS

Pauline Hanson and One Nation announced a policy on 7 September 2026 allowing renters and owner-occupier mortgage holders to opt in to receive one-quarter of their future compulsory superannuation contributions as extra take-home pay. Employers would still pay the full 12 per cent, but 3 per cent would be paid directly to the worker by their super fund at the concessional 15 per cent tax rate rather than the person’s marginal income-tax rate, for a maximum of three years; existing balances would remain untouched and investment properties would not qualify. Hanson described the measure as giving households “breathing room” amid cost-of-living pressures, citing roughly $2,300 extra after tax per year (about $44 a week) for a full-time worker on $90,500 and $4,300 for a couple on $168,000 combined. 

onenation.org.au

The proposal drew immediate criticism from Labor, housing advocates and economists. Labor frontbencher Mark Butler called it an “absolutely terrible plan” that would leave people worse off in retirement. Housing experts labelled it a “kneejerk” “Band-Aid over a rigged housing system” and warned it could add inflationary pressure to rents and house prices. Modelling cited by critics suggested a median full-time worker opting in for three years at age 25 could be around $25,000 poorer at retirement. One Nation and supporters such as Barnaby Joyce countered that the scheme is optional, temporary, uses money already earned by workers rather than new government spending, and that many eligible people would not take it up. 

abc.net.au

The announcement comes as One Nation continues to position itself as a major player after a historic win in the Secret Harbour by-election in Western Australia, where its candidate Luke Herdegen took the seat from Labor with 57 per cent of the two-candidate vote after preferences. The party has seen a sharp rise in national polling through 2026, at times matching or exceeding Labor and the Coalition on primary vote, though some recent surveys indicate support may have peaked or slipped slightly. Hanson has also outlined priorities she says would define the first 100 days of a One Nation government after the 2028 federal election and has been promoting candidates and tougher crime policies ahead of the Victorian state election. 

theguardian.com

Hanson said the first item on a One Nation government’s 100-day agenda would be a sharp reduction in immigration, nominating a target of around 130,000 arrivals a year while still allowing doctors and nurses to come. She framed the cut as essential to easing pressure on housing, infrastructure and services. Immediately after that she listed slashing what she called wasteful government spending, which she blamed for driving inflation and the cost-of-living squeeze; she specifically flagged a full investigation into the $16 billion annual childcare bill and a crackdown on NDIS rorting. 

thenightly.com.au

The same early period would also see the dismantling of the climate-change department, the abandonment of net-zero targets and withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, together with an end to Welcome to Country ceremonies in schools and government settings. Hanson additionally promised to extend the seniors healthcare card to every self-funded retiree and to take her long-running campaign against section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act to the High Court. These steps, she argued, would wind back government, restore national sovereignty and put money back into the pockets of ordinary Australians. 

@OneNewsAu

AS THE SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY DETERIORATES, OF NOTE FROM FRED PAWLE'S SUBSTACK 

The government’s royal commission into the Bondi terror attack in December, which has just finished hearing evidence and will deliver its report in December, has already lowered the bar for whitewashing government inquiries. Normally the public needs to wait until an inquiry’s report is published before realising the fix was in from the start. But, as Peta Credlin explains in this succinct piece, this inquiry couldn’t even wait that long. The predetermined outcome was obvious by the people the inquiry failed to call as witnesses: relevant federal ministers (especially Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Immigration Minister Tony Burke, who are ultimately responsible for the debacle); the head of the Australian Federal Police, Krissy Barrett; and an anonymous 30-year veteran of the AFP who desperately wanted to explain the AFP’s serious shortcomings when it comes to terrorism, among others. Nor did it give any credence to a memo from four senior AFP officers from May 2024 warning that radical Islam was on the rise.

Credlin concludes: “We owe the dead the truth, and unless this royal commission urgently reopens hearings and takes evidence from politicians and senior leaders such as the AFP chief that have not given it, and whistleblowers desperate to do the right thing, we will have failed them. And in failing the dead, we fail ourselves as a nation to do our best to ensure it never ever happens again.”

I’d go a step further, and say Albanese and Burke were so blasè about the imminent threat of terrorism, and so determined to conceal their complicity in it, they may as well have been the ones standing on the footbridge at Bondi that day pulling the triggers.

Labor’s mysterious connections with Muslim terrorists exist at the state level too.