The Official History

 


Appear far when you are near, appear near when you are far. There wasn't any doubt now that they were in a war zone. And the Art of War was as helpful a guide as any written in human history.

There was the clash of swords, the arguments behind the scenes, the desperate attempt to cover their tracks, the groaning bureaucracies, all based on deceits, the lazy, defeated, purposeless population, and idiot wars far off.

Once again all the old truths came true: you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time.

The Other Side Goes Belly Up. The extreme, indeed one could say extraordinary, manipulation of the public narrative by the government and its many agencies, most of them either incompetent or totalitarian in nature, distrustful of the general population and desperate to hide their own lies.

For no one likes to be caught in a lie. 

All the old truths came back. The ground was well prepared. What could be seen and not seen. What could be spoken of and what would remain forever secret. They, those appalling, deceitful apparatchiks hiding behind the fabric, the official narrative, just hoping to get paid at the end of their contracts and not be charged with a crime, they were falling away in fear. 

And so they should. For nothing was as it seemed. We are the masters you forgot. Way back when, in those ancient battles of good versus evil; now intent to kill in their millions. These were the strangest times. The birth of angels and demons. Before they, too, disappeared beyond human ken.

NEWS

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has faced a string of setbacks in recent months as One Nation’s surge has turned a once-comfortable Labor majority into a source of genuine alarm. A stunning by-election loss in Western Australia’s Secret Harbour seat produced a 27 per cent swing against Labor and handed Pauline Hanson’s party a historic win in a former stronghold; Hanson declared “there’s no such thing as a safe seat in Australian politics anymore.” Albanese responded by branding One Nation “dangerous, divisive and downright dishonest” and vowing to “defeat them,” only to be mocked in headlines such as “‘Disgusting’: Albo speech goes horribly wrong” and “Hanson goes scorched earth after Albo speech.” 

brisbanetimes.com.au

The Prime Minister’s personal style has compounded the political damage. His refusal to apologise for a crude “melon-gate” joke about Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s gift on a podcast was labelled “insulting” by Japan’s former ambassador and described by commentators as revealing “Anthony Albanese’s fatal flaw.” One columnist wrote that the episode “embarrassed and damaged Albanese’s standing, to Australia’s detriment,” while another bluntly titled an opinion piece “Earth to Albo: Your radar malfunctioned again. The PM can’t afford many more mistakes.” A separate incident in which Albanese snapped at a journalist asking about a $20 million matter in front of visiting leaders produced the headline “‘So disrespectful’: PM snaps at $20m question.” 

smh.com.au

Policy reversals have given critics fresh ammunition. Labor’s budget tax changes, which broke an earlier pledge not to touch negative gearing and capital gains, were branded one of the “worst Budgets of all time” by Hanson, who added: “Albanese lied to become elected, and Australians are paying for it \ldots if you lie once, why won’t you lie again and again?” A Western Australian Liberal senator called the Prime Minister “incompetent, as a fraud and as a liar” after the legislation passed. Homeowners Albanese had claimed would benefit from the reforms were later reported to be “well under water,” prompting the headline “Albo’s home battlers cop a hammering.” 

thenightly.com.au

Polling now records Albanese’s lowest approval rating as Prime Minister, with one Newspoll showing 59 per cent of voters dissatisfied and his net rating at minus 21. Among One Nation supporters the figure plunges to minus 92. Commentators describe him as “a leader on the wane and now unequivocally unpopular,” while an earlier Coalition attack once labelled him “the worst Prime Minister since 1931” and “completely out of his depth.” The combination of populist insurgency, gaffes and broken promises has left the government looking defensive even as it prepares an ambitious third-term agenda. 

theguardian.com


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