Firstly, thanks for all those letters to the editor. Unfortunately, space prevents detailed arguments, but if anyone would like to meet with me to discuss any of the points raised at length, please write to [email protected] and we can meet up in the Canberra Weekly office.  

As regular readers can see, I have not been overly impressed with the surprisingly lacklustre Opposition campaign, which looks like handing this election to the ALP/Greens/teals on a plate.

Now, I’m a conservative and I have already voted and nothing changes in Canberra, but as the government looks likely to be returned nationally, some worrying signs are already starting to show in this campaign.

The two major parties agree that Australia faces the greatest danger to our way of life since World War II. Yet Labor has done nothing to significantly lift defence expenditure. Good on the Coalition for committing to 3% and outlining how that money will be spent, but why leave such a crucially important policy announcement until after pre-polling has started and a million people have already voted?

Why not also highlight the growing social division that can only worsen under a re-elected Albanese Government? In an interview after Anzac Day, Albo rightly condemned the handful of morons who booed the Anzac Day speaker delivering a Welcome to Country.

Now, putting aside whether a dawn service in Melbourne was the appropriate place for a Welcome to Country, booing was certainly not the right response. Yet Albo singled out the tiny minority of neo-Nazis — I believe there are only about 30 or so in Victoria, at least that’s all they seem able to muster for a demonstration — and said he would always fight them due to their extremism.

However, he has not said or done anything, nor criticised in any meaningful way, the hundreds, even thousands, of regular anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas extremists who have protested nearly every weekend in our major cities — nor the anti-women, anti-police protesters who are now joining them.

These groups pose a far greater threat to social cohesion in this country than a pathetic handful of so-called neo-Nazi idiots.

The hatred against Jews now being displayed at some of our universities is far more concerning, yet Albo seems fine with this and pretends it doesn’t exist.

He will also take an election win as a green light to push ahead with bankrupting the country in pursuit of his totally unrealistic and unattainable green dream of net zero at any cost. In the process, he risks destroying our remaining manufacturing industry, harming agriculture, and killing countless koalas and other native wildlife. We risk becoming the Argentina of the 21st century.

There are ways the new Parliament can counter some of this — which I will discuss next week — but I don’t know if there are enough sensible people left in the parliamentary Labor Party. The likes of Joel Fitzgibbon, Michael Danby, Kim Beazley, Ros Kelly, Jenny George, and Mike Kelly have long gone.