Victoria’s basket-case a harbinger for Albo’s Australia

Lots of free stuff in Victoria's budget by first female Treasurer

The Victorian government’s ‘Budget at a Glance’ website mentions the word ‘free’ 37 times in relation to the cost-of-living package.

Victorian teenagers will get year-round free public transport anywhere in the state. Not just to get to school, but to go anywhere and at any time. At a cost of $320 million, this will no doubt inculcate a sense of entitlement in our youth.

In the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall wrote:

Oh… And Victoria has reminded everyone how utterly devoid of sanity their Treasury is by publishing their Budget. As Dight Canning writes, they are financially and morally bankrupt. There’s only really two people to blame, Treasurers Jaclyn Symes and Tim Pallas. Michael de Percy agrees, writing, ‘All of this ‘free stuff’ seems to come at quite the cost. Victoria’s net debt is projected to reach $194 billion, with interest payments at $7.6 billion in 2025-26, jumping to $10.6 billion in 2028-29.’

My commentary on the Victorian Budget in The Spectator Australia, Victoria’s basket-case a harbinger for Albo’s Australia.

Victorian Treasurer Jaclyn Symes said:

‘I can confirm in tomorrow’s Budget there will be no new taxes…’

The Victorian government’s ‘Budget at a Glance’ website mentions the word ‘free’ 37 times in relation to the cost-of-living package.https://t.co/MOV73H0BAS

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) May 20, 2025

I hate to say it, but the Nats need to split

David Littleproud has decided to split the Nationals from the Coalition. My prophetic article below.

The wets in the Liberal Party have gone full Woke. They have destroyed the most successful political party in Australian history. If the Liberals had held true to Sir Robert’s vision for the Forgotten People, the Liberal Party would not have forgotten them like the United Australia Party did in 1940s.

The fractured conservative vote of the last election would not have occurred to the same extent if the Liberal Party had spoken to its base. I don’t care what self-professed psephologists say, there were so many of my conservative colleagues who wanted to punish the Liberal Party for abandoning them that, against all my hoping, the election outcome was a fait accompli.

In the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall wrote:

The Liberal Party seems to be having some sort of mid-life identity crisis, talking about going off to ‘rediscover’ itself in the wilderness of opposition. Under the leadership of Sussan Ley, the blue ribbon that held Australian conservatism together isn’t quite sure what it stands for, if it stands for anything, except it doesn’t like any of the policies put forward by its (former) Coalition partner. That would be the partner that performed better than it did at the federal election. It’s no wonder the Nationals are fed up and walked off in a huff. Sure, the Liberals will be free to snaffle up all the Shadow Cabinet seats and draft whatever Labor-lite, Tealish policies it likes, but it will also be free to make a real mess of itself as it puts the revered ‘values’ statement in the shredder.

My prophetic article in The Spectator Australia, I hate to say it, but the Nats need to split.

The wets in the Liberal Party have gone full Woke. They have destroyed the most successful political party in Australian history.

Australia’s pursuit of Net Zero is a farce.

As much as it pains me to say it, the Nationals must ditch the Liberal Party.https://t.co/E1gTl0PyaB

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) May 20, 2025

It’s time to kick up a stink

Left wing clowns complain and disrupt all the time. Now it's our turn.

Conservatives should become activists for their cause

If there’s one thing the left are good at, it’s in kicking up a stink when they don’t get their way. Now it’s our turn.

It’s clear the Coalition have abandoned conservatives. They’ll be joining Labor in the energy vandalism that is driving up prices. Chris Bowen has emerged from under his rock and he’ll be moralising about all the grifters he’s enabling. The NSW Liberals will love it.

Conservatives need to get their activism credentials up and running. If they don’t like being activists, then they need to put their money where their mouths are.

In the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes wrote:

Michael de Percy’s Flat White article, highlighting how bleak the world now is for Australians of a conservative disposition, also raises another reality that we on the right of centre must confront. The political axis has moved decidedly left, and the Left’s ideologues, activists and agitators are now the Establishment, and we the radical outsiders. How we retake the citadel needs to focus us not just for the next three years, but the next three decades. We are right, they are wrong – but they control most of the means of communication, education, and socialisation. Acknowledging this reality is not a call to surrender: it’s an exhortation to rise and fight, with both our heads and our hearts!

My opinion piece in The Spectator Australia, It’s time to kick up a stink.

MICHAEL DE PERCY | "If there’s one thing the left are good at, it’s in kicking up a stink when they don’t get their way. Now it’s our turn."

Conservatives can - and should - be activists.https://t.co/VCEBctsy0O

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) May 17, 2025