CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
With a Federal Election around the corner, Opposition leader Peter Dutton is focusing on the big issues.
Known colloquially as Temu Trump, the face of the Liberal party is pitching himself to voters as the type of Prime Minister that fights for everyday Australians.
Australians want someone who will stand up for them. Peter Dutton wants them to know that he’ll do more than that. He’ll got to war for them.
Not against the tax-evasion of multinational mining giants. Not against the cost-of-living crisis or the ponzi scheme of Australia’s property market. Not against the agenda-driven Australian media monopoly, or the corporate profiteering of our airlines and insurance companies. Peter Dutton isn’t focused on these whimsical inner-city issues. He’s going to war against the woke reusable shopping bag.
Just days after his political idol Donald Trump vowed to force American businesses to start using plastic straws again, it seems that Temu Trump is following the lead.
He’s going to force Woolworths and Coles to bring back the plastic bag. Because the woke left cannot keep forcing slight changes upon our society simply because it might save a few turtles and dolphins from choking to death on what they thought was a jelly fish.
This is not the first time Peter Dutton has criticised the supermarket duopoly for reducing the amount of toxic micro-plastics that they are discarding into Australia’s brittle natural ecosystem and waterways.
In 2023, he demanded Australians boycott their aisles over a decision to not sell Chinese-made Australia Day memorabilia that people had gradually stopped buying since the Cronulla Riots. After months of culture war debates on talkback radio and the Murdoch newspapers, the Aussie flag merchandise has since been returned to the shelves, and still isn’t selling.
While the supermarket giants faces daily criticism from voters over their cartel-like price-gouging and exploitation of staff and farmers, Dutton is intent on making sure they bring back plastic bags before any action can be taken regarding their cruel treatment of Australian workers.
With less than four month until the election, this marks Dutton’s second official policy. The first being his plan to spend half a trillion tax-payer dollars building nuclear power plants that won’t be operational until 2052, at which point they will be immediately privatised and sold to the same price-gouging energy retailers that are currently fucking over Australian families.
