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In terrific news for Peter Dutton, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Michele Bullock has doubled down on the central bank’s stance that interest rates are likely to stay higher for longer – causing even more pain for Australian voters.
Bullock has also warned some Australians will have to sell their homes to cope with high inflation and interest rates, as businesses fears they may have to start laying off staff if the goverment can’t help them through this global inflation spikes.
The Federal Opposition are ecstatic with this announcement, knowing full well that Australians will be very much considering the possibility of lending their support to a party of economically incompetent right-wing Christians if they have to wince through this financial pain for another 6 months.
With a Shadow treasurer who doesn’t hold a torch to Costello, or even Hockey – the Liberal Party are bringing nothing to the 2025 Federal election other than a half a page press release that details their multi-trillion dollar plan to build nuclear power plants that nobody wants.
But what they can promise is change, and what they will argue is that Australia is broke because the current government is too nice to immigrants, Aboriginals and gays.
With an increasingly multicultural voter base, it’s not certain if the old John Howard playbook of press hot buttons of racial division still works. But Dutton prays that offering vague promises of ‘change’ to the economically ravaged swinging suburban women might just jag a few votes.
The RBA governor has acknowledged that lower-income Australians were over-represented among those who are white-knuckling through the post-pandemic economic hangover, and admitted that some may have todip into their savings or buy lower-quality goods to help make ends meet. Which is the same advice the last government gave working Australians when that virus that only affected boomers shut down our economy for three years.
However, Peter Dutton insists there is an easier short-term strategy to dealing with this stress. That is, for middle Australians to temporarily ignore their moral compass – and vote for everything they depise: a populist right-wing government of fundamentalist Christians who are offering a sugar-hit of blind promises that hopefully overshadow their decade of scandals and corruption.
This voter demographic has been labelled ‘The Clenched Teeth Australians’ – and nobody is certain that they exist in Australia. One thing that is for certain is that they definitely exist in America.
