Thanks Dutts. Another great conservative
https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-peter-duttons-crusade-made-the-coalitions-election-win-possible/news-story/ab6e1249c8478e5e39aae95a5d66867cScott Morrison has achieved the most astonishing victory in modern Australian politics. Forget 1993, this was the unwinnable election, it was going to take a miracle and a miracle is what we got.
One man who hasn’t received the credit he deserves for saving the country from the most Left-wing government in a generation is Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton. If Dutton hadn’t had the courage to challenge then prime minister and Liberal impostor Malcolm Turnbull, there would have been no famous Morrison victory.
If not for Dutton’s courageous intervention, Bill Shorten would be prime minister, probably with a thumping majority and a mandate to implement a raft of hard-Left policies. Instead, the Labor Party has been left defeated, demoralised and forced to pick a new leader from a group who could best be described as mediocre.
It was telling that, in his acceptance speech on Saturday night, Morrison made a point of mentioning Tony Abbott’s decisive victory in 2013 but made no mention of Malcolm Turnbull or his one-seat win in 2016.
If not for Peter Dutton’s courageous intervention, Bill Shorten would be prime minister. Picture: AAP
Every Coalition MP, member and voter should say a little thank you to Dutton for facilitating the dumping of the worst Liberal prime minister since William McMahon. Turnbull was not only a toxic, divisive figure in the Liberal Party but under his leadership the Coalition was fractured and was bracing for massive losses in Queensland that could not be recovered elsewhere — until Queenslander Dutton made the bold decision to challenge in August.
Dutton also withstood a vicious hate campaign to increase his margin in the marginal seat of Dickson, despite Leftist activists GetUp! devoting enormous resources in an attempt to defeat him.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister ran a disciplined, rational campaign to defeat Labor’s grievance politics. The politics of envy employed by Labor is usually a reliable vote winner and yet Shorten still managed to fail.
The Australian people rejected Labor’s class warfare, climate madness and identity politics. Shorten and his Labor cohorts ran a disgracefully divisive campaign, one that sought to divide the country along class lines. They sought to punish those who work the hardest and contribute the most. They wanted to penalise self-funded retirees, who for decades saved and sacrificed so they could be self-sufficient in retirement. They tried to demonise property investors as greedy and forgot that it’s typically average income earners, not the “big end of town”, who use bricks and mortar to build wealth and provide financial security for their family.
Labor’s foolhardy negative gearing, franking credits and climate change policies were appealing to economic illiterates but alienated average Australians. In its efforts to paint aspirational Australians as greedy, Labor turned off scores of potential voters.
“If you don’t like our policies, don’t vote for us,” advised the architect of Labor’s economic policies, Chris Bowen. On Saturday scores of Australians who would have otherwise voted Labor took Bowen’s
In the aftermath of this most famous of Coalition victories, let’s not forget the antics of the Turnbull camp. The bitterness they have shown has been nothing short of extraordinary. And, yet the only thing they achieved was to tarnish Malcolm Turnbull’s legacy and show the country just why the Liberals had to dump Mal, who must now be expelled from the party.
Among the sweetest victories for the Liberals are Greg Hunt’s comfortable win in Flinders where a well-funded campaign by “independent” GetUp! and Alex Turnbull candidate Julia Banks failed abysmally.
The seat of Chisholm that the feckless Banks abandoned has also remained Liberal. Late on Tuesday, the electoral authority called the result in favour of the Liberals’ Gladys Liu, ahead of Labor candidate Jennifer Yang. It was a remarkable effort and further evidence that Banks’ claims that constituents had deserted the party due to Turnbull’s dumping was nothing more than wishful thinking. How refreshing to see the large Chinese populations in Chisholm and Menzies reject Labor’s reckless “parent visa” policy that was designed to secure their votes.
Not only has the Coalition triumphed but they have largely purged themselves of the small “l” liberals who caused so much damage to the party under Turnbull’s reign. The bedwetters are gone, the base is back. It’s worth noting that, to this day, most of the Canberra press gallery has no idea what the base is. Here’s a hint: it ain’t doctors’ wives in South Yarra or Mascot. It is middle Australians, who are aspirational and inherently conservative in their values. The base doesn’t take to the streets to protest or fill Twitter with delusional emoting.
Morrison’s “quiet Australians” are sensible, decent folk who are focused on their families, not political activism. They love their country and want to protect its values and though they do not obsess about ideological wars, they resent the intrusion of political correctness into their lives. They care about energy prices more than emissions, they want secure borders and a decent standard of living.
There are three lessons the media can learn from the election: Twitter isn’t real life, centre-Right voters have followed the US and UK trend of deliberately misleading pollsters and the Coalition prospers when it has a strong conservative leader.
