Labor’s true believers taking Australia down the road to socialism | The Wentworth Report

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Labor’s true believers taking Australia down the road to socialism. By Graham Young.

When Australians voted for Anthony Albanese they thought they were voting for some species of Bob Hawke, Paul Keating, Kevin Rudd, or Julia Gillard. But in the history of Labor these leaders, even the worst of them, were fortunate aberrations. The ‘true believers’ have always looked back to Gough Whitlam, Chifley, and Curtin. This is a government of true believers. They will govern by the ‘light on the hill’. …

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Selective enforcement against political opponents:

Let me predict what this really means.

On top of trying to run their businesses, owners, and managers will now need to conform to vague and capricious values set by the government, and their agents, the bureaucrats.

There will be best practice codes that can be enforced by authorities, but hard to interpret with any certainty. Prices will be capped, and business told who they can and can’t sell to. (This is happening now, not just with gas and coal companies, but also the streaming organisations who sell us movie product.)

The Labor Party is funded by the unions:…