Screencap from ABC News
By SItuation Theatre 2/4/2019
Who needs a non-genocidal climate policy when you can just slip voters some cold hard cash?
The Coalition is set to use Budget 2019 to wipe the heavily sodden and stained slate clean with a few last-minute election bribes.
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg thinks a dazzling array of cash payments and tax breaks will help voters forget the government’s record, some of which is worth repeating again and again and again:
Six years, three Prime Ministers, three Treasurers.
Six years of environmental vandalism.
Six years of coal fetishism.
Six years of undermining science.
Six years of human rights violations in offshore concentration camps.
Six years of ignoring Indigenous voices and exacerbating Indigenous suffering.
Six years of corruption and cronyism.
Six years of Islamophobia and dog-whistling.
Six years of white supremacy.
Six years of cosying up to One Nation.
Six years of racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Six years of gutting the arts.
Six years of militarism and nationalism.
Six years of fealty to Obama and Trump.
Six years of regional imperialism.
Six years of paedophile protection.
Six years of running interference for the banking sector.
Six years of union bashing.
Six years of failing to plan for the nation’s future.
Six years of violating civil liberties and increasing surveillance.
Six years of economic lies and increasing inequality.
Six years of bewildering ineptitude.
For the bargain basement price of total and utter shamelessness, Coalition MPs are optimistic that millions of Australians will forget the worst two terms of government in Australian history once they see the extra $5.75 in their bank accounts.