Albo’s ‘Blight on the Hill’ is blinding the Main Stream Media

Michael de Percy I 15 April 2025 I Spectator Australia

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says she wants to ‘make Australia great again’. The reaction? ‘They finally said the quiet bit out loud.’

Peter Dutton’s son has to save to buy a house and he’s struggling to do so. Dutton is a millionaire, so he is either lying or cruel.

The mainstream media (MSM) is so bored that they are looking for anything to pick up on except the reality of our economic situation. Albanese is leading us to his ‘blight on the hill’. It’s not a beacon of social justice; it’s a place where the Greens finally leverage Labor to use the rest of other people’s money to implement their socialist ideas.

Make no mistake, we are deep in it. If the Coalition do not get over the line on May 3, then we only have ourselves to blame.

I am convinced that the left’s groupthink enables them to flat-out lie about our economic situation, and they all believe it. How can anyone think Albanese’s leadership is worth a pinch of the proverbial?

Nobody except those who received exorbitant government-mandated pay rises are better off. Nobody.

The Coalition haven’t helped us – instead of announcing good, timely policy to address everything that matters to conservatives, they’ve tried to play double-speak. They’re no good at it and they ought to avoid trying. It reminds me of one of Mark Twain’s classic quotes:

‘Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.’

The Coalition has to fight not only the minor conservative parties, but Labor’s own version of Neighbourhood Watch, which reports on every issue that can make the Coalition look bad. This is not unusual; it is a tactic the Democrats in the US and Labour in the UK rely upon. The MSM then pick it up and run with it.

When Labor Member for Eden-Monaro and Minister for Regional Australia, Kristy McBain allegedly attributed an election endorsement to former Goulburn Mayor, Bob Kirk (who publicly stated that he gave no such endorsement), she put in a complaint.

If it had been the Coalition, the MSM would have been beside themselves, throwing muck at the minister while lefty loonies would have been all over social media, pointing out the minister’s lack of integrity and calling for their sacking.

Before the 2022 election, McBain made noises about how we ‘need a Commonwealth Integrity Commission with teeth’. Let’s hope the AEC have their falsies in when they consider this incident.

Admittedly, the Coalition have drifted to the left and are bleeding their supporters like mad. Why Jacinta Price has been hidden away makes no sense. Given the Greens have not moved in terms of primary vote polling, and Labor have only improved by one per cent, and with the rainbow coloured and lollipop-flavoured Teals’ wheels finally starting to fall off, it’s clear the Coalition are losing their base.

The outcome of a boring election campaign should now be obvious. Playing ‘small target’ is for losers. Labor can get away with it because they hardly ever achieve a majority of primary votes. The Coalition has no such luxury.

But make no mistake, Albo is leading us to his ‘blight on the hill’. Ben Chifley tried to take us to a bridge too far with bank nationalisation and other ideas based on ‘democratic socialism’ – a term that still exists in the Labor Party’s constitution.

However, Chifley lost and Menzies’ Coalition achieved 50.2 per cent of the primary vote and formed government with a 27-seat majority. Now, it’s shaping up that we will be led to the blight on the hill by none other than Prime-Alt Minister in waiting, Adam Bandt.

Jack Lang would be impressed.

Dr Michael de Percy FRSA FCILT MRSN @FlaneurPolitiq is a political scientist and political commentator. He is a member of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy, Chairman of the ACT and Southern NSW Chapter of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, and a member of the Australian Nuclear Association. Michael is a graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon and was appointed to the College of Experts at the Australian Research Council in 2022. All opinions in this article are the author’s own.