The Albanese government claims a mandate to impose certain policies, some of which will seriously damage Australia. Take just four of the most prominent and permit me to describe them, not as the spin-doctors do, but in accordance with their inevitable consequences.

The first will make electricity so expensive and so unreliable that by 2030 rank-and-file Australians’ living standards will fall dramatically, most of our remaining manufacturing, some agricultural, and even retail activities will be forced to close down, and Australia will risk becoming the Argentina, or even the Venezuela of the South Seas.