‘Australia is a great place to live!’ I would tell my audiences.

‘But it only has one major problem, it was “discovered” by the English. The English, as you all know, have 10 times the population of the Scots, but only 50 per cent of the brain power, intellect, and good looks.

‘So, after discovering Australia, these Englishmen sailed back to London and told the rulers that they had found a place 100 times the size of England, with great farming, fishing, and mineral wealth, etc. The rulers, of limited brain power, then insisted on gathering the ne’er-do-wells, the have-nots, and the petty criminals in the main square and told them: “You’re all going to Australia!”

‘Now, if the Scots had discovered the place, and reported back to the rulers in Edinburgh that they had found a place 100 times the size of Scotland, with great farming, fishing and mineral wealth etc. The Scottish rulers, of much greater intellect than their English counterparts, also would have insisted on gathering the ne’er-do-wells, the have-nots, and the petty criminals in the main square and told them: “You’re all staying here, but we’re going away for a while!”’

Most audiences will laughingly dismiss this observation from a Scotsman, but on a serious note, the colony of Australia started as a prison with tiers of rules and regulations to keep the locals under tight control. In these early days, the regulators exceeded the number of workers, mainly to prevent them running off over the hill, check for yourself!

America, on the other hand, was established by Christian Pilgrims who applauded success and, until recently, encouraged free enterprise, innovation, and unwavering support for their nation.

Take for instance the backbone of the nation, small business, in America if they stumble in the growth of their company, they have refuge in their Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code which is frequently referred to as a ‘reorganisation’ bankruptcy that holds back the creditors for one year while they get their act together.

This system allows 85 per cent of businesses to survive their first stumble, whereas in Australia the blueprinting of the UK receivership and liquidation system ensure that 95 per cent of small businesses never survive such a stumble, when the creditors, usually greedy banks, take control via receivers.

When the incredibly foolish and inept leader Paul Keating declared that Australia was a banana republic and having ‘the recession we had to have’, the receivership and liquidations reached unprecedented record levels. The 18 per cent interest rates and 22 per cent overdraft rates caught thousands of companies, including mine, in 1989. My 250 staff and subcontractors were not amused and garlic bombed the cars, and stole computers and any equipment they could grab on the way out.

Many of my small business friends were caught in the same unnecessary sweep, all of us losing our houses and any other collateral the banks could grab. Two of these friends lost their lives and, disappointingly, I still regret not reading the signals. Many others just for the security of government jobs and vowed never to put their houses up as collateral again.

As an obstinate Scotsman who believes that only the dead fish go with the flow, I restarted my business, then about 8 years behind the eight ball, this time with no debt.

ALP leaders since Hawke, have had no idea how to run a chook farm, never mind a country. Coalition leaders weren’t much better, especially when they were singing from the same climate song sheet.

In the late 1990s, the Left were screaming for a National Sorry Day and Howard was correctly refusing. Walking through Sydney airport at the time, dressed in a suit and carrying briefcase, I was accosted by a TV crew. Having a simple face used to attract anyone looking for a donation from someone gullible.

‘Do you think we should have a National Sorry Day?’ the young female reporter asked me.

To her pleasant surprise I said, ‘Yes.’

She organised the cameraman and sound technician. When they were ready, she said, ‘Good morning sir, do you think we should have a National Sorry day?’

I politely responded, ‘Good morning to you young lady, and yes I do believe we should have a National Sorry Day, but I don’t think we could get all those slimy bank managers in the same building and the same time!’

‘Cut, cut!’ she exploded, waving to her crew to stand down. I continued on my merry task of rebuilding my company, smiling to myself, assured that the TV station wouldn’t be airing that clip in the evening news.

So here we are in 2023, having confirmed to the world Australia’s Olympic gold medal level of incredible stupidity. Our DNA containing convict mentality saw us readily locking ourselves up for a global record period, masking up, accepting vaccine mandates, accepting control, endorsing regulations from mental midgets such as our state premiers… The re-election of the Andrews government confirms that there are an overwhelming amount of dead fish in Victoria

Finally clear of our abysmally poor response to Covid, we have yet another version of Sorry in the ill-conceived Voice proposal put forward by the same raft of regulators.

What is more concerning is the majority are accepting this nonsense as if they were early-day, uneducated convicts, not thinking about the consequences for themselves, their families, or their nation.

As for me and my house, we did not lock down our company, we did not social distance, mask up or ban anti-vaxxers. We did, along with friends, put out YouTube videos protesting about the lockdowns, climate hysteria, the ABC, and other groups trying to bring down our nation.

We shall continue to swim against the flow. We shall support leaders of any party that actually stand up for what is good for the nation, such as pursuing cheap clean reliable nuclear power and repealing the senseless and obstructive volumes of green regulations, and instead focus on strengthening our economy and our ability to defend ourselves.