Canberra’s central planners are out of control

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As a capital city of worth, Canberra is a write-off.

All it does is look after itself at everybody else’s expense.

The budget is nothing more than an electoral box-ticking exercise.

It grovels to corporations at the expense of the national interest.

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There is no reform of substance and no plan to improve living standards.

It is so woke that nausea overcomes visitors once past the city limits.

For years, MB has cajoled, argued, and begged for evidence-based policy, while Canberra has only gotten more politicised and drunk on vested interests.

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In place of national interest policy, culture wars have risen as an immense distraction from falling living standards.

This was a slow-moving train wreck and the culture wars were largely harmless in and of themselves.

No longer.

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The cultural central planners that have overrun parliament are now engaged in social engineering that directly invades your privacy, abuses your kids, curtails your freedoms, and accelerates the decline in living standards.

The apogee of this assault is the combined Orwellian media bills ironically targeting media “misinformation” and banning children from social media.

The first of these is drafted as a direct attack on political freedom.

Why was it written as such? Toxic political parties.

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The second is classic gaslighting. It takes parental care from guardians while blaming children for the existence of communication.

It won’t work unless it is as draconian as the Chinese Communist Party and what will parents’ and teachers’ jobs be if it does work?

Parliament House is the most toxic environment anyone will ever visit. One afternoon in that place is carcinogenic.

Now it is pouring its poison directly into our homes.

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About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.