Sneak election postmortem: 'Progressive' Labor gives 'ignorant' voters another chance

As embeddedindependent SMH journalist Peter Hartcher inferred, communication and messaging were letting us down.

Voters' sluggish perceptions of everyday reality proved hard to budge. These deplorablesdenizens barely understood they'd never had it so good.

Over 2025-28, we won't be able to create another million jobs for migrantsresidents, quite so fast. What about jobs longer term?

Some decry the gutting of manufacturing jobs, failure to levy the resources bounty, jobs drifting into the so-called non-market sector. PM rejects this constipated 20^th century thinking.

On the contrary, the bedpancare sector is a productivity boon and our 5% manufacturing remnant will rise like a phoenix. Effortlessly, our wide-brown carbon-sink will become a globally-envied energy superpower in the UN-accredited net-zero transformation stream. With Tesla knowhow signposting open-borders net-zero pathways to R&D supremacy.

Cost of living:

Are you better off than three years ago?

Voters were stumped by this Trumpian question. Having low attention span,they barely appreciated our reforms (conscientious Guardian). How hard we work to reduce immigration and build houses (comprehensive ABC). Indeed, the migration shortfall (ANU knowledge).

How often did Treasurer repeat? Caring Labor stood for budget repair, inflation fighting, a million jobs, growing wages, cost-of-living relief, housing accord, and net-zero transformation.

The Opposition knew this was just spin but somehow declined to offer meaningful alternatives. Voters focused on their weaknesses - not our depredations.

Amplifying Treasurer was future-leader O'Neil, revitalising her Housing and Homelessness portfolio, by pretend-housing her million-plus migrants.

This dynamo quickly intuited three measures. Build, build, build was her grand, gritty, grinding task. She'd accept nothing less than sustainably rising house prices.