Politics is a nasty business, especially inside the major parties, where power trumps principles and factions war over who will wield it.
It is also supremely hypocritical, and the most supreme hypocrisy is Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s shameless politicking over allegations of bullying in the Labor Party, against the late Senator Kimberley Kitching.
The major political parties’ economic policies from the 1980s onwards smashed Australian manufacturing, which shrank from 20 per cent of GDP in 1980 to barely 5 per cent now. But then came the COVID-19 pandemic, and the severe disruption of global supply chains. Suddenly every politician started complaining that Australia was too dependent on imports, and that we had to revive domestic manufacturing. Or they were in 2020.
