Fire the Liar slogan drags Allan into Victoria

Until Pauline’s intervention and the Gotham City brothel owner Frank Puleo’s Witch truck, November’s state election was stuck in neutral. Not anymore! Now the gloves are off and midweek a slogan Fire the Liar became the latest campaign dragging the Prime Minister into the Victorian campaign paid for by One Nation. This test of voter support for the Hanson party will become an increasingly grubby campaign all the way up to polling day on November 28. There are some other slogans and name calling that

I am sure will make an appearance. I’m personally pitching for bringing back the slogan Dictator Dan from the bad old days of Covid lockdowns so that voters never forget who set this state on the path to crippling debt, a nation-leading crime crisis and business-destroying tax hikes. I’m sure the architect of all that misery – former Premier Daniel Andrews, now comfortably retired on a lifetime pension with the all the perks afforded a one-time Premier including cars, drivers, offices and staff – will

not give a stuff as he renews his passion for golf and travel, even to events hosted in Beijing featuring dictators like Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un. I happen to think the witch reference aimed at Premier Allan is just tacky, but those outraged can cry me a river. The fake outrage from Labor politicians is a bunch of over-precious hypocrites using the distraction to make people turn away from a potential knifing of the Premier by her own party. Let’s deal with

the One Nation leader’s response. Allan is depicted as a witch on a billboard on a truck – insulting but hardly the end of the world. Meanwhile back in 2003 Hanson’s haters had her thrown in jail for fraud. Originally sentenced to three years, she served three months before a Court of Appeal in Queensland quashed all convictions and she walked free. Compare the pair. I mean seriously. Name calling is in the DNA of the Australian Labor Party, and you don’t have to look

back too far to discover some brutal verbal attacks by the current PM and some of his now senior ministers. Albanese this week described the Allan mobile billboard as a “disgrace” and said it reflected deep-seated “misogyny and sexism” that has no place in public life. OK, so let’s head back to 2013 when Julia Gillard was PM and Anthony Albanese was Labor’s leader of business in the House of her government. If you want examples of insults that have no place in public life,

try this on for size. Albo stood up in parliament pointed at Tony Abbott the Opposition Leader and said about him, “in your guts you know he’s nuts” and then proceeded to repeat the line that he clearly liked it so much another four times in February of that year alone. An attack on the mental health of an opponent is that worse that portraying someone in a witch’s hat, arguably. It got a lot worse though. Current education minister Jason Clare said Abbott’s character

was “rancid”, Gillard herself said Abbott was Gina’s (Rineheart) butler and the then Treasurer Wayne Swan called Abbott a “vile bully boy” and a “thug”. Charming. Couldn’t get worse surely? Well, it did. What about this from the now defence minister Richard Marles who took it up a notch and said Tony Abbott was “a dog of a candidate”. Julia Gillard even called him “Jack the Ripper”. A thug, a dog, a nutcase, a rancid man and a vile bully boy – and for all

of that Abbott was labelled a misogynist in Gillard’s infamous speech to parliament. Victorian Labor, who are crying foul and using the witch truck as a handy diversion from their polling disasters of this week and last, have form of their own when it comes to personal attacks on opponents. Back in December 2024 they turned an interview with Peter Dutton’s wife Kirily that had been published in a Queensland newspaper into a grubby sledge at Dutton himself. In the interview Mrs Dutton declared in

reference to her husband “he’s not a monster you know”. Victoria’s Labor machine posted an online picture of the couple with that quote and added the line “justifying dating your new partner to your friends who don’t like him” and adding, “we all know that one couple”. Famously, in a radio interview in 2022 after Dutton revealed he was standing for the job as Opposition leader, Labor’s Tanya Plibersek said, “I think there will be a lot of children who have watched a lot of

Harry Potter films will be very frightened of what they are seeing on TV tonight”. Asked what she meant, Plibersek said, “I am saying he looks a bit like Voldemort”. Asked by the host if she was attacking how he looks, the current social services minister said, “no I am saying he is not the warm friendly face of the Liberal Party and if this election has taught us anything the Liberal Party has moved too far to the extreme of politics”. She was told

by her leader to apologise and did so. Hypocrites the lot of them. I suspect Premier Allan couldn’t care less about the brothel truck mobile billboard and the witch description. Jacinta is the living example of a hard-nosed Labor warrior. She was handed the reins of the state by Daniel as he escaped to a life of retirement. She has never won an election and incredibly this week said she would not resign even if her quitting would guarantee a fourth term for Labor. Selfish

to the end. – Hall of fame inductee the great Dustin Fletcher’s AFL Hall of fame speech this week. – ABC 4 Corners expose on the dangers of Data Centres planned for Melbourne. – Classy and emotional farewell for the legendary Neale Daniher. What an inspirational Australian he was. – Qantas and Virgin offering domestic cheap seats for flights around Australia as Aussies holiday at home. – Herald Sun and Foxtel legend Mike Sheahan snubbed from the AFL’s Hall of fame dinner. Disgraceful mistake. –

Wage and working conditions revealed on Melbourne’s SRL project including massive salaries. – Virgin airlines expanding routes for passengers travelling on board with cats and dogs. – Barbecues Galore going belly-up, costing 500 jobs and closing 62 stores. Talk about a signal on the economy.

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