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Resurrections are possible. The problem for Labor is that Anthony Albanese is no Son of God.

His government has been crucified on the cross of its own ineptitude and, if the latest polling is to be believed, won’t be emerging from a tomb anytime soon.

The problems facing this government require divine intervention at the very time Albanese is fighting against God.

His proposed Religious Discrimination Bill has faith groups enraged. If successful, the bill will make the practice of Christianity by Christian organisations almost impossible, and presumably, illegal.

Christian schools will be unable to preference Christian teachers, and Christian hospitals will be forced to perform procedures like abortion and euthanasia.

That Albanese admitted last week the Greens don’t believe in religious freedom AND that he hopes to work with the Greens on a Religious Discrimination Bill does not bode well for religious people in this country.

‘I’m hoping to work with the Devil on ideas for religious freedom’ is hardly a statement Christians would find encouraging.

Lights Out

Nor does it bode well for people who use electricity. It just keeps getting more expensive, much like everything else.

The Government’s promised $275 reduction in power bills is now a running joke.

Senior MPs — like Tanya Plibersek — argue that Labor has actually made power cheaper because the price hikes are not as high as they otherwise would have been.

It’s the kind of argument only incompetents can make. Prices went up 40 per cent rather than 60 per cent, therefore your power bills are cheaper.

Does anyone believe that logic? The Albanese Government, who take us for fools, think we’re buying that line.

Chris Bowen thinks that by saying Renewable Energy Super Power, we’ll become one. And why not? Our leftist politicians believe the same about saying you’re a woman.

And that’s part of the problem with this government … it’s mired in ideology rather than reality.

The Government will not even entertain the idea of nuclear power, despite the fact it is the cleanest form of energy and has the ability to solve our baseload power generation needs.

But it doesn’t fit within Labor’s wind and solar paradigm, so it cannot even be discussed.

The Government rejected an inquiry into how children with gender dysphoria are being treated, again, because their preferred narrative cannot be questioned.

The reality — that gender clinics around the world (most notably Tavistock in the UK) are rethinking their gender-affirming treatment model — is ignored.

With this government, it’s ideology first, second and third.

Crime and Disorder

Indigenous Affairs continues to haunt the Albanese Government, partly because the PM himself made it his central focus on the night he won government.

He surprised even his own colleagues when he used his victory speech to announce that he would set up an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and a vanity project he wasted the entirety of his first year in office on.

When the divisive, race-based constitutional change was roundly rejected by the Australian public, Albanese lost interest in Aboriginal affairs.

Alice Springs is a town in crisis. The local council are begging the federal government to take over governance as a curfew is put in place and riot police are deployed.

The PM’s response?

“I’ve already been to Alice Springs.”

Oh, well, let it burn then.

Our immigration system is burning, and the flames only get more intense with each day.

Dangerous non-citizen criminals (including murderers and rapists) were released back into the community while Minister Giles and O’Neil faffed about insisting “community safety is at the forefront of everything we do”.

Except that they did nothing as the community was endangered, and continue to be. Some of the sex offenders released from long-term detention have been re-arrested for fresh sex offences.

Asylum seekers continue to arrive by air, and when 40 arrived by boat off the coast of Western Australia last month, our government only found out about it thanks to locals using a JB Hi-Fi drone.

The PM claimed he knew nothing about the latest boat arrival.

“I was driving in the car,” he famously told reporters.

Economic Destruction

Just on that, he’s driving in the car because he doesn’t have to pay for fuel. The rest of us are paying around $2.20 a litre, and it’s killing us.

But then, so too are grocery bills, and interest rates, and rental costs, and health insurance premiums.

Albanese insists he is doing everything he can to address the cost of living crisis. That’s a lie.

He could remove the government excise on fuel. That would provide immediate and real relief for every family in this country.

And the government could afford to do it. They have made an unexpected windfall from the resources tax.

Instead, we were given a tax cut that amounts to $14 a week for most people, and that doesn’t kick in until July.

That’s the cost of living relief.

Enjoy.

The cost of housing is now so high we have families living in tents and sleeping in cars. The housing crisis is one of supply and demand. And the demand is being kept sky high by out-of-control immigration.

We brought in a record 518,000 net overseas migrants last financial year.

The Government has promised to bring the number down. But we’re seeing the opposite.

Data released this month showed a net increase of 55,330 migrants in January, the highest January intake ever recorded and more than double the 21,000 recorded last year.

Bringing in so many foreigners when there is enough shelter for locals is scandalous.

National Insecurity

Speaking of which, our defence force (or lack thereof) is a scandal.

God bless the great men and women who serve in the ADF, but the government’s complete lack of urgency in preparing for war could prove to be its greatest failure.

To be fair, this has been a fault of successive governments. But Richard Marles is the Defence Minister today, and he doesn’t seem terribly worried about our defence.

Why has the government removed our top spy chiefs from the National Security Committee of Cabinet?

Why has the government done nothing to ensure we have adequate emergency fuel supplies?

Why do we have a navy unable or unwilling to send even one ship to help our allies in the Red Sea?

Why do we seem unconcerned that, in the event of a major conflict, we would run out of ammunition in less than a week, leaving ourselves completely defenceless?

Why does every defence procurement seem predicated on how it will help unions in South Australia, rather than on how it will strengthen the defence of our continent?

If this Government took the defence of the nation as seriously as it does the defence of LGBTQ rights, we’d be a fortress.

There are many more problems facing the country right now that I haven’t the time to list. Needless to say, they are only growing more numerous, and worse.

I know Easter is a time of hope and optimism. But there is no resurrecting this forlorn government.

Albanese is not the messiah. Not even close.

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Originally published at The James Macpherson Report.

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