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Travel Notes

Federal election 2025

4/4/2025

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In the most important article I've read this election so far, Greg Sheridan (The Australian 5/4/23) clarifies the problem with Big Government (vs responsible citizenship.) Big Government is what Socialism creates - Labor calls itself a socialist party and accordingly works for a bigger state (with the unions of course.) This article itself is a vote decider because it exposes the real-world economic & social consequences of socialism. Greg shows how big welfare makes us irresponsible and lazy while increasing the social problems it claims to fix.
​Read the stark facts:
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These socialist consequences are already here.
It’s happening now. 
​Half the nation votes for it!
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Now ask yourself: where might we find the moral courage and compass to return to responsible citizenship? 
- Responsible individuals, families, churches, and state - all responsible, under God, for their own spheres. (See A Kuyper, Sovereign Spheres.)

PS. Here are 12 intense minutes of Biblical viewing on the problem of Socialism's biggering. 1Sam 8:11-17. Deu 17:15-17.

This graphic is a fair summary of the spectrum "Left" to "Right." See the boxed summaries at the ends:
-Woke vs Conservative social values
-Big vs Small government
-Exclusion vs Freedom of religion

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How about this record of Albanese's term.
This is Australia's 8% decline in disposable income per capita 2022-24 compared to the rest of the developed world.
He doesn't admit it much less apologise for it.
This is not by mistake but by policy.

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​Australian Christians How to Vote cards here.


Further topics are covered here:
THIS IS THE ELECTION THAT WILL MAKE OR BREAK OUR AUSTRALIA. Peta Credlin - The Sunday Telegraph, March 29, 2025
...Peter Dutton is right: This election is a sliding doors moment. Re-elect Anthony Albanese and his green-left government and we will be poorer, weaker, and more divided: de-industrialised, thanks to an uncertain and expensive energy supply; increasingly estranged from our traditional allies; socially fractured thanks to the uncontrolled migration of people who aren’t expected to share our values; and saddled with deficits and a trillion dollars of debt.
Change the government and we still have serious challenges: How does a small economy like ours maintain resilience in a much less globalised world; how does a multiethnic society maintain social cohesion; and how do we defend ourselves as America retreats? But at least the Liberal-National Coalition has largely avoided falling under the spell of the climate cult, identity politics and the strange notion that communist China is our friend....
...Nuclear, not renewables; one flag, not three; education, not indoctrination; much lower immigration; 40,000 fewer bureaucrats; superannuation for homes; a defence of biological sex to protect women and girls; cracking down on foreign criminals; and more real support for defence. As Dutton made clear in his budget reply, countries can’t tax their way to prosperity or subsidise their way to success.
Under Dutton, Australians could expect something like Howard 2.0: Steady, predictable, incremental government; without the climate indoctrination and the energy madness that refuses to use here the coal and gas we still export to others (but won’t if Labor is re-elected with Greens support).
...Unlike Anthony Albanes ...who has overturned 70 years of bipartisan support for Israel at the UN, we could expect the former Queensland cop to be strong and sensible in a crisis. 
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And australiavotes.org.au - is where to read parties' policy responses on the following matters:
  1. Protection of Faith-Based Schools
  2. Freedom of Speech
  3. Competing rights for women
  4. National Student Wellbeing Program (formerly National School Chaplaincy Program)
  5. Consent Education
  6. National Curriculum
  7. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Australian Public Service
  8. Puberty Blockers
  9. Online Gambling
  10. Age Verification to Protect Children from Pornography Exposure
  11. Family, Women and Children
  12. Homelessness
  13. Sex Trafficking
  14. Indigenous Issues
  15. Euthanasia by Telehealth
  16. Legalisation of illicit drugs
  17. Parental Rights
  18. Foreign Aid

Click for the christianvalues.org.au checklist for WA in the Federal Election.

REMEMBER:
Vote 1 for your preferred minor party, then vote for your preferred major later in your preferences. Then your preferences will be counted as votes down to the final winner.
Here's a 9 minute video on the importance of preference voting.
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