15-05-2025
Urgent warning issued to Australians about Anthony Albanese's election win - and how the country has changed forever: 'I fear our national decline is irreversible'
Mark Latham has delivered a scathing verdict on Labor's decisive election win, warning that Australia is facing 'long-term economic decline'.
The former Labor leader and One Nation NSW MP, now a right-wing independent, took to social media in the wake of the federal election this month with a post titled, 'What this election means for Australia'.
'Australia is in the first stage of long-term economic decline,' Mr Latham wrote.
'Post Covid, there has been a sharp decline in the number of productive people and productive workplaces, and a sharp, seemingly permanent increase in the welfare and black economy.
'I would estimate that the proportion of genuinely productive Australians in their workplaces has fallen from 40 per cent to less than one-quarter in the space of just five years. The leaners now easily outnumber the lifters.'
Mr Latham said a modern reliance on opinion polling and focus groups had led to a 'political culture of hand-outs - giveaways, all debt-funded'.
'Even the Liberal Party has joined in, forfeiting its reputation for fiscal responsibility, completing its transformation into a woke sinkhole, more closely resembling the American Democrats than the Howard/Costello era.
'This sadly miserable new economy and the new politics that goes with it has given Labor a natural electoral advantage.'
He listed his reasons why Australia was 'in the middle of a perfect economic storm', including a new political hand-out culture and the 'post-Covid stupor and industrial-scale abuse of Work From Home'.
Mr Latham also referred to the transition to renewables as 'economic self-harm' and said the country's ethos of strength and resilience had been replaced by a 'woke Alphabet world of victimology'.
Mass immigration was destroying housing affordability and 80 per cent of new jobs were debt-funded from the public sector, he claimed.
'No nation on earth has so much available space, yet we have the world's highest housing prices.
'No nation on earth has so many available resources, yet once left in the ground, we have the world's highest power prices. The golden age of Hawke/Keating/Howard/Costello economics has ended.'
Mr Latham's post received hundreds of supportive comments, with many lamenting that the golden age of Australia was finished.
'I fear for the future, not for me, but for all the young people growing up in a country devoid of commonsense and hope,' one said.
'Virtually a mirror image of the current UK decline,' said another.
'We are no longer the Lucky Country,' a third said.
'Thank goodness we grew up when we had strong leadership and we prospered in our manufacturing, farming industry, our exports and high living standards. A fair go and hard work was rewarded.'
'I fear we have passed the point of no return,' said another supporter.
'The voters will not accept a fiscal turn-around that reduces the over-generous hand outs they have been granted to secure votes.'
Mr Latham's post comes after the Federal Court ruled in September he had defamed fellow independent MP Alex Greenwich with a homophobic tweet.
The court awarded Mr Greenwich $140,000 in damages.
It also ordered Mr Latham to pay his rival's legal costs on a party-party basis, which normally covers around 70 per cent of the fees incurred.
Mr Greenwich's legal costs have been estimated to exceed $600,000, meaning the case may cost the former Labor leader more than half a million dollars.
Mark Latham's full message to Australia
BEFORE THE ELECTION:
Australia is in the first stage of long-term economic decline.
Post Covid, there has been a sharp decline in the number of productive people and productive workplaces, and a sharp, seemingly permanent increase in the welfare and black economy.
I would estimate that the proportion of genuinely productive Australians in their workplaces has fallen from 40% to less than one-quarter in the space of just 5 years.
The leaners now easily outnumber the lifters.
Once measured in opinion polling and focus groups, this has produced a political culture of hand-outs – giveaways, all debt-funded, as we have seen in this Federal election campaign.
Even the Liberal Party has joined in, forfeiting its reputation for fiscal responsibility, completing its transformation into a woke sinkhole, more closely resembling the American Democrats than the Howard/Costello era.
This sadly miserable new economy and the new politics that goes with it has given Labor a natural electoral advantage.
If you want big spending, debt funding and a hand-out dependency, underpinned by low productivity, soft working conditions, rorted government programs and the Ponzi scheme of Big Australian migration, you might as well vote for the people who truly believe in it, and have been masters in creating it. That's the ALP and Albanese.
Australia is in the middle of a perfect economic storm:
• the new political culture of a hand-out and welfare economy;
• the post-Covid stupor and industrial-scale abuse of Work From Home;
• the economic self-harm of an energy transition driving up power prices and harming our competitiveness while leaving global surface temperatures unchanged;
• our national ethos of strength and resilience replaced by the woke Alphabet world of victimology;
• mass immigration destroying housing affordability, as the over-regulated supply side can't keep up;
• inexorable growth in that most horrendous new terminology: the care economy (child care, disability care and aged care), such that 80% of new jobs are debt-funded from the public sector;
• the new national past time of rorting poorly-designed government programs: leading to a huge and growing black economy in tobacco, the NDIS, training programs and renewable energy scams; and
• a political class totally disinterested in labour productivity and economic competitiveness.
No nation on earth has so much available space, yet we have the world's highest housing prices.
No nation on earth has so many available resources, yet once left in the ground, we have the world's highest power prices.
The golden age of Hawke/Keating/Howard/Costello economics has ended.
Like many Australians of my age, I tell my children how fortunate I feel to have seen our nation at its best in the 1990s, yet how maudlin and pessimistic I feel for their generation.
Australian public policy used to be run by the creative minds of our national interest.
Now it's in the hands of a self-serving, blinded elite who can't see past the next focus-group-generated giveaway.
As the Anzacs might have said, waiting for the third charge at The Nek, 'we're stuffed, mate'. And nothing in this election campaign is helping.
In fact, it confirms our worst fears in taking Australia backwards. Mediocrity in Canberra means the best of our country is now behind us.
Albanese has spent an extra $190 billion in just 3 years, yet living standards have gone backwards by 10 percent. Any random bloke at the local pub could have done better with all that money.
But is seems likely tomorrow that Australians will return Labor to office. I fear our national decline is irreversible.
ELECTION UPDATE:
The analysis above: That's the way the election result played out.
Labor's natural electoral advantage gave it a landslide .
There will be a lot of commentary about Dutton's mistakes, dumb Liberal tactics, Albanese cleverness etc.
But the biggest thing is in how the country has changed.
A huge turning point was Scott Morrison's Jobkeeper program during Covid: it taught Australians the government would pay them for staying at home.
Ever since, the hunger for debt-funded government benefits and concessions has been insatiable. So too, the demand to stay home (Work From Home).
This coincides with the way Australia has become a fragile service economy, with the loss of manufacturing and mining jobs.
Productivity has collapsed, returning to 2016 levels.
So we have more Australians demanding more government money but fewer Australians working productively to pay for it.
The inevitable result is the trillion dollar debt in Canberra.
Australia has changed rapidly, in a way that's right in Labor's hitting zone.
Look at the CVs of the Labor MPs elected yesterday: a party now dominated by social workers, teachers, apparatchiks and public servants.
They believe in unlimited debt-funded government handouts: exactly what the new Australian electorate is demanding.
Combined with massive migration numbers bringing in more Labor voters (who look at our publicly funded handouts and benefits and think it's a picnic) the ALP has cobbled together a winning electoral coalition.
Once you add to these 'leaners' the woke, the Alphabet mob and climate change fanatics, Labor starts well in front in electoral demographics.
In the new Australia it has a natural winning advantage.
The ALP could be renamed the WWM party: Woke Welfare Migrant.
Yesterday Albanese didn't sharply lift the Labor primary vote. It rose 2% to 34.6% (goodness, I got 37.5% in losing to John Howard in 2004).
His success came from driving down the Liberal-National primary vote to 32%.
The uniquely Australian voting system also helps Labor, with Albo winning 60% of the seats from one-third of the votes.
Labor's negative campaign won it for them. As voters have become more disengaged from party politics and election campaigns, TV ads have become more important in swaying voters.
The ALP scare advertisements, saying that Dutton's $600 billion nuclear plan would cut everyone's benefits, were incredibly effective. Just as incredible, the Liberals made no attempt to rebut the Labor fear campaign.
Voters are no longer rusted on to the major parties. Allegiances are now soft.
Meaning that if the Leaners think they are about to lose something, they flood away from the party (supposedly) doing it.
