Mr SHORTEN (Maribyrnong—Leader of the Opposition) (19:31): This is a budget and a government that wants to bury its past and rewrite its history. The Liberals want Australians to forget four wasted years in which wages growth has hit record lows, unemployment is up, underemployment and casualisation are at record highs, living standards have stagnated, inequality has widened. This budget is an admission of guilt, a signed confession.
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This visit between Trump and Mamdani is a perfect illustration of what I’ve tried to explain to people time and time again. People will react before thinking bigger picture.
Is Mamdani an awful socialist? Yes. That did not change today. He is still the same guy. What changed is
Disdain for free speech is the most fundamental underpinning of left and right fascism. Hitler subscribed to it. So did Mussolini and Franco. And Stalin subscribed to it. Yet free speech is fundamental to human and improvement and thriving.