People are very angry

June 18, 2026

Mr Waterford’s article was, as usual, very perceptive. One Nation and other similar populist parties are also winning as people are angry and rightly or wrongly blame established parties. Try dealing with your telco, the banks, Australia Post – you’ll sit for ages on some phone line to overseas or try and deal with a chat bot. And in Parliament party hacks in the main from both sides defend the indefensible. Expensively suited wordsmiths from sheltered lives mouth the usual platitudes. Look at the ALP now defending the use of A1 for aged care and NDIS and refusing to do anything meaning about gambling. Of course the so-called Libs are no better but then when did we expect them to be any better? So people think ‘stuff the lot of them’ and give up playing their games. As one cynic used to say to me: ‘Don’t vote it only encourages them’.