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As the 2025 Federal Election campaign pauses for yet another long weekend, the Coalition have yet to experience any luck at all.
In elections gone by, even the most unpopular Federal Oppositions have enjoyed some form of a campaign honeymoon. This has not been the case for Peter Dutton.
Starting with his scandalous decision to flee his Brisbane electorate the day before Cyclone Alfred was expected to arrive, Peter Dutton has found a way to consistently put his foot in it every single day of the subsequent 5 week campaign.
From policy backflips, to knee-jerk captain’s calls, to his frustrated colleagues who realise that nobody is singing from the same hymn sheet.
The lowest point of the campaign was perhaps Peter Dutton’s announcement that he would send Australia back to the polls for another referendum that would give him the power to deport Maoris back to New Zealand or something like that.
As the face of the Coalition’s rural faction, National Party leader David Littleproud MP was quick to clarify he had never heard of such policies – in an effort to distance himself from the cityboys in the Liberals that were starting to pull things out of their arse.
But that’s not the only policy the Nationals are trying to swerve. It seems the Liberal Party’s bizarre Nuclear Power Plan has also been getting sent through to the keeper, as closer examinations of the half a trillion dollar roll-out begins to get rural voters offside.
Not only will Australia be unable to provide the amount of water required to stop the 7 proposed Nuclear power plants from exploding, but its also become clear that they won’t be built for 30 odd years.
Locals that live in the regions that have been earmarked to host the reactors are also starting to kick up a stink.
David Littleproud had previously remained neutral in the nuclear debate, but vowed to support any idea that was going to make power bills cheaper.
That was until he stumbled across a terrifying documentary on the regional free-to-air TV network Imparja last night.
Titled ‘CHERNOBYL: INSIDE THE DISASTER THAT NEARLY DESTROYED EUROPE’ – the documentary showed vision of the famous Soviet-era nuclear meltdown of Reactor 4, which went on to cause illnesses and birth defects for millions. It also remains the costliest disaster in human history.
“What The FUCK!!!?” said Littleproud, as he sits bolt upright on his leather lounge chair, deep in the heart of Western Queensland’s Maranoa electorate.
“Why didn’t anyone tell me about this shit!?”
“These things can explode!? Fuck THAT!”
“No wonder they want to put three of them in Queensland. This is like the Brisbane Line in WW2 all over again.”
“I’m calling Katter. We’ve gotta white-ant this thing from the inside. Queenslanders are not going to be the Liberal Party’s nuclear lab rats!”
