Last week Senator Cash tweeted the…

Is it still correct to say “tweet”? I mean now that it’s X, should it be “Senator Cash Xed…”?

Whatever, Senator Cash put out the following message on the social media platform that was once Twitter but is now X:

“Australians should be able to choose what car they need for their family and their work – not the Prime Minister.”

So Australians should able to choose what car they need but they shouldn’t be able to choose the Prime Minister? That’s outrageous!

Yes, of course, that’s not what she meant; it’s just what she said. And yes, she was just trying to make a point about the government trying to impose more efficient vehicles on people when they want to waste money on less fuel efficient ones.

The Opposition have seized on this to complain about how this will make some vehicles more expensive while ignoring that a large number will actually be cheaper. I guess it doesn’t make a good scare campaign to suggest that most of you will be better off but those who want to waste money on a fuel guzzler may be given the opportunity to waste money up front by having to pay more for their car.

Still, the scare campaign has apparently worked a treat in the Dunkley by-election where the Liberal candidate achieved a magnificent swing of approximately 3.75%. The Liberals were overjoyed with this because if this was repeated in the general election then they’d repeat the result of losing Dunkley by less than they lost it at the previous election.

Personally, I couldn’t quite understand how they could be so happy with the result when they had so much going for them:

Yet for all this, the swing was merely consistent with what you’d expect in a by-election. In sporting terms, it’d be like saying that our team was expected to lose by 37 points and we did, so isn’t that a great result?

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