You know how close we are to an election by Peter Dutton’s willingness to speak to the ABC. He was pretty happy dropping by the ABC RN studios where he spoke to Sabra Lane this morning about very Peter Dutton things.

One of the issues with interviewing Dutton is he is such an ideologue and states so many non-facts as facts in almost every sentence, it is almost impossible to pull him up.

Dutton:

I think what’s obvious to all Australians is that the Prime Minister is out of his depth, and I don’t think that they have put together a credible document, and we plunge into debt. And what is obvious is that there’s just red ink everywhere across this budget. For as far as the eye can see, there is Labor debt, and Labor debt now will extend to a trillion dollars in this budget. And not only that, I mean the impact on housing, for example, bringing in 2 million people over a year, bringing in 2 million people additional that is having a massive impact on housing in this country, and that’s why a lot of young Australians have lost the dream of home ownership under this government as well.

OK, well first of all, it isn’t ‘Labor debt’ – we all knew these deficits were coming. Even in the Morrison/Frydenberg years – you could see it coming. The forwards showed it. And when you have a lot of big spends – Aukus, stage three tax cuts, the NDIS and an aging population – and don’t change up the revenue streams, like – let’s say taxing fossil fuel companies properly – then this is what happens. But both major parties are guilty of that, and the Coalition was in power for almost a decade before these last three years, so it is not ‘Labor debt’.

Migrants are not the reason you can’t afford a house. House prices exploded during the pandemic border closures – when there was no migration.