all the narrative themes there nearly, except the misogyny,...

all the narrative themes there nearly, except the misogyny, putting down of women etc!

The narrative themes were either fabricated outright, or took a small grain of truth and blew it into an out of proportion bubble!

it would take too long to go through them all, but for example look at the debt...still not a trillion dollars, and that's at the gross level...it was actually only about half that on a nett basis when coalition lost... trillion, as parroted by Chalmers et al during campaign, not really, NO!.. and still relatively modest compared to GDP

the ongoing deficit situation: yes the Libs were profligate during Covid, but Labor urged them to do and spend much more! and given the only restraint Jim has shown with the budget is to not extend fuel tax relief, the windfall revenues in the budget can really be attributed to sound coalition policy over many years encouraging businesses to invest which yielded a big dividend in jobs ( paye taxes, plus less unemployment benefits to pay out) and tax revenue, bracket creep, and luck with commodity prices.