Amy Remeikis

And they do not seem to have the answers of how they're going to address that.

Yeah, the Thruppalition has been in play, I think, for a while.

But that only makes sense if there's new seats to be won, because if it's just One Nation taking coalition seats, then it's just a One Nation takeover of the coalition.

One of the reasons why the Liberal Party lost the inner city seats to the Teal Independents was because it was becoming increasingly difficult for small L Liberals to uphold and apologise for the policies that the Liberal Party was creating to try and address the One Nation threat.

So until they can come up with a way to win inner city seats that are not as open to the politics of grievance

in the same way that we're seeing with One Nation voters, until they can come up with a way to convince them to vote for One Nation and the coalition, we're not going to see any sort of successful throppolition, which would lead to them taking government.

The case Mark Butler made for the changes to the NDIS, which is one of the biggest changes to a government social program that we have seen in modern political history and one of the biggest cuts to a government social program, were basically justified in the same way that we've seen every other previous cut to social services justified, which is that the

The last few years have been basically building consent for that.

There's been a lot of manufacturing consent for the government to do this.

It's not just something Labor supports, it's also something that the Coalition support.

So there's a lot of negative stories about the NDIS and all of it has been designed for this moment for a government minister to stand up and say, we are going to cut the NDIS contract.

But if you have any impact with somebody with a disability, be it learning disability or a physical disability, if you have anybody who is on the NDIS or who has received support from the NDIS, it's very scary.

The NDIS already only services a fraction of people with disabilities.

It is not the entire disability community in Australia.

So we are seeing a lot of panic here.

And all of it has come down to, oh, but we just can't afford it.

And this conversation was happening at the same time as we were hearing from gas executives talking about how they could not afford to put a tax on gas because they're doing it very tough.

Advocates obviously have been devastated, mostly, and the ones that are expressing hope are saying that, well, they need to see what the states are going to offer because this is the offset that the federal government is offering.

They're saying, well, we're not abandoning these people.

We are giving funding to the states to set up state supports and