Dear Sussan,
yesterday you made a major speech on the problem of Australia’s national addiction to debt.
Far too few people paid attention. I did. Thank you.
Today is the birthday of James Scullin, a Labor Prime Minister whose government collapsed because 1930’s Australia refused to risk becoming addicted to debt.
In Joseph Lyon’s United Australia Party, conservative Australia united to hold back debt-funded big government. Ten years later, when faced with a hostile Japanese empire, Australia was fiscally strong enough to fund the building here of tanks for the army, corvettes for the navy and bombers and fighter planes for the airforce. Now Australia creates billion dollar financial packages to fund plans for building submarines that don’t actually have to get here.
Today I went to Scullin’s birthplace Trawalla to see what I could see.
In the James Scullin Memorial Park, I found a tree with dry convoluted branches that looked to me like the sick distortionss of a sometimes vicious modern Australia where only debt can grow. This reminded me of the brilliant slogan of a now tragically disaffected modern UAP 2022 federal candidate: “You can’t spend your way out of debt.” to which I added: “The more you owe, the less you grow.
Nearby, on the banks of the Mount Emu Creek, a beautiful bunch of flowers filled me with a yearning to prey.
Sussan, my hunch is that your current job is one of the most difficult bits of piloting you have ever had to do.
I pray for your success.
When those who believe in freedom unite, Socialist Left stupidities cannot get out of control in Australia.
At least, that’s my prayer.
Geoff Fox, 18th September, 2025, Beaufort, Australia
A BROAD CHURCH FOR FREEDOM 