Double standards are pretty standard in Australia – so standard that the past couple of weeks have been full of them in politics and barely an eyebrow has been raised.

After a week of conservative economists and establishment brown-nosers losing their minds over a proposal from the Greens think tank for nationalised grocery stores (an idea put forward by a think tank whose job it is to think of policy ideas and inspiration but, like all think tanks, has no power to force policy change), the supermarket giants raising their prices for paper bags and essentials like water largely went unnoticed.

Apparently the billion-dollar profits posted by Australia’s major supermarkets make it just too difficult for Coles or Woolworths to absorb increased costs. So they are passed on to Australians already suffering under a cost-of-living crisis, and that is business as usual.

But the idea that anyone might come up with proposals to challenge the monopoly “just doesn’t stack up”.

As indie media Lamestream also pointed out, we have had a year of almost unchallenged political “debate” about cuts to migration – with very little, until recently, examination of what that would actually do to the economy. But an idea to challenge a duopoly was immediately squashed, despite not being actual policy.

But, then again, One Nation is running Australia’s policy debates. That’s why we have the two major parties creating migration policies – it’s not answering an actual question or solving any issues, it’s just providing cover for a political debate.

Perhaps if One Nation had........

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