This is not the election that will save Australia.

Many commentators have remarked that this is another “Seinfeld election” – a reference to the 1990s sitcom famous for extracting humour from 30-minute episodes about nothing.

What’s not funny is our politicians continue to shirk the issues that matter.

Family First is concerned things may get worse before they get better.

Politicians don’t level with us, preferring spin and titillation. The Coalition is slightly better but still far too timid.

Our debt approaches $1 trillion, defence spending is woeful as the Chinese circle, kids are being led off to LGBTIQA+ gender clinics for Frankenstein-style experiments on their bodies, freedom of speech and religion are threatened and the cost of living keeps going up as both sides love net zero more than affordable and reliable electricity.

An apathetic and politically ill-informed citizenry, despite its cynicism, enable politicians’ bad behaviour.

Both sides created the energy and cost of living crisis by pursuing emissions reductions without considering what is now a painful cost.

The Coalition put Scott Morrison on the plane to Glasgow to sign us up to net zero.

Both sides support the Paris climate accords which is like a self-driving Tesla on the road to ruin.

Having exacerbated the cost-of-living crisis by rolling out environmentally destructive windmills and solar factories at breakneck speed, the Albanese Government then offers us “cost of living relief” in the form of government subsidies.

Wrecking the energy system so that power bills have gone up by $1000 on average and then borrowing money our kids will have to pay back to give us “cost of living relief” is more than insulting.

Anyone who buys this will buy a bridge from Circular Quay to North Sydney.

Then the Albanese Government offers taxpayer-subsidised batteries to be connected to taxpayer-subsidised solar panels.

Only those with wealth can afford the batteries and solar panels which still require thousands in upfront capital costs.

The taxes of those who can’t afford them subsidise the household batteries and solar panels for the rich.

This is middle class welfare off the backs of the poor. It’s unjust. It is cruel.

It commendable that the Coalition is offering a cut to the fuel excise to bring immediate relief at the bowser.

But again, when the debt is $1 trillion and our roads still need funding, which is where the fuel excise is supposed to go, is this largesse also unaffordable? Is it responsible?

We all want free stuff from the government. Voters seem to expect it these days.

A day of reckoning is coming for Australia.

But when the Coalition backs away from its promise to cut 40,000 public servants (the number of extra bureaucrats Albanese has hired in just three years) and folds on making them get dressed and work from the office, one despairs about the ticker of our leaders and their ability to make the tough decisions.

“Energy Minister” Chris Bowen demonises gas but gaslights the nation with his lies that windmills and solar factories provide cheaper electricity.

Has a bigger clown ever held an office of the Crown?

Shadow Treasure Angus Taylor showed great promise in the Sky Treasure’s debate on Wednesday.

When asked about where a Coalition government could find savings he said there would be no need to build the 28,000 kilometres of new transmission lines required for windmills on hill tops and solar factories dispersed throughout the country.

Is this a hint that a Coalition government will abandon the foolish transition to so-called renewable energy?

If only the Coalition were not so timid and offered a clear path. A vision stops people from perishing.

Sure, there would be a fight, but elections are meant to be contests for ideas.

Heck, the Coalition is going into this election refusing to commit to restoring the definition of woman to the vandalised Sex Discrimination Act.

There’s a whole Seinfeld episode in how Peter Dutton concluded that it was better to face the people believing in the idea that a woman can have a penis.

The only difference between Seinfeld and this election is what’s happening to Australian families’ cost of living, their faith-based schools and their children’s gender is not funny.

This is not the election that will save Australia.

But it is the election where Family First re-entered the fray after an absence of nine years with 100 courageous candidates who know what a woman is.

We can’t save Australia this time, but we can make a start by sending the major parties the only lesson they will understand.

Vote 1 Family First.