MUSIC:

My good friends in the Mainstream Media Politics Choir are modestly talking down ARIA Award glory for their two new toe-tappers but I’m here to declare they’ve got a few award-night baubles in their keeping.

Clear those mantelpieces, I’m predicting!

Their new songs are simply fantastic and I know the guys and gals in the choir are so, so, keen to kick big goals with these fantastic arrangements after the disappointing failure of their single release back in late-April, Albo’s Gaffe Just Cost Him the Election and the follow-up dud a few weeks later penned by Chris Uhlmann and Phillip Coorey, All The Polls Point to a Hung Parliament So You Must Vote LNP for Stability.

The choir’s two new songs are to the tunes of You’ve Got To Pick A Pocket or Two and Reviewing the Situation from the 1968 hit movie musical, Oliver!

Both hauntingly tell the story of the world of pain Anthony Albanese and his Labor government will be in if they foolishly break a solemn promise made at the May election to keep the third-stage personal income tax cuts.

“They’ll be-one termers for sure if they break that promise,” Coorey from The Australian Financial Review told me when I zoomed key choir members last night as they gathered at a hall in Enmore in inner-Sydney for a two-hour practice session.

“That’s why I’m urging them to do just that!”

Radio National’s Patricia Karvales admitted she was the one who came up with the Oliver! theme for the new songs.

“As I told my radio audience on Friday morning Labor will be in a world of pain if they reneg on their rolled-gold promise to introduce those third-stage tax cuts in 2024.

“Why the Oliver! reference? That movie is one of my all time favourites and watching it again the other day reminded me of the poverty, desperation and hunger that’s rife among the common folk in modern-day London and realised the little people are suffering here just as much.

“Labor won’t stand a chance in 2025 if they stand in the way of those $240 billion in tax cuts for the rich that will eventually trickle down and help those poor people.”

The Sydney Morning Herald editor Bevan Shields added: “As I wrote in Saturday morning’s editorial, Labor will trash its reputation if it breaks that promise! And I didn’t use the word ‘trash’ lightly.

“Break that promise and Albanese will make Julia “there will be no carbon tax in a government I lead” look like the most honest politician in history!

“They’ll be out on their fucking ear and deservedly so!”

And his columnist Peter Hartcher stopped his vocal warm-up exercises long enough to concur: “As the intro to my piece in Saturday’s paper explained, Peter Dutton will be waiting. Oh, will he be waiting!

“With the MSM’s help, Dutton will be able to do Albanese, in the words of Paul Keating, SLOWLY!”

As usual, Australia’s Mainstream Media Politics Choir won’t be performing at any set venue. They can be enjoyed – in high rotation and for the next two-and-three-quarter years – simply by picking up a NewsCorp or Nine Entertainment Co. newspaper, or the West Australian if you’re over that way, by listening to any of their radio outlets, by watching various Nine or Seven network morning programs and evening news bulletins, SkyNews before and after dark, ABC TV or radio, or listening to radio shock jocks anywhere.