At this rate we are going to end up with a hung parliament again, like in 2010, the year that Gillard replaced the more popular Rudd, and got punished at the election, needing the support of 4 people on the Crossbench.
As it stands, just as the election was called, Morrison was in Minority after losing 2 people to defections (one to palmer's party, the other to one nation), which means that he needs to win at least one seat just to get back into guaranteed power (although, enough left leaning people on the crossbench would still support him if he kept the same number of seats after this election).
The number needed for a technical majority is 76, out of 151 seats... but with the role of the Speaker usually coming from the ruling party, the majority now needs to be 77.


Going back to the crazy proposal of UAP fixing home loans to below 3% for 5 years - I saw some of clive palmer's campaign launch on the news the other night, and he explained that he would be able to do it by changing the constitution, to have control over the banks.
Okay... changing the constitution would require a referendum, which is a state-based vote AND a national popular vote (each of the 6 state votes separately and a majority of states must vote in favour, as well as the majority of Australians), and that is after both federal houses of parliament support the referendum. Polling suggests that he has zero chance of winning enough seats in the house and senate to be able to have the power to instigate a referendum. Even if he wasn't delusional to think that he would sweep into power winning 76 seats of the lower house and all 40 seats in the senate (to gain a majority there too), it is irresponsible to be offering things that aren't realistic just to sucker people in... even if it is legal to claim anything that is technically possible (like I've noted, a government could force the banks to restrict their rates... but it would be a bad idea for the economy, and very unlikely that he would win government to do it).
But aside from that, it goes back to the real outcome of the Banks collapsing if they are not able to set their own rates based on the national or global rates, which cripples the superannuation industry, because of how much of your Super fund is currently invested in the share market, and the banks are a hefty share of the stock market. Something he doesn't care about, because he doesn't need a Super fund.


The history of clive palmer's party is a trainwreck, but people have short memories... or, as we have seen in the modern era, people don't believe facts if they aren't from the people that they listen to. If the people they listen to says something untrue, they don't go and see if it is true, they accept it and dismiss everything else as fake news, and that they are "doing their own research".
It notes that his party is expected to put all sitting members last on preferences, unless the sitting member supports craig kelly's wreckless views... which will hurt the coalition more than labor this time (at the last election, the coalition managed to gain two seats from labor thanks to preferences from clive palmer's party)
At least we only have to worry about him once every three years now, as he is only focussing on Federal politics, as he has de-registered his party from all states for state-based elections.