Australia has dodged the bullet of fake conservatism. It is now incumbent on those who can survive Labor’s treacherous incompetence to ensure a decent alternative is offered in 2028.
So well goddamned said. I literally am flabbergasted that this prick got voted back in. He has been busily fisting this country for three years. It looks like the majority of the Australian voting public likes getting anal-ysed by their "leaders". People: do not complain when Labor turns this once fine country into a second rate latecomer to the Global South. When Albo sells our land to the Chinese and gives all our jobs to Indians and low IQ arts degree holders, maybe some of us will look back and realise not what Albo and Labor did to Australia, but what WE did to it; by letting those visionless turds turn our society into a dystopian pile of shit.
Hear hear. I concur! 👍 I was drinking my morning coffee like it had bones in it, then a morning shower to wash off the election result 🤡💩, then to stumble across Fred’s Substack article was refreshing. My Sunday just turned a corner, and the day just got brighter! Thankyou to you Fred Pawle & your response Ben. Sitting on the sidelines is not easy watching nihilism at play, though we now have an optimistic perspective as a counter weight. 😁
I really had faith that at least it would be a hung parliament or that Australians really are not that dumb. I was wrong on all counts and am waiting to see on Reform in Britain. Well done them in the council elections.
I guess Australians love the gravy train and have no memory of a country of self reliant, brash, larrikin like people. Like we used to be. Martyn Isles said we need a prophet in parliament. I agree . Not more of the same but a new vision.
The acting liberal leader Susan ley is completely useless. Talking to many as I handed out how to vote for her, resulted in many negative comments and people who have tried to talk to her over the last 15plus years and been ignored. She is a typical nothing liberal.
The local party members for the last 2 elections never even got asked if we wanted to preselect her again. There was no vote and no discussion, not even a meeting called.
Andrew, this is the same woman who defrauded the taxpayer thousands of dollars when real estate shopping on the Gold Coast with her husband/ partner a few years ago and for her efforts was rewarded by the Liberals the deputy leadership! If you or me did the same we would and should be charged with theft and fraud. Another Liberal leftie, the party is beyond help and the sooner a viable true right of centre party comes along the better.
We need a Parliament first to install a prophet there. We The People, have something labelled the AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT that utilises the AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION 2012. The is no Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia 1901 any more.
The Constitution of The Commonwealth of Australia 1901 has been decimated by successive "governments ", What is used without the People really knowing or understanding, is called the AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION 2012.
Australia 1901 was a Democracy. Labor removed the "Commonwealth" from almost all things. We do not have a Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia anymore.
Labor also signed away Australian Manufacturing via the Lima Declaration. AUSTRALIA 2012 is marching toward a Collective Agenda and a darker future. You and your family will own very little and you will be Governed in all things.
It’s hard to believe this has happened……2028 seems so far away, and I don’t have much faith in the depth of patriotism in this country, more stupidity and apathy. It brings to mind a quote I read here on Substack recently……”when you die you don’t know you are dead, the same applies when you are stupid”. A sad day indeed and even sadder times ahead. God help us.
Chrissy - I know that most people will dismiss what I am going to say below as fantastical – but that is mainly because of our isolation here in Australia. Most Australians will only accept radical changes to their belief system when they are given permission to do so by a talking head reading from a teleprompter on the evening Fake News. To put another way, at least 80% of Australians live in a fake reality constructed by the media that they consume – a media that is crammed with trivia. This situation has been made a thousand times worse by the ongoing collapse of the Australian education systems – particularly those controlled by our bloodsucking universities and their Mickey Mouse degree courses. The Australian universities focus on the international student market badly shortchanges the best interests of young Australians.
So here is the punchline - most Australians are not familiar with the term “Controlled Opposition”, but in the future many more will become so. The reality is that the Liberal Party has been progressively infiltrated by ideologists from the Green-Left over a period of about 20 years. This was not an accident. It was deliberate and organised, as a reaction to the success of John Howard. With hindsight it is clear that the infiltration started during the term of the Howard Government, and then greatly accelerated after Turnbull ejected Abbott and took it over. In the parliament these people go by the name of ‘Moderates’ - but their real power lies in the Liberal Party administrative framework, where they subtly work to undermine any policy, initiative, or person that has a hope of defeating Labor. These people created the travesty of the Liberal election campaign that we have just been subjected to – and that is why the Liberals came up with such a ridiculously pathetic and ineffective campaign slogan as “Getting Australia back on track”. It was designed to fail.
Heaven help us all if enough Australians don’t wake up in time and demand change.
No not dismissing in any way. You are correct in all aspects.
I have been saying for a long long time that a very substantial majority of Australians (refer to the election results) are politically, economically, socially btain dead. Do a vox pop in pretty much any place in Australia and you will soon be lathered with the response "nah I'm not interested in all that political stuff".
Simple as that. Which screams - you do not deserverve our Democracy as to be effective it requires at least a smidgeon of the application you apply to your social media subjects. Having a tiny understanding of the structure and workings of government and the politics on which it is built. Maybe not TAFE Certificate III level, but at least a smidgeon. Yeah I know, too much, you have too much going on in your life.
At 75 I do not expect to see most of what people suffer. Obviously I feel especially for my own descendants, but I am afraid I have not seen too much interest or respects for the 3 times I have been a candidate on Federal ballots and twice on State Elections and I needing to give much more of my application to prolonging my life prospects. I have and continue to love life and like Bert Facey I had had a fortunate one.
Completely agree, I feel that Tony Abbot was subjected to the same treatment as Peter Dutton, set up to fail, also you can’t rule out the GenZ factor…..this bunch of fearful indoctrinated sooks, coming out of those same Schools and Universities…..they just want a free ride with handouts….Labor were very clever, you have to give them that.😡 There is an excellent article by George Christenson, link below.
Struth Chrissy, i reckon you would have been the right person to take over the reigns, because, what you have sais, is, spot on, and, as a 5th gen Austalian, i couldn’t agree more about ‘GenZ’. They appear to have no idea what so ever about what’s real, and what’s not. Amazing. Keep up being a great ozzie, because, i will.
Thank you for the link to George Christensen’s article - it was right on the money. I had not seen it - for some reason I haven’t been receiving George’s Substack articles. I will need to investigate why.
Lols. It’s a fascinating read. Lots of insider stuff. Plenty appeared happy to share stuff. Between TA and Peta Credlin - they couldn’t lead or govern in a pink fit.
Rubbish, silly and ⁸over the top for Prince Phillips Award; but by FAR and AWAY the most genuine PM for a long time. Boy do we need an Abbott like now.
Dutton also deserves huge credit for the portfolios he held especially in relation to the borders. I to cannot work out with him how in the heck he let the apparatchiks run the bloody election strategy. BUT unlike so many I pay him his dues and appreciate recognition, as you should for Abbott.
More than just a knighthood for Phil the Greek. Abbott never really transitioned from opposition leader to PM effectively for mine. And made himself an easy target for both the opposition and his own party. A shame. He had potential but blew his political capital early. You may feel we need an Abbott now - but you won’t get one. No-one is going to go Trump-lite (which is what TA was) currently. The overwhelming majority of Australians have quite sensibly rejected that - as much as they’ve sensibly rejected the Greens.
As you clearly identify as one, and it would seem to me that the definition is going to be subjective in some respects you tell me how you define it. For instance a moderate v to the right Liberal would have different views. One Nation and Trumpet of Patriots another. And see if you can do it without resorting to ad hominem language “brain dead” etc or using block capitals. Keep it civil and rational.
Absolutely spot on Fred! I’m still bewildered that Australians would vote for MORE of this crap. To anyone that voted for the most incompetent government in the history of this country, reap what you sow…..
Hi Deb, your comment reminded me of this T.S Eliot quote which has a ring of truth for some voters motivations:
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
The moral busybodies also think that cheating is fine in the moral cause, and that $4M seaside mansions are their just desserts.
Well said indeed. Fake conservatism is the problem. On the conservative side we don’t have a leader who will call a spade a spade. They can’t seem to gain ground against woke ideology, climate change, definition of women, aboriginal culture/stolen land/ welcome to country, and the list goes on.
Scared of their own shadows.
Let’s hope you’re right about new leadership rising up before too much damage is done.
Rural Western Australia will be hit hard by the live export ban for our sheep, but labour couldn’t care less. Not enough votes out here worth considering.
Man I cannot agree more. Elections have become auctions for stolen goods . Votes for those who offer the biggest bribe with those getting bribed having no idea they will be paying their own bribes.
This is great news. Peter Dutton was the worst opposition leader they've come up with for a long time. He was the wrong direction for the Liberal party, and they would have taken the wrong lessons from him winning so it's a good thing he lost.
Even better that he lost his own seat.
The ALP will be a disaster, but at least without Herr Dutton at the helm there is a possibility of some united opposition from conservatives. Otherwise it'd be the same thing anyway.
Now we need to work on destroying the LNP entirely and replacing them with a genuinely freedom-loving movement.
Too early for him yet. They'll pick Angus Taylor likely with Sussan Ley as deputy, but they'll be treading water trying to hold the vote and gain ground in 2028 with a view to taking government in 2031 or so.
There've been a few comments across the spectrum about Dutton as leader to the point that he was not ready to be opposition leader, let alone PM, and it's significant that in his very gracious and dignified concession speech the highlight of his career was not leading the Liberals - but Defence Minister.
I've voted LNP in my time - 1996 and I was just over the arrogance of the Keating government.
2025, the Liberals have lost their way - failed to read the room.
Believe it or not I actually do want a strong opposition to the Government of the day - it is vital for real democracy.
As silly as it is, there's no denying the appearance problem. He really bloody does look like Voldemort. That's a ridiculous thing to base your vote on, but it matters to some voters. It would matter if the ALP put up 40 year old fat woman with bright pink hair. Some things in politics are unfair.
Slavishly supporting Israeli conduct, to the point of throwing out the LNP's courageous history of defending freedom of speech and expression to signal allegiance, is a surefire way to lose almost all support from anyone under age 50. That's just a fact. Even in Trump's America, a majority of Republicans under 50 have a negative opinion of Israel. By contrast, the anti-war attitude among many on the right has broad support. It's arguably what won Trump the election, even if he has gone in the opposite direction now he's won power.
The other factor is that it's hard to get your ideological base excited when you are a hair's breath from Labor. Particularly on the disinformation bill, I feel that their half-arsed position lost them a lot of votes. People know they didn't really disagree with Labor's proposal, they just want the credit. 500,000 immigrants per year? People don't want that. The LNP's donors in big business might, but their base sure doesn't.
I'd like to see them become a freedom-orientated party. They would win elections if they did this. Push back against the disinformation nonsense, digital ID, outflank the ALP on militarism. Restrict immigration to a percentage of native births we can absorb and assimilate. Even if they lost the election on this platform, at least they would have stayed true to the party's supposed principles.
Go with Alex Antic (or better), not Hastie or Taylor.
I think Alex is in the Senate - nothing to stop him being leader, but they prefer to be in the House of Reps, so would need to find a seat there first, which means a sitting member would need to vacate and there’d need to be a bye-election. While Angus Taylor is a front runner, he’s getting shellacked for basically not having any coherent economic policy going into this election - by his own side.
As for appearances - yep, but perception is 99% reality for some people. There’s no problem with how he looks really. John Howard was no oil painting but he managed to connect. Dutton showed a human side in his concession speech - grace, dignity and a great deal of generosity to Albo and Ali France and I was thinking “dude, you could have done this earlier” but there is a tough guy machismo that goes with politics with some people and they fear unless they do that they will not connect with their base. But in the era of social media and the 24 hour cycle appearance is everything.
On that wise, the last 6 months, despite my own political leanings I couldn’t really listen to Albo - there was a robotic edge to his voice - no dynamics and bugger all, I guess, passion. Back to Howard - no oil painting, terrifying eyebrows, but there was a dynamism to the way he spoke. And he wasn’t afraid to make a goose out of himself either.
My take - which I’ve written up elsewhere in the comments is that the Liberals failed to read the room and got caught up between half arsed policy and continuing with culture wars, which I think nationally and to an extent globally folk are really over. I found it unbelievable that on Sky Bolt and Credlin said there should be more culture war not less. Well if the Libs want to disappear without a trace, fill your boots.
Note also the rise of the Teals - all professional women and would traditionally be classic Liberals -probably more centre than to the right of the party. And they’ve been unseating Liberal men and holding traditional blue ribbon Liberal seats. Surely that has to tell the Liberal party something. I’ll go crazy brave here, but the Liberals should go with Sussan Ley as leader with Hastie as her Deputy. It’s too early for him to take the reins given also he has not held senior portfolios, but is a good operator and has the smarts.
Whoever they pick will not, in the absence of catastrophic failure or something by the current government, win the next election. But they have to be able to hold the ground, bring back the base - perhaps pick up a few more seats in 2028 and then go for it in 2031.
And as I’ve said elsewhere, I’m no conservative, but it is vital to any functioning democracy that there is a strong opposition to hold the Government of the day to account.
Thank you for your considered and thought-provoking response.
I agree on the culture war stuff to a great extent. I feel that a large part of it is a distraction to keep us divided. A divide and conquer strategy, in short.
If we are arguing over which toilet to use we aren't likely to pay as much attention to policy on sending soldiers to die in Ukraine, or the $15,000 per man, woman and child we are spending on useless submarines. Yet there are some important issues there which overlap. That line is when it stops being partisan bickering and starts to violate fundamental liberties.
I view the Teals as part of a process of reorganization of political allegiance with regard to economic status. Working class people are becoming more conservative, laptop class people are becoming more left wing. This compounds with the inner city/country divide. It's no surprise the LNP is losing wealthy inner city electorates, just as it's no surprise those earning under $52k/year overwhelmingly voted no to the voice.
I don't think the Libs should pander to the laptop class to retain these inner city electorates. There are things they can do to stem the bleeding of course, but they should prioritize their future rather than their past.
I cannot emphasize how important your last comment is. We need each other, if only to keep each other accountable.
Absolutely to all of that - it is a shifting demographic - and look at the history of the Liberal party to see how many times it has re-invented itself, and the shifting demographic is something that I think the modern Liberal party lost sight of. We do need each other. I may vote ALP (apart from the once) but I have friends from Greens to One Nation. We don't talk politics much - posted elsewhere, one of my besties since Uni - a Liberal. We respect that we think and vote differently, and enjoy each other's company. Hell, this guy often calls me comrade (I call him that all the time) and enjoy having a lend of each other. We're bound by the fact we're both on this island together, so let's make the best of it. Seems to work. And for all the sound and fury of parliament in the broad - well, watching the coverage on the ABC on Saturday, there was clearly mutual respect and some friendship between Chalmers and McGrath.
The culture wars are a distraction and divisive and it masks I think that in the broad as between the major parties and their respective bases, we actually have more in common than in difference. Imagine if there was a broader bipartisanship on everyday issues like cost of living, housing, health, education etc rather than often what is just the politics of opposition. That way we might get a better bang for our buck in terms of how and where our taxes go.
That's being a bit of an idealist, but what the heck. It beats the alternative.
And here come de train... The Voice II will be rammed down our throats as well as The Brown Tide. White Flight will only cease with our backs against the wall... Easy men create Bad Times, Hard men work to change that. 👏 into The Forge with us!
I think there really is only one way to change the system, because obviously voting isn't it. We vote because it's compulsory, not because we want to. There are better ways of getting messages across to our "leaders".
With 95% Of Australians jabbed what would anyone expect but to vote the incompetent Glibalist, CIA patsy to stay in power for the final take over of Australia
I handed out how-to-vote cards at an early voting centre every day for two weeks and also all day on Saturday and thousands of people just made a bee-line straight for the Labor candidate. They're like football fans - 'my team, right or wrong'.
You cant tell me this is correct - has to be rigged. Otherwise says a lot about peoples now non thinking brains. Of course the choice between the two was a lose/lose.
I agree the ALP is a joke. They just won a historic majority promising to send us to die in Ukraine, to violate our freedom of speech, to establish a surveillance state the likes of which we've never seen.
Yet, the LNP supports all of these things, either openly or when push comes to shove. It's no mystery why they lost. Dutton was the worst candidate the Libs have ever put up.
This outcome is a good thing for Australia. If Dutton had won there would be no opposition to the above agenda, whereas now the conservatives won't be placated by sweet nothings from the Member from Dickson (ex-member now).
Now start the difficult work of actually building an opposition party instead of the exact same thing as the ALP.
We can only hope that Alex Antic and others like him and Rennick et al can get rid of the punces and put up some good opposition when it comes to standing up to the pushes from globalists that are sure to come in the near future. It is very hard to see the current band of idiots having the strength to do this. Any hard decision will be swept under the rug and policies will be pushed through in the dark of night with no public opinion whatsoever possibly because they get paid in some way to get the bidding done.
How could you rig it? You'd need thousands of electoral workers armed with erasers changing votes, so many in on the fix, no way you'd keep that secret.
In as much as in a perfect world that would not happen, it would appear that all around the world leaders are being placed rather than elected. Have you not heard of https://www.younggloballeaders.org/home? There is sufficient interest in this particularly since the wef and other bodies place their young world leaders in these positions to do their bidding and to push the agendas which we are now seeing disrupting normal existence by placing people in little boxes and dividing and conquering. Never before has this been more obvious than since the convid scam started and every western leader was chanting the same thing. If they were genuine they would vote online with a 2fa or similar so you can only vote once. And not to be too obvious but pencils???? Half the time ybecause of cardboard stands the pencil goes through the paper and creates a hole. Are these counted? Anyway I hope you are correct but there is enough evidence to suggest otherwise. Just as an aside perhaps we should ask the 800,000 new residents how their vote went and why!
What evidence ? There’s absolutely nothing substantive in this- I’m sorry. There is however plenty of evidence that the 2024 US election was hacked. Take a squizz at that.
Yes Fred. All well put and succinctly true. But, if the Labor movement, and government, now, back in for another 3 years is so bloody awful, how and why did the majority of voters roll them back in like there was no tomorrow? Did THEY ALL get it so wrong by chance, or are the majority of Australian voters simply morons?
Personalised propaganda from AI has the population in its grip. The deviants who train the AI will soon have their super computer to tie up the loose ends. I am turning the power off. ... Well ... Most of the time.
As we do say in Australia - "look at the scoreboard son". If conservatives in Australia have got chapped arse cheeks at the result you only have yourselves to blame. The Coalition campaign was shambolic to the point of incompetence. The Liberals failed to read the room, were ill disciplined, contradictory and drifted far too much in the Trumpian direction and even they acknowledge the Trump factor of culture wars, division, hubris and batshit madness on tariffs did not help their cause. Having said that, instability will always favour incumbency, so the chaos Trump caused with global markets etc was always going to favour the current Government.
Face it, far/hard right politics - and left, given the result the Greens got, there was no appetite for it this time around.
What is concerning is that there is not a strong opposition to hold the 2nd Albanese Government to account. And believe it or not, and no, I don't vote Coalition or further right wing than that, it's important to me that the Government of the day is effectively held to account.
Good luck guys .....our labour party is hell bent on a mission of dystopian self harm it appears? So we know how you feel. All they do is punish us and not support us???
But we're waking up already in the UK after Labours not quite year in office.
Farage is our only hope at the moment of turning things around.
Have faith Australia 🇦🇺 it will turn around when the people wake up, which they will eventually.
So well goddamned said. I literally am flabbergasted that this prick got voted back in. He has been busily fisting this country for three years. It looks like the majority of the Australian voting public likes getting anal-ysed by their "leaders". People: do not complain when Labor turns this once fine country into a second rate latecomer to the Global South. When Albo sells our land to the Chinese and gives all our jobs to Indians and low IQ arts degree holders, maybe some of us will look back and realise not what Albo and Labor did to Australia, but what WE did to it; by letting those visionless turds turn our society into a dystopian pile of shit.
Hear hear. I concur! 👍 I was drinking my morning coffee like it had bones in it, then a morning shower to wash off the election result 🤡💩, then to stumble across Fred’s Substack article was refreshing. My Sunday just turned a corner, and the day just got brighter! Thankyou to you Fred Pawle & your response Ben. Sitting on the sidelines is not easy watching nihilism at play, though we now have an optimistic perspective as a counter weight. 😁
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Albanese mentioned *
Ccp operative communist through and through.
Pack of blood suckers on every Australia.
Fraudulent all complacent birds of a feather flock together.
You lay down with dogs- uou get flees*
This is our government council officials.
All corporations
Sold off all we owned and paid for?? Public services-- where??
Governor General - treasonist - hardy* he's left of coarse nothing more to answer too.
One Day.
When Australians actually awaken to all the criminals in our government.
Pauline Hanson called them all out! Decades ago.. she was attacked every direction possible *
Jailed also silenced*
Threatened* she was the Golden canary- could she sing- beautiful sounds echoing through parliament house!
Terrible what was done to her- for truth spoken. .
Same as media reporters
All bought out.
Scripted now days..
Every channel the same ???? Almost same wording???
No money in Truth.
How sad.
We need to get back to where we belong.
Under God
Who give us All
Power and Authority.
We the people????
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I really had faith that at least it would be a hung parliament or that Australians really are not that dumb. I was wrong on all counts and am waiting to see on Reform in Britain. Well done them in the council elections.
I guess Australians love the gravy train and have no memory of a country of self reliant, brash, larrikin like people. Like we used to be. Martyn Isles said we need a prophet in parliament. I agree . Not more of the same but a new vision.
The rot is within the Liberal party.
The acting liberal leader Susan ley is completely useless. Talking to many as I handed out how to vote for her, resulted in many negative comments and people who have tried to talk to her over the last 15plus years and been ignored. She is a typical nothing liberal.
The local party members for the last 2 elections never even got asked if we wanted to preselect her again. There was no vote and no discussion, not even a meeting called.
Yes! Sussan is a closet “wet”.
She voted for Turdball, over Tony Abbott, who then rewarded her with the Health Portfolio.
Nothing more need be said!
She also Introduced a bill into parliament to stop the Live Sheep Trade.
She was foisted upon the trusting and very conservative electorate 15 plus years ago, without them having any say in the matter.
Farrer is a very safe seat!
Andrew, this is the same woman who defrauded the taxpayer thousands of dollars when real estate shopping on the Gold Coast with her husband/ partner a few years ago and for her efforts was rewarded by the Liberals the deputy leadership! If you or me did the same we would and should be charged with theft and fraud. Another Liberal leftie, the party is beyond help and the sooner a viable true right of centre party comes along the better.
We need a Parliament first to install a prophet there. We The People, have something labelled the AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT that utilises the AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION 2012. The is no Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia 1901 any more.
Not sure what you mean.
The Constitution of The Commonwealth of Australia 1901 has been decimated by successive "governments ", What is used without the People really knowing or understanding, is called the AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION 2012.
Australia 1901 was a Democracy. Labor removed the "Commonwealth" from almost all things. We do not have a Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia anymore.
Labor also signed away Australian Manufacturing via the Lima Declaration. AUSTRALIA 2012 is marching toward a Collective Agenda and a darker future. You and your family will own very little and you will be Governed in all things.
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Albo mentioned.
It’s hard to believe this has happened……2028 seems so far away, and I don’t have much faith in the depth of patriotism in this country, more stupidity and apathy. It brings to mind a quote I read here on Substack recently……”when you die you don’t know you are dead, the same applies when you are stupid”. A sad day indeed and even sadder times ahead. God help us.
Chrissy - I know that most people will dismiss what I am going to say below as fantastical – but that is mainly because of our isolation here in Australia. Most Australians will only accept radical changes to their belief system when they are given permission to do so by a talking head reading from a teleprompter on the evening Fake News. To put another way, at least 80% of Australians live in a fake reality constructed by the media that they consume – a media that is crammed with trivia. This situation has been made a thousand times worse by the ongoing collapse of the Australian education systems – particularly those controlled by our bloodsucking universities and their Mickey Mouse degree courses. The Australian universities focus on the international student market badly shortchanges the best interests of young Australians.
So here is the punchline - most Australians are not familiar with the term “Controlled Opposition”, but in the future many more will become so. The reality is that the Liberal Party has been progressively infiltrated by ideologists from the Green-Left over a period of about 20 years. This was not an accident. It was deliberate and organised, as a reaction to the success of John Howard. With hindsight it is clear that the infiltration started during the term of the Howard Government, and then greatly accelerated after Turnbull ejected Abbott and took it over. In the parliament these people go by the name of ‘Moderates’ - but their real power lies in the Liberal Party administrative framework, where they subtly work to undermine any policy, initiative, or person that has a hope of defeating Labor. These people created the travesty of the Liberal election campaign that we have just been subjected to – and that is why the Liberals came up with such a ridiculously pathetic and ineffective campaign slogan as “Getting Australia back on track”. It was designed to fail.
Heaven help us all if enough Australians don’t wake up in time and demand change.
No not dismissing in any way. You are correct in all aspects.
I have been saying for a long long time that a very substantial majority of Australians (refer to the election results) are politically, economically, socially btain dead. Do a vox pop in pretty much any place in Australia and you will soon be lathered with the response "nah I'm not interested in all that political stuff".
Simple as that. Which screams - you do not deserverve our Democracy as to be effective it requires at least a smidgeon of the application you apply to your social media subjects. Having a tiny understanding of the structure and workings of government and the politics on which it is built. Maybe not TAFE Certificate III level, but at least a smidgeon. Yeah I know, too much, you have too much going on in your life.
At 75 I do not expect to see most of what people suffer. Obviously I feel especially for my own descendants, but I am afraid I have not seen too much interest or respects for the 3 times I have been a candidate on Federal ballots and twice on State Elections and I needing to give much more of my application to prolonging my life prospects. I have and continue to love life and like Bert Facey I had had a fortunate one.
So over to the current and next generations.
Al49er.
Then heaven help us. Just remember that what is coming up after us will be our leaders and defenders. We are humped.
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Yes and there’s so much rubbish on the TV that it’s mind numbing. Am aware but don’t watch.
Completely agree, I feel that Tony Abbot was subjected to the same treatment as Peter Dutton, set up to fail, also you can’t rule out the GenZ factor…..this bunch of fearful indoctrinated sooks, coming out of those same Schools and Universities…..they just want a free ride with handouts….Labor were very clever, you have to give them that.😡 There is an excellent article by George Christenson, link below.
https://substack.com/@nationfirst/note/p-162706094?r=txx37&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Struth Chrissy, i reckon you would have been the right person to take over the reigns, because, what you have sais, is, spot on, and, as a 5th gen Austalian, i couldn’t agree more about ‘GenZ’. They appear to have no idea what so ever about what’s real, and what’s not. Amazing. Keep up being a great ozzie, because, i will.
Thanks Chris…..go Ozzie’s.
Thank you for the link to George Christensen’s article - it was right on the money. I had not seen it - for some reason I haven’t been receiving George’s Substack articles. I will need to investigate why.
Tony Abbott was incompetent. Read Nikki Savva's book.
Nikki Savva??? Turnbull’s favourite!!!!!
Lols. It’s a fascinating read. Lots of insider stuff. Plenty appeared happy to share stuff. Between TA and Peta Credlin - they couldn’t lead or govern in a pink fit.
Rubbish, silly and ⁸over the top for Prince Phillips Award; but by FAR and AWAY the most genuine PM for a long time. Boy do we need an Abbott like now.
Dutton also deserves huge credit for the portfolios he held especially in relation to the borders. I to cannot work out with him how in the heck he let the apparatchiks run the bloody election strategy. BUT unlike so many I pay him his dues and appreciate recognition, as you should for Abbott.
Al49er
More than just a knighthood for Phil the Greek. Abbott never really transitioned from opposition leader to PM effectively for mine. And made himself an easy target for both the opposition and his own party. A shame. He had potential but blew his political capital early. You may feel we need an Abbott now - but you won’t get one. No-one is going to go Trump-lite (which is what TA was) currently. The overwhelming majority of Australians have quite sensibly rejected that - as much as they’ve sensibly rejected the Greens.
So tell me, define what it us to be a "Conservative" ? And NOT ANY FORM OF LINO !
Al49er
As you clearly identify as one, and it would seem to me that the definition is going to be subjective in some respects you tell me how you define it. For instance a moderate v to the right Liberal would have different views. One Nation and Trumpet of Patriots another. And see if you can do it without resorting to ad hominem language “brain dead” etc or using block capitals. Keep it civil and rational.
Thanks, might just do that.
Absolutely spot on Fred! I’m still bewildered that Australians would vote for MORE of this crap. To anyone that voted for the most incompetent government in the history of this country, reap what you sow…..
Hi Deb, your comment reminded me of this T.S Eliot quote which has a ring of truth for some voters motivations:
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
Here's another:
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
The moral busybodies also think that cheating is fine in the moral cause, and that $4M seaside mansions are their just desserts.
Well said indeed. Fake conservatism is the problem. On the conservative side we don’t have a leader who will call a spade a spade. They can’t seem to gain ground against woke ideology, climate change, definition of women, aboriginal culture/stolen land/ welcome to country, and the list goes on.
Scared of their own shadows.
Let’s hope you’re right about new leadership rising up before too much damage is done.
Rural Western Australia will be hit hard by the live export ban for our sheep, but labour couldn’t care less. Not enough votes out here worth considering.
Man I cannot agree more. Elections have become auctions for stolen goods . Votes for those who offer the biggest bribe with those getting bribed having no idea they will be paying their own bribes.
“Elections have become auctions for stolen goods.” Brilliant!
This is great news. Peter Dutton was the worst opposition leader they've come up with for a long time. He was the wrong direction for the Liberal party, and they would have taken the wrong lessons from him winning so it's a good thing he lost.
Even better that he lost his own seat.
The ALP will be a disaster, but at least without Herr Dutton at the helm there is a possibility of some united opposition from conservatives. Otherwise it'd be the same thing anyway.
Now we need to work on destroying the LNP entirely and replacing them with a genuinely freedom-loving movement.
I wonder who they'll pick as the new leader.
Hopefully, Andrew Hastie. He is a good man
Too early for him yet. They'll pick Angus Taylor likely with Sussan Ley as deputy, but they'll be treading water trying to hold the vote and gain ground in 2028 with a view to taking government in 2031 or so.
There've been a few comments across the spectrum about Dutton as leader to the point that he was not ready to be opposition leader, let alone PM, and it's significant that in his very gracious and dignified concession speech the highlight of his career was not leading the Liberals - but Defence Minister.
I've voted LNP in my time - 1996 and I was just over the arrogance of the Keating government.
2025, the Liberals have lost their way - failed to read the room.
Believe it or not I actually do want a strong opposition to the Government of the day - it is vital for real democracy.
As silly as it is, there's no denying the appearance problem. He really bloody does look like Voldemort. That's a ridiculous thing to base your vote on, but it matters to some voters. It would matter if the ALP put up 40 year old fat woman with bright pink hair. Some things in politics are unfair.
Slavishly supporting Israeli conduct, to the point of throwing out the LNP's courageous history of defending freedom of speech and expression to signal allegiance, is a surefire way to lose almost all support from anyone under age 50. That's just a fact. Even in Trump's America, a majority of Republicans under 50 have a negative opinion of Israel. By contrast, the anti-war attitude among many on the right has broad support. It's arguably what won Trump the election, even if he has gone in the opposite direction now he's won power.
The other factor is that it's hard to get your ideological base excited when you are a hair's breath from Labor. Particularly on the disinformation bill, I feel that their half-arsed position lost them a lot of votes. People know they didn't really disagree with Labor's proposal, they just want the credit. 500,000 immigrants per year? People don't want that. The LNP's donors in big business might, but their base sure doesn't.
I'd like to see them become a freedom-orientated party. They would win elections if they did this. Push back against the disinformation nonsense, digital ID, outflank the ALP on militarism. Restrict immigration to a percentage of native births we can absorb and assimilate. Even if they lost the election on this platform, at least they would have stayed true to the party's supposed principles.
Go with Alex Antic (or better), not Hastie or Taylor.
I think Alex is in the Senate - nothing to stop him being leader, but they prefer to be in the House of Reps, so would need to find a seat there first, which means a sitting member would need to vacate and there’d need to be a bye-election. While Angus Taylor is a front runner, he’s getting shellacked for basically not having any coherent economic policy going into this election - by his own side.
As for appearances - yep, but perception is 99% reality for some people. There’s no problem with how he looks really. John Howard was no oil painting but he managed to connect. Dutton showed a human side in his concession speech - grace, dignity and a great deal of generosity to Albo and Ali France and I was thinking “dude, you could have done this earlier” but there is a tough guy machismo that goes with politics with some people and they fear unless they do that they will not connect with their base. But in the era of social media and the 24 hour cycle appearance is everything.
On that wise, the last 6 months, despite my own political leanings I couldn’t really listen to Albo - there was a robotic edge to his voice - no dynamics and bugger all, I guess, passion. Back to Howard - no oil painting, terrifying eyebrows, but there was a dynamism to the way he spoke. And he wasn’t afraid to make a goose out of himself either.
My take - which I’ve written up elsewhere in the comments is that the Liberals failed to read the room and got caught up between half arsed policy and continuing with culture wars, which I think nationally and to an extent globally folk are really over. I found it unbelievable that on Sky Bolt and Credlin said there should be more culture war not less. Well if the Libs want to disappear without a trace, fill your boots.
Note also the rise of the Teals - all professional women and would traditionally be classic Liberals -probably more centre than to the right of the party. And they’ve been unseating Liberal men and holding traditional blue ribbon Liberal seats. Surely that has to tell the Liberal party something. I’ll go crazy brave here, but the Liberals should go with Sussan Ley as leader with Hastie as her Deputy. It’s too early for him to take the reins given also he has not held senior portfolios, but is a good operator and has the smarts.
Whoever they pick will not, in the absence of catastrophic failure or something by the current government, win the next election. But they have to be able to hold the ground, bring back the base - perhaps pick up a few more seats in 2028 and then go for it in 2031.
And as I’ve said elsewhere, I’m no conservative, but it is vital to any functioning democracy that there is a strong opposition to hold the Government of the day to account.
Thank you for your considered and thought-provoking response.
I agree on the culture war stuff to a great extent. I feel that a large part of it is a distraction to keep us divided. A divide and conquer strategy, in short.
If we are arguing over which toilet to use we aren't likely to pay as much attention to policy on sending soldiers to die in Ukraine, or the $15,000 per man, woman and child we are spending on useless submarines. Yet there are some important issues there which overlap. That line is when it stops being partisan bickering and starts to violate fundamental liberties.
I view the Teals as part of a process of reorganization of political allegiance with regard to economic status. Working class people are becoming more conservative, laptop class people are becoming more left wing. This compounds with the inner city/country divide. It's no surprise the LNP is losing wealthy inner city electorates, just as it's no surprise those earning under $52k/year overwhelmingly voted no to the voice.
I don't think the Libs should pander to the laptop class to retain these inner city electorates. There are things they can do to stem the bleeding of course, but they should prioritize their future rather than their past.
I cannot emphasize how important your last comment is. We need each other, if only to keep each other accountable.
Absolutely to all of that - it is a shifting demographic - and look at the history of the Liberal party to see how many times it has re-invented itself, and the shifting demographic is something that I think the modern Liberal party lost sight of. We do need each other. I may vote ALP (apart from the once) but I have friends from Greens to One Nation. We don't talk politics much - posted elsewhere, one of my besties since Uni - a Liberal. We respect that we think and vote differently, and enjoy each other's company. Hell, this guy often calls me comrade (I call him that all the time) and enjoy having a lend of each other. We're bound by the fact we're both on this island together, so let's make the best of it. Seems to work. And for all the sound and fury of parliament in the broad - well, watching the coverage on the ABC on Saturday, there was clearly mutual respect and some friendship between Chalmers and McGrath.
The culture wars are a distraction and divisive and it masks I think that in the broad as between the major parties and their respective bases, we actually have more in common than in difference. Imagine if there was a broader bipartisanship on everyday issues like cost of living, housing, health, education etc rather than often what is just the politics of opposition. That way we might get a better bang for our buck in terms of how and where our taxes go.
That's being a bit of an idealist, but what the heck. It beats the alternative.
Many of us will be keeping our powder dry for when the time is right...
And here come de train... The Voice II will be rammed down our throats as well as The Brown Tide. White Flight will only cease with our backs against the wall... Easy men create Bad Times, Hard men work to change that. 👏 into The Forge with us!
I think there really is only one way to change the system, because obviously voting isn't it. We vote because it's compulsory, not because we want to. There are better ways of getting messages across to our "leaders".
With 95% Of Australians jabbed what would anyone expect but to vote the incompetent Glibalist, CIA patsy to stay in power for the final take over of Australia
I don't know one single person who voted for Labor yet they won by a landslide - very strange
I handed out how-to-vote cards at an early voting centre every day for two weeks and also all day on Saturday and thousands of people just made a bee-line straight for the Labor candidate. They're like football fans - 'my team, right or wrong'.
They are blind and deceived
They are lemmings and piper Albosleaze is playing the tune. Unfortunately we will all pay for this
Where were you?
Modbury SA (Makin electorate).
I am in Flynn Central Queensland and our National guy was re elected
You cant tell me this is correct - has to be rigged. Otherwise says a lot about peoples now non thinking brains. Of course the choice between the two was a lose/lose.
I agree the ALP is a joke. They just won a historic majority promising to send us to die in Ukraine, to violate our freedom of speech, to establish a surveillance state the likes of which we've never seen.
Yet, the LNP supports all of these things, either openly or when push comes to shove. It's no mystery why they lost. Dutton was the worst candidate the Libs have ever put up.
This outcome is a good thing for Australia. If Dutton had won there would be no opposition to the above agenda, whereas now the conservatives won't be placated by sweet nothings from the Member from Dickson (ex-member now).
Now start the difficult work of actually building an opposition party instead of the exact same thing as the ALP.
We can only hope that Alex Antic and others like him and Rennick et al can get rid of the punces and put up some good opposition when it comes to standing up to the pushes from globalists that are sure to come in the near future. It is very hard to see the current band of idiots having the strength to do this. Any hard decision will be swept under the rug and policies will be pushed through in the dark of night with no public opinion whatsoever possibly because they get paid in some way to get the bidding done.
I don't believe it was rigged.
Dutton and the LNP sold out their base. They got exactly what they deserved.
Not so much sold it out as ran a crap campaign. It was pretty ordinary.
How could you rig it? You'd need thousands of electoral workers armed with erasers changing votes, so many in on the fix, no way you'd keep that secret.
In as much as in a perfect world that would not happen, it would appear that all around the world leaders are being placed rather than elected. Have you not heard of https://www.younggloballeaders.org/home? There is sufficient interest in this particularly since the wef and other bodies place their young world leaders in these positions to do their bidding and to push the agendas which we are now seeing disrupting normal existence by placing people in little boxes and dividing and conquering. Never before has this been more obvious than since the convid scam started and every western leader was chanting the same thing. If they were genuine they would vote online with a 2fa or similar so you can only vote once. And not to be too obvious but pencils???? Half the time ybecause of cardboard stands the pencil goes through the paper and creates a hole. Are these counted? Anyway I hope you are correct but there is enough evidence to suggest otherwise. Just as an aside perhaps we should ask the 800,000 new residents how their vote went and why!
What evidence ? There’s absolutely nothing substantive in this- I’m sorry. There is however plenty of evidence that the 2024 US election was hacked. Take a squizz at that.
And we’ll agree to differ re Covid
Yes Fred. All well put and succinctly true. But, if the Labor movement, and government, now, back in for another 3 years is so bloody awful, how and why did the majority of voters roll them back in like there was no tomorrow? Did THEY ALL get it so wrong by chance, or are the majority of Australian voters simply morons?
They did only get 34% of the primary vote, hardly anything to crow about.
Personalised propaganda from AI has the population in its grip. The deviants who train the AI will soon have their super computer to tie up the loose ends. I am turning the power off. ... Well ... Most of the time.
As we do say in Australia - "look at the scoreboard son". If conservatives in Australia have got chapped arse cheeks at the result you only have yourselves to blame. The Coalition campaign was shambolic to the point of incompetence. The Liberals failed to read the room, were ill disciplined, contradictory and drifted far too much in the Trumpian direction and even they acknowledge the Trump factor of culture wars, division, hubris and batshit madness on tariffs did not help their cause. Having said that, instability will always favour incumbency, so the chaos Trump caused with global markets etc was always going to favour the current Government.
Face it, far/hard right politics - and left, given the result the Greens got, there was no appetite for it this time around.
What is concerning is that there is not a strong opposition to hold the 2nd Albanese Government to account. And believe it or not, and no, I don't vote Coalition or further right wing than that, it's important to me that the Government of the day is effectively held to account.
Good luck in 3 years.
Good luck guys .....our labour party is hell bent on a mission of dystopian self harm it appears? So we know how you feel. All they do is punish us and not support us???
But we're waking up already in the UK after Labours not quite year in office.
Farage is our only hope at the moment of turning things around.
Have faith Australia 🇦🇺 it will turn around when the people wake up, which they will eventually.
Thinking of my cousins in Australia.
Great substack by the way.