Politics, Strategy, Campaigns, Elections
The F-Word
It’s time to face facts, there is a dirty word in Australian politics: ‘freedom’. The ‘freedom movement’ is not popular and thatis a hard pill to swallow for many liberty-loving Aussies. Australia does not have an embattled history of freedom, like the United States. We did not fight for our freedom, we accepted British rule. While our Forces have gallantly fought...
A Centre-Right National Strategy
In The Shrinking Forest, I outlined the problem, the cause of the problem and denounced the rent-seekers who cash-in on the problem. Then in ‘All Great Change Begins at the Dinner Table’, I emphasized the role of family, faith and free speech, and in How Christianity Informs Classical Liberalism, the connection between Christianity and liberty. This fourth and concluding instalment...
Hayek Gives Liberal Democrats Its New Name
Word on the street is that the Liberal Democrats are searching for a new name. Malcolm Turnbull and the Greens forced it upon them. It was his parting gift. It is now the Eleventh Commandment. “Thou shalt not use any English word of an older party’s name in your own.” So, despite being named the Liberal Democrats for 21 years, the Liberal Party...
JUST IN: Senator Tells ABC How Centre-Right Wins
This just in from ABC Radio Melbourne. For context, play from 8:30 min. Senator Ralph Babet tells ABC that the minor centre-right parties will win senate positions at scale and form a bloc if they form a coalition. Current discussions began after the 2022 Federal election between the writer, Liberty Itch’s Publisher, and Australian Family Party Federal Director, former Senator Bob Day. What followed was an...
8 Segments of the Democratic Right
Here’s the quick political segmentation for you to ponder. The Australian political landscape has two overarching groups: the Extremists and the Democrats. We must actively counter the Extremists in the public square regardless of their form or stripe. No exceptions. No nuancing or qualifying. Their idealogies are all abhorrent. This includes five sub-groups: the Communists and Socialists, the Fascists and Ethno-Nationalists, and the Militant Jihadists as well. We don’t weaken our democracy by banning them. No!...
A Reply to “Centre-Right National Strategy”
Leaving aside for a moment the question (very ably posed by LibDems South Australia President James Hol) of when exactly the Liberal Democrats became known as a right-wing party, former Senator Bob Day’s diagnosis of the state of modern minor party politics to the right of the Greens is characteristically sharp. Henry Kissenger once said of Germany that it was ‘too big for Europe,...
3 Horrifying NSW election predictions
Tomorrow, New South Wales voters will choose their next government. The winner will be the Liberal-National incumbent or the Labor insurgent. At this point, no other party is strong enough to usurp either. They are the only options to form government. The Liberal-National Coalition has been in power since 2011. In 12 years, they have had Premiers Barry O’Farrell, Mike Baird, Gladys...
Hope! Do Not Underestimate The Good Senator From Victoria
Just when you shudder at the Treasurer’s blueprint for ‘redesigning capitalism’ and the limp response from the Coalition we have come to expect, along comes Senator Ralph Babet (UAP, Vic). Classical liberals everywhere, take heart. There is hope that, finally, we have an advocate for our principles, and one uncaptured by the Coalition. Straight from the Senate floor on 8 February 2023, in...
Senator Thorpe’s Shock Resignation
Lydia Thorpe is out! The abrasive and race-obsessed Senator, who resigned in disgrace as Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens in 2022, now resigns from the Party which made her career and had her return in 2022. You can understand Adam Bandt’s ashen face. Loyalty be damned! Hemmed-in by a nation-destroying fence of her own construction, she’ll now enjoy a life on...
Nicola Sturgeon Out!
The First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has given notice of her resignation. Foremost among her political objectives and that of her party, the Scottish National Party, was to gain independence from the United Kingdom! Scotland and England have been in Union since 1707, by personal union of the Crown as far back as 1603. So aspiration was high, clear-headed thinkers...
