by PAUL COLLITS – THE One Nation surge would not have occurred had the Liberals been free of the dripping woke Alex Hawke.
Malcolm Turnbull would never have been prime minister had the Liberals been free of Hawke.
- Have you ever wondered why the Liberal Party never mentions MAGA or Trump?
- To even ask the question is to answer it.
- It is forbiden to acknowledge Trump’s insurgency for those wearing the blue rosette.
Australia would never have signed on to the Paris Agreement or to net-zero. We wouldn’t have ever had Sussan Ley had the Liberals been free of his wet faction.
We wouldn’t have all the recent tip-toeing around likely preference deals with One Nation had the Liberals been free.
OUTSIDER
The appropriately named Sky News’ Outsiders program on Sunday morning is compulsory viewing for many forgotten voters.
Recently, Rita Panahi made an inaccurate and extraordinary claim about the Liberal Party.
It was in response to a comment by co-anchor James Morrow that “the Liberal Party room is full of wets”. Probably an exaggeration made for effect, but not a huge exaggeration – and by no means an error.
Rita Panahi’s response, that there are “only a handful of wets” in the Party room, is more problematic and consequential.
If her perception is shared by the general voter class, it is, indeed, a categorical error.
Why is she wrong?
Well, the evidence is clear and, alas, overwhelming.
We wouldn’t be regaled with dripping-wokeness across government and related institutions had the Liberals been free of wets. Wall-to-wall “welcome to country” bullshit, to re-state the most obvious.
Remember that the Libs were in office nationally from 2013 to 2022. Plenty of time for a “conservative”, wet-free Party to have stopped the rot.
Then there are all the things not done by the Liberals in government. Nearly a decade in government in Canberra and more than a decade in office in NSW.
Their base merely demanded they steer things back from the progressive, globalist Left towards a sensible centre – it never happened.
That’s because half the Party simply lurves the Left direction of travel.
Meanwhile, most of the rest don’t have the ticker or spine to stand up and be counted and to take on the other Leftist majority of the Party.
Have you ever wondered why the Liberal Party never mentions MAGA or Trump?
To even ask the question is to answer it. It is verboten to acknowledge Trump’s insurgency for those wearing the blue rosette.
The yappers come out, of course, when a conservative leader is seen to have breached the implied agreement not to “go too far”.
When this happens – see Angus Taylor on immigration – the puppet leader is forcibly reminded of the “agreement”.
Dominic Perrottet’s entire premiership in NSW was premised on this agreement (with Matt Kean).
End result? Perrottet did nothing remotely conservative, despite his impeccable “conservative” pedigree.
He cheered for the triple flags on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. He signed up for the COVID tyranny. He created an embarrassing, plandemic bromance with Daniel Andrews.
Merely a handful of wets? I think not. The Black Hand doesn’t always move in highly visible ways.
Think the vertically integrated business model of the backroom consultants in Sydney, with the lobbying of ministers appointed by the same “powerbrokers” doing them (and their clients) ministerial favours.
The wet faction selects cabinets, controls pre-selections, runs the State divisions and stops conservatives (Peter Dutton) from winning elections.
Put simply, they install leaders who, if conservative, toe the line.
DRIPPING
The dripping woke wets do their damnedest to rid the Party of true blues, like Alex Antic.
It stacks branches, ensures that “culture wars” are either ignored or dismissed as side-bar dead-ends. And demeaned, massively.
They bleat loudest whenever a conservative leader takes a step “too far”. Or when the Party selects a conservative as Party President. Especially when it is Tony Abbott.
Not one of these things would have occurred if the wets were a mere rump. There would not be two Parties within one. As we all know there are.
There would be absolutely no one using the term “broad church” if one of the theological strands therein could be counted on one hand.
When assessing the strength and power of the wets, you need to add to their number the moderate faction enablers.
Think again of Alex Hawke, the former NSW Right winger. He is the Liberals’ equivalent of Labor’s Mal Colston, dubbed by the legendary Robert Ray “the Quisling Quasimodo from Queensland” when he abandoned ship.
Yes, it is the same Alex Hawke who deported Novak Djokovic during the COVID tyranny and who transitioned from ScoMo’s numbers man to that of Sussan Ley.
Being wet-enablers, for whatever reasons, mostly non-ideological, simply cements the moderates’ power.
Taking the thirty pieces of silver for a factional “hand-up” is wet-adjacent behaviour, with consequences.
Of course, the very term UniParty wouldn’t be a thing, were the Liberal wets merely a “handful”.
No, Rita and Outsiders, time to get back to the drawing board.PC
Abbott lost 30 polls and the Party room, he did not manage the politics.
RGR ran the carbon scare, Abbott beat them on it. It was Morrison who dropped the guard on cc.
Covid was reacted to as it was virtually worldwide. I am continually amazed at the 20/20 hindsight that has emerged. We probably did over react at a freedom level, notably in Victoria and Qld. Labor howled for a lot more.
CC and its fiscal binge on renewables has been now taken to manic extremes. Morrison made the same mistake as Abbott, he jumped into Paris in ‘reaching out’ to the wider community. They intuitively hated him as 2022 showed. So between them we have runaway NDIS and energy cost wreaking havoc. Unless of course if you are a Tomago, Glencore etc, they get energy subsidies.
The Coalition does need to clean house and indicate we actually learned from it. Personally I would prefer Abbott , as Morrison generally does , go quietly.
I am rambling
Who would forget he & Scomo running Novak out of town & couple weeks later every man & his dog allowed in vaccinated or not.
The Liberal Party should have listened to the electorate that overwhelmingly gave the thumbs down to any idea of signing up to the climate change scam. Tony Abbott had the right idea and voters backed him in their millions. Then came the still wet behind the ears new boy on the scene, Alex Hawke. The rest is history.
Conservatives have been proven correct, as we now see the big money move their investments to the new frenzy of AI.
It will be interesting to see how long it will take to see the great swaths of once beautiful pastures littered with rotting windmills and decaying solar farms desecrating the landscape. Well done Liberals, it’s going to be a very hard road back to sanity.
Yes Paul, the moderate influence is poisonous to the Liberals. Hawke had managed to splinter a so called ‘centre right” faction.
However it is well within the non-moderate numbers in the Federal party room to dictate policy, should they choose. Or wish to be genuinely competitive. It’s apparent I am wrong; the policies coming out are relatively soft. They have enabled ON to draw a clear distinction, thus far. The moderate MPs as well as more than a few others keep bagging ON, driving a greater wedge and ensuring preferences are at increasing risk.
Whether ON sustains its rise and converts it to seats in both Houses is to be determined, but on trend it’s in the race. The Libs-Nats are losing ground; Labor still looks the beneficiary.
NSW Libs are moderate controlled. While Sloane, imo, has the ability to beat Minns, the state policies are neither sufficiently differentiated nor focussed on cost of living, law and order and housing. Energy policy is incomprehensible other than being renewables-centred when it could be a lot more with a nuclear option. Btw “nuclear” is a state by state option. ON is likely to aid the return of Minns Labor. We can watch how ON fares in Victoria but I fear the moderate/renewables influence has a solid grip on Sloane.
Regarding Alex Hawke, one of the big mistakes the Morrison govt. made was not to automatically appoint the late Jim Molan as Minister for Defence. He should have been an automatic and outstanding choice. Australia’s current defence predicaments would have been considerably reduced, some eliminated, if Molan had been in charge.
I speculate that some high up in the Defence establishment were worried stiff that Molan, as Defence Minister, would cause them considerable embarrassment and difficulty. (They might even lose their oh-so-comfortable jobs) .
They managed to get the ear of Hawke, who remember had the ear of Morrison, and thus Molan was unceremoniously overlooked/excluded from Minister for Defence. Australia’s loss, big time. Thanks Alex Hawke.
All true Peter but right now thd Liberals are in survival mode. Morrison lost his way in the hubris that followed 2019
Fellow traveller Hawke was in way over his competence level and the Party room let it happen. Just like now with the moderates and alleged centre right. Taylor must step up. Abbott is not the answer, he is a party official with dubious political smarts who may be a useful sounding board.
The MSM the liberals and labor hav been saturated since the 80’s, even Abbott, woke the lot.
Yes Dallas I share that unfashionable view. Abbott did as some say ‘reached out’, and fell over. Many Libs never got over the 25 seat majority, the hubris was palpable. Then up crept Turnbull, no one watching.
Maybe the Liberal and National parties need to use the professionals and social media sales and marketing that One Nation has working for them?
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/pauline-hansons-one-nation-outsourcing-work-to-philippines/news-story/6d7b936e39a0eacc8b0769ae3bce908a
Why have so many Liberals ignored the Liberal In Name Only leftists (LINO left) crusade aimed at wrecking the Liberal Party of Australia? The plan commenced according to published information (eg; website stopturnbull.com) when the prime mover was a student, his political beliefs best suited the Labor Party and he did according to the late Labor MP Graham “Richo” Richardson apply to become a Labor candidate for election but was not accepted. He then joined the Liberal Party and managed to gain preselection as candidate for the electorate of Wentworth and replaced the sitting member as candidate.
After the defeat of the Howard Government by Rudd Labor in November 2007 Doctor Brendan Nelson was elected to be Opposition Leader, by 2008 he was replaced by Malcolm Turnbull. By 2009 he was replaced by Tony Abbott who led the Coalition parties at the 2010 election when Gillard Labor lost all the new seats they gained at the 2007 election and were forced into an alliance minority government. At the 2013 election the Abbott Government replaced Rudd Labor in a landslide defeat. By 2015 Prime Minister Tony Abbott was replaced by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and at the 2016 election all the new seats gained in 2013 were lost, one National Party seat gain saved the Turnbull Government from defeat.
In 2018 Prime Minister Turnbull was replaced by Prime Minister Morrison who remained in that position, retained government 2019 and was defeated in 2022.
The only way to win an election is to campaign hard and the time to start is the day after the last election, One Nation has obviously gained a very professional public relations support group and with not one House of Representatives MP elected 2022 or 2025 elections and four Senators now ahead of the Liberal National Coalition. One Nation has had many past party and people problems, thirty years of what was achieved? And now, suddenly, One Nation is every day news!!!
Yes Dallas I share that unfashionable view. Abbott did as some say ‘reached out’, and fell over. Many Libs never got over the 25 seat majority, the hubris was palpable. Then up crept Turnbull, no one watching.
yes
Yes Max, The Liberals and Nationals did Abbott in ,Who would have thought ? Labor is going to be in for a while, remember Climate change and Covid are Liberal policies “big spenders”
Abbott lost 30 polls and the Party room, he did not manage the politics.
RGR ran the carbon scare, Abbott beat them on it. It was Morrison who dropped the guard on cc.
Covid was reacted to as it was virtually worldwide. I am continually amazed at the 20/20 hindsight that has emerged. We probably did over react at a freedom level, notably in Victoria and Qld. Labor howled for a lot more.
CC and its fiscal binge on renewables has been now taken to manic extremes. Morrison made the same mistake as Abbott, he jumped into Paris in ‘reaching out’ to the wider community. They intuitively hated him as 2022 showed. So between them we have runaway NDIS and energy cost wreaking havoc. Unless of course if you are a Tomago, Glencore etc, they get energy subsidies.
The Coalition does need to clean house and indicate we actually learned from it. Personally I would prefer Abbott , as Morrison generally does , go quietly.
I am rambling
Too often stated is that Prime Minister Morrison signed up to (signed an agreement) to net zero emissions agenda (UNIPCC) but it is misinformation, he did not sign an agreement despite being encouraged to do so by UK PM Johnson, POTUS Biden and others at the Glasgow COP 2021. The “plan” he presented was he said “an aspirational goal” and with terms and conditions applying for Australia;
Australia’s Net Zero Commitment
Announcement at COP26
Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Australia’s commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 during the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in 2021. This pledge was part of a broader strategy to address climate change while maintaining the country’s fossil fuel industries.
Key Features of the Commitment
Technology Focus: Morrison emphasized a “technology not taxes” approach, aiming to leverage low-emission technologies rather than imposing heavy regulations on industries.
No Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels: The plan explicitly stated that Australia would not phase out coal or gas production and exports, which is a significant aspect of its energy strategy.
Investment in Low-Emissions Technologies: The government committed to investing in renewable energy and other low-emission technologies to support this transition.
Context and Implications
This commitment aligns with global efforts to limit temperature increases and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, it has faced criticism for not setting more ambitious short-term targets and for its reliance on fossil fuels in the near future.
International agreements are unenforceable unless the government of a sovereign nation agrees to accept imposition. As former Prime Minister Howard once commented in reply to a question from a journalist on that subject.
Since May 2022 the Albanese Labor Government legislated for imposition of net zero emissions and signed a Trade Agreement with the EU Government with conditions including UN net zero emissions and use of land in Australia (UN Agenda 21 – Sustainability related), there would have been no need to do these things if Australia was already “signed up”.
Since 2018 t0 2022 following the resignation from Parliament of Malcolm Turnbull after he was replaced by Prime Minister Morrison the climate agenda including transition to renewable energy away from fossil fuels has not been followed and many changes were made.
hawke’s road to hell is lined with selfish intentions.
Oh shit. I just realised what’s going on – and I used to like Alex.
He is an affable fellow, ambitious beyond his competence. Labor have moved his seat to 5%. Fortunately for him Albanese has messed up although the Indian diaspora is imo strongly influenced by Labor; generally on a race and immigration scare. Andy Charlton (Parramatta) has actually written a book eulogising ‘Australia-India’ Look out Alex?