THE following open letter was written by the NSW State President of the United Conservative Party, Ron Pike, to Federal Liberal Party Leader Angus Taylor.
It first appeared in The Spectator Australia on July 5, 2026.
- Do not underestimate the nationwide backing for the policies being promoted by One Nation.
- Libs must completely withdraw from Paris and call out Climate Change as a scam.
Dear Sir,
First, I would like to say that your low rating in the polls is largely the fault of the standard set by Ley, Dutton, Morrison and Turnbull who preceded you. All of whom lacked the skills or policy to attract voters.
You came to this job as Opposition Leader at a time when people are waiting to punish Albanese at the polls, which is opportune, but you need to be aware that many conservatives have already decided to vote for One Nation.
ATTACKING
Attacking Pauline Hanson, in any way, will lose the Liberal Party support. Do not underestimate the nationwide backing for the policies being promoted by One Nation.
To counter this, I believe the Liberals should research plausible nation-building policy that will bring the budget into surplus, pay off the national debt, increase productivity and make the Australian people proud of their enterprise.
The Australian people must believe they can beat anyone in a fair fight.
At the moment, they are being hampered by climate change nonsense and over regulation by a government that has communist tendencies.
Mr Taylor, if you are to succeed and ultimately become Prime Minister, it would be wise to develop and promote policy that will make Australia great.
Greatness such as that we experienced a decade or two after the second world war. There is still within the Australian character a rich “can do” belief in ourselves and our ability to be the best.
These traits are wonderful building blocks with which to start.
You must build on this foundation with not just “nation-building” policy, but policy in which the average Australian believes and will support.
The Liberal Party should begin by abandoning all climate change abatement policy and halt all taxpayer support to “renewable energy”.
WITHDRAW
Completely withdraw from the Paris Agreement and call out the whole Climate Change imbroglio as a scam.
Next, there should be a policy to restart low-cost power production from the vast brown coal reserves in Victoria, ensuring that the Victorian government does not charge unreasonable royalties.
Then build two “state of the art” coal-fired power stations. One on the coal fields of central Queensland and the other on the yet to be developed coal seam near Oaklands in southern NSW.
Having provided for our foreseeable power needs, a government led by you could commission a company to produce diesel from our vast coal reserves in quantities to make us self-sufficient and to put in storage at least a year’s supply of this vital input to our economy.
Be aware that little moves in Australia without diesel power and removing excise from this vital input would make us more efficient.
We have not built a significant dam in Australia for more than 40 years, during which time our population has increased by 12m people. Our stored water capacity is critically low.
DAMS
A Liberal government must urgently commission the building of dams on the Shoalhaven, Mitchell, Murray, Clarence and Burdekin Rivers.
The money for these major constructions can be borrowed and repaid from the sale of low-cost hydro power, as we did with the Snowy Scheme.
By providing the people with the power and water to develop our resources for our use and development, we make Australia stronger and more secure.
The next step is to now start producing our own Urea and other chemicals used on farms and in factories across Australia.
The people will support you for making Australia more adaptable, more productive and a more reliable workplace.
Your ratings in the polls will rise exponentially.
Good luck.
Ron Pike.
Well, may I suggest? – Just change the bloody law! Legislation can easily be changed. In Australia, 50 per cent +1 wins. There’s no need for your doomsday scenario.
For a start, the Albanese government locked Australia into the Paris Agreement in March as part of the Free Trade Agreement with the EU. Pauline Hanson loves saying how she will “get out of Paris”. What does she intend to do – dismantle the FTA with the EU?
Very easy to sit back in the Senate, criticising everyone knowing the responsibility isn’t yours to fix these things. Once you become government and you have to make compromises, as every government does, then you are just like everyone else. Hanson’s uncosted promises won’t all be possible to achieve due to the almighty mess any incoming government will find.
Well, may I suggest? – Just change the bloody law! Legislation can easily be changed. In Australia, it is 50 per cent +1. There’s no need for your doomsday scenario.
Its a fact the the draft FTA agreement recently negotiated can be stopped/potentially varied by an EU member.
I am all for walking away from Paris but just be careful of the trade effect. Yes the CC/renewables is a financial ruse. Our approach should be nodding and very little more.
Barnaby Joyce MP (elected again as a National Party candidate in 2025 ) commented recently announcing he has changed his mind about standing for a Senate seat in 2028 and will remain in the House of Representatives because if One Nation did gain many new elected members there would be chaos as they tried to deal with the challenges of Parliament, let alone forming a government of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and they would all need mentors – good luck with that Mr Joyce.
Chaos is not what will be needed to deal with the problems of incompetence by Albanese Labor and by 2028 after six years in government.
The FTA is empty. They need our raw materials more than we need cars champagne and Louis Vutton bags. If they dont want our grain and food and ores we can sell elsewhere. The threat is meaningless and very costly for farmers etc who are forced to abide by EU Carbon laws just to sell some beef or wheat.
Cowards the lot, on Covid and Climate Change.
The Coalition needs to utilise their numbers to show strength and full opposition alternative to government already elected and working together, the minor party popular by polling results consists of six elected people, four are Senators and two are House of Representatives MPs trying hard to appear to be an opposition party but please consider;
“Inside the parliamentary team, Senator Bell said there has been little emphasis on rigid portfolio boundaries.
While Barnaby Joyce MP has been appointed Treasury spokesman, the rest of the parliamentary team works collectively across legislation and policy.”
Recently Joyce MP announced that his earlier plan to stand for election to the Senate has been abandoned, he is concerned that if One Nation manages to get a large number of people elected to Parliament there would be chaos as they would all be inexperienced and would need mentors to guide them.
It would be difficult to work collectively if in the Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Deputy Prime Minister and up to thirty Cabinet Ministers. The public service would have a “Yes Minister” field day.
I can see no reason to criticise Ron Pike’s letter and advice, in fact the Liberal National (LNP QLD) are the only opposition and potentially alternative government elected to Parliament since 2025 and therefore with Opposition Leader, Deputy Opposition Leader and thirty Shadow Cabinet Ministers.
The popular by opinion polling One Nation have one Leader and behind the scenes proprietor called Chief of Staff James Ashby who many will remember as a staffer for the 27th Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from November 24, 2011, to October 9, 2012 Peter Slipper. He was a member of the Liberal Party before becoming an independent.
Recently James Ashby has challenged Captain Andrew Hastie MP – “Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie has become a special target for One Nation over his willingness to give evidence against Victoria Cross winner Ben Roberts-Smith, who has been charged with five counts of the war crime of murder.
One Nation used the Roberts-Smith issue in the Farrer by-election, with corflutes declaring “HE FOUGHT FOR US. ONE NATION STANDS WITH HIM”.
James Ashby, Pauline Hanson’s top adviser and a long-term leading strategist in the party, on Tuesday delivered a very direct political threat to Hastie.
“We stand by all of our defence force members, and that is one thing that Andrew Hastie is forgetting….”
Ashby ignored that thirty former ADF personnel were summoned to appear in court, and obviously required by law to attend.
The point is that One Nation is using the media to attack the Coalition Liberal and National MPs and they need to lift their game and respond responsibly and respectfully.
A Liberal MP once commented to me that the problem with Liberal Party people is that they are too polite, when Labor attacks from the gutters the Liberal response is most often “Marquis of Queensbury” rules of the gentlemen. The problem for the Liberals being that mud sticks, the more mud is thrown the faster the target is covered in mud, and the voting public cannot remember the person who had a character assassination. Relentless negativity, ask Tony Abbott, ask Scott Morrison – remember the 2019 bushfires and Hawaii holiday attacks? Labor ignored that the Deputy PM was on duty and that bushfires are State Government responsibility and State Emergency Services. And later starting January 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, all PM Morrison’s fault when State’s with primary responsibility for public health and hospitals (interstate border closures, stay at home orders, policing, hotel detention centres and so on.
I believe that Deputy Opposition Leader and National Party Leader Senator Matt Canavan has been campaigning hard from the day the National MPs appointed him unopposed as their Leader. Since Angus Taylor was elected by a two thirds majority of Liberal MPs he has been campaigning but with a far too low profile.
It has been said that the day to start campaigning to win the next election is the day after the last election.
One Nation have discovered the sales and marketing tactics.
However, their marketing is headlines and mission statements of no detailed substance, sometimes advertising like that is described as hyperbole and puffery.