Excellent speech, John. You have nailed the issues that beset both Australian society and the dysfunctional Liberal Party.
The recent downgrading of Senator Gerard Rennick’s place on the Liberal Senate ticket to an unwinnable position for the 2024 federal election is one case in point. This action was an absolute disgrace, as well as being just plain politically dumb. It sends a shocking message to the growing army of Australians whose health has been damaged, or have lost family members as a result of the Covid ‘vaccine’ mandates. It tells them that their Liberal MPs don’t care. The Liberal Party’s ongoing silence about the medical disaster of the soaring post-vaccination excess death rate tells Australians that the Liberal candidates right across Australia don’t want their votes.
The sight of Senator Rennick delivering his brilliantly incisive speeches on YouTube to an empty Senate chamber about the crisis of the ‘vaccine’ injured should be an embarrassment to every Liberal member of parliament. Gerard Rennick’s demotion on the Senate ticket was an act of political suicide. If the sitting Liberal MPs want to hold their seats, then they need to demand that it be reversed.
An excellent and incisive critique. In my view you are so very correct about the Australian attitude towards authority. You have summarised it elegantly.
Equally, your comments on the Liberal Party are so extremely apposite to the point of embarrassing me for ever voting for them!
Thank you indeed for a wonderful article. Your listeners would have been privileged.
It’s a great speech John but I don’t feel that education and our Universities are all lost. For the past 70 years radical left wingers had carte Blanche there. I believe that will change as the Labor outcomes for them are realised. Liberals must quietly continue their activity because eventually most Australians will support them but only if our leaders aren’t just like Labor. Liberals have to stand out for fair practices in our country. Labor have deserted the hard workers. Big business has deserted small business. They all shout out a load of rubbish so far removed from me that I can’t support them. There are many like me. They just don’t shout out. Eg Nuclear energy is clearly for Australia. Quiet people will embrace this. It’s logical and you don’t need tertiary education to realise that!
Janice – you optimistically state that ‘nuclear energy is clearly for Australia’. I hope you are right, but we have been in this place before. It is worth reviewing where Australia has come from in the issue of nuclear technology.
I weep at the way successive Australian governments have thrown away the scientific & technological advantages bequeathed to us by World War II. Australia came out of that war as an advanced mid-level industrial country. From 1950, the second Menzies Government built on the foundation established by the previous Curtin & Chifley governments to develop an innovative industrial economy. Looking back, we now realise that we had a first class education system to support our future, not the dumbed-down mess that it has now become under the lead of the parasitical university industry.
In the 1950s, Australia was an early leader in both nuclear science as well as computer technology. We were the third country in the world to have developed a mainframe analogue computer. Most Australians are not aware of that. Australian kids of that era were very proud of our technological status, especially scientific landmarks such as the commissioning of the HIFAR nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in 1958. Australia was one of only a few countries to have achieved this level of technological excellence. This brought self-respect and direction for all Australians - and the migrants flooded in to be part of it. In my last year at school in 1962, the study of the basics of nuclear science was embedded in the secondary school curriculum. The expectation in our Physics class in that year was that Australia would soon be capitalising on its technological advantages to develop our own nuclear power grid to support a growing Hi-Tech economy.
Then in 1964, out of the blue, China unveiled its nuclear weapons program by exploding its first nuclear device. That was followed in about 1970 by the rise of an anti-nuclear socio-political movement in Europe – ‘CND’ - the ‘Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’. This also engrossed us here in Australia. Propaganda and distortions were used to create fear and loathing of all nuclear technology – not just the weapons. As a result, during the 1970s, Australia’s lead in nuclear science was effectively strangled at birth.
From the 1980s on, successive Australian governments then oversaw the progressive de-industrialisation of the Australian economy. Now, the coup-de-grace to Australia’s technological future is well advanced – namely the phoney ‘Net-Zero’ program to shut down our remaining coal-fired electricity system and effectively transfer Australia’s energy production to China in the form of their wind turbines and solar panels manufactured in that country. It is noteworthy that while Australia is de-skilling itself, China is commissioning a new Hi-Tech low emissions coal-fired power station every fortnight. How stupid are the political figures who supposedly lead us?
The moral of the story is that Australia is now well down the road to committing economic suicide. Our invertebrate political leaders are throwing away our natural advantages to transition us into a tattoo-parlour-burger-flipping economy. The outcome will be an impoverished future for following Australian generations.
And by the way – when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the highly aggressive ‘Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ suddenly evaporated. Why? Because all along it was a well-funded AgitProp creature of the Soviet intelligence services to destabilise sucker countries with a weak and easily bought political class - such as Australia.
Peter Dutton is a good man, however he is hamstrung by the choke-hold of the so-called ‘Moderate’ faction of the Liberals, which mainly consists of unprincipled political blow-ins, careerists, opportunists, and seat-warmers – individuals who have been suckered by the media to mistakenly believe that turning Menzies Liberal Party into ‘Labor-Lite’ will enhance their careers. The next three years will determine whether the Liberal Party lives or dies. The ‘Moderates’ latest move to remove a rationalist such as Senator Gerard Rennick from any future parliament is not a good omen.
Your point 2 in relation to our universities is particularly tragic for the future of young Australians. Please see this link that may put a smile on your face for Katie Hopkins characterisation of 50% of UK universities and other things. She was kicked out of Australia and lied about in the main media. But despite that, she is funny. And "The Great" absolutely despise humour. It' pose a danger to their hegemony because good jokes have wings. Look out for Tim and Bella, the sushi eating dog!
Bob, whether you love her ( I do ) or not Katie is outrageously, forthright, and not short of courage. She exhibits a precious aspect of British culture that came here with settlement, that is to be “ haven a larf “ response to that which deserves/ invites it. The most powerful response to much of the subservience to woke culture has to be satirical humor. It was likely a quiet strength on which many drew during times of conflict. Plenty of such examples come to mind of what was coined Australian “ trench humour “. Long my we hang on to it, and, employ it , unfettered.
Your point 2 in relation to our universities is particularly tragic for the future of young Australians. Please see this link that may put a smile on your face for Katie Hopkins characterisation of 50% of UK universities and other things. She was kicked out of Australia and lied about in the main media. But despite that, she is funny. And "The Great" absolutely despise humour. It' pose a danger to their hegemony because good jokes have wings. Look out for Tim and Bella, the sushi eating dog!
I am reading Mattias Desmet's The Pyschology of Totalitarianism and it has highlighted to me the role of myth and narrative in leadership.
There is a place for rational argument, a big place in these irrational times, but, a national leader or party must project a cultural ideal that warms and wins votes. A sense of human based comforting optimism. The Liberals must learn this.
It is years ago that you unexpectedly called into our then home at Lavender Bay, North Sydney. Your parting question to me was ‘what is my attitude to the proposed changes to the Constitution?’ My response: add suitable words to the Preface if you must but remove all references to race from the body of the Constitution.
Years later and we are about to vote.
My past involvement as a volunteer for 15 years to a remote indigenous community in East Arnhem Land has given me insights into how the élite indigenous leaders centered around Canberra seem to be looking for just power and control, supported by the parasites that seek to profit by perpetuating the misery of remote living Aborigines.
My advice to those who have asked me in recent times: 1. Never trust a politician’s talk. Judge them by what they do. 2. If there is any risk that the proposed Constitutional change will divide our great nation by race then my vote will be an emphatic NO!
Excellent speech, John. You have nailed the issues that beset both Australian society and the dysfunctional Liberal Party.
The recent downgrading of Senator Gerard Rennick’s place on the Liberal Senate ticket to an unwinnable position for the 2024 federal election is one case in point. This action was an absolute disgrace, as well as being just plain politically dumb. It sends a shocking message to the growing army of Australians whose health has been damaged, or have lost family members as a result of the Covid ‘vaccine’ mandates. It tells them that their Liberal MPs don’t care. The Liberal Party’s ongoing silence about the medical disaster of the soaring post-vaccination excess death rate tells Australians that the Liberal candidates right across Australia don’t want their votes.
The sight of Senator Rennick delivering his brilliantly incisive speeches on YouTube to an empty Senate chamber about the crisis of the ‘vaccine’ injured should be an embarrassment to every Liberal member of parliament. Gerard Rennick’s demotion on the Senate ticket was an act of political suicide. If the sitting Liberal MPs want to hold their seats, then they need to demand that it be reversed.
An excellent and incisive critique. In my view you are so very correct about the Australian attitude towards authority. You have summarised it elegantly.
Equally, your comments on the Liberal Party are so extremely apposite to the point of embarrassing me for ever voting for them!
Thank you indeed for a wonderful article. Your listeners would have been privileged.
Wonderful article John and congratulations. I only wish that I could write as thoughtfully as you.
I often despair for our future but I am fortified by the quality of people you have at the IPA.
It’s a great speech John but I don’t feel that education and our Universities are all lost. For the past 70 years radical left wingers had carte Blanche there. I believe that will change as the Labor outcomes for them are realised. Liberals must quietly continue their activity because eventually most Australians will support them but only if our leaders aren’t just like Labor. Liberals have to stand out for fair practices in our country. Labor have deserted the hard workers. Big business has deserted small business. They all shout out a load of rubbish so far removed from me that I can’t support them. There are many like me. They just don’t shout out. Eg Nuclear energy is clearly for Australia. Quiet people will embrace this. It’s logical and you don’t need tertiary education to realise that!
Janice – you optimistically state that ‘nuclear energy is clearly for Australia’. I hope you are right, but we have been in this place before. It is worth reviewing where Australia has come from in the issue of nuclear technology.
I weep at the way successive Australian governments have thrown away the scientific & technological advantages bequeathed to us by World War II. Australia came out of that war as an advanced mid-level industrial country. From 1950, the second Menzies Government built on the foundation established by the previous Curtin & Chifley governments to develop an innovative industrial economy. Looking back, we now realise that we had a first class education system to support our future, not the dumbed-down mess that it has now become under the lead of the parasitical university industry.
In the 1950s, Australia was an early leader in both nuclear science as well as computer technology. We were the third country in the world to have developed a mainframe analogue computer. Most Australians are not aware of that. Australian kids of that era were very proud of our technological status, especially scientific landmarks such as the commissioning of the HIFAR nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in 1958. Australia was one of only a few countries to have achieved this level of technological excellence. This brought self-respect and direction for all Australians - and the migrants flooded in to be part of it. In my last year at school in 1962, the study of the basics of nuclear science was embedded in the secondary school curriculum. The expectation in our Physics class in that year was that Australia would soon be capitalising on its technological advantages to develop our own nuclear power grid to support a growing Hi-Tech economy.
Then in 1964, out of the blue, China unveiled its nuclear weapons program by exploding its first nuclear device. That was followed in about 1970 by the rise of an anti-nuclear socio-political movement in Europe – ‘CND’ - the ‘Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’. This also engrossed us here in Australia. Propaganda and distortions were used to create fear and loathing of all nuclear technology – not just the weapons. As a result, during the 1970s, Australia’s lead in nuclear science was effectively strangled at birth.
From the 1980s on, successive Australian governments then oversaw the progressive de-industrialisation of the Australian economy. Now, the coup-de-grace to Australia’s technological future is well advanced – namely the phoney ‘Net-Zero’ program to shut down our remaining coal-fired electricity system and effectively transfer Australia’s energy production to China in the form of their wind turbines and solar panels manufactured in that country. It is noteworthy that while Australia is de-skilling itself, China is commissioning a new Hi-Tech low emissions coal-fired power station every fortnight. How stupid are the political figures who supposedly lead us?
The moral of the story is that Australia is now well down the road to committing economic suicide. Our invertebrate political leaders are throwing away our natural advantages to transition us into a tattoo-parlour-burger-flipping economy. The outcome will be an impoverished future for following Australian generations.
And by the way – when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the highly aggressive ‘Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’ suddenly evaporated. Why? Because all along it was a well-funded AgitProp creature of the Soviet intelligence services to destabilise sucker countries with a weak and easily bought political class - such as Australia.
Peter Dutton is a good man, however he is hamstrung by the choke-hold of the so-called ‘Moderate’ faction of the Liberals, which mainly consists of unprincipled political blow-ins, careerists, opportunists, and seat-warmers – individuals who have been suckered by the media to mistakenly believe that turning Menzies Liberal Party into ‘Labor-Lite’ will enhance their careers. The next three years will determine whether the Liberal Party lives or dies. The ‘Moderates’ latest move to remove a rationalist such as Senator Gerard Rennick from any future parliament is not a good omen.
Well said John. Very true and inspiring for me.
Your point 2 in relation to our universities is particularly tragic for the future of young Australians. Please see this link that may put a smile on your face for Katie Hopkins characterisation of 50% of UK universities and other things. She was kicked out of Australia and lied about in the main media. But despite that, she is funny. And "The Great" absolutely despise humour. It' pose a danger to their hegemony because good jokes have wings. Look out for Tim and Bella, the sushi eating dog!
https://youtu.be/KbXRtLChCn8
Bob, whether you love her ( I do ) or not Katie is outrageously, forthright, and not short of courage. She exhibits a precious aspect of British culture that came here with settlement, that is to be “ haven a larf “ response to that which deserves/ invites it. The most powerful response to much of the subservience to woke culture has to be satirical humor. It was likely a quiet strength on which many drew during times of conflict. Plenty of such examples come to mind of what was coined Australian “ trench humour “. Long my we hang on to it, and, employ it , unfettered.
Well said John. Very true and inspiring for me.
Your point 2 in relation to our universities is particularly tragic for the future of young Australians. Please see this link that may put a smile on your face for Katie Hopkins characterisation of 50% of UK universities and other things. She was kicked out of Australia and lied about in the main media. But despite that, she is funny. And "The Great" absolutely despise humour. It' pose a danger to their hegemony because good jokes have wings. Look out for Tim and Bella, the sushi eating dog!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbXRtLChCn8
I am reading Mattias Desmet's The Pyschology of Totalitarianism and it has highlighted to me the role of myth and narrative in leadership.
There is a place for rational argument, a big place in these irrational times, but, a national leader or party must project a cultural ideal that warms and wins votes. A sense of human based comforting optimism. The Liberals must learn this.
Powerful,Incisive, eloquent and frighteningly accurate.
Keep it up! Good stuff John.
It is years ago that you unexpectedly called into our then home at Lavender Bay, North Sydney. Your parting question to me was ‘what is my attitude to the proposed changes to the Constitution?’ My response: add suitable words to the Preface if you must but remove all references to race from the body of the Constitution.
Years later and we are about to vote.
My past involvement as a volunteer for 15 years to a remote indigenous community in East Arnhem Land has given me insights into how the élite indigenous leaders centered around Canberra seem to be looking for just power and control, supported by the parasites that seek to profit by perpetuating the misery of remote living Aborigines.
My advice to those who have asked me in recent times: 1. Never trust a politician’s talk. Judge them by what they do. 2. If there is any risk that the proposed Constitutional change will divide our great nation by race then my vote will be an emphatic NO!
Very true. 'From little things big things grow', to quote the Bob Dylan of Australia.