A SELF INFLICTED INJURY BY THE LIBERAL COALTION
The obliteration of the Liberal National Coalition at the hands of its members and the voting public in Australia’s general election on May 4, 2025, was a spectacle anticipated by all but the party’s own leadership. Its headquarters, and the coterie of apparatchiks scattered across Canberra and the states wallowed in the arrogance of its igorance. They clung to a delusional vision of “light at the end of the tunnel,” oblivious to the reality that it was the glare of an oncoming freight train.
This juggernaut, powered by public discontent, obliterated Peter Dutton and his followers, leaving the party in ruins. And they earned every bit of it. A party so disconnected from the pulse of the nation, tethered to an outdated, elitist vision of a white, male, conservative, Australia is no longer Australian in any meaningful sense.
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The Labor Party, for its part, is no paragon of virtue. They are merely slicker charlatans, peddling policies wrapped in charm and finesse. In politics, the best liar often wins, and Labor has mastered the art. Dutton, by contrast, stumbled through the campaign, inarticulate and uninspiring, a politician incapable of commanding the stage. Yet, astonishingly, no one at party headquarters dared to tell the emperor he was parading without clothes.
The Coalition’s failure to engage with Australia’s evolving demographic was glaring. Not a single candidate or spokesperson could articulate a vision in Mandarin or Hindi—languages representing two-fifths of the global population and a growing segment of Australia’s electorate. Labor’s leader, Anthony Albanese, showed no greater respect for these communities. But he skillfully masked his indifference to them with diplomatic finesse with the likes of Penny Wong (a half Asian) in tow for convenience and visual effect.. He welcomed token representation into the party machinery, trading integrity for votes. The tail now wags the dog with unapologetic vigor.
FAILURE TO HEED THE LESSONS OF HISTORY
Both parties are intellectual wastelands, parochial and elitist, blind to the lessons of history and the rise of diverse self interested communities in Australia and the region. Take Malcolm Turnbull and his opposite number in the game Kevin Rudd, both former prime ministers of Australia and paramount examples of the point. They would have sold the country to an enemy many say, if the price was right. And perhaps the price was right but not right enough for one or both of them to go far enough with that sale.
China and Chinese-affiliated groups in Australia target women’s organizations and human rights groups, such as the ‘Guangdong Human Rights Association'(GHRA). The GHRA is a CCP proxy, which infiltrated the ALP, ACTU, various human rights and educational bodies in Australia. The ALP has supported groups like the GHRA, enabling them to downplay China’s actions in Tibet and Xinjiang, home to the Uyghurs, while obscuring China’s strategic ambitions in the Pacific and Australasia (ICIJ). Through these organizations, the CCP funds overseas trips for Australian journalists, human rights advocates, acdemics, scholars, teachers, and politicians.
Michele Taylor, former U.S. ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, warned that China-backed groups pose as NGOs to conceal Beijing’s human rights abuses and manipulate narratives, aiming to influence elections in weaker Western governments and beyond. The ALP’s documented history of collaboration with China, dating back to the Whitlam era – alongside some Liberal members – underscores this pattern of collusion.
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With the Liberals (and Labour) their policies, steeped in gender divisions and ethno-religious myopia, sow division and invite chaos. The Coalition and Labour’s women, often reduced to parroting feminist clichés or riding the coat tails of demographic appeasement, join professional minorities in exploiting weak leadership to fracture the nation. Both sides meanwhile, court the same groups with calculated cynicism and scant regard for quality or ability in politics. In the meantime Australia burns.
The elderly, a dominant voting bloc, abandoned the Liberals in droves. No extraterrestrial intervention was needed at the polls; the verdict was clear. The same voters who obliterated the Coalition were once its base, a truth evident to even the most oblivious observer.
Labor, too, is on borrowed time. Their complicity in abandoning allies like Israel in its hour of need, while fanning the flames of antisemitism under the guise of pro-Palestinian activism, will haunt them. The growing influence of Chinese ethnic political chauvinism, a sophisticated echo of foreign interference from the Whitlam era, further tilts the electoral scales.
The young women’s demographic and their movements, reminiscent of Mao’s Cultural revolutionary cadres, amplify the chaos. Hegel’s warning rings true: “The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.” Both parties, bereft of vision or credibility, are hurtling toward irrelevance unless they confront the seismic shifts reshaping Australia’s soul.
Geoff Taylor and Krishna Pillay