Published in the Spectator 6 October 2022
There often comes a time when a friend has to put his arm around a mate who is behaving badly and ask what’s going on. The Liberal Party and I had such a moment on Sunday during my speech at CPAC.
The Liberal Party seemed to consider CPAC as an opportunity to restore their conservative credentials and engage in a membership drive to the exclusion of other conservative parties, including One Nation.
The Liberals were staking their claim to an unearned (and undeserved) conservative voting ground. It was for this reason that I changed my speech on Sunday morning to start a conversation on what should be expected of a conservative politician.
CPAC was an amazing event, I congratulate the organisers for all their hard work.
While the speakers on the stage were excellent, what was even better was the full and frank conversation I had with attendees representing the full spectrum of conservative thought.
My speech condensed the advice I received from attendees into a six-minute critique of the Liberal Party.
On Saturday morning, the Outsiders panel with Spectator Australia editor Rowan Dean and fellow Sky News Australia co-hosts Rita Panahi and James Morrow declared Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Katherine Deves as Australia’s bravest women. I absolutely agree that Jacinta and Katherine are brave, intelligent, and strong women. Amazing women. Each is a credit to the conservative movement.
However, they are not Australia’s bravest women. That title has gone to Pauline Hanson for the last 25 years.
Pauline has fought the very battles frequently mentioned during CPAC – those battles to protect family, community, Christianity, Australia’s borders, the Indigenous industry, our flag, veterans, and way of life from predatory political ideologies.
It is ironic that the omnipresent party at CPAC was the same party that sent Pauline to jail to shut her up – the Liberal Party.
After being released and exonerated, Pauline put aside her time as Australia’s first political prisoner to lead One Nation in the fight for conservative values.
This should never be forgotten, especially with the release of a new national anti-corruption body lacking in checks and balances One Nation expected to be there.
In this last Parliament, Australia’s Covid response asked many questions of our elected leaders. Questions like:
What happened to my body my choice?
What happened to the vaccine approval process?
What happened to freedom of movement and freedom of association?
What happened to the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship?
What happened to free speech?
And how could a virus infect you in a small business, but not in a big business?
One Nation went to this last election defending conservative values and fighting for your freedom.
Senator Ralph Babet and the UAP were also there defending your freedom. The Liberal Democrats were there standing up against the genuinely evil Daniel Andrews regime in Victoria. Commentator and documentary filmmaker Topher Field was arrested for his courage and went on to produce the award-winning documentary Battleground Melbourne that I urge all Australians to watch.
What did the Liberal Party, which is now asking for your support, do in the last election? They chose to preference the Labor Party ahead of One Nation in many races, in the end delivering the Senate to the ALP.
And why was Peter Dutton and the Senior Liberal Party leadership absent from CPAC if conservatism is written large in the DNA of the Liberal Party?
Former Prime Ministers John Howard and Tony Abbott prepared messages, so why not members of the Liberal Party leadership who hold power? Why are they hiding from conservatives?
Attendees at CPAC want to see the Liberals rediscover their roots in true liberalism, although it would be unbelievable if the Liberals achieved that task in a single weekend. It could be argued that their performance over the weekend and subsequent defence of it has worsened their position within the conservative movement.
Many Liberal Party voters believe that the party quite simply sold Australia out.
‘You betrayed us!’ echoed from the crowd at one point, amid boos after some in the party misread the sentiment of the room. To those on stage who insisted that the behaviour of the Liberals was ‘not as bad as Labor’, we ask:
Who was it that locked Western Sydney residents into their homes and put troops on the streets to keep them there – that was the Liberal Berejiklian government.
Who closed their state off to the rest of Australia, imposed business closures, restricted movement, and forced medical mandates on their citizens – that was the Liberal Marshall government.
Who changed the rules to allow emergency health orders under the Biosecurity Act, and then tore up the vaccine approval rule book, while sharing the vaccine status of citizens with anyone who wanted to see it?
That was the Liberal Morrison government.
With the benefit of hindsight, we know the measures taken by the old parties, including the so-called conservative Liberal and National parties, were wrong and probably resulted in more loss of life than if the virus had been treated as a flu.
Australian Actuarial Data shows for the 3 months to March 2022 deaths from respiratory diseases, including Covid, the flu, and pneumonia were 7 per cent lower than the long-term average.
Put simply, Covid is now less deadly than the flu, based on overall deaths.
What that actuarial data also showed was that deaths from heart disease were up 10 per cent, Cerebrovascular disease was up 5 per cent, and Australia’s death rate overall is 13 per cent above the expected rate – all this despite respiratory deaths being 7 per cent down.
Why are deaths spiking?
There never was a firm or consensus medical basis for the measures that were taken by the Federal Liberal Party, and State Liberal Party governments in New South Wales and South Australia – but they did it anyway.
We must have a Royal Commission to get to the bottom of all of this.
If the Liberal Party want their supporters to ‘hold the line’, as we heard during CPAC, then they need to change their leadership, change their policies, apologise for their failures, and start over.
At CPAC, I also heard a speaker in favour of retaining the two-party system of government.
I do not agree.
It was not a two-party system that delivered conservatives a victory in Italy, that was a multi-party coalition.
It was not a two-party system that delivered conservatives to government in Sweden, that was a multi-party coalition.
While Brexit did deliver the first black eye to the globalists as another speaker mentioned, the conservatives did not do that. Nigel Farage did that, working outside of the establishment parties.
And it was not the Republicans that won the Presidency in 2016, it was Donald Trump.
It will not be the Republicans that regain Congress in a month, it will be Donald Trump and his Maga movement.
And they will retake Congress over the dead body of establishment republicans.
Can a unified conservative movement achieve more than a disunited movement?
Of course it can.
That is why all these decent, everyday Australians came to CPAC. They were there to make a difference.
We are people from all parties, united in the desire to defend conservative values. We can win this fight. Just as victory in two world wars was not any nation’s alone, rather, nations came together, allied in a single cause, to defend against evil and create a future that protects freedom, family, and abundance.
After a long period of peace and prosperity, those who seek to take everything and leave us with nothing are in the ascendency.
We have been at rest too long, my friends.
We are in a war against neo-paganism masquerading as Wokeism.
We do not need to be one party to triumph over evil, but we must be one community. We must be united, we must be resolute and most importantly, we must start today.
There is no need for a single conservative party, especially not one as arrogant and out of touch as the Liberal Party.
There is however a pressing need for conservative allies to unite, and fight side by side with a clarity of mind and purpose.
And so I implore all conservatives, now is the time, as Shakespeare said so eloquently, ‘Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.’
Just how many times do we have to admit we are being ruled by Corporate TREASONISTS Governments.?
They gave us preference voting without our consent with a Referendum.
In 1973 they removed our Crown, again without our Referendum as was the law in these times.
The law means without a doubt, our rightful Commonwealth Australia Constitution 1901.
This means the whole of Parliament, including One Nation are sitting in contempt of our Constitution 1901.
Are you so-called Parliamentary Member blind and deaf to our reality of
Traitors selling off the farm to the highest bidder, the reality of Covid-19
Oops, I mean the flu, not the stuff in the jab. ? Sorry Vaccine, 😞?
WELL SAID … hope your question dignifies an answer?
A REAL critical thinker
Thank you Ray for speaking on behalf of many concerned Australians
Well said, Malcolm. As an ex-Queenslander, I can well remember the initial Pauline Hanson media derogatory exercise. Unlike many tertiary educated & qualified (though I am not sure that is so true nowadays due to the over commercialisation of our profiteering educational institutions) ‘experts’, Pauline was not a career politician, but a grounded hard working small business owner. Yes, there were public presentation issues in the beginning, but the grassroots people took her into their hearts. It is a pity that it has taken so long for the voting public to realise that One Nation’s beliefs align with many of their own. The ‘smoke & mirrors’ deceit by the main stream political elites, needs to be exposed. One Nation, along with Katter, Palmer’s UAP & similar smaller representatives are gaining recognisiton, but we need more. It takes courage to go against the main stream media, big business, & profiteering, to ensure that the ‘grass roots’ people have a voice. Grass Roots was a ‘back to basics’ magazine in my early adult days, which I believe many will need to refer to as we rapidly slide into the false premise of climate change dogma espoused by those that stand to profit the most at the expense of the people. Our freedoms were roued due to a false illness that, to date, I have not seen any ‘scientific’ evidence that the illness existed in any different manner than the ‘flu’. Yet, as a former member of the medical profession, we were forced by government, big business & main stream scaremogering to have a medical procedure for which we will now pay dearly for into the future. Workers have been forced out of employment, with no recourse to claim back their rightful recompense due to government legislated protection of the perpetrators. It is a sorry world, but, many will see through the ‘smoke & mirrors’ & continue the fight for majority who want the world to be a productive, peaceful entity. We are one human people, & we are One Nation.
Well spoken, Malcolm.
We have been hoodwinked by those privileged to be in a position of power. Using this power has gone to their heads, example McGowan in WA, Andrews in Victoria. They along with all politicians were elected by the people for the people.
Their actions require scrutiny via a royal commission. The damage to families & businesses which may be unsalvageable
is all part of the bigger picture of the new world order. People need to waken up now.
How truthfully you speak,Malcolm. Here are some questions I would like answered from my supposed representatives.
1 Why are the WEF trainees in our SOVEREIGN parliament not MANDATED to reveal their traitorous alignment. I have been told Greg Hunt was one.Who are the others to join the cohort of globalists thinking themselves superior to the people who innocently voted them into power. Think Adern,Trudeau,Rutte,Newsom et al around the world not to mention Putin. Let the Australian voters see who puts a scion of a Nazi family and money above their loyalty to their own countries,so obsessed with power are they.
2 Why are unread,unintelligent people aloowed to even stand for parliament? Most jobs require qualifications of some kind. It ap0ears the main one in our parliament is money. Look at the Teal women and their wealthy backgrounds or spoilt children as Turnbull and Rudd who cannot even lose graciously.
3 Why are medical bureaucrats such as Spurrier,Sutton,Chant in positions where their expertise is not at all connected to their pontificating over what thecherd had to
Continued:- had to endure over a false narrative and an untested injection.
4 where is the proof of global warming with proper back up,not just hysteria from the Greens. Good for the CEO of Toyota for telling the truth and making his vast company produce only petrol driven cars,knowing that EVs are not viable for mass production.
5 Why are the media the Labour,Liberal,National parties colluding with w4ong headd theorists?
I applaud Malcolm ,Pauline Alex Antic and other ordinary folk but critical thinkers for their tenacity,bravery and common sense. We must all put our backs to this stuck wheel and fight for truth and honesty and morals.
Well said Malcolm and everyone’s comments. A multi party system is the way to go and rid this country of inept corporate politicians who only follow agenda based policies to bring about Klaus Schwab’s tyranny. We need to know who has graduated from the WEF. Thank you Malcolm for being brave to speak out. Your party has my vote from SA. Keep up your amazing work. Thank you 🙏
You are right again Malcolm with several things this time!
firstly, yes it was Pauline Hanson that stuck her neck out for most Australians and was prepared to go to jail to ensure these thoughts were made public. She really is a truly courageous women and should be remembered as such!
Secondly, yes I heard some of your speech and was deeply moved by your enthusiasm in presenting the facts. This needs to be replayed on National television.
Thirdly, we have the time now to properly prepare an agenda for the next elections. This needs to be a priority to somehow ensure that One Nation with the support of Nick Canavan and a few other like-minded politicians, to hold the balance of power in both the Upper and Lower Houses. If this doesn’t happen very soon, it will be too late and the Lefties will stuff up the country. What do we have to do to get this done?
Thank you Malcolm. Well said. Never give up, but keep up the good fight
So well said and written!
God bless you!
Hear hear!
How can we agitate for a multi party system? You’re so right, this 2 party one is a schermozzle
I am so impressed with you “true” Pollies that have used your feet to change parties, for the sake of your constituents !
Thanks for being a voice for the millions of awake & wakening Australians, we must keep fighting against all odds as it’s the right thing to do, it’s just a pity that so many Aussies aren’t impacted enough to take action against the satanic tyrrany !
Great Job and never give up !
Mike
Agreed on all points – well said, Malcolm!