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The Australian Right's big mistake : Comments

By Paul Collits, published 1/7/2020

Australia's battle of ideas - the culture war - seems lost, to the forces of progressive liberalism. Those who would fight this battle seem preoccupied with getting the Liberal party into office, and keeping it there.

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“We have a Liberal led coalition that doesn’t have the three things needed by “the base”. First, they are not right wing. They are mostly left-leaning liberals, not at all conservative, or populist for that matter. Look at who gets pre-selected. Folks who are as socially liberal and as woke as anyone. They are genuine leftists who are allowed to take seats at the high table.”

Ironically, the bumbling Malcolm Turnbull would never have become PM, had it not been for Tony Abbott succeeding him as opposition leader and then leading the Coalition to Government, only to be stabbed in the back by the envious, conceited Malcolm who then set about implementing his progressive agenda with the unquestioning support of ‘genuine leftist’ colleagues.

The national interest was poorly served by the leftist Turnbull-led coalition government. Besides the disastrous new submarine program decision:

. it ratified the Green-left-politicised Paris Climate Agreement, an accord that was unjustified on both scientific and economic grounds. Local implementation entailed more subsidisation of high-cost, unreliable, weather-dependent, renewable power, so as to discourage new investment in reliable, low-cost, coal-fired baseload power. Unsurprisingly, there is over-investment in intermittent renewable energy, that has forced up power prices to around the developed world’s highest, causing business disinvestment and consequent job losses;

. it decided to build the high-risk, economically-unjustified Snowy 2 pumped water scheme at the exorbitant cost of $12billion, an outlay for which four or five new HELE coal-fired power stations could have been built instead;

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Posted by Raycom, Sunday, 5 July 2020 12:11:53 AM
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Dear Individual,

«The Unions will again put a stop any such effort !»

What nonsense!

At times of peace, unions may well try to improve workers' conditions, but now when we are at war?

Just consider what could they possibly achieve by that: what would our working conditions be should, God forbid, China takes over Australia? Better compare them with the Uighurs' because we would not fare any better: those of us who would somehow remain alive would become enslaved in the mines, with a salary of a glass of water per bucket of gold!
Posted by Yuyutsu, Sunday, 5 July 2020 12:12:26 AM
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. it proceeded with Labor’s exorbitant in-excess-of $50 billion NBN project, but modified for (or rather botched to) fibre to the node transmission and then existent 100 year-old technology to link to the home;

. it allowed the 99-year lease of the port of Darwin to the Chinese;

. it supported implementation of the $13billion Murray-Darling Basin Scheme, that reduced farmers’ irrigation water availability by 20 per cent, so as to provide so-called environmental flows to maintain the artificial freshwater lakes at the Murray mouth. Inevitably, reduced output as well as higher prices have been caused by this government-induced scarcity;

. it failed to review whether continuing government funding of the ABC was justified, as the broadcaster has become predominantly a leftist propagandist; and as virtually all usual ABC services may be provided now by private sources.

As the number of genuine leftists appears to have increased in the Morrison Government, and as most senior bureaucrats are understood to be genuine leftists, the prospects of the national interest being better served do not appear great.
Posted by Raycom, Sunday, 5 July 2020 12:17:06 AM
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Raycom,

Would you therefore contend that the "leftist" leanings of the Morrison 'Liberal/Coalition' government in implementing 'Job Keeper' and the doubling of 'Job Seeker' in this time of Covid response exhibits an outrageous failing - a clear and undeniable refutation and rejection of true 'Nationalist Conservative' ideals? (Or Conservative Nationalist ideals, for that matter? No distinction evident.)?

What say you? A Liberal government exhibiting compassion as well as sound, earnest economic responsibility in the very best interests of the nation and its workers in a time of severe healthcare and economic crisis - can only be construed as a weak, falling-to-the-knee bowing to the ultimate power and altruistic superiority of the Trade Unions??

Dastardly usurpation of the exclusive 'right' of The Left, and Labor! Quite simply horrendous!

And the Morrison government's response to Covid? What of this? A national forum of Federal, State and Territory governments in an interest to coordinate effective and timely measures to protect all, and especially the vulnerable and the healthcare and essential service providers? How can this be seen as properly in keeping with fundamental 'Liberal' democratic ideals? Intolerable gall!

My assessment of this bold writer's (Paul Collits') definition of the role and responsibility of a true (but not dinky-di) Big "L" Liberal Government is a heartless, dog-eat-dog Libertarian free-for-all, and 'let the devil take the hindmost' pandering to the top end of town, with no strings attached. (Reference and attribution to the most glowing and formidable example of 'POTUS', the man himself, none other than the mighty Donald J. Trump, esquire.)

I reject all Collits espouses and expounds in this paltry, confused and utterly worthless piece of unsubstantiated detritus.

Bring out the Liberal 'lefties' masquerading in the Morrison government, and let's see them in the clear light of day. Do so, or take a hike, please.
Posted by Saltpetre, Sunday, 5 July 2020 12:11:27 PM
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There are several problems for the Australian right including PR or media (support) precluding the development of grounded policy along with lazy use of glib one liners e.g. 'shared woke globalist ideology'.

More interesting would be the writer's take on changing demographics of Australian society, the electorate and Liberal and/or National Party memberships?

There would seem to be a use by date for any party in a democracy by appealing (mostly or solely) to ageing and/or white Christian nationalism; demographic declining in influence versus increasing diversity of future conservatives?
Posted by Andras Smith, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 6:03:47 AM
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A couple of interesting facts from the Eden-Monaro by-election. It was preference votes from the right wing Shooters Party, they openly preferenced Labor on their HTV, and a sustained drift of preferences to Labor from the Coalition partner The Nationals, about 30% which gave Labor a very narrow victory. In its informative years the Country Party (Nationals) were seen as "socialists". My 'Old Man' always refereed to the Country Party as bad weather socialists, he'd say "give em' a big enough drought and they'll all turn Commo", he might have been right.
Posted by Paul1405, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 8:21:54 AM
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