Both risible rubbish and based on a false and fatuous premise. Christopher Pyne would take issue with the communism implication? Which for mine is libellous?

Poeple who would not look out out of place in Jackboots and brown shirts, i.e., of extreme right-wing views? Will always have a problem with true liberals or progressive conservatives who are socially progressive and fiscally conservative!

If you want a hard right-wing party? suggest you found one, rather than infiltrating Menzie's liberals then bitching endlessly about it being too far to the left! Even though anyone with half a brain, can see it and new labour have lurched and lurched to the right!

I have a right to hold pragmatic views,not popular with those on the looney tune, extreme right? Regardless of who does or doesn't agree with them! So does Cristopher (the Giselle) Pyne!
Alan B.

Individual responsibility!? Like slaves should take individual responsibility for outcomes decided by others?

Ditto those whose conditions and virtual slave labour wage rates/precarious employment, give them less choices than owned slaves!

Mouthing meaningless policies/mindless mantras, that are made impossible goals for the underpaid, the underprivileged, those condemned by offical policy to eternal life-long servitude, is little more than echoing errant nonsense that in the real world never ever applies/will never ever be allowed to happen!

But would if a truly socially progressives were "allowed" to embrace cooperative capitalism as official policy!

Smaller government!? We are, bar one, the most over-governed nation on earth. Have to find 70 plus additional billions P.A. for the dubious privilege!

What the author has revealed, I believe, is a level of calloused indifference and little if any actual understanding of real-world issues? And symptomatic of those who exist inside bubblles/think within a fixed, unimaginative, circle of ideas that are regularly divorced from reality?
Alan B.

Alan B going into bat for Christopher Pyne? Two word answer Alan, French submarines!
I look forward to the day when our politicised police break down your door, handcuff you in front of your family and take you back to the station for some one on one re-education! Even then I can hear you squealing "I could be useful in a labour camp, choco ration 20 grams, double plus good"!
Hahahahaha you idiot.

Alan B said "We are, bar one, the most over-governed nation on earth. Have to find 70 plus additional billions P.A. for the dubious privilege!"

Answer-

Maybe if our left leaning council's spent less money for example- on child care services those of us without children burdening our society (rather than taking personal responsibility for their offspring)- would have more money to spend on borders against Communist leftist ideology and policy.

It's often the left leaning governments that spend the money. I agree with Stiglitz that sometimes investment is needed for growth but the left don't know how to stop spending. One spending round is just an excuse for the next one.

If ever an article demonstrated how out of touch the Far Right of the Coalition is, it's this one.
Supporting Joe Biden over the demented, lying and corrupt Donald Trump hardly makes one a Leftist. Biden is no Progressive. His agenda is every bit as beholden to the corporate elite and the military industry as is Trump's.
Despite this author's lament, the Far Right in the Coalition is as alive and well today as it ever has been ... Peter Dutton, George Christiansen, James Paterson, Tim Wilson. Andrew Hastie, Craig Kelly, Kevin Andrews, Trent Zimmerman, Christian Porter, Alan Tudge, Michael Sukkar to name but a few ... the party is riddled with them and its policy shift to the Right is a clear indication of their influence.
The broad church of the Coalition has always been much more rhetorical than reality.

Jeez! Is this supposed to be an example of well informed right-wing opinion?

Online Opinion has published some risible rubbish in its time - this rant easily qualifies as one of its worst examples.

This essay describes how the right-wing UK think tanks deliberately and consistently promoted their anti-government deregulation and privatization agendas in the UK - all in the name of "freedom".
Of course the same methods were (and are) being used here in Australia and the USA too. The IPA being the principal outfit here in the land of Oz, and the CIS or the so called center for "independent" studies too.
http://www.monbiot.com/2020/09/04/for-your-eyes-only

Note the reference to the Policy Exchange outfit.
Guess who gave an address to one of their gabfests the other day.
Mister NO himself - aka Tony Abbott.