Well said partTimeParent,

You have my support and the support of the vast majority of late 20's and early 30's men. It's about time the worthiness of men, and what they bring to the family is appreciated.

You guys and gals must win this coming war on all fronts. If not we'll have to start up a new country cause I ain't living under the philosophy of The Greens or Getup.

It is going to be hard for the Right to build an agenda based on your 3 conservative objectives: "popular acceptance of inevitable human inequality, the bolstering of a sense of national identity that placed whiteness, Christianity and British ancestry at the centre and the encouragement of virtues of individual enterprise and aspiration."

The first goes against the venerable Aussie tradition of 'the fair go'; national identity has some legs, but basing it on Christianity and Britishness is backward-looking; individual enterprise and aspiration has appeal too, but most of us want it balanced against the fair go.

The Right can always win some easy votes by playing the race card, but in the coming Asian century, individual enterprise and aspiration will be closely dependant on maintaining good relations with our Asian neighbours. A future Coalition Opposition or Government would tie itself into knots whipping up popular ill-feeling against foreigners while at the same time courting Chinese and Indian governments for favourable trade deals.

The dilemma for the Coalition is that social attitudes have become more liberal over the decades. Going to the people with a program invented by the Sydney branch of the Anglican church will be a recipe for defeat. But if they tack to the Left, they risk being a pale shadow of a rampant Rudd Government.

Glad it's not my problem.