Australians, at least those with their thinking caps on, will not need reminding that elections here are meaningless affairs, representative democracy-wise. They are contested by two undeserving branches of the UniParty that together struggle to get two thirds of the primary vote. They bury important issues. They reduce policy debate to the lowest common denominator. In doing so, they bring the major parties even closer to one another than they normally are. And the legacy media steers the conversation ever towards the
UniParty.
On reflection, Oz elections are much worse than simply meaningless. They are occasions of electoral sin.The May 3 2025 election is a shameless auction, even worse than most. It has the usual ingredients. Non-problems consuming attention and dollars. Real problems – such as the deep household recession, the ghastly fruits of mass immigration, the crashing of our energy economy, fiscal incontinence on a grand scale, rampant and largely unchecked anti-Semitism, ongoing attacks on free speech, endless wokism and Aboriginal ‘welcomes-to-country’ – being parked. Promises that will be broken at will ‘as circumstances change’. Inevitable, unmandated actions forthcoming. More rule by the unelected bureaucrats of the managerial class.
Australians with the inclination and nous to build alternate, winning coalitions of alt-parties with a sense of what we-the-people want from government seem totally unable to do so. The splintered alt-right is more splintered than ever, with yet new micro-parties emerging. They have names like the Libertarian Party, Family First, the Family Party – yes, there are even two ‘family’ parties – People First, One Nation (think Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts), and – yes, this true – Trumpet of Patriots, the closest thing we have to an unapologetic MAGA party; though led by the quirky, outsider, billionaire miner, Clive Palmer, an absolute Covid hero to boot, still destined to remain very, very micro, alas.
So there are no compelling, larger-than-life leaders to excite us, even to distract us, this time around. No Trump, of course. No Orban. No Milei. No Meloni. No Farage (even with all his now-manifest shortcomings). No need to ‘make Australia great again’.
We are fine, apparently. But we aren’t! Professor David Flint in the Spectator Australia argues that we are crying out for new leadership:
‘Not since the fall of Singapore has there been such apprehension about the future of Australia.’
What the ‘club sensible’ centre of the electorate fears more than anything else is the return of Albanese but with minority government status. Because of the concentration of progressive greenies in inner-urban electorates, the Greens and the mostly rich, woke, climate action-obsessed women who are known as ‘the Teals’ are able to win a goodly number of seats. The thought of this lot – think of a bunch of female, climate-botherer Keir Starmers – bargaining with Labor for their preferred ‘vision’ and shopping list of demonic actions is beyond disastrous.https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/who-to-vote-for-nonentity-or-nobody/
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