In 1942, during the height of the horrors of the second world war, the RT Hon. Robert Gordon Menzies made as series of radio announcements. In 1943 that dialogue was published as a book which he titled, The Forgotten People.

Essentially, the forgotten people were the middle class of Australia.

Today, 58 per cent of the population of Australia are classified as middle-income class.

Menzies described the middle class as ‘salary earners, shopkeepers, skilled artisans, professional men and women, farmers, and so on’. A country where independence of spirit is the only real freedom. Where patriotism is punctuated by home ownership and a stake in the country.

Whilst Menzies was a great believer in democracy, he saw the great vice of democracy as ‘getting ourselves onto the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else’s wealth and somebody else’s effort on which we could thrive’. By this he was talking about the politic looking to be dependent upon the government and not on individual achievement.

It was these principles and the principles of freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of worship and freedom of the press, upon which he built the Liberal Party, which has been for over 80 years a significant contributor to the Australian philosophies, culture, and standards of living that exist in Australia today.

These principles do not form part of what most modern-day political parties in Australia subscribe to including, sadly, the modern-day Liberal/National Party.

Modern-day political parties in Australia, with the exception of the Greens, give some kind of lip service to these hallowed principles, but their policies continue to betray their words by creating the opposite effect in real life. The Greens openly admonish such principles.

Modern-day media, academia, and the corporate world all adopt the same hostility towards the middle class by ignoring their concerns.

No greater example could demonstrate how the more left-leaning institutions and groups treat the middle-class Australians with such disdain as the Voice referendum of 2023.

Immediately after seizing power in 2022, the ultra-left-wing Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese sought to amend the Australian Constitution by introducing a race-based Voice to Parliament.

The other culprits to join in on the madness were the Greens, the Independents known as the Teals, sundry other independents and crossbenchers as well as most of the media, educational institutions, legal bodies, and corporate Australia.

These so-called elites, who have conveniently forgot where they came from considered themselves far superior to middle-class Australia. They not only forced upon us this costly referendum but made it known that if you voted ‘No’ you were racist.

Albanese and his cohorts hid vital information from the public about the Voice and the Uluru Statement of the Heart, and when the information came out, they backtracked.

It took the Liberal Party far too long to come out against the Voice, but when it did, middle-class Australians were given the chance to be heard with their voice. A voice of defiance, of pride in Australia, and a voice against the elites attempt to introduce true systemic racism into Australia. A system where race created laws would stand in direct conflict with the democratic process.

We are now at cross-roads again. In May 2025 a federal election will take place which will determine who will govern Australia for the next three years. Again, the interests of the forgotten people are being ignored.

Three years of Labor, Green, and Teal governance has plummeted Australia into a cost of living and standard of living crisis never seen before in Australia due to the high energy cost, especially electricity prices. Albanese, Chalmers, and Bowen outright deceived the Australian people at the 2022 election claiming a Labor government would lower energy costs by $275.00 per household by 2025. That did not happen. This broken campaign promise has largely gone unmentioned in the mainstream media.

We hear nothing in the mainstream media about the ridiculous failed green hydrogen projects that have cost the Australian taxpayer $500 billion.

We have heard nothing about the promise of the 24-hour a day 7 days a week nursing staff to aged care nursing homes.

If the Coalition wanted to truly go into bat for the middle class, and by extension the Australian people, call the Labor-Green energy policies out for what they are. A scam.

We should immediately withdraw from the Paris Accord, increase coal and gas mining for electricity, thereby lower pricing in their first term of office. At the same time start making plans for a nuclear energy future for all Australians by eliminating red tape, green tape, and black tape. Without this idiotic Net Zero by 2050 hanging over our heads like the mythical sword of Damocles, the Australian middle class can flourish and grow.

To all Coalition members, do not be afraid of the culture wars. Embrace them and win them. Fight for women’s safe spaces. Prevent men from competing in women’s sports and entering women’s bathrooms.

Eliminate from government documents idiotic compulsory pronoun descriptions.

Say out loud for everyone to hear that this country is owned now and always will be owned by all Australians.

The Australian middle class, the forgotten people which your founding father Sir Robert Menzies never forgot, will support you, just like they did during the Voice campaign.

The forgotten people are the biggest asset the Coalition has, because they are the biggest enemy of the so-called elites.

Just like in the 1940s, the forgotten people need a leader. Sir Robert Menzies stood up for them and became the longest-serving Prime Minister in Australian history.

Should Peter Dutton want to create history and be the next Prime Minister of Australia he needs to marshal his greatest asset. The Australian middle class, the forgotten people.