It’s easy to know who the next leader of the Liberal Party should be … the name that most outrages your political opposition.
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) began yesterday and while there have been a few random memes trolling former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, the real fury of the leftwing press has been reserved for Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.
Wrapped in an Australian flag, Price took the stage with enthusiastic cheers.
Freshly banished to the ideological liberty of the backbench, she held nothing back in her war against Net Zero, mass migration, and the deterioration of the Australian dream.
Price opened her arms and declared, ‘We need to stop being a Labor-lite party or a Labor in blue.’
The crowd agreed, tired of the so-called moderates.
It is weird reading recaps of this speech from other ‘conservative-ish’ publications, such as the Australian, which in the same article described the assassinated CEO of Turning Point USA as ‘the controversial MAGA influencer’ and then indicated ‘one of the strongest messages being presented [at CPAC] was the perceived need for Australia’s right wing to push itself even further to the right’.
What do you mean ‘further to the right’?
The moderate-run Liberal Party has been curled up at the bottom of Labor’s bed like a pet cat for a decade, even when it was in power. If Menzies were to respawn in 2025, he would immediately mistake One Nation for the Liberals and ask why they’d gone a bit soft on conservatism that’s how far left we are.
Equally confusing are the comments on the article.
‘Price just lost me,’ said one. ‘Why is Jacinta Price controversial?’ countered the next. ‘The Coalition does not need to go even further to the right, but rather become less left,’ said another, to everyone’s confusion. Do conservatives know what they want?
Then there are the flag purists scorning Jacinta for loving the flag despite never uttering a word of protest when the Palestinians and Aboriginal activists drape their flags over themselves and every surface they can find. It is impossible to please an ideological cluster that nitpicks this much while the brute force of the Left is bulldozing our country at pace.
Net Zero isn't just an energy policy that will cause your power bills to keep going up; it's about the government dictating to you and your family how you should live.
Net Zero is about reducing our freedom.
It's Communism. Jacinta Price @JNampijinpa #CPAC pic.twitter.com/r971eQBJcq
— Timjbo ?? (@Tim_jbo) September 20, 2025
The Republicans were behaving in this manner before Donald Trump took hold of the movement and dragged them into a winning position through his sheer force of will. MAGA’s cultural revolution might accidentally rescue the entire Western world from the communist revival and here we are, in the backwater of politics, condemning Price for wearing a MAGA hat in a Christmas photo as if that were some great sin while we have entire political parties out shilling for a terror-led regime on the other side of the world. Anyone who looks back at this period in Australian history will be perplexed. They might just tuck us away. Close the page. And leave a gap.
It is fascinating to watch the comment sections of these legacy publications complaining about Charlie Kirk tributes at CPAC and muttering about how annoying it is that the American Right are influencing Australian kids via social media.
Okay. What did the moderate Australian Right offer young kids? Where are their influencers? Where are the charismatic Liberal speakers attending universities, sitting down with students, and speaking to them directly? Where are their social media accounts? Their policies? Their local chapters?
The Liberals won’t speak to friendly media let alone a room full of potentially hostile kids.
It was the Liberals who came up with the genius plan to ban young people from social media and then heavily censor adults through biometric age verification and misinformation and disinformation legislation.
No wonder these kids are looking to America for some common sense and political leadership. And yes, young conservatives are upset an important figure in their life was murdered and they are distressed that plenty of ‘respectable’ politicians, journalists, teachers, and students think it was a good idea and needs to happen again. The entire narrative of progressive politics in Australia was imported from America, so it makes sense to import the resistance as well.
It is insane to me that there is a desire to gatekeep the minds of young people because of a generational cringe against America.
You don’t like Trump. That’s fine, neither does former Prime Minister John Howard, but the kids think these views are outdated and if conservatives want to win an election in the next century, they need those kids to come along with them. Telling them who they can and can’t like on social media would go down about as well as someone telling students last century not to import that cringe Martin Luther King Jnr nonsense from America.
Poor Tony Abbott was up on the CPAC stage begging the audience to ‘give the Liberal Party one last chance’ to redeem itself.
‘We must be a better opposition this time than last time, and we must be a better government next time than last time. I hope you give us one last chance to prove ourselves worthy of your trust.’
While a former Prime Minister made this plea, the leader of the Opposition was absent from the premier conservative event and has expelled from her frontbench the very speakers receiving the largest cheers.
The reason Sussan Ley did not attend CPAC is because she would have been booed and heckled just as Anthony Albanese was chased out of Ballarat by angry tractors.
This is the real problem. Sussan Ley is unpopular among the Liberal base and will not front them on the stage. It is crazy. Completely hopeless. If you can’t win a room, how can you win a nation?
Even if she had attended, what would her speech have contained? Not policies. We don’t know what those are. ‘We are a party of aspiration. We believe in values. We want to reflect modern Australia. We’re here to listen.’ Did I miss anything?
Ted O’Brien, the Shadow Treasurer and Ley’s partner in moderation, attended (as he has done in the past). He was lightly heckled, no doubt as a proxy for Ley.
The cheers were all for Jacinta Price and her calls to bury Net Zero, end mass migration, and support free speech.
‘I truly believe that the federal Liberals must courageously abandon Net Zero. We must relentlessly prosecute the case against Net Zero zealotry with arguments grounded in economics and pragmatism. Net Zero is an absurd policy. It will impoverish and deindustrialise our nation to achieve an emission reduction target that in an Australian context will not alter global temperatures one iota. Net Zero is about reducing our freedom. It’s communism!’
Oh! She said the ‘c’ word! Far-Right! Far-Right! Far-
When did it become ‘far-right’ to support nuclear energy and fossil fuel? Explain how that sits on the political spectrum when it is the major fuel source of communist nations and Islamic theocracies? How did we get to ‘embrace Chinese-made wind turbines or you’re a fascist’? These are bizarre claims repeated daily to no criticism.
Meanwhile, Price can back up her communist claims through the vast and insidious relationship between the green industry and the government coupled with the social, civil, and business restrictions structured around carbon credits, carbon footprints, and sustainability goals. We are headed toward a Digital ID-enforced social credit system justified by apocalyptic fantasies about the weather.
‘Australia is in a real bloody mess. Federal and state government responses to the pandemic have instilled a cultural attitude that government is the solution to every problem. What does that sound like to you? We need less government spending to reduce our vast level of debt that will immiserate future generations of Australians. And we need less government interference to re-energise the economy and unleash the magic of the marketplace … Labor has opened the migration floodgates. They’ve brought in a record 1.2 million people in their first term. Migration at the current scale and pace is putting excessive pressures on housing, infrastructure, and services. And that makes life tougher for everyone.’
Finally, she spoke of culture and the reason she arrived on stage draped in a flag.
‘Labor and the Greens treat culture as disposable. They undermine and rewrite history, mock tradition and replace unity with division. Without a strong cultural identity, no economy will survive. Without social cohesion, no defence force can hold.’
Who do you want, Ley or Price?
