Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s sacking from the Liberal front bench this week is further reminder that the fault line in Australian politics is not between Liberal and Labor.

It is between those who hold a Woke worldview and those who do not.

The former includes the likes of Anthony Albanese, the Greens, ‘Moderate’ Liberals, and their leader Sussan Ley.

The latter includes Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Nationals such as Matt Canavan, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, and most of us in centre-right minor parties like Family First.

I’ll come back to the fault line. But first, it’s important to unpack what Nampijinpa Price said which set off a week-long media firestorm.

Her ‘crime’ was to hint that Labor might encourage Indian migration because they overwhelmingly vote Labor (according to some polling).

That is a claim difficult to prove because Australia’s immigration policy is officially non-discriminatory, as it should be.

Senator Price has openly admitted that alleging this was a mistake.

‘I reiterated my regret in not being clearer in my comments on the ABC last Wednesday,’ she said in a statement yesterday.

‘I never intended to be disparaging towards our Indian community. And I wish no ill-will whatsoever to the Indian community – or any other migrant group.

‘My concern – as it is for millions of Australians – is Labor’s mass migration agenda and its ramifications.

‘My concern is not migration itself – it’s the magnitude of migration. Migration at the current scale and pace is putting excessive pressures on housing, infrastructure and services.

‘And that makes life tougher for all families. I want to see a better life for all families – whether you’re a migrant, a resident, or a citizen – and regardless of your background.’

On these latter points she is 100 per cent correct.

The Woke-Left, which includes the majority of the Parliamentary Liberal Party, did not want to discuss the substance. This was too good of an opportunity to pile-on someone who disagrees with the Woke world view.

A good woman was hung out to dry in a pernicious campaign which left one of Australia’s most effective conservative voices on the backbench.

A lot of people wanted to pull Senator Price down a peg or two.

When it came to the Liberal leadership, media demanded to know if Senator Price had confidence in Ley.

Price was too honest to say she did. Why would she? Ley and Price appear to disagree on fundamental issues.

Ley, of course, had no choice but to send her to the backbench. The party of Menzies is under the control of a faction Menzies wouldn’t recognise as conservative. Booting Senator Price out of the frontbench is proof of this. She is a Menzian.

The Liberals have form when it comes to failing bold conservative women, especially in the states.

Moira Deeming had to fight hard to resist attempts to push her out, all because she dared to stand up against the LGBTIQA+ political movement’s infringement on girls’ and women’s biological rights.

The Liberals are still trying to oust Moira by threatening her pre-selection, learning nothing from former Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto’s humiliating legal defeat.

With the Liberal Party in lockstep on the outrageous changes made to the Sex Discrimination Act, unwilling to let go of the Net Zero economy-wrecking ball, and remaining tepid on the mass migration crisis, the Woke-Left has free rein.

As Sharri Markson opined on Sky News Australia this week, Australia is now like America would have been if Kamala Harris had won the US Presidential election.

Government spending is out of control, immigration is out of control, gender ideology reigns, our kids can’t afford a house, abortion-to-birth is sacrosanct, and freedom of speech and religion are in peril.

The Liberals have contributed to or acquiesced to all these pathologies.

The modern Liberals, dominated by libertarians and ‘moderates’ who advocate for the buying and selling of babies to non-traditional families, will not be the vehicle that rescues Australia from the Woke curse and restores the Australian dream.

It’s telling that in her statement yesterday, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price said she was now free to fight against:

‘The economically immiserating and freedom-eroding policy of Net Zero. The indoctrination of children in our classrooms that engenders national guilt and inhibits national pride. The Albanese government’s determination to move Australia away from a free-market economy and towards a state-directed and controlled economy – having embraced the same statist ideas that have devastated economies and people wherever and whenever they’ve been implemented. And the Chinese Communist Party’s military aggression in our region and its foreign interference in our country that presents a great danger of our age.’

Sadly, the Liberals don’t fight, and a Liberal must be free from Shadow Cabinet solidarity rules to tell the truth.

No wonder the public are confused. They never hear the counter argument from Liberal leaders.

Like Senators Matt Canavan and Alex Antic, Senator Price will be a strong and fearless voice on the backbench speaking truth but totally ignored by the dominant Woke Liberals.

The challenge for those of us who want our country back is to unite the disparate voices on the centre right.

If the likes of Price, Canavan, Antic and others can prevail in the battle for ideas within the Coalition, there may be hope.

But there is no sign of this being realised any time soon.

Minor parties like Family First will continue to take votes from the Liberals with the aim of jolting them back to Menzian values.

That is going to take time.

Price’s sacking shows where the battle lines are. The enemy of a better Australia lies well and truly within the Liberals.

Family First National Director Lyle Shelton