Opposition Leader Sussan Ley was born with a short political lifespan. I know there are those clinging on, asking for conservatives to give her a chance, but I suspect the eternal listening tour is nothing but a ploy to tread water until key issues pass beyond debate.

If you have ever watched John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons repeating, ‘It’s beyond my control…’ you’ll catch my drift.

From the outset, Ley was presumed to be a placeholder designed to absorb the failures of Peter Dutton’s election defeat before being sacrificed prior to the next election, absolving the party’s sins. It’s a tough gig, but not impossible to survive had Ley carved out her own policy path.

Her caution, passive approach, and silence except when echoing Albanese are mistakes of her own making. And whoever advised her to adopt this soft, hushing tone in her latest social media pieces is a moron. Voters are not skittish sheep being herded into the paddock.

This obvious weakness in leadership has resulted in a temporary split of the Coalition (tentatively resolved) and an all-out personality war where restless and talented individuals know the crown is up for grabs.

We are almost at the point where we can glimpse the next generation of Coalition leaders, and they are all in opposition to the detested Moderate faction which is, rightly, blamed from the massive loss of electoral popularity.

Last week, one possible leader, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, waged a successful cultural war against the Left. Her promotion of the Australian flag, unapologetic love of her nation, and compassion regarding the genuine grievances people have about mass migration went a long way to winning back the Blue Ribbon voters.

Unsurprisingly, she has been followed by a vicious and relentless media campaign intent on cutting her down.

This happens every time a conservative is successful. While Senator Price has done the right thing and held firm, the Moderate leadership is tripping over itself to apologise and atone. Pathetic, really.

That is a good description for the Moderates: pathetic.

At the moment, Net Zero is the chief ideological division of the civil war taking place in the Liberal Party between the Moderates and the Blue Ribbons … but there are others. Migration for Nigel Farage’s Reform might win him an election, and it could have the same impact here.

The Moderates and Labor Party do not want Net Zero or migration to become an election topic or a point of division, because their parties have similar external support structures and donors who rely on the perpetuation of these nation-ruining policies. If given a choice, the public would vote against the interests of the political class so we simply are not given that choice.

It would be like asking the Labor Party if we could have a vote on compulsory super with the unions clutching their trillions of dollars of public money in the background, moaning in agony.

The Blue Ribbon conservatives have had to fight their way against the powerbrokers and hostile press for years. As a result of this baptism of fire, they have emerged as a young, charismatic, technically skilled, and social media savvy group who are starting to enter their stride.

As a sharp contrast, the privileged Moderates were coddled in the power-broker safe space and face the Australian people as cardboard cut-outs incapable of surviving even the most gentle of cultural storms. The water of criticism gets into their cardboard infrastructure and cripples them. They fumble for answers in the press, desperate not to upset their divided interests, while the Blue Ribbons turn left-wing journalists into the butt of their own jokes. Jacinta Price demonstrated this beautifully during the Voice to Parliament media circus where she took the lead.

Sussan Ley spent the end of last week on the ABC, doing what the party probably perceives as damage control. She said:

‘The pressures that I’m hearing about are the total numbers of migrants. Now, the issue about how we decide what numbers is something that should be made subsequently, and should be made with deep understanding of where the government’s numbers are, which we don’t have.

‘But this is not about any migrant or any migrant community. We value every single one of them and what they bring to this country. This is not a failure of migrants or migration, this is a failure of government policy to build the infrastructure, to build services, to have roads, to have the amenity in our cities. So those pressures are being reflected wherever we go.’

At no point does Sussan Ley acknowledge that the discussion about mass migration is not limited to economics or housing, it is a cultural and social debate. If the Liberals will not listen to what Australians are telling them, those voters will go elsewhere.

When Sussan Ley added, ‘The comments were wrong, they were not correct, they should not have taken place, and corrections have been made,’ one of our followers accused her of becoming Australia’s ‘word salad’ Kamala Harris.

Here are some more observations from our followers online:

‘Jacinta Price is a leader who stands up for Australia.’

‘Does Ley not realise the LNP is supposed to be in opposition to Labor, not a cheap diet version?’

‘I refuse to vote LNP while Sussan Ley is in charge. One Nation will get my vote.’

‘Sussan Ley, you are a carbon copy of Labor. If you don’t stand up against Labor and go back to LNP policies, then you will be in opposition for many years to come.’

‘Good on Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price for caring, speaking the truth, and not pandering to the socialist left. Sussan Ley will never be in the same league and is weak and lacking the conviction that conservative voters so deeply need.’

‘Andrew Hastie, enough is enough. When are you stepping up?’

‘The ABC is having a field day on this.’

Let us finish with what Senator Price believes. Aside from wearing the Australian flag into the Senate, she also penned an article, Burning our national flag an act of betrayal.

I’m here in front of our nation’s flags — a powerful reminder of who we are and what unites us as Australians. ?? pic.twitter.com/K7I0AcrH2z

— Jacinta Nampijinpa (@JNampijinpa) September 3, 2025

We have seen the Australian flag desecrated in various ways at pro-Palestinian marches and on multiple occasions, it has been publicly burned. She writes:

‘I was appalled by the footage of pro-Palestinian protesters burning our national flag in Melbourne on August 3. The burning of our national flag on that wretched weekend wasn’t the first time it has happened, and it won’t be the last … of course, no country should be beyond criticism. And in a democracy like ours, there’s many ways one can voice criticism. May we forever cherish the right to freedom of speech. But the burning of our national flag goes beyond free speech and political protest. It’s an abuse of liberty. It’s a rejection of the responsible citizenship. It’s a display of historical ignorance. It’s an expression of national ingratitude. It’s performative disrespect with subversive characteristics. It’s an act intended to sow division, disunity, national hatred – and even violence. And no self-respecting nation – especially a country with Australia’s achievements – should tolerate the burning of a national flag.’

The Moderates have all the survival prospects of pandas without the accompanying charm that makes wildlife warriors want to rescue them. They are tumbling around their enclosure, bred carefully in captivity to keep their species alive, and even then, they continue their trudge toward the inevitable extinction.

For the first time in a long time, there is hope for the conservative movement. May the contrary voices grow louder, their popularity spread, and their electoral force drown out the soggy Moderates for good.