It was only earlier this year I was in the US as part of the Global Explorers program that CPAC Australia runs so very well – a phenomenal experience, so thank you to Andrew Cooper, Warren Mundine, and Steve Baxter in particular.
Our country’s decisive hour is at hand. We’ve arrived at a struggle generation in the making. A struggle for our people, for our families, and for our identity.
The Struggle for the Soul of Australia.
The truth is, our morality, our values, and our national character were not borne of nothing. They came about because of Christ. And that’s where I’ll begin, by acknowledging our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, who was, and is, and is to come.
Australia was built on Christian teaching.
In 1901, when our nation was willed into existence, 96 per cent of our population were Christian. Nearly every Australian shared this common faith. Our Constitution, our laws, and our civil discourse were all informed overwhelmingly by Christ. So too our schooling and politics. Christ is the very foundation of our country.
Today, Christians are just 40 per cent of our population. In little over a century, the preeminent culture that set forth a nation of values with a clear moral framework, has become a passenger, and chaos has necessarily ensued.
To the morbid point now, where our ruling class would have us believe that our lack of a distinct Australian culture is in fact our strength. That we’re nothing but foreigners in a multicultural land. No common sense of purpose or identity.
Our great country, borne of untold trials and unrivalled exploration, built by the collective will of the working class, now working for what?
This isn’t how we as Australians must live, but it is where we find ourselves today.
What has driven us away from our firm foundations?
One malignant force is without doubt the multi-headed beast that is the Left-wing, anti-human union movement. You’re sorely mistaken if you believe their influence has dwindled as union membership itself has declined.
They’ve been commandeered by the Marxists and the communists, abandoning their roots, namely the Christian faith which once held them in good stead.
Now, they control trillions of dollars through industry super, they’ve spearheaded our moral decay, and they’ve long taken over our institutions.
It was just 13 years ago that because of this reality, the Red Union group was founded – answering the call for millions of Australian workers. A group of alternative unions across education, health, policing, and trades, Red Union is at the forefront of reversing our civilisational decline.
We fight for Australian values: for the strength of the family unit, and the freedom of the individual.
The very need for our existence attests to the betrayal of the working man that has befallen this country.
A betrayal so deep, so duplicitous, that the storied resilience of the Australian worker is wearing thin. As they suffer at the hands of commercial and financial oligopolies, the union movement is fighting tooth and nail to maintain a monopoly of their own. A monopoly on the working class!
In the face of this, the Red Union has grown to represent tens of thousands of Australian men and women across our country – fighting for the right to freely associate.
To the point now, where we represent 30 per cent of frontline nurses here in the great state of Queensland. The truth is, joining the Red Union is an act of resistance – because in doing so, you’re turning off the tap.
You’re stopping the stream of hundreds of millions of dollars every single year being used to bring down our great nation.
And at a fraction of the cost of the Left-wing unions, the Red Union does not give workers hard-earned money to political parties. We don’t give their money to the ruling class who relentlessly undermines them and callously dismisses the struggle of the Australian worker. A ruling class which has overseen our nation’s decline.
But you know that’s exactly what the Left-wing unions do. They pour endless resources into social and political campaigns.
You’ve seen this. With abortion. With The Voice to Parliament. With gay marriage.
They’re not merely economic actors; they’re cultural activists, attacking the family unit, corrupting the youth and demoralising us as Australians.
“Australia is not a land of foreigners…we mustn’t cower to those who seek the destruction of our nation.” pic.twitter.com/VwDbagZ5OT
— Edward Schuller (@EdwardSchu14479) September 22, 2025
And the evidence of this is before our eyes. Last year, Left-wing unions were in the streets proudly celebrating. Through their efforts, prostitution was decriminalised in the state of Queensland. Prostitution is an industry that condemns women to lives of desperate misery. That rips away the innocence and hope of young women, and forces them down the dark road of exploitation.
They fought for this to be a reality.
Under the watch of the unions, transgender ideology is being pushed on our children. In my role, with the TPAA – our alternative education union, I speak with teachers every single day. And they tell me that the rise of transgenderism in our education system is real, and the overwhelming majority of teachers reject it.
They emphatically rebuke the notion that you can change your sex. It is nonsensical. It is not truthful.
But it does have real life effects. There has been a marked rise in sexual incidents in schools. They’re being taught convoluted sexual theories. They’re mercilessly marketed to by sexualised industries.
Kids are surrounded and families are distraught.
Parents see this, along with rising student violence and plummeting results, and they’re pulling their children out of mainstream education en masse. Homeschooling and distance education students have more than doubled in just the past five years as parents have become separated from the schooling process.
This goes to the Struggle for the Soul of Australia.
Parents have been shut out by those who believe that the government ought to be raising your child. This is completely antithetical to upholding the strength of the family unit – a core Australian value. But this erosion doesn’t begin in schools, it begins much earlier – in childcare.
Yet another downfall designed and directed by the union movement.
The childcare system in this country is inherently anti-family. It treats children as commodities, mothers as economic units, and undermines the authority of fathers. At an innately human but also scientific level, we know that children are served better by being with their family, particularly their mother, in the early developmental years. And yet again, a noble struggle is underway.
Income tax splitting and extending childcare subsidies to stay-at-home mums, are both gaining traction. These are essential steps toward restoring the primacy of the family unit. Measures which give genuine choice and power to the Australian worker.
Which leads me to the elephant in the room. The measure which must be taken – one that is unavoidable. Ending mass migration.
There is something happening in this country now, around the world in fact. And despite the Left-wing union movement’s avid support for mass migration, the tide is turning.
I’ve heard the various arguments against mass migration, and each have substance. Pressure on housing supply. Increasing crime and violence on our streets. Stagnation of workers’ wages – the middle class certainly is under attack.
But I believe at the core of it, mass migration is eroding the Australian way of life. Our values, our morals, our common purpose. Our country Australia is not a land of foreigners. It’s a land of settlers, explorers and stewards – people of a common culture. It’s that shared culture which set this nation into motion 124 years ago.
And those who come across the seas must buy into that culture. Not as a preference, but as a requirement.
No society in human history has withstood the perils of irreconcilable cultural differences. This is our dilemma.
Instead of a proud Australian people, we’ve become a collection of ethnic enclaves. Whether it’s Western Sydney, Melbourne City or the suburbs of Logan, mass migration is fundamentally changing who we are as a people – what we value.
But, for noticing this, you will be punished.
The irony of our current politics should not be lost on us. The leader of the opposition admonished then sacked an Indigenous, Australian for standing up for her country, in order to appease a group of foreigners.
That is the uncomfortable reality of what’s transpiring here in Australia.
We have an identity crisis, and we’re told to stay silent about it.
So therein lies the task, my friends. Our identity crisis. What does it mean to be Australian?
My answer, on which I’ve long reflected, is to be intrinsic to the rich body of Australian heritage. It is to defend and embody our foundational values. To progress the culture our founders forged.
To be Australian is to honour the spirit of those who fought and gave their lives for our great southern land. It is to stand in front of one flag and be unashamedly Australia First.
Now is not the time to be a quiet Australian – there is no nobility in that.
We must not cower to those who seek the destruction of our nation. We must transcend the fear of labels, labels which change not one thing about the fact our country is in grave peril.
Peril which I must remind you is not final. Our country can be resurrected. I can see an Australia which holds a proud national identity, of common values, of vibrant education and strong families.
Where children are proud to be Australian, and adults are proud to defend Australia.
Now is the time we must draw on our rich heritage which brought us to be prosperous and free. A people striving for moral clarity, that though we’ll fall short – as all humans do – our North Star shall remain always, and guide us onward.
We must rise up in confidence and boldly proclaim the truth which we hold dear.
Join a church. Join a Red Union. Fly the Australian flag.
Let us become once more what our founding fathers so boldly proclaimed: one people, one destiny. God bless Australia!
