History never repeats – that was a song by Split Enz back in 1981. The title is the opening line, with the next being, ‘I tell myself before I go to sleep.’
Given the recent Newspoll showing One Nation has pulled in front of the Coalition (22 per cent to 21 per cent), I am hoping the Split Enz refrain is not a fact.
The Coalition, and the Liberals in particular due to their incompetence and disintegration of any political philosophy, seem to be at the start of a terminal spiral. This was shown in Parliament on Tuesday with a number of Liberals and Nationals either abstaining or crossing the floor on the ‘Hate Speech’ laws that the Liberals agreed to.
Now, the whole of the National Party Shadow Cabinet has resigned and the Coalition has dissolved (again), leaving Sussan Ley and her fellow Liberals high and dry.
As a free speech and free enterprise capitalist, I am onboard with the views of Liberal Senator Alex Antic and Nationals Senator Matt Canavan. Since the end of the Howard and Costello government, the conservative anti-socialist Coalition parties, particularly the Liberals, have been infiltrated by Woke ‘trendy’ politicians who tried to appeal to both sides. In doing so, they attracted no Labor voters to the side and instead bled conservative voters. Australian political history does, in fact, reveal that political parties have, in similar circumstances, imploded and regrouped successfully before governing.
The original United Australia Party, which has no connection or relationship with Clive Palmer’s recent UAP creation, was formed after a split in the Australian Labor Party when six of their economically conservative members merged with the Nationalist Party in 1931 during the Great Depression and governed, sometimes in coalition with the Country Party for ten years until John Curtin’s ALP took over. The United Australia Party was dissolved in 1944, a split end that was needed. That was when Robert Menzies pulled together conservative members of the Parliament and formed the Liberal Party. In 1949, the Liberals were first elected and the rest is history. They governed successfully for the majority of the time until the end of the Howard and Costello government. Then the rot set in.
With the compounding problems of far too much immigration, particularly from a certain corner of the world, One Nation support has been gradually growing in the polls. After the Bondi massacre, Newspoll had One Nation leading the Coalition and we might wonder if the penny is starting to drop with many Australians that Woke ‘trendy’ Liberals can’t fix our country’s problems.
Split Enz evolved into Crowded House, which our country seems to have become. Hopefully, history can repeat so that One Nation can merge with the conservative members of the Liberals and Nationals and form a new party of the centre right that can take government for a decade and get our country back on the tracks. I particularly hope that it occurs and that prominent in the ‘phoenix party’ are the likes of Andrew Hastie, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Matt Canavan, and Alex Antic.
For the next few nights before I go to sleep, in hope, I’ll be singing to myself: ‘History always repeats…’
