My friend Ian Plimer, in a recent TV interview, made the bold suggestion of creating the Coalition of Three.

While this would raise the eyebrows of some party policy hacks having to deal with ‘yet another group’, I agree totally with Plimer. One Nation, the Nationals, and the Liberal Party should get their act together, and do it now!

As Professor Plimer is a student of mine on matters relating to Marine Therapy and TBO (The Bleeding Obvious), he has picked up some of my traits in my part time indulgence of being a political tragic, peaking at a tilt for State Politics in 2015. Please see my earlier column The confessions of a failed Polly-waffler.

In 2017, I was a firm financial supporter of Cory Bernardi’s Conservative Party, the Katter Party, and One Nation, because they were all singing from similar song-sheets.

I proposed joining these groups together as one party to tackle the venomous Greens and possibly gain the third-party position after the Liberals and Labor.

While my suggestion was accepted in principle, my lack of serious funding for flaunting on politics was nowhere near Clive Palmer’s level, and it didn’t fly. If only Clive could stay at the back of the bus, I suspect we would’ve gotten rid of the Greens earlier.

Unlike most Australians at the time, I saw through the long game of the Greens and knew it was absolutely nothing to do with the environmental betterment of our country, this was about totally destroying us!

Working on many marine projects overseas and most states in Australia, I witnessed first-hand our totally unhinged approach both financially and operationally, to the continued rush into the embracing of green policies. Our coastline is totally sealed with National Parks, no fishing zones, sensitive fish habitats, no anchoring zones, anti-dredging policies etc. etc…

But you have to admire the Labor/Greens ballot box results. They heavily sandbag opponents at polling booths bellowing out exaggerations and apocalyptic nonsense, then implement prosperity reduction policies promptly.

Annastacia Palaszczuk, as a new Premier in 2015, implemented a 630-page Sustainable Ports Act within six weeks of her election, effectively halting anyone or any community installing a small harbour or a small boat ramp that could, perhaps, maybe, under cover of darkness, export that evil coal even though the closest coal mine may have been 900 kms away.

The Labor government smothered Queensland’s regional growth with this Act, and when the party was finally defeated in October 2024, the new Liberal Premier, Crisafulli, despite some urging from me, 17 months later has not repealed that anti-Queensland Act. Small wonder people are drifting away from the slopey-shouldered Liberals!

Our port population in the north is one port for every 700 kms, whereas Gujarat in India has a port every 53 kms, and UK has a port every 65 kms which proved essential for its defence and survival through two world wars.

Our nation is woefully short of not just ports, but the infrastructure that is required around ports. This includes good roads, rail lines, and a source of reliable energy! Oh no… I shouldn’t have mentioned that. No chance of a Chris Christmas card from our Energy Minister this year.

We have no realistic port coverages for trading vessel import and export activities. Regional farmers and miners, many of which are tackling ‘locked resources’ unable to financially get to markets within an acceptable price of selling the stuff, are all struggling and certainly could use a port nearer to them. Holders of Uranium and Thorium tenements would greatly benefit from an increased network of ports when the inevitable approvals to our nine nuclear bans are grudgingly given.

For defence and emergency response vessels, especially in our cyclone-affected northern coastline, more ports would be very welcome. As to unwanted invaders, they most likely will come from the north as the Tasmanians have given up. They are sure that invaders will run out of steam on their way south and perhaps get bogged down in the numerous swamps in and around Canberra.

Donald Trump, immediately after his first election, repealed 75 per cent of EPA regulations particularly relating to navigable waterways to get the US economy moving. Unfortunately, Bumbling Biden reversed that when he was elected.

Thanks mainly to the great efforts of Advance Australia, the Greens’ real aims were exposed, but their abysmal legacies remain with us, now enshrined in local, state and federal EPA and EPBC laws, and continue to be a huge handbrake on our prosperity.

With the socialist Albanese government gleefully swapping green votes for environmental lawfare, and dividing the national spirit down to secession talks, we will never be able to remove this handbrake. Having the highest areas of national parks per head of population in the world may provide bragging rights for green activists, but is not an indication of near-term prosperity. On the bright side, this fact certainly would appeal to any aggressive neighbour wanting to permanently camp in these pristine areas, without any payment of course.

So back to Professor Ian Plimer. Like me, he is smarter than he looks. But his message on national TV was inspiring and would provide a fast way to bury this disgraceful Albanese government and their $1.3bn marketing machine, the ABC, not only for a short term, but long term, as long as such a coalition party leadership could avoid their irresistible urge for infighting.

I am purchasing some ‘JUST DO IT’ T-Shirts, at the same time ringing around to support Ian’s initiative.

Getting rid of Albanese, Wong, Bowen, Chalmers, and Burke, and their gullible fellow travellers in ideology, especially for a long time, has a certain ring to it. It would bring a huge smile to the six million of us in small business, would be a huge step towards re-uniting the country.