Prime Minister Anthony Albanese finally found his spine and backed Donald Trump. In the process, he whispered to his dog: ‘We’re not in Marrickville anymore, Toto!’

What happened in Iran echoes in Australia.

Staff at the ABC and SBS are gnashing their teeth and wondering why such a biblical reckoning is so apt to describe their situation. Don’t look back, you salty few, or you may end up like Lot’s wife and then succumb to a pathetic Iranian missile counter-attack east of the Jordan.

My statement on Iran.

Australians requiring urgent consular assistance can contact the Consular Emergency Centre 24/7 on 1300 555 135 in Australia or +61 2 6261 3305 from outside Australia. pic.twitter.com/rFYswu9AwN

— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) March 1, 2026

For the last few years, large parts of Australia have felt exactly like a black-and-white fantasy land where the rainbow flags wave, the pronouns multiply, and reality is whatever the activists say it is. But the house has just landed on the Wicked Witch of the East, and the ruby slippers are back on the feet of common sense. The witch, in this case, is Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei and the entire rotten edifice of radical Islamism he fronts. And with him, the spell of Woke weakness is breaking.

Out here in the Southern Tablelands of NSW this weekend we have a perfect snapshot of the madness. My local council, Woke to its bootstraps, once found the money to fund Drag Queen Story Time for the kiddies. Priorities, right? Meanwhile, the entire district has been choking on the stench from the local sewage treatment plant, perched right next to the water reservoir.

It’s a weekend, so no government employee can act because Labor gave them the right to disconnect. Government employees have rights, you know. Priorities.

But you can’t drink the tap water without boiling it or buying bottles. We’re not in some third-world backwater, we’re in regional NSW. It’s 2026, and our own elected officials think sequins and storybooks matter more than sewage and safe drinking water. That’s not governance. That’s ideological vandalism.

Meanwhile, on the world stage, Trump’s sheer strength makes Sir Keir Starmer look like a kangaroo frozen in the headlights. One wrong move and the British Prime Minister is roadkill.

The UN Secretary-General is still the same simpering apologist for every terrorist with a sob story and a rocket launcher. They’ve spent years lecturing the West about ‘tolerance’ while shielding regimes that throw gays off rooftops and stone women for showing their hair.

But Trump doesn’t lecture. He acts.

And suddenly the world remembers what strength looks like. It doesn’t look like Penny Wong’s ‘de-escalation’. Far from it.

Because here’s the truth leftists still can’t stomach. Along with the Wicked Witch of the East, Woke is weak, and Woke is dead. It was always a paper tiger dressed up in virtue. It collapses the moment someone refuses to play along. Trump refused. The results are already rippling outward.

Look at home. The Liberal Party still isn’t polling the way it should, despite having by far the better leader in Angus Taylor. The brand damage of the Morrison, Dutton, and the Ley years haven’t been fully repaired. Nor will anyone know why because they won’t release the report into why the Liberal Party has sucked so badly for so long.

But One Nation has surpassed the Liberals and is now nipping at Labor’s heels. The times they are a changin’. But not in Bob Dylan’s commie way.

The ABC and SBS are beside themselves. They’ve spent years platforming every conceivable cause – Palestine rallies that turn into Hamas fan clubs, identity politics that divide us by the hour – without ever quite saying the quiet part out loud. Their subtle cheerleading for anyone opposed to the West is wearing thin. Australians are waking up.

And that’s the beautiful symmetry. Just as Iran’s people may finally get their chance to rip their country back from the mullahs, Australia has its own opportunity to reclaim ours from the domestic extremists.

We also have to convince politicians to prioritise urgent issues such as fresh drinking water over niche side projects like drag queen story hour at the local library.

And yet we are saddled with political figures who’d rather import division than defend cohesion. People who sneer at borders, at merit, and at biological reality itself.

None of this positive change happens without Donald Trump. He broke the spell. He showed that strength isn’t fascism, clarity isn’t bigotry, and putting your own citizens first isn’t hate. The house has landed.

The witch is dead. The munchkins – ordinary Australians sick of the stench, the waste, the weakness – are starting to sing.

We’re not in Marrickville anymore, Toto. And thank God for that.

Dr Michael de Percy @FlaneurPolitiq is the Spectator Australia’s Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent. If you would like to support his writing, or read more of Michael, please visit his website.