With a federal election likely at any time up to 20 May 2028, Australians can either reclaim their destiny or allow decline to accelerate. Just compare impoverished Singapore in 1965, with a per capita GDP less than a quarter (23 per cent) of Australia’s. Today, Australia’s is 44 per cent of Singapore’s – and falling. This is a statistically unassailable point that should bring a blush to the cheek of every politician in Canberra. So at the last election, this column recommended voters’ first preferences go to One Nation as the only party with the strength and policy to address this. Despite what the commentariat says, Pauline Hanson is no ‘wrecker’. She’s the guardian of a policy richness designed to arrest and reverse this decline.

One Nation is now the bridge of a gigantic Australia-wide pincer movement. On one flank is the ‘Menzies heart’ of the Liberal party – voters exasperated by a leadership that has drifted into a pale imitation of the left. They have followed Menzies’ precedent of actually voting for the DLP. On the other flank is the ‘old Labor’ manual worker, abandoned by a party of inner-city privilege that now prioritises extremist ‘social justice’ and Islamist radicalism over the dignity of labour. In this historic realignment, One Nation connects these two traditionally opposing groups in a unified front against the ruling class that is strangling Australia.

So, how have nations like Singapore achieved greatness without the vast natural wealth God endowed Australia? It is not just democracy, it is also strong moral leadership, real education instead of indoctrination, discipline, water security, and abundant, cheap fossil fuel-based energy. These nations understand that a state without a disciplined core and resource sovereignty is a state in liquidation. Only One Nation offers policies which emulate this success, replacing the billions poured down the drain in ‘net zero’ fiction and fantasies about ‘green hydrogen superpower’ status with common-sense programmes consistent with the destiny of this country.

One such policy is to address the serious challenge identified long ago by Dr John Bradfield: that rain too often falls in the wrong places. One Nation proposes using proven engineering to capture the waters that pour from our great rivers into the sea and turn them inland, creating a large food bowl and a vast homeland for increasing numbers, including Australia-loving immigrants.

One Nation is also drawn to the original intention of the Constitution as providing a fortress for farmers, declaring in Section 100 that the Commonwealth cannot abridge their rights to the ‘reasonable use of the rivers for conservation or irrigation’, as well as opposing judicial activism which allows the federal government, under cover of confected UN treaty obligations, to block the states from building dams. Incidentally, when it comes to judicial activism, One Nation is the party most determined to stop the High Court invalidating federal control over criminal aliens subject to justified deportation.

One Nation is actually the party of advanced common-sense policy, never falling, for example, for the corruption of the ‘politicians’ republic’ that almost all of the mainstream media and most of the politicians tried to impose on a reluctant nation. This rise of One Nation has already proved a beneficial stimulus to the Coalition, resulting in a strengthening of its leadership and the rediscovery of its conservative moorings.

In many ways, One Nation’s agenda mirrors the brilliance of Donald Trump’s 2016 Gettysburg Address, where he laid out a ‘Contract with the American Voter’. My immediate reaction then was that if even half of that agenda were achieved, his name would be forever honoured in the pantheon of great American presidents. One Nation’s policy offering could well be described as a veritable ‘Contract with the Australian People’ – a comprehensive agenda that targets the ‘administrative state’ and, as in Switzerland, would unhesitatingly hand back control of our fundamental law – our Constitution – to the people.

Whether or not the House is larger in 2028, a hung parliament is possible, even likely. But rather than the chaotic ‘Greens-Labor’ alliances of the past, we have the opportunity for a disciplined ‘Restore Australia Bloc’. Under a Confidence and Supply Agreement, one possibility would be for the Coalition to provide the day-to-day cabinet administration, while One Nation provides the policy spine and a significant portion of voter support. This arrangement would allow for the specialisation of roles: One Nation as the vanguard of reform, and the Coalition as the steady hand of government.

The first pillar of this reform must be ‘net zero immigration’. To be clear, this is not ‘zero’ immigration, but a policy of sanity: limiting arrivals to match permanent departures – roughly 130,000 per year. These entrants must be carefully chosen for their loyalty to the nation, their desire and ability to assimilate and fulfil desperate needs in construction and infrastructure, ending the ‘Big Australia’ madness that has crushed our housing market (see my column ‘No, One Nation’s migration policy will not cause a construction crisis’, 24/3/2026).

Second, we must end the unsustainable NDIS money pit. One Nation’s leadership on auditing this monumental waste is crucial. Third, we must address our strategic vulnerability. Defence expenditure must follow the Rinehart Plan and rise to five per cent, with a renewed focus on a robust Citizen Reserve and school cadet corps to foster national pride and resilience (see ‘Gina Rinehart is right’, 3/5/2025; ‘Shamefully unable to defend ourselves’, 10/5/2025; ‘Is Australia’s Defence Policy also decided on the steps of the Lakemba Mosque?’, 22/3/2026).

This goes hand-in-hand with an educational restoration – removing the ‘indoctrination’ and ‘indiscipline’ that has rotted our schools and returning to a Singaporean standard of academic excellence, the world’s highest. Finally, we must restore our energy sovereignty. The ‘fiction’ concerning climate change has been used to dismantle our competitive advantage. We must return to the fossil fuels that power a modern society and legalise nuclear energy (see ‘One Nation’s ten-year crusade to secure Australia’, 20/3/2026), as well as adopt a family-unit taxation model that rewards the stability of the home.

The choice before the ‘designated leader’ of the Coalition is simple. Continue to treat One Nation as the enemy while the nation slides into an Argentinian decline or embrace the policy richness of the only party capable of delivering a second Australian miracle. The enemy is on the hard left across the chamber; the saviour is on the ballot.