The budget reply by Angus Taylor is a confirmation that the Coalition’s decision to change their leadership was only the beginning. By borrowing One Nation’s long-standing, common-sense policies, they have demonstrated how wrong the commentariat is to keep on repeating their baseless claim that One Nation is only a party of complaint and not of policy.

One Nation’s long-standing policies are  attracting not only Coalition but also Labor voters. This is why, before the last federal election campaign when the Coalition was trying to walk on both sides of the road, I strongly recommended and have continued to recommend that those who did not want Australia to become a poor country – an ‘Argentina of the South Seas’ – should give their first preferences to One Nation.

Doing this is not an act of disloyalty to the conservative cause; rather, it follows a precedent set by the great founder of the Liberal party, Sir Robert Menzies. Upon his retirement, Menzies witnessed exactly what we have seen since Malcolm Turnbull’s coup against Tony Abbott – the tendency for those who today call themselves ‘moderates’ to take over the Liberal party and make it ‘Labor-lite’. For this very reason, Sir Robert gave his first preference to the anti-communist DLP, just as many now are giving their first preference to One Nation.

The Coalition is being forced today – not by its rank and file, whom it has long totally ignored, but by the sheer presence of One Nation – to stop pretending to be both ‘Labor-lite’ and a fighter for the ‘forgotten people’. As a consequence, the leadership of the Liberal and National parties was changed when it otherwise never would have been, and now much of the One Nation agenda is being adopted. Remember that the commentariat who despise One Nation are the very same elites who tried to impose a fake republic on this nation – one designed to increase the powers of the political class far beyond anything envisaged under the Westminster system.

The fact is, only One Nation’s policies will be the ones to save this nation from the terrible decline the Albanese government is delivering to Australia.

That the Coalition has borrowed One Nation’s policies should not be a cause of embarrassment but one of rejoicing. This ideological influence was on full display in what was a good reply to the budget by opposition leader Angus Taylor. We should not complain that the Liberals and Nationals are now adopting One Nation’s long-standing platform; in fact, this dramatically increases the chances that One Nation’s common-sense agenda will actually be put into place.

Meanwhile, this nation remains governed by probably the most unworthy administration in Australia’s history. The atmosphere on budget night was one of deep embarrassment; this was not only a lying government, it was one so appalling that they risk alienating even their strongest traditional supporters. No wonder the latest Morgan poll reveals that ‘lifelong, rusted-on Labor voters’ have dropped to an extraordinarily low 13 per cent. Everyday Labor voters are finally realising that this is a fake Labor party, made up of, and serving the exclusive interests of, the globalist elites. The party is desperately clinging to power against One Nation, structurally supported by the historical hesitancy of the Liberal-National Coalition.

Meanwhile, by ‘grandfathering’ the changes to property taxation to allow Labor MPs to deduct rental income from their very generous salaries and ridiculously large ‘allowances’, Labor has ensured that its own private interests are protected while the door is firmly slammed shut on the next generation of aspiring property owners. Their  divisive and quite vicious attempt to blame the elderly, even putting a large loading onto the cost of  their  health funds, will not result in the intergenerational anger Labour desires. What it will reveal instead is that the parliamentary Labor party’s claim to be the ‘workers’ party’ is a total fiction.

The Labor pattern is now unmistakable: if this government declares it will not change a tax, that is the definitive signal to investor cronies that it intends to do exactly that. The Australian public must now look to the horizon with grim realism. If Labor is returned at the next election, the reintroduction of death and estate duties, alongside a punitive taxation on the family home – as was actually applied in NSW for a time by Labor – is no longer a matter of if but when.

We are witnessing a return to the punitive economic era that was only ended when Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen initiated the historic abolition of death duties in 1977. The Prime Minister himself has personally profited from the very rules he now condemns – rules he explicitly promised, by his own count, fifty times not to touch – enabling him to secure a $4.3-million clifftop mansion. This symbolises a political class that has transformed itself into a major investor in real estate only because of the extravagant returns they manage to extract from the people.

This culture of blatant lies and misgovernance has triggered a tectonic shift, forcing Angus Taylor to adopt a cornerstone One Nation policy: the automatic indexation of tax brackets to inflation. This move will finally end the insidious ‘bracket creep’ that allowed the Albanese government to pocket an estimated $28-billion windfall while simultaneously saddling the youth of this country with an official $1-trillion national debt, plus another trillion cleverly hidden from public view through off-budget funding vehicles and other probably unconstitutional devices.

Meanwhile, the billions seized through these broken promises will do absolutely nothing to affect the global climate; they will only enrich foreign ‘climate capitalists’ and Beijing-based communists. The path to a stable, sovereign Australia in 2028 lies in One Nation and the Coalition winning at least 76 seats in the House of Representatives in the upcoming election. Pauline Hanson has sensibly stated that if the Coalition secures more seats than One Nation, she will support them forming a government by guaranteeing supply and confidence to ensure the stable, common-sense governance the country voted for.

The Coalition must now reciprocate, do its patriotic duty, and fully exchange preferences to ensure this grand alliance succeeds.