The next federal election is there to be won. Peter Dutton and the Coalition have the ability to win it, although polls at the moment suggest a minority government one way or the other. So what does Mr Dutton need to do to turn a likely narrow miss into a narrow win?

First and foremost, the Coalition, according to the number-crunchers, simply cannot win enough seats unless the Teal seats, or a majority of them, return to the Liberal fold. So this should be priority number one. The Coalition should be launching a relentless campaign blaming the Teals for destroying the economic prosperity of this nation. People in Teal electorates are by and large reasonably wealthy and with that comes a desire to pass on that wealth to future generations. With Labor in power, that dream is evaporating before our eyes. The young cannot afford to embrace the Australian dream of home ownership. Strip the Teals of their empty virtue-signalling appeal and make it very clear to those in Teal electorates that another three years of Teal support for Labor’s net zero policies and high immigration will decimate any chance of the next generation achieving wealth equal to that of their parents. Throw in for good measure condemnation of the Teals support for Unrwa.

Secondly, the Coalition needs to rekindle the fighting spirit that saw Peter Dutton and Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price comprehensively defeat the Voice across every state and territory bar the ACT. The elements are already there and the battlefield has been generously provided by Labor, who in council after council, state after state and even at a federal level are unashamedly attempting to introduce the Voice in all but name – through treaties, truth-telling, Aboriginal place names and so on. The Coalition, with Senator Price again at the forefront, must launch an unambiguous and unequivocal assault on the phony First Nations political agenda. This could be as easy and as symbolic as cancelling acknowledgements of and welcomes to country and removing the Aboriginal flag from government departments and functions other than during specific proscribed indigenous celebrations.

At the same time, the Coalition must commit to dismantling bloated race-based bureaucracies such as the NIAA, with the allocated funding to be given instead directly to local councils and law enforcement authorities. The political arguments for these and other measures should be identical to the argument successfully prosecuted during the Voice referendum: you cannot divide Australians by race.

Thirdly, there are plenty of other ‘culture war’ issues that the Coalition should already be tackling, where failure to do so will cost them potential voter support. For starters, the Coalition (if they are not already doing so) should closely study the playbook of Canadian conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, he of the apple-munching approach to successfully disarming irritating left-wing journalists. The Coalition should commit to banning all ‘queer ideology’ from the school curriculum, banning transgender medical intervention for minors and banning biological males from all female-only places and activities. Senator Claire Chandler should be put in charge of this initiative.

The Coalition needs to oppose Labor more strenuously on immigration, and commit to introducing a German-style test for legal immigrants to determine whether they hold any anti-Semitic attitudes or beliefs. The Coalition must also commit to a federal investigation into all anti-Semitic ‘protests’ from 9 October, 2023 onwards in Australia with the full force of the law threatened against anyone found to have been involved in incitement to violence or incitement to murder.

Fourthly, the Coalition needs to sharpen the nuclear debate. It is not good enough to simply pitch it as a better alternative to renewables, or even as an adjunct to renewables. The Coalition needs to put Senators Matt Canavan and Alex Antic in charge of attacking the entire net zero shibboleth. It’s not as if there is a lack of arguments from around the world as to the inevitable calamity that awaits Australia if we carry on down the Bowen path to energy oblivion. However much it might seem a hurdle too far, the Coalition must commit to abandoning net zero as a flawed and unrealistic proposition that seriously threatens our national security and destroys any hope of a manufacturing or industrial future.

Fifthly, the Coalition needs to commit to restructuring the ABC onto a subscription ‘Netflix’ model, with perhaps government subsidies simply being directed to a public broadcaster only where no other media outlets are viable, namely out in the bush.

And finally, Peter Dutton needs to rethink his support for the eSafety Commissioner. The idea that she is there to ‘protect kids online’ is good. However, the reality is that she is doing the very opposite: censoring those who question and report on the sexualisation of young children in the name of LGBTIQ+ ideology.

Timidity does not win elections. Bravery, values and common sense do.