In my view the true nature of the Liberal party became apparent during the vote on the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026. This was the so-called ‘hate speech laws’ rushed through after the Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre. Andrew Hastie, once a darling of the right, had publicly warned that the original bill threatened freedom of speech, conscience and religion. He said he was unlikely to support it, then joined much of the Liberal party in voting for the amended version. In doing so, he and they lent their weight to the Albanese administration’s approach. That approach treats the Australian people as a rabble to be managed rather than citizens to be represented.

After days of refusing to name the ideology that attacked us, the Albanese administration’s ‘Reichstag Fire’ impulse following the Islamic terrorism attack at Bondi Beach failed to address the cause while expanding state authority. It also further disarmed an already defenceless population. When a moment of genuine civilisational threat emerged, the administration chose to expand its powers to silence dissent and control the narrative under the guise of managing ‘hate’.

Islamic terrorists attacked us at Bondi, Prime Minister, not hate and antisemitism. We know the difference.

Against this backdrop the Asio Amendment Bill is currently sailing through parliament. This bill poses an alarming threat to Australian freedoms by making permanent, and significantly broadening, compulsory questioning powers. These powers allow Asio to compel non-suspects to answer questions and hand over documents under threat of jail. They override the ancient common law right to silence and the privilege against self-incrimination. This compulsion could occur without any requirement of criminal suspicion or full judicial warrant approval. Again, most of the negligent fourth estate is either blissfully ignorant or complicit in its passing, and the Liberal party supports its passage.

When you live in a government system that is, as Lord Hailsham defined it in 1976, an elective dictatorship, the Albanese administration’s authoritarian impulses need tight scrutiny. We already have no bill of rights, weak constitutional rights, no right of petition and no recall capability. In fact, we have very few mechanisms to defend us against an administration where every member has been selected by party preselection rather than electoral primary. Meaning, they owe zero loyalty to us.

The bill aims ostensibly to correct problems caused by the twin assaults of mass migration and multiculturalism. It has become overwhelmingly apparent that overclocked progressivism is alarmingly dictatorial. This is evident in the growing authoritarianism of the Westminster administrations, which layer hate-coded legislation to curtail citizens’ freedoms, and in the increasingly concerning movement by X fan favourite President Sanchez of Spain and his aggressive pursuit of influence over previously independent bodies – including the very alarming Law of Democratic Memory (2022), which represents a significant step toward state-controlled historical narrative.

While the government remains reluctant to openly name the ideology that slaughtered Jewish revellers at Bondi, it has found the voice to echo the propaganda of the Iranian mullahs, demanding Lebanon be included in a ceasefire deal that serves the interests of Tehran rather than Jerusalem or Washington. It has also allowed at least two known Islamic hate preachers to gain access to the country. Bangladeshi preacher Mizanur Rahman Azhari, described as calling Jews the biggest terrorists and praising Hitler as divine punishment against Jews, entered on a speaking tour called A Legacy of Faith. He had his visa cancelled and was deported after social media posts highlighted his statements. Shaykh Ahmadullah also followed a similar pattern. He was granted a visa, made antisemitic remarks such as calling Jews despicable, had his tour halted and his visa cancelled.

It is worth noting that despite detailed research I was unable to find any reports on state media, SBS or ABC, relating to these Islamic hate preachers and their recent visa cancellations. Yet they have been annoyingly incessant in their vilification of Ben Roberts-Smith. It is the same reflexive mindset that saw both major parties treat us as just one of many cultures during the multiculturalism assault with no greater claim to represent the Australian people. There has been silence on the societal fissures opening across Europe in resistance to mass migration and the increasingly overt racialised insults of state media.

Indeed, on 8 April, the ABC opined that ‘93 per cent of directors on boards come from Anglo-Australian backgrounds. And that is crazy when we consider that over 51 per cent of Australians are either born overseas or have one parent born overseas’. That is me, by the way. I have one parent born overseas. Like many other ambiguously ethnic and indigenous people I totally reject the ABC implication that I have any less patriotism or love for my country than people as white as the ABC presenters. Nor do I hold a racist view regarding who sits on Australian boards. They have also smoothed over the fact that, unlike me, much of the 51 per cent are also English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish. These are groups very much at home with the Anglo-Australian values we have guarded and built for about 230 years.

As they so often do, state media has confused civilisational compatibility with race. Generosity would call it incompetence and lazy journalism. However, given their track record we must face the reality that the motivation is likely one of deeper institutional hostility. Either way, there is no logical reason we should continue paying for it.

This is the crux of the issue. Many Australians suffer from the same affliction that hobbled Tony Abbott. An inability to recognise their enemies when they are standing right in front of them. For decades we have watched the Coalition and the ABC fight it out in our living rooms like a dysfunctional couple in an endless reality TV soap opera we cannot switch off. Yet when the Coalition has held power, they have squibbed the fight. One Nation has at least declared a policy to finally rid us of this meddlesome and hate-filled institution. The idea of forcing taxpayers to fund an organisation that actively campaigns against their history, their values and their country is more absurd than anything Orwell or Huxley ever imagined.

I fled the UK in 2004. That was the first time I saw protestors outside Buckingham Palace dressed as suicide bombers. During the reign of the Albanese administration, it has become clear that we now face the same civilisational crisis as Europe has brought upon its citizens. Here as in Europe it is a crisis that has been caused by the progressive left. A cohort that is middle class, intellectually moribund, and deeply contemptuous of the working class.

The Australian people are at a civilisational crossroads. We are surrounded by belligerents who are very clear about their distaste for us, and an opposition that has never had the courage to defend us. In this context, One Nation looks more like an insurgent political movement rather than just another political party. Increasingly, like the UK and Europe before us, our future rests with a large swathe of Australia that is politically unengaged, ancestrally tribal, and unaware that they are voting for their own cultural demise. They’re voting for a working-class fantasy that Whitlam gifted to the middle class. And unless we can reach them, they will just continue to watch the ABC in blissful ignorance.