Factions killed Liberal broad church

The same factions that lost the 2022 election are back in strength. In my opinion, the Liberals are done.

Formalised factions are commonly associated with socialist political parties. Marx viewed religion as the opiate of the masses. No wonder whoever dreamt up formalising factions for the Liberal Party is responsible for killing the broad church.

In the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall wrote:

They absolutely need to get some fresh direction or these will be the last three years of their Coalition.

My election coverage in The Spectator Australia, Factions killed Liberal broad church.

Many hate the idea of a broad church, but John Howard used it to reinvent Menzies’ party and to accommodate economic liberals and conservatives.

Paul Kelly has argued the failure to reinvent the broad church is to blame for the Liberals’ demise.https://t.co/blrGKFk6ny

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) May 9, 2025

Greens leader Adam Bandt is gone!

It seems that you can stop the music. Bye, Felicia!

While I don’t like the Labor Party, the gracious exchanges between Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese gave me some hope for our democracy. I have never wanted Labor to win so much as I did in the seat of Melbourne.

While I think Labor in their current form are socialist, they are a reflection of the weakness of conservatives in Australia. The Greens, however, are extremists. In my opinion, they have no place in Australian politics.

The good news is that Adam Bandt is gone!

Writing in Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall had this to say:

Despite a few ‘glimmers of hope’ (for Adam Bandt), it seems inevitable that he has lost his seat and the leadership of the Greens. His arrogant campaign to ‘keep Dutton out and get Albanese to act’ failed to resonate across the country. Although Bandt’s problems were also local, with a 2024 redraw of boundaries robbing the Greens of a few strong suburbs. Bandt wasn’t brilliant, but I fail to see how the movement can survive with someone like Mehreen Faruqi in charge. How many old school environmentalists envisioned their tree-hugging party as a Palestine-centric, rainforest-bulldozing, communist machine?

Terry Barnes had a few words to say, too, in the Morning Double Shot newsletter:

Michael de Percy’s working overtime in this election season. Today he rejoices in the demise of the diminutive leader of the Greens, Adam Bandt, and the possibility the party of hard left activism will have no seats in the lower house. However, the Greens are not gone – this carbuncle on the bottom of Australian democracy still has power and influence in the Senate, wielded by people even more unpleasant and toxic, if that be possible, than Bandt. We are not done with this malevolent incubus yet, more’s the pity.

My election coverage in The Spectator Australia, Greens leader Adam Bandt is gone!

The really good news is that Adam Bandt is gone and Senator Mehreen Faruqi has been re-elected in NSW.

Hopefully, she will become the Greens’ leader.

Her vision for the party will ensure the Greens go away.

Forever.https://t.co/REYW4y73Q1

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) May 7, 2025

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, I salute you!

Hopefully this isn't the last we will see of this talented conservative politician

One of the conservatives who understands Australia better than most politicians has been returned to the Senate for the Northern Territory.

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, you rock!

I’ve seen this honest and forthright politician speak at CPAC and she is all charisma and wisdom. The whole package.

What I love about Senator Price is that she is as Aussie as they come. Every bit of her being represents what we wish we were before the Woke nonsense came to our shores.

My election coverage in The Spectator Australia, Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, I salute you!