Modern Australia No Longer Represented By Libs
The Liberal Party of Australia have won no metropolitan seats in Adelaide and almost none in Sydney and Melbourne. Where does the greater part of the Oz population reside? In the cities, of course. Modern Australia no longer represented by Libs. This once popular political party is no longer representative of the modern Australia and Australians. Peter Dutton led the Libs further Right and has taken them into the smaller territory of that extremist category within the political sphere. It features a male dominated, Anglo-settler white is right, ethos which regularly attacks multiculturalism, refugees, LGBTQI folk, renewables and climate change, and ‘woke’ – which is really an attack on smart women and diversity. Inspired by Trump in the US, the Libs want to turn the clock back to an Australia where patriarchy and white men rule the roost and others know their place at the back of the queue.
“The Liberal party has been decimated in major cities – with just a handful of seats left in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney – and must overhaul its appeal in urban areas despite a Coalition party room now dominated by regional Liberals and the Nationals.
The Liberals have also been wiped off the map in Adelaide and Tasmania and lost another seat in Perth. Across major cities, the party has failed to win back any seats from the teal independent MPs, who strongly appeal to moderate Liberal voters.”
Liberal Party Of Australia Needs A Name Change
I think a name change is in order, anyway. I mean how can you be a hard right conservative political party and call yourself Liberals. Talk about confusing. However, it does chart just how far this organisation has come since Robert Menzies founded the party back in 1944. I suppose you have to see everything within the perspective of the times and their main opponent the Australian Labor Party (ALP). If 30% of the adult voting population voted for them in this last federal election this is who identifies with their agenda and ethos. 70% did not, however. Women and younger women especially, in the main, did not vote for the Libs. The ‘strongman’ bullying style of Peter Dutton did not go over well with modern women, it seems.
The Liberal Party Reaches Irrelevance In Today’s Australia
Progress is inevitable and we need an inclusive progressive government in Australia. The Libs went down the moaning and whinging about ‘woke’ route and thought that this would result in electoral success in the suburbs. It failed to bear fruit, the so-called ‘culture wars’, which demonised demographics and groups like trans people over their identity, international students and immigration more generally, consistently opposes renewable energy on ideological grounds, and ogles Trump’s America as an inspiration for Australia were not popularly received. The Dutton nuclear agenda was viewed as the fringe idea that it was and not consistent with that of a mainstream political party policy platform. Modern Australia no longer represented by Libs.
The Selfish Ethos Of The Liberals
I would put forward my view that the Libs are the party of selfishness. Their leaders and policies represent an overwhelming concern for individual wealth aggrandisement. They do not govern for all Australians but, rather, for propertied folk over renters and ordinary workers. Peter Dutton was revealed to be cashing in on his position for personal gain during his years in public office and Australians were not impressed on this score. Community always comes second to individual hip pocket concerns with the Libs. Over the years they have opposed Medicare calling it socialised medicine. Their policy platforms have more in common with Donald Trump and the Republican Party in the US than the more centrist policies of ALP governments. Neoliberal policies have pushed privatisation, which has seen the transfer of assets from public ownership into the hands of the super wealthy 1%. Privatising government services is their agenda and slashing the civil service and spending billions with consultants like PwC is their well-trodden track record. Corruption and jobs for the boys surrounds this transfer of wealth from public to private hands. I think that many Australians are sick of this selfishness and see the need for a much greater community spiritedness.
Dutton’s Alarmist Stratagem
The alarmist warnings, which Peter Dutton constantly espoused about situations, are a part of this stratagem. Because if you threaten the security of folk by ‘crying wolf’ about China, Indigenous Australians during the Voice, criminal stateless refugees running amok in the streets, and the myriad of other Dutton emergencies it makes folk think of their bottom line. Men and women reach for their wallets and purses in a crisis. Neocon paranoia is predicated on this fear mongering by their political leaders. Peter Dutton was a strongman big on alarming the population. Australians, I think, were heartily sick of it.
“Peter Dutton is that boy who keeps crying ‘wolf!’ The alarmist leader of the opposition has been busy warning about Russian planes possibly landing in Indonesia. Penny Wong, the Foreign Minister, tells us that ‘Temu Trump’ just made up stuff purporting to come from the Indonesian President. The ex-cop from Queensland wants Aussie citizens to be worried and alarmed, so that he can beat his chest. “
The average Liberal voter is a white man in his 70s and the average Australian is a 37 YO woman.
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump.
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