Belatedly Australians are becoming aware of an active fifth column in their midsts dedicated to debasing traditional values, trivialising respected institutions and disrupting their daily lives. It is a Trojan Horse which harbours radical left-wing globalists and religious authoritarians whose beliefs and ambitions align more with the nation’s enemies.

It’s easy to cry conspiracy and scoff at such assertions. But it is beyond dispute that anti-Christian, anti-West ideologues and an axis of foreign actors are collaborating, both formally and informally, to change existing institutional arrangements with the ultimate objective of asserting control over the Australian people. All are driven by blind faith, power and money. The scriptures they preach must, to their minds, be obeyed.

The Australian Greens and their leader, Adam Bandt, are in the vanguard of this movement. They know the Albanese Labor government would rather switch than fight and they successfully exploit that weakness.

For example, the Greens wedge Labor when competing for Muslim-populated inner-city seats. To woo pro-Palestine voters and their fellow travellers, Labor panders to them by only meekly condemning the upsurge in violent anti-Semitism, and abandoning Australia’s longstanding support of democratic Israel.

It further prostitutes itself by granting visas to 3,000 Gazans, many without security checks, while denying entry to former Israeli minister Ayelet Shaked.

Labor also refuses to rule out acting on the International Criminal Court’s farcical arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In reality, Labor is a socialist government which, deep down, shares the Greens’ anti-West, woke agenda but leaves it to the Greens to push more extreme policies. The Greens are the guerrillas of the culture wars whose mission is to restrict freedoms and incite class envy.

Proxies, like academics, journalists and union leaders, are enlisted to help socialise radical policies.

Take the Voice referendum. The Greens and academics were the first to champion the Uluru Statement from the Heart, the very essence of the Voice proposal. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese adopted it and paid the price of poor judgment. Yet he complains that the Greens ‘give nothing, expect everything’.

On policy, Labor clearly give the Greens everything.

It was Labor who rejected a critical invitation from Australia’s Aukus partners to renew membership of a key international nuclear technology forum. When Chris Bowen rejected the proposal on the international stage, the cheering of the Greens’ friends in Beijing could be heard in Canberra.

Then, lifted straight from the Greens’ playbook, is Labor’s energy policy. It recklessly depends on expensive, Chinese-controllable wind turbines and solar panels, completely ignoring the 25 per cent global surge in nuclear power generation projected by 2050.

What the Greens give Labor is government, both federally and in most states. Overwhelmingly their preferences go to Labor. And while the Greens lack seats in parliament, their votes are often vital to Labor’s legislative program. Like helping Labor pass 27 bills through the parliament in the last sitting week of the year. So for Mr Albanese to say the Greens give ‘nothing’ is clearly ‘disinformation’.

Of course, Labor and the Greens may differ at the margins, but after decades of joint propaganda and indoctrination at school, many Australians, particularly the young, now accept socialism as the ideal economic system.

They see nothing wrong with governments taking control of business and industry. After all, ‘corporate social responsibility’, rather than profit, is now the focus, with today’s business leaders enthusiastic champions of the government’s net zero and diversity, equity and inclusion policies .

There has also been growing acceptance that freedom of thought and expression, which were once inalienable rights, may now have to be modified in light of ‘modern issues’. In other words, those principles were for an era which no longer exists. As the Voice referendum demonstrated, as far as the left is concerned, normal people can’t be trusted to make the ‘right’ decisions.

To be fair, the socialist utopian agenda does sound appealing. Gender and racial discrimination will be no more. There will be equal sharing of resources and wealth. By appeasing our enemies, peace will be assured and, as good global citizens, we will play our part in stabilising the world’s climate. What’s not to like?

Well, plenty.

After 60 years of being promised utopia, it is safe to say that the working class is losing confidence in the Labor/Green socialist experiment.

Indeed, they are fed up with condescending elites lecturing and intimidating them. They know the cost of living and energy policies are intrinsically linked; that homelessness is up 14 per cent; and that small businesses are failing at a record rate. They experience daily how big government limits social mobility and stifles initiative. And they worry too about schools where critical race and gender theory crowd out necessary education and that one child in three is not proficient in numeracy and literacy. They feel the fall in household living standards, the worst since the 1950s, and lament the widest wealth gap in 70 years.

Unsurprisingly, the Australian electorate seems ready for change but, too often, finds Liberal and Labor indistinguishable.

Donald Trump’s decisive election win is a massive blow for the left and demonstrates an American working class searching for an authentic anti-woke alternative. Australia’s Coalition parties should take note. As British author Douglas Murray says, Trump will bring about a ‘seismic change’ to a world in need of urgent reforms. Australia must participate or be left floundering far behind.

Clearly, incrementalism won’t do. Countering the political class’s misinformation and disinformation with hard evidence should start immediately. Now is the time to advocate reining in the size and reach of government, the reform of company and labour laws, and the embrace of nuclear energy. It’s also time for a cost-benefit audit of Australia’s substantial contributions to the United Nations and its agencies, with consideration given to withdrawing from some.

Any attempt by a government to pursue this agenda will trigger angry protests and widespread strikes from the socialist collective. Only time will tell whether Peter Dutton’s Coalition and the Australian public are up for the fight.

But the nation is at a turning point in its history and the consequences of surrender are truly unthinkable.