While the majority of this publication’s readers wish to see the restoration of the Liberal Party (or at the very least, the revival of conservatism), the elected members of the party appear to be more interested in pandering to left-wing talking points.
Which is both tedious and bloody annoying.
They are starting to remind me of those protesters shouting From the river to the sea! without any idea which river or what sea they want their ideological empire to conquer.
Having failed to foresee Labor’s long-term plan to indoctrinate our children and overwhelm the rest with millions of new arrivals, the Liberal Party have no idea how to win over the Big Australia they helped create.
No, we did not all become one big happy melting pot of multi-culture.
The time to stand up and defend Australia was back when John Howard was muttering about a broad church, extending the eaves to save his leadership. When Turnbull stabbed Abbott in the back and Morrison surrendered to pandemic hysteria, it was already too late.
By May 2025, Australia’s political landscape had been set with landmines. It was a field of cultural warfare which that clown Albanese stumbled through toward victory unharmed, while Dutton bounced from one detonation to the next.
Instead of filling in the holes and repairing politics, we are watching the Sussan Ley leadership kneel down and hold the wires while Labor sets the next round of devices.
Embracing Net Zero. Ditching nuclear. Helping Chalmers tax super. Abandoning caps on foreign students. What next? Shall we be treated to the Liberals adopting the Greens’ policy on Gaza?
If the idea is to attract young people to the Liberal Party, abandoning restrictions on foreign students, or refusing to tackle mass migration in general, is the perfect way to anger them. It’s right up there with banning social media. (Wait until those kids start voting.)
This misstep has escaped the notice of Tasmanian Senator Jonathon Duniam, who has been appointed Shadow Minister for Education. He was out explaining how wonderful and considerate the new Liberal Party has become.
To support the Liberal Party makeover, they are walking back their proposed cuts to Australia’s international student intake.
We are meant to believe the Liberals want to appear ‘more sensitive’. A cynic might imagine it has something to do with not upsetting the powerful unions in the education industry who want to keep their money tree of international students.
The industry was only worth a record $51.5 billion in 2024 in total revenue, so there is no possible way this could be about fees, goods, services, and economic activity.
‘The debate [during the election] was a bunch of blunt instruments being thrown around. And it didn’t engage properly with parts of the community that could have dealt with a more sensitive approach. I intend to take a sensitive approach to this and … having a proper conversation with institutions.’
The Senator added:
‘I need to go and speak to universities and their peak bodies, to understand what it is that they think is sustainable and the best way forward.’
Maybe the Senator might like to ask them why their top dogs are so hideously overpaid despite teaching standards crashing into a garbage heap of Woke activism.
‘But we need to revisit these things, and certainly when we are ready to announce policies of that nature, if indeed we have one on international students, there’ll be a good amount of public debate on it well before the next election.’
Odds are those debates will be with unions, institutions, the ABC, and the Treasury – not with the poor Aussie kids being pushed out of the rental market by foreign students.
No one is having a conversation with them. No one is being sensitive toward their needs.
They’re just young tax slaves, not fools incurring tens of thousands of dollars of debt on a gender studies degree which Albanese can promise to erase at the next election.
Why would the Liberal Party help Labor empower the university sector? Are our universities revered for their falling standards? The race-driven protests? The rampant antisemitism? Their cripplingly expensive degrees? It sounds like an entity the Liberals should threaten to reform.
Instead, the party acts as though it is scared of the university sector but refuses to tell conservative voters why.
As a side note to the Liberals, in case this is a genuine mistake, just because migrant students are young, it does not follow that endorsing them makes young people happy.
Those foreign students are competing against young Australians for everything: education, jobs, services, and homes.
Tradies and employees who are trying to rent a small apartment in the city near their job are up against groups of foreign students who can always out-bid them. They feel as if they are last in the eyes of the government, especially now that Labor has used their taxes to pay off degrees for the privileged class of university graduates.
The class divide brewing in the under-30s is severe. These are your Quiet Australians.
To be fair, the Sussan Ley leadership is probably not thinking about Aussie kids standing behind foreign students – they are thinking about the chances of their candidates in multicultural seats.
Thanks to the sheer numbers of migrants admitted to the country, the needs and desires of generational Australians are now irrelevant to politicians who trade in the currency of culture-less votes which are easier to buy through handouts than earn with policy.
Is it any wonder there is a massive backlash against the Liberals from Australians who feel like their homeland has been sold from beneath them. They’re being shoved out the door only to fall face first into a sneering Welcome to Country message on the Centrelink door.
‘The key with any policy developments is that you need to take the community on the journey with you.’
Who said any of us wanted to come on this journey?
‘Big numbers with little detail or little airtime in terms of making the case for, in this case, a reduction in international students sometimes can frighten the horses.’
The horses being the education system, which votes almost exclusively Labor and Green.
There are around 75,000 visitors to this country, many of them students, who have overstayed their visas. The failure of this system has created problems which are masterfully exploited by Labor’s lazy handout system instead of being enlightened by a revolutionary conservative movement to regain control or private capital.
If the Liberals refuse to give young people hope, they will settle for the redistribution of other people’s wealth.
Senator Duniam’s pledge to be sensitive does not resonate with them at all.
Flat White is written by Alexandra Marshall. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.
