Allow me to offer my congratulations to the people of Queensland. We have freed ourselves from the inexcusable abuse perpetrated by Labor, first at the hands of ‘Queensland hospitals are only for Queenslanders’ Annastacia Palaszczuk and then from the self-proclaimed audition of Steve ‘Giggles’ Miles who governed under the impression that economic hardship and a rise of youth crime were some sort of laughing matter.
Falling back on the childish ‘free lunches’ campaign, stolen from the socialists of old, surely proved the cheap and insincere nature of our major parties.
How fitting to hear the dying screech of the Greens complaining that Mr Miles had nicked their lunches. Queenslanders have been watching Labor re-cycle the Greens’ bad ideas as criminals might launder dirty money.
During the closing weeks of the election, real issues were abandoned. The regions – forgotten… Money was showered over Brisbane in an unsustainable manner. Preference deals were prioritised over policy. The very last concern on the minds of blue and red strategists were the lives of those marking their ballots.
Never has it been more clear that Australian politics has become a game of choosing the ‘least worst’ option from a line of empty boxes.
The prize on election night, made implicit by lacklustre speeches, was the faint hope that ‘this mob might be better’ rather than a genuine belief in a better future.
Too often perfectly reasonable concerns regarding the current leadership has left well-meaning voters – who spent the last four years agreeing with independent parties – panicking over their pencils. People threw their support behind a major party despite knowing full well these parties will spend the next four years betraying their interests.
Every time a first preference vote is wasted on a major party, the independent parties are pushed backward. No matter how loyal they are to the voter. No matter how hard they work. Fear is pushing us toward a permanent two-party government devoid of independent voices. The mainstream press delight in this, assured that the supremacy of the Labor-Liberal monopoly – and their media kickbacks – will continue for another election cycle.
It is the American format: team blue, team red, and heaven help you if the two collude, as we saw in Covid and in the Covid cover-up.
If this pattern repeats at the federal election, regardless of which major party is elected, there will be an unstoppable move to end the free press, citizen journalism, and the online conversation of citizens.
Mainstream media is losing market share to social media. Radio and TV are heading toward extinction, with those under 30 finding their news online. People are choosing independent podcasts and broadcasters who cannot be bribed with a seat on the press bus.
On social media censorship, Labor and Liberal will vote together. The only thing they are bickering over is which party gets to be the champion of silence.
Silence created by censorship.
Queenslanders will get a chance to establish a foothold for free speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of political communication in the upcoming federal election.
Now that the existential threat of a Labor state government has been dismantled, Queenslanders will be asked if they wish to continue the path of change and elect One Nation in the Senate again.
One Nation stands alone in keeping its promise to the people of Queensland.
From the Senate, I have pushed back against the Labor and Liberal obsession with control.
Control over thought. Control over speech. Control over money. Control over our bodies. And control over our children.
The new Premier, David Crisafulli, may be able to pick up his tools and fix a few taxation problems, prune back the unruly hedge of the public service which has encroached the Parliament full of spiders and hornets, he may even be able to enact a few crime reforms before he is taken down by the all-powerful activist movement which relies upon dysfunction for profit. Yet there are things he cannot do, cannot say, and will not achieve because of the soggy factional hands that pat him on the back tonight and slap him across the face at the first critical headline.
What we achieved over the weekend is a minor improvement, not a restoration of our great state.
Queensland needs more than middle-of-the-road politicians patching potholes while a dozen MPs stand idle on their tea break.
The Liberals have no intention of restoring biological definitions to law. They will not interfere to stop the roll-out of digital ID and the necessary dismantling of privacy laws which comes with it. Why? Because it was their idea. They will not protect your speech and they will not build the infrastructure required for Queensland to grow.
Right now, Queensland is on the path of Germany.
Volkswagen announced it is closing three of its factories and sacking tens of thousands of highly skilled German workers. A year ago, two multinational companies, Goodyear and Michelin, announced future closures for their factories. Michelin’s plant in Karlsruhe was of particular significance, being the oldest in the country having been founded in 1931. They cited Asia’s cheap production as a leading cause for the closure. Keep in mind, Asia’s tyre market is one of the main causes of deforestation in Thailand – and yes, EVs need tyres too. China’s cheap car market is wasting resources by producing car graveyards of unsold EVs and Albanese wants Australia to be complicit in this eco-vandalism by offering special deals.
The loss of German automobile makers, previously world leaders, is a shocking Litmus test for the Western economic model under relentless Net Zero ideology. China’s economic advantage is its supply of coal-fired power. Beijing makes everything cheaply on the back of Australian coal, and then sells us the fuel of our own destruction – expensive renewable energy – creating a near-unshakable dependency on China.
Industry is the canary in the Net Zero mine. It is the first to fall off its perch, feet in the air, feathers scattered around the cage.
Germany was killed by its emissions targets. I will not see Queensland follow.
The business of creating a strong state that can protect its interest, champion the needs of Queenslanders, and help the next generation flourish means changing the ideological position of the ruling parties. This can only be done from the voice of the Senate saying ‘No!’ to bad ideas while feeding good policies back into the mix.
Net Zero is a disaster on a global scale for everyone except the carpetbaggers who sell it. We have to come to terms with hundreds of billions of dollars stripped out of our economy and re-distributed to foreign profiteers. That money is gone, but we don’t have to waste any more.
Without a check and balance in the Queensland Senate, the next government – be they Labor or Liberal – will continue this process of flogging our future. They will do it while telling generations of Queenslanders that they are ‘saving the planet’.
As a state, we have to get serious about saving ourselves.
We need to end the corruption that exists between those who sit in Parliament and the hands that snatch away public money.
Politicians hold unimaginable power for the majority of the time, but there is a moment – a few days where the barriers come down and Parliament – and all its creatures – are vulnerable. Where their sins are measured and Queenslanders have the opportunity to make changes.
Voting [1] for One Nation in this moment guarantees independent voices in the Senate.
One Nation will defend the rights of Australians to lift themselves up through their own hard work and endeavour, and by so doing lift all those who are here now, those who were here first, and those who have arrived since. Australia needs less government, less control, and to stop treating the public as if they are children unable to make their own decisions.
Australians are people, not preference votes. We deserve policy, not panic.
Queensland is free of the Labor Party – but not yet free.
