I encourage you to consider where we are as a country, the trajectory we are on, and whether our government has a robust plan to get us through the major social and economic change that Ai and humanoid robotics are sure to bring. Having done so, I found it hard not to conclude that big trouble is brewing for us.
It is apparent that we have an incompetent government; rampant corruption; public officials operating with impunity, behaving unconscionably and totally ignoring their prescribed core values, yet escaping any adverse consequences for doing so; politicians who under the pretence of democracy contemptuously ignore the will of the people and who while campaigning promise one thing, then do the exact opposite once in office; a judicial system that serves the interests of government, big business and the legal fraternity, not the people; and judges who under the protection of immunity stoop to whatever depths necessary in their determination to find in favour of their paymaster, government, including having a reckless disregard of the truth, ignoring evidence, being biased and even blatantly dishonest.
And that’s not the least of it.
Our mainstream media, rather than holding government to account, spews socialist government propaganda. Our schools are indoctrinating our children with pseudo-intellectual nonsense and failing to prepare them for the world that awaits them as adults. Our universities, in their pursuit of effectively selling visas to foreigners, are failing in their core duties. Our medical establishment has been captured by the pharmaceutical industry, and our agricultural research and education institutions by the chemical industry.
Is there any government body or institution that we can trust? It appears not. That must change. Tinkering around the edges, treating symptoms, will not fix the problems we face, radical change is needed.
And there is a lot more to fix!
We are providing for more public servants relative to population size than any other country, yet government’s handling of crises (such as the GFC, Covid and fuel security) has been abysmal and successive governments have been unable to live within their means, shown an abject failure to ensure major public infrastructure projects are completed on time and within budget, failed to keep NDIS costs within budget and their fiscal management has been appalling. Twenty years ago, government was debt free, now its burdened with almost a trillion in debt, and precious little to show for it.
The value of our money has dropped significantly and continues to do so. It has lost more than half its buying power over the past 20 years and that deterioration is accelerating.
The size of our economy relative to our population size (our GDP per capita) dropped 5.7% over the 11 years from 2013 to 2024 (World Bank) and appears to have dropped further in 2025 and will drop again this year, 2026. While we went backwards, many other comparable countries experienced significant growth over this period. The USA and Singapore for example increased by 60%. So, we are not only getting poorer as a nation we are falling further behind other countries.
Our birth rate is too low to sustain our population size – why, because we no longer offer an environment conducive to having a family. House prices have skyrocketed, people are taxed to the eyeballs, they can’t afford to buy a home to raise a family, their cost of living has gone through the roof, both couples need to work to earn enough to pay for food and a roof over their heads, crime is escalating fast, and despite the world being on the cusp of the biggest social and economic upheaval in history, our leaders appear to be bumbling along without any plan to survive it, let alone prosper through it.
All these problems have been caused by our career politicians but can be fixed with fundamental reform. If this doesn’t happen, we will continue hurtling towards a future of poverty for all. Well, poverty for all except for politicians and senior bureaucrats.
The question for us, Australians, is: Who will champion this reform? I’d rather not. There are many other things I’d rather do. But, since I have been unsuccessful in persuading our current political parties to commit to making the necessary changes, I feel compelled to pick up the baton, to lead the campaign for a better future for us, our children, our grandchildren, and their children.
Join and support Classic Liberals Australia however you can. Tell your friends, family and colleagues, encourage them to at least discover what we are all about and remind them of the responsibility a functional democratic system puts on its citizens.
It is imperative that we have an efficient, effective system of government that we can trust. We, together, must ensure it. None of us can do it alone.
Many thanks for your interest and consideration.