Below is an open letter that I presented to a member of the local National Party branch.
The letter was presented to a meeting which included our (State) local sitting member.
As yet, I have had no reply. I'll keep you posted.
Dear Nationals
I am one of the many thousands of conservative voters looking for somewhere to park my vote.
I have been voting for around 35 or 40 years and while I traditionally voted Liberal or Nationals, I have not voted Nationals or Liberal since the 2007 Federal Election. And I will explain why shortly.
At the recent Tasmanian state election, something like 34% of voters selected a minor party, with the bulk of those votes going to the Greens.
At the most recent Federal election in 2022, the LNP and the Nationals (not including Liberal Party) combined primary was less than 12%. (To be fair, the Nationals don't contend that many seats, but these are the statistics from the AEC Tally Room web page). At the same election, around 20% voted for independents and minor parties.
So. Why are voters turning away from the major parties? While I can’t speak for everyone, I can speak for myself. So this is an attempt to explain why, and me asking you the question, “why should I vote Nationals”?
To me, the Nationals are a party wandering around with no message, and no adherence to their primary banner, ie: a “Strong Voice for Regional Australia”. As far as I can tell, (and I’m happy to be corrected) the Nationals have no Federal voice at all in the lower house from Western Australia, South Australia, Northern Territory, Tasmania or the ACT. Same for the Upper house, save the incredible Jacinta Price in the Northern Territory. It looks to me like there are more from the Liberal party representing regional Australia than Nationals. This is despite the Nationals having a reported higher membership base than the Liberals. And despite the Liberals being utterly hopeless.
While my dismay at the Coalition parties started bugging me almost 20 years ago, watching the last four year’s action around Covid, for example, has been like having a tooth drilled. Australia’s two major parties of “Small Government” immediately adapted globalist policy and orchestrated, instructed, supported and implemented gross abuse of human rights. It was a display of totalitarianism the likes of which has never been brought down upon the Australian people since those that arrived here in chains.
Never before have we as Australians had our birthrights, (what Americans call “God-given inalienable rights) removed from us. I’m speaking of the people’s rights to freedom of movement, freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom to trade, freedom of self-determination, and freedom of bodily autonomy. All of the things that the coalition parties purport to defend, but, by their actions, were trashed, forgotten, ignored and dismissed with the wave of the hand and swipe of the pen.
Now for those of us who live in New South Wales, you may be thinking our state coalition government was the least militant in Australia. And that may well be correct. However (as I’ve suggested several times over the last couple of years) being “less bad” is not a good enough reason for anyone to vote for you.
I could bang on about the stupid covid response for ages, but I won’t, because that is just the tip of the iceberg. And my thoughts on the Covid response are well documented elsewhere on this blog.
These are my current concerns:
Around the world, primarily Europe, farming is under attack. EU members and surrounding governments have declared war on carbon, by attacking and strictly controlling livestock production, fertiliser use, crop protection chemicals, diesel consumption, methane emissions, water use, and imposing strict land use mandates.
But Europe is a long way from Australia, right? Nope. Don’t be fooled. It’s coming here, too.
In my opinion, the stupid and pointless pursuit of Net Zero is fundamentally the greatest risk to our security and the future of our children. A recent report from Victoria states that, in order for the state to reach their carbon emissions target, they will have to surrender 70% of their farm land over to so-called renewable energy production. 70 Percent!! Is anyone listening to this? Farms are being torn up by wind turbines and solar arrays. Farms are being divided up by high voltage transmission lines and access roads. The Nationals should be screaming from the gate-posts of every farm in Australia. But, to date, have remained almost silent. More on that below.
Already, we’ve had thousands of acres of freehold farming land in Northern NSW and Southern Queensland surrendered to Carbon Sequestration. The owners of this land aren’t allowed to farm using broadacre techniques, and the result is the land is being overrun with feral animal and plant species.
Already, we’ve had so much water removed from food and fibre production, and Ms Plibisek is working to remove an additional 44 gigalitres per year as I write. Their gaslighting lies are being pushed on social media and a series of ads on commercial television.
Already, there’s talk about restrictions on chemicals. Farmers and farming communities are more than aware of the loss of production, and lowering of quality, when you cannot use Glyphosate or Dicamba!
Already, the Albanese government has signed up to reduce methane emissions. Their primary target to achieve these reductions, like we have seen in the Netherlands, New Zealand and Ireland, is burping and farting livestock. I fear that livestock reduction legislation is just around the corner. And with that legislation comes mandated livestock culls, a reduced availability of protein, and an upward pressure on meat price.
Already, there’s moves to totally ban livestock exports.
Soon, we’ll be saying “how did we get here?” How did we allow all of these counter-productive measures to be installed? The answer is, ‘one small increment at a time’. It's like the dog on the chain theory. If you remove one link from the dog's chain, he won't notice the loss of movement. Eventually, however, he won't be able to move at all. and have no idea how it became that way.
Who will stand up for the Australian farmer, rural communities and common sense? Obviously, Labor and the Greens won’t. They have declared their disdain for primary production and obviously want to turn Australia into a nation of import consumption. The "Teals" are no more than virtue-signalling ideologues who contribute nothing except boosting the coffers of Simon Holmes à Court, who funds the Teals, and who coincidentally(?) also invests heavily in renewable energy.
Forget about the Liberal Party. They have lost their way and have abandoned, by their actions, the very ideals that they claim to uphold. They have proven to me at CPAC in 2022 and 2023 that they have little to no self-awareness, and blame the voter for their ills, rather than the party machine that seems intent upon steering them into the headwinds of political correctness and the folly of Net Zero.
The Nationals, despite the bluster of the likes of Barnaby Joyce, appear no different having signed up to the Net Zero madness. In fact, it’s Mr Joyce’s signature on Australia's most recent Net Zero declaration itself.
Add to that, the economic irresponsibility of both the most recent NSW and Federal coalition governments. Both of those governments seemingly embraced the romantic and lazy “Modern Monetary Policy”. The wanton printing of money and shovelling it into the economy has led to the inflation that we are all suffering from now. The coalition’s claim of “fiscal responsibility” is dead and has little prospect of being resurrected.
THAT is why the minor parties are attracting more and more votes.
THAT is why the likes of One Nation are gathering strength, and why I ‘handed out’ for them at the last state and federal elections.
I am fed up with our current crop of political representation.
I am inspired to become more politically active and join a political party.
What I want to know is…
Why should I, why would I, join the Nationals?
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