Thoughts from a Bulldozer Driver

So the 2023 NSW State Election has been run and won by the Labor Party. The Liberal Party got the result that they deserved. They have continued to take their grassroots membership and followers for granted. They have continued to ignore  their own stated beliefs  despite several successive election losses. Back in August 2022 I wrote of my despair and concerns about the direction (or lack thereof) of the Liberal party.    Then, it became blatantly obvious to me last year when I attended the 2022 CPAC conference  that the Liberal party leadership were incapable if looking inward, unwilling to listen to their constituents, and unwilling to see past their own noses. Certainly, nothing has changed within the Liberal Party of Australia. So on election day, I found myself out the front of our small-town's polling place handing out how-to-vote cards for One Nation. This is a job I enjoy doing. I get to talk to a lot of people, share my ideas and thoughts, and find it...

In the 1930’s the genius ideology that is Stalinism embarked upon the collectivisation of farms in the Soviet Union. What this meant was that the Government took control of the farms by seizing the land, equipment, livestock and dwellings. Farmers were given the opportunity to stay as an employee, and those that that resisted the seizure of their farms, by physical defiance, or even by simply writing a letter of protest to the Government, were murdered, or bundled up and sent to Serbia where death was a welcome reprieve from their suffering. Of course, no Government can farm as well as a farmer can. The collectivisation program led to several famines and the death of something like ten million (10,000,000) people within just a couple of decades. Even as late as the 1980’s Soviet farmers struggled to achieve the production levels of competing neighbouring countries. In fact, a March 1975 report found that 27% of Soviet agricultural produce was produced by private farms, despite the fact...

  On the October long weekend this year (2022) I attended the Australian CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) event in Sydney. The ticket to the event was given to me as a gift from my loving and outstanding adult children. Previously, I had toyed with the idea of attending CPAC, but decided against due to budgetary constraints. I have attended a few conference-style meetings over the years for the purposes of business, sales, personal development and workplace training. But other than a couple of small local meetings, this was to be my first political event, especially of this size and nature. Being someone who isn’t that “outgoing”, I was quite anxious about attending such an event on my own. But my misgivings were quashed as soon as I arrived at the venue in Darling Harbour. Everyone, and I mean everyone that I met, spoke to, interacted with was incredibly friendly. The atmosphere was one of positive energy and genuine interest in the thoughts of others. I met engine...