A year ago, today May 3, though a Saturday, the Australian conservative Liberal-National Party Coalition lost an unlosable federal election giving Labor, filled with promises of social harmony and responsible spending, a second term. Labor wasn’t being believed. For a month it had spiralled downwards in the polls, until the Liberal Party announced antipathy to working from home for absolutely no political reason before reversing itself. The damage was done. Australians voted for what they thought was a more predictable future.

Less than a year later 15 people were dead, shot in an antisemitic mass murder at Bondi Beach.

In two days’ time the City of Sydney will call for “globalising the intifada” at its town hall while both federal and state Labor governments give lip service to the event’s international backing for antisemitic violence on Australia’s streets.

And Australia will soon hit a $1T national debt.

Contrary to the hopes of Australia’s swinging voters, today’s Australia is a cesspool of far left anarchist, and extreme Islamist hate crime. And despite ASIO proving the involvement of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the burning of synagogues and Jewish restaurants, the Albanese government still refuses to join the US war for Iranian regime change.

Meanwhile, Labor’s Home Affairs minister is calling for the minimal assimilation of immigrants who bring with them cultures and beliefs antithetical to Australian values and a once proud integrated multicultural society of tolerance and national pride. Half a million people migrated to Australia in 2025. Another half a million are due this year.

Yet, on these crises the Liberal-National Party opposition, with new leaders, still has nothing cogent to say.

It refuses to let go of the same sanitised political playbook of hollow spin that cost it power and that still won’t let it grab the microphone every hour to tell Australia what needs to be done “right now”. That public microphone waits to broadcast 24/7.

That’s because this Coalition refuses to adapt to an educational system and old media that won’t teach is audiences what’s behind today’s news, if they even can, both motivated by external financial incentives that influence them.

The dumbing down of schools and the news requires an opposition willing to step in as teacher, reporter and analyst. This requires a new type of leadership thought.

Fact is, the Australian government will not change without a values-based counterinsurgency against these forces that amount to political gaslighting and corruption.

In the absence of pluralism in education and the media, the teaching and recording of history without partisan revisionism renders “truth” nothing but a word.

And if the Coalition won’t rise to this challenge soon, all major parties: Liberal, National and Labor are in for a rude electoral shock with what is forming to fill the void.

Some voids are being deliberately engineered by bad actors for the very reason that every such gets filled.

© 2026 Adam Parker.

Picture credit: The Bondi Pavillion bridge used as the shooting platform on 14 December 2025 when 15 innocent civilians were killed celebrating the Jewish festival of Chanukah. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic licence.