Liberal Party....Drowning Or Waving?
Angus Taylor limping towards the right.....
My eldest brother said something to me when I was a teenager and still living in America. He had migrated here in 1972 when teachers were needed.
“Australia is like 15 years behind America. Things that happen in the USA will get here.”
Now I have been living in Australia for over 40 years, and I believe that experience, but today I have to disagree with the math. With the interconnectedness of the world today, things don’t take as long as they used to so that time frame is off.
Susan Ley led the Opposition Party (Liberal Party) from May 2025 until February 2026. Taking control of the Liberal Party after the beating they took in the 2025 election was not going to be an easy bronco to ride. She became the first female leader of the party. It was a short, tumultuous ride.
The Coalition in Australia is a long-standing partnership between the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Party of Australia, which generally acts as a single entity in federal politics to oppose the Labour government. Of course, this fractious relationship, recent divorce and reconciliation created unsafe waters for Ms Ley.
With Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price stepping down from the Coalition front bench, it certainly seemed that things were beginning to fall apart for Ley.
30 years ago some of us thought this Bimbo would only be around for a moment. She is still with us leading the One Nation Party.
And One Nation is on the rise in Australia….do you feel the racism rising?
We now have a new Opposition Leader and his name is Angus Taylor. Taylor is trying to distance himself from Hanson’s latest comment that there are no good Muslims.
Susan Ley had tabled a Liberal Party Immigration plan just before she was ousted.
From The Guardian:
Sussan Ley’s shadow immigration minister has “serious concerns” over a proposal to ban migrants from specific regions of 13 countries – including from Gaza, Afghanistan and Somalia – outlined in a leaked hardline Liberal immigration plan.
Guardian Australia understands the banned regions, outlined in the policy designed before Ley was ousted as Liberal party leader on Friday, were based on areas where listed terrorist organisations have territorial control.
The 37 specific regions under the proposed ban are in Afghanistan, Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, the Philippines, Somalia and Yemen.
https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/57929633 Here is the Qobuz Link…HAVE YOU TRASHED SPOTIFY YET? Spotify list below….if yer still using it…
How does Angus Taylor see Immigration for Australia?
The new opposition leader, however, says he supports some elements of the leaked proposal, including deporting migrants who do not share Australia’s “core values”.
“[If they’re] not a citizen and they’re temporarily here in this country and it’s clear that they don’t adopt those core values, they should go,” he said.
“I think the work that needs to be done to make sure the people coming into our country are the right people, and that they’re not going to bring the hate and violence of another place to our shores, needs to be ramped up.
“Our intelligence agencies clearly need to be at the heart of that.
“There will be some higher-risk regions than others, and those principles will be in our immigration policy when we announce it.” (ABC News)
There is a deeper rift in the conservative wing between those who believe the party should emulate the populist strategies of Donald Trump and the UK’s Nigel Farage, and those who believe it should stick to the economic tradition of John Howard and Peter Costello.
How about this for a headline for 2 right-wing members now back in the Front Bench of The Opposition Party?
Take a few minutes to find out more about Mr Hastie in case you don’t know who he is.
And here is another right-wing politician who we can do without….what do you think?
And in the meantime, Angus Taylor says he never saw that Ley Immigration Policy…I do not believe him. Here you can learn more about him….maybe.
Let’s see how the rest of 2026 plays out for all of us here in Australia.