Dear LNP Parliamentary Members and candidates,
I have sobering news: After the weekend's disastrous election loss, unless something serious happens, I believe you are headed for political oblivion. You’ve lost your way as a political party, and Australia, not you, is paying the price. Below, I outline why this is happening, what I believe must change, and how you can reclaim your purpose to return to the government benches and save our nation.
The LNP’s Identity Crisis
You’ve been labelled a Labor-lite party since Malcolm Turnbull’s leadership, and for good reason. By accommodating both conservatives and moderates under a big-tent philosophy, the Liberal Party has diluted its values. This approach has alienated your base and failed to address the past eighteen years of damage to Australia’s way of life, culture, and decency.
Australia can no longer afford a Labor-lite government, just as it cannot tolerate a Labor one. Both are unfit to realise our nation’s potential. The time for compromise is over, any form of a Labor Approach to government.
The bottom line is that moderates are the equivalent of right-leaning Labor members. They can no longer fit in your big tent and evictions are required.
The Need for a Conservative-Moderate Divorce
The LNP must face an internal reckoning. The Liberal Party’s conservative and moderate factions can no longer coexist. This tug-of-war, evident since Turnbull’s betrayal of Tony Abbott, has crippled your party. After this election's catastrophic loss, a swift and efficient divorce is essential. Failure to act on this will consign you to be a political irrelevance and Australia to long-term Labor governance.
Your inaction on key issues magnifies this weakness. For example, why haven’t you expelled Turnbull, who openly campaigns for your opponents on the ABC? Such cowardice undermines your resolve.
A Failed Strategy: Ignoring Proven Success
Your Labor-lite approach is a strategic disaster. You’ve ignored successful conservative movements like Trump’s MAGA, which transformed from a punchline to a global political force in under a decade, or Nigel Farage’s Reform Party in the UK. These movements embrace bold, unapologetic conservatism—yet you run from this blueprint.
Instead, you fear offending the media or public, refusing to stand by your values, fighting for your convictions. Even when you win with this approach, you govern timidly, achieving little before losing again. Meanwhile, your indecision has created a vacuum filled by centre-right minor parties. Their “put the majors last” campaign is eroding your support, and your strategists seem either unaware or indifferent to it. Due to this, your election loss has cost you so many seats in both houses.
Policy Failures: Abandoning Core Principles
Your policy choices reflect this lack of conviction:
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Net Zero: You cling to agreements that harm Australia. Abandon them, retain your nuclear policy, and support new coal stations instead of demonising them.
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Individual Freedoms: You erode the liberties your party was founded to protect.
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Woke Agenda: You fail to challenge divisive ideologies. For example, you sacked members who opposed women in frontline troops instead of backing them. You dodge questions about defining a woman, despite clear UK legal precedents.
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Immigration: You acknowledge the issue but refuse to freeze immigration until it’s manageable.
A Trump-style campaign could galvanise support, yet you avoid it, tying yourselves in knots to seem moderate.
A Path Forward: Reclaim Conservative Leadership
To survive, the LNP must return to Menzies-style leadership. Replace cowardice with strength, moderation with conviction, and compromised positions with beliefs worth fighting for. After the election, conservatives within your ranks must act decisively:
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Split from Moderates: Form a legitimate conservative movement, an Australian MAGA, if the party cannot unify behind strong values.
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Unite Centre-Right Forces: Engage centre-right minor parties to build a cohesive conservative coalition. If they refuse, proceed without them.
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Fight Relentlessly: Draw a line in the sand and fight like warriors for an Australia that reflects our shared vision.
A New Conservative Movement
I am looking to build a conservative movement in Melbourne to prepare for the next Victorian and federal elections. Our mission is to define conservatism, to educate others, and to create a unified force, with or without the LNP. You can join us or be left behind. The LNP brand, tarnished by a decade of indecision, is no longer trustworthy to the voting public, especially those on the right.
You now have time to focus and reflect on this election loss. After that, you must choose: remain in a broken marriage with moderates or break away to build a true conservative home. Stay in this debilitating relationship, or join us for a rejuvenated approach to serve Australia.
For moderates reading this, stop sabotaging the party and this country and break out on your own, build your own tent and fight out front instead of in the shadows. I don't like your chances, but have at it.
Through our conservative movement, we are going to look to lobby, influence and unite conservative political parties and individuals. We are totally over this ongoing tug of war between moderates and conservatives, and Senator Alex Antic belled the cat on Sunday when he appeared on the Outsiders program and said certain Liberal members had worked to sabotage Peter Dutton's chances in this election.
That's a disgrace and a clear indicator that the relationship between moderates and conservatives is irrevocably broken. If you are a conservative within Liberal ranks and would wish to discuss my plans for our unique initiative to form a conservative movement to discuss conservatism, its ideals and values, and how to recruit younger generations to the conservative ideology.
If you are comfortable sitting in your cosy parliamentary seat and continue with your arrangement with the moderates, you identify yourself as political cowards. Have the courage to start this journey with us and contact me in any way you wish to confidentially discuss all of this further.