It was expected for Barnaby Joyce to jump ship. I honestly wanted it, given that it breaks the trend of yet another female leader of the Liberals in Victoria/NSW/insert other State of the Commonwealth.
So this is the second time that One Nation will take a sitting member of the House of Representatives and place them on the Senate ticket of their respective state, the first being the former LNP member for Dawson George Christensen being 3rd on One Nation’s Queensland Senate ticket in 2022.
Asides from the obvious cheers from the conservative crowds, what is there?
For Joyce to win a spot in the NSW slate of Senators for 2028, he is running against these six incumbents:
- Dave Sharma, Liberal, former Ambassador to Israel and former MP for Wentworth. Sharma replaced retiring Senator Marise Payne (who won in 2022)
- Deborah O’Neill, Labor, devout Catholic who is opposed to euthanasia, supports the traditional definition of marriage, has supported faith-based schools selecting staff of that faith
- Ross Cadell, Nationals, who appeared on an August program of Sky News’ Paul Murray Live to state that he was on a “unity ticket” in condemning the then-upcoming March for Australia later that month. To my knowledge, he has not retracted such a statement
- Jenny McAllister, Labor, current Minister for the NDIS
- David Shoebridge, Greens Senator
- Maria Kovacic, Liberal who replaced the late Jim Molan following his death in 2023
So for Joyce, he faces an uphill battle. None of the six incumbents have given any statements saying they’ll retire. In terms of voting for the minor parties, the Greens in NSW for the last election received 557,610 vs 302,438 for One Nation. Compared to the national Senate totals where it was 1,859,974 for the Greens and 899,296 for One Nation.
Bear in mind that this is after October 7 and after all the possible mud-slinging that is given to the pro-Palestine cause and to the Greens in general. This is also in spite of them losing three MPs in the House including the national leader. The Greens still maintain their strength and given their party structure, they are not going to splinter into a thousand pieces. They will ossify and they will punch harder. I have stated to myself, after seeing the figures, that we cannot be surprised if by 2028 that the Greens get two million votes in either the House or Senate. One Nation on the other hand has never cracked one million votes.
Joyce’s addition to the NSW ticket for One Nation would no doubt draw voters away from the Nationals and some of the minor right-wing parties. But with parties like People First, Libertarians, Family First and Australian Christians not going away any time soon, there is no vacuum for One Nation to occupy. Not even the racist dog whistling vacuum given that White Australia is explicitly committed to the restoration of the White Australia Policy.
It would be great to see a right-wing bloc being formed in the Senate to blockade any laws that continue to erode Australia’s civil liberties and the Australian population in the name of “social cohesion”, no one would say otherwise. But given that Hanson has gone on pointless tangents, such as arguing over paper bags or making cartoons or allowing her Victorian upper house member take down posters targeting mass immigration, I have strong doubts.
It will not simply do for copy-and-paste Facebook comments about how “everyone just needs to join One Nation” or that all conservative parties to the right of the Coalition need to unite – I want to state why it won’t work.
The reason why White Australian Millennials or Generation Z like myself don’t like the current state of One Nation is that we don’t think its radical enough.
In terms of immigration, it doesn’t go far enough. In terms of nationalism and patriotism, it does not go far enough. In terms of using its political power, it doesn’t go far enough. In terms of free speech or foreign affairs or confronting the ever-encroaching threats of certain lobby groups, it doesn’t go far enough!
It is these things among others that lead to less than 10% of Gen Z Australians wanting to vote for One Nation. Instead of seeing the red flags and changing the messaging, there have been dismissive tones about trying to increase support from young Australians.
The young Greens and Labor supporters are given their doctrine, their catechism and their introduction into the radicalism that moves their respective parties and their respective agendas. The Liberals and Nationals have no such programme.
Robert Menzies defended the White Australia Policy in a radio interview with Stewart Lamb on 2UE in 1955:
“I don’t want to see reproduced in Australia the kind of problem they have in South Africa or in America or increasingly in Great Britain. I think it’s been a very good policy and it’s been of great value to us and most of the criticism of it that I’ve ever heard doesn’t come from these oriental countries it comes from wandering Australians.”
Would Andrew Hastie or Barnaby Joyce or Pauline Hanson have the guts to stand by this statement?
The Labor Party rank-and-file will never dismiss their MPs who condemn neoliberalism or condemn the target of the day (Australia Day, White people in general, White men, farmers, etc). Even when faced with the words of Palestine supporters or anti-war protesters or, even the actions of one person who planted a bomb at an expo, they will never retreat from the general cause.
Now after saying that, I will be accused of multiple things, a “leftist” or god knows what. I expect at least one person not reading this to then go on a diatribe about how this news site is secretly communist. I and other contributors are merely pointing out that for all the energy being wasted on “vote One Nation” Facebook comments is not being used on enough grassroots branches, not enough debate and structure within the party and not enough radicalism in the party’s platform.
The Greens have their radicalism and that’s why they win seats and win power.
The Labor Party have their radicals and that’s why they won more seats and more power than what they would. They won seats from the Greens because they had more energy and had the capacity to match the energy and radical potential with political reality.
The Coalition was pissweak and milquetoast and it lost seats and power and political reality.
Thirty years ago, Pauline Hanson said that Australia was in danger of being swamped with Asians. Thirty years hence, she should be the one to spearhead the movement to restore White Australia, to explicitly call for the restoration of European-only immigration and to have a refugee programme to match. She should be calling for Afrikaners fleeing South Africa to be granted permanent visas within 60 days and to concurrently open channels to the Orania movement. She should be calling for section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act to be abolished, and the axing of the Race Discrimination Commissioner.
Given that Joyce hitched his wagon to hers, and given their age, they should have nothing to lose. They should be in the news every day! Not for stunts like wearing a burqa, but for pushing laws to deport illegal migrants, to remigrate legal migrants back to their homelands and to endorse White migration.
One Nation cannot and should not throw away the radical right because it may scare away donors or the racially diverse groups who will never vote for Pauline anyway. While men like myself welcome the piecemeal dismantling of the Coalition thanks to Joyce’s defection, it should be in service to sometime greater and not to recreate an *all new revamped Coalition! (TM)*.
White Australians need a voice, uncompromising, unbending and unyielding. During a cost-of-living crisis, where White Australians are being harmed/murdered/raped by new arrivals on the basis of race, where our heritage is being torn apart in the name of Cultural Marxism, we need strength and radicalism to go together.
We do not need a party whose policies seem to be drawn up by the likes of Monica Smit. That party is called the Liberal Party and people like Monica can go there and be left there, because she doesn’t care. In her words, she’ll be dead anyway by the time Australia is 10% White. It’s not her problem and its not Pauline or Barnaby’s problem to fix, but it seems that they’ll take the credit.
Will One Nation stand up for White Australia? Will Barnaby Joyce?
The next two years will answer those questions once and for all.
Header image: Barnaby Joyce and Pauline Hanson (Facebook).
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