The MOST IMPORTANT issues for the Australian right 2022

The issues Australian conservatives must embrace going forward [4 minute read]

With the Liberal party reeling from a dramatic election loss, we, the true Australian conservatives have been given an opportunity to steer the course of Australian conservatism in the direction we want and as such we must have clarity of vision.

Below, the National Observer has laid out the four most important issues real Australian conservatives must push the Liberal party towards, Recognition of demographic change, Australian sovereignty, Free Speech and Christian revanchism.

1. Demographics and immigration 

   It is an uncomfortable truth, but white Australians are on track to become a minority in Australia. In his 2002 book ‘Death of the West’ American conservative legend Patrick Buchanan projected that by 2050:

   “In Australia, a nation of only 19 million, where the white birthrate is now below replacement levels, the European population will have begun to disappear.”

   Just a cursory glance at Australia’s population statistics proves this prediction is coming to fruition:

   In 2017 half of all children born in Australia had parents born outside Australia.

   Between 1996 and 2016, Australia’s chinese born population underwent a fourfold increase, in 2016 Asian-Australians representing 16.3% of the total Australian population, making up 28% of Sydneys population and 24% of Melbourns population.

   In 1996, Indian was not one of the top 10 ethnicities in Austrlia, in 2016 it was ranked 5th, experiencing a sixfold increase in those 20 years.

   
   As Australian conservatives, we seek to conserve the traditional Australian nation - and what is a nation if not for its people? Already, it is common to find large pockets of Australian cities where English is a secondary language, Western culture is forgotten and Christianity is foreign. If unity relies on assymilation to a common culture, Australia will become more divisive as time goes on and these pockets grow while Australia’s Anglo-Saxon, Irish and European populations shrink.

   In this way, it is very possible that white Australians will experience a similar demographic decline during their lifetimes experienced by the Aboriginal population throughout colonisation. Conservatives must ask themselves the question,

   were Aboriginals able to meaningfully conserve their culture, way of life and religion when they were reduced from 100% of this continent’s population to only 3%?

   If the answer is no, conservatives must work to end this unprecendented demographic transformation of our country if we wish to avoid the same fate.

2. Sovereignty
   Political sovereignty is a concept Australia has never realised in her short history. Originally a British colony, in 1901 during federation Australia in its modern form was born. Although federation bought a degree of autonomy, Australia was still beholden to Britain, not a concern for the majority of Australians who felt loyalty to the small island and its monarchy. After WW2 Australia began developing her relationship with America, a relationship which has proven beneficial to both trade and defence - at the price of reduced independance. Throughout her entire history, Australia has also been a lucrative land for first British, and more recently, global investors.

   Taking into account these three factors, at no point in Australia’s history have we experienced true independence, for the most part, because there was no great desire among the population for independence. As a result of this attitude modern Australia is under the influence of so many foreign governments, lobbies and investors that her own national interests are consistantly placed last. For Australia to forge her own destiny, independence is crucial and its achievement must become a main focus of all Australian conservatives. Independance can be begun through economic protectionism that places Australian intrests first and the development of a military strong enough to deter threats, without reliance on any other country.

3. Free Speech

   Any Australian who has ever tried to convey a controversial message, challenging to those in power, will very quickly discover the impassable walls of big tech censorship, cancel culture and in extreme cases - the force of the law. These challenges are felt across the Western world, censorship stifles the proliferation of conservative ideas in Canada, Britain, New Zealand and to a lesser extent, America. Largely this is a product of biased American social media platforms which consistently take aim at conservatives and grow more powerful by the day. Although challenging these tech companies does present a challenge, Scott Morrison proved Australia can exert influence nonetheless. Unfortunately, Morrison, at the time leader of the supposedly conservative Liberal party, consistently tried used his government’s power to suppress ordinary Australians’ abilities to speak freely. The Labor government has given no indication it intends to reverse this trend, recently making moves to ban highly controversial symbols.

   To have any chance of political success in the future, conservatives must advocate for increased freedom of speech rights in Australia.

4. Christian Revanchism
   Around 2016, anti-Islamic sentiment became a popular topic among the Australian right wing. The growing presence of a foreign religion, Islam, in Australia seemed to cause a recoil effect for many conservatives who were witnessing the drastic change to our nation. Many protests were held and articles written about the ramifications of this trend by conservatives, often noting that Islam contradicted features of Western culture, such as drinking alcohol or eating pork. Notably missing was the alternative creed which presented substantive dissonance with Islam beyond its dietary peculiarities, the religion of the West, Christianity. Christianity is rarely mentioned in Australian politics despite Australia being a Christian nation, with a Christian history, founded by Christian pioneers. We are sorely feeling the ramifications of trying to cut Christ out of our country, the proliferation of pride ideology, euthanasia, abortion, drug use, youth suicide, family breakdown and many many other phenomenon are only a symptom of this. It will mean nothing if conservatives are able to achieve the above 3 points of this article if Jesus Christs’ name does not become a mainstay of Australian politics again.

Between Peter Dutton taking the reigns of the Liberal party and calls from Victorian Liberals for Peta Credlin to run for premier, it looks as though the Liberal party is finally starting to embrace its conservative voter base. We must use this momentum to turn the Liberal’s into the conservative party the silent majority has long wanted it to be, pushing the four above-listed issues will do this