17 November 2025: JUST GIVE UP RIGHT NOW!!!

I don't know what party is the best one to back long-term (Liberal or One Nation) but some of today's events change things: 1. SUSSAN LEY NEEDS TO GIVE UP

2. ONE NATION IS GOING CRAZY IN THE POLLS

3. ALBANESE VS HOSPITALS???

4. PAULINE HANSON ON TRIAL

SUSSAN LEY

If you don’t follow politics much, here’s the quick recap. Sussan Ley became leader of the Liberal Party after the Liberal-National Coalition got absolutely obliterated in this year’s election. It was so bad that even the previous leader, Peter Dutton, lost his own seat.

Broadly, the Liberals can be split into two groups:

• The moderates (the people who want to be Labor but in blue ties. Soft, centrist, terrified of saying anything controversial). This is where Sussan Ley sits.

• The nationalist right (more conservative, pro-family, pro-nation, tougher on borders and crime). This is where you get MPs like Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Nampijinpa Price.

For some reason, the party decided the answer to a historic defeat was to pick a moderate leader - Sussan (yes, with two s’s, because she added an extra one in high school to be “rebellious” against her parents???).

This was a horrifically bad idea.

Nobody wants a moderate right now. Anyone even vaguely awake can see Labor is taking a machine gun to the economy. Why on earth would the Liberal Party think the solution is to shuffle closer to them? They didn’t lose because people thought they were too radical. They lost because no-one knows what they are, what they believe, or what they’d actually do in government.

With these two clashing factions, it honestly feels like two different parties sharing one logo.

Since becoming leader, Sussan Ley has done about as much as wisdom teeth.

In a live-blog update, she was asked how much migration should fall. Her answer: “I’m not going to set numbers.”

Brilliant. Way to confirm to the whole country that your party has no idea what it’s doing.

Then there’s the Jacinta Nampijinpa Price situation. Ley forced Jacinta out of the shadow ministry because Jacinta refused to back her leadership. But what Ley failed to realise is: we actually like Jacinta. She’s Aboriginal, she opposed the racist Voice to Parliament proposal, she talks about law and order and social responsibility instead of endless victimhood. She’s one of the few people in Canberra who sounds like she lives in the real world.

Meanwhile, I couldn’t tell you a single concrete thing Sussan Ley has done as leader besides lose support and sit on the fence.

Now, reports today say her leadership is being openly questioned inside the party. Some MPs say she’s been too passive and failed to set any coherent vision.

They’re right.

And when you look at what little good the party has done lately, like abandoning net zero and setting it's sights on immigration, it doesn’t look like Ley’s doing at all. It looks like people like Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor pushing things in the right direction while Ley just stands there and reads the press release.

These two, Hastie and Taylor, would be miles better as leader than the current situation. Right now it’s basically that scene in Wicked where Elphaba looks at the Wizard and says, “You have no real power.” Ley is the wizard.

Be honest: in the 2028 election, is Sussan Ley seriously the best we can put up against Albanese? ANDREW HASTIE IS RIGHT THERE.

My advice to Sussan: it’s time to give up.

INSANE ONE NATION SURGE

Everything above might not even matter, because the new federal voting intention polls change everything. (Photo below)

One Nation has SURGED.

Even better, the radical Marxist lunatics in the Greens have dropped down to around 9%. The Liberals, however, are sitting at roughly 24% - a historic low.

And somehow Labor is UP about 4 points???

How? Who is voting for them? Does the 38% of people supporting Labor actually buy groceries? Do they pay a power bill? Do they rent or try to buy a house?

Even weirder, other polling shows Labor and the Greens dominating among Gen Z. Again, how? The housing crisis punishes young people the most and yet they’re flocking to the parties that caused it.

So what does One Nation’s surge really mean?

It’s pretty simple: conservative voters are sick of the Liberals. They’re sick of the endless infighting, the vague messaging, the refusal to take clear positions.

Alternatively, One Nation's policies are, in many ways, just basic common sense:

1. Cap total visas at about 130,000 per year. This takes pressure off housing, schools and hospitals, gives infrastructure a chance to catch up, and lets the country actually absorb new arrivals properly.

2. Move to cheaper energy and back nuclear. Cheaper, more reliable power means lower bills, more jobs, more industry, and less risk of the lights going out because the wind stopped blowing.

3. Protect free speech. People shouldn’t live in fear of losing their job or ending up in court because they said something unpopular or offensive.

4. Cut government spending. Stop wasting billions, shrink the bureaucracy, and ease the tax burden so families can actually keep more of what they earn.

There’s even polling now showing a majority of voters trust One Nation more than the other parties on immigration.

Of course, this surge brings a big problem: the conservative side of politics is now fractured. Meanwhile, the left-wing vote is weirdly united behind Albanese. If that doesn’t change, we could easily hand Labor another win.

This is why some Liberal MPs may eventually have to choose: stay with a dying, confused party, or jump across to One Nation if the surge keeps going. And there are signs the momentum is real. As of a few days ago, One Nation had one new member signing up every 29 seconds.

If they can gain that much support that quickly, imagine where they could be by 2028.

The real frustration is that One Nation isn’t doing enough to capitalise on this.

They should be hammering social media, running aggressive ad campaigns, building a serious youth wing, actually explaining their policies in simple terms to young people. Right now, the main reason so many teenagers drift to the Greens and other socialist parties is because those parties talk to them directly.

One Nation has basically no youth presence and rarely talks about young people at all – and yet they’re still polling at double the Greens.

Do SOMETHING, Pauline Hanson.

ALBANESE VS HOSPITALS???

Next up is more of an economic/government structure thing, so skip it if you're not interested in that.

Today, Albanese effectively told the state governments to slow down their hospital spending if they want the federal government to keep paying their share. In simple terms: your boss says he’ll keep paying half your mortgage, but only if you don’t move into a bigger house or fix the roof.

The states are furious. They’re arguing that costs are rising, hospitals are full, staff are exhausted, and everything from supplies to electricity is more expensive. They’re right about all of that.

I agree with the states on the practical side, the system is clearly under pressure. But my deeper problem is with how the whole thing is structured.

Why should one big government in Canberra be trying to micromanage how every state runs its hospitals? New South Wales is not Tasmania. Queensland is not Victoria. Each state knows its own needs better than a federal bureaucrat in a Canberra office.

If you’ve seen Hamilton, this is basically the argument in “Cabinet Battle #1”: who should control what, and how much power should be centralised? The answer is as little as possible

Instead, we’ve got a federal government lecturing the states about spending while refusing to fix the structure that created this chaos in the first place.

Oh well. Albanese is a socialist. Of course he wants one giant central system.

PAULINE HANSON GOES TO COURT

The final story today is one that honestly shouldn’t even be a court case.

Back in September 2022, Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi posted a tweet after Queen Elizabeth II died. She described the monarchy as a “racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised people.”

From a right-wing point of view, that’s a pretty extreme and one-sided take. It ignores everything that’s actually good about the British legal and political systems we inherited, the opportunities people like her have benefited from, and reduces a complex history to a slogan.

Pauline Hanson replied with a tweet that’s now at the centre of a racism case. In summary, she said Faruqi’s attitude disgusted her, accused her of taking full advantage of Australia’s opportunities, and told her to “pack your bags” and go back to Pakistan if she hated the place so much.

Both tweets are aggressive and deliberately provocative. That’s obvious.

Faruqi then SUED Hanson, and the hearing is now in the Federal Court. Hanson’s lawyer is arguing that her comment was driven by political disagreement, not race, and that however rude or blunt it was, it shouldn’t be treated as some kind of criminal thought.

From a free-speech perspective, a lot of people on the right see this as a classic example of overreach. Politicians throwing insults at each other on Twitter might be ugly, but turning every harsh reply into a legal battle is a terrible precedent. We have much bigger problems in this country than two senators firing off heated tweets.

AND THESE BIG PROBLEMS ARE ONLY GETTING WORSE!

Bye