With the second term of the Albanese government, Australia seems destined to become the Argentina of the South Seas.

As our living standards fall even further, Beijing and Moscow are openly scoffing at the way the Albanese government  has ensured that we are unable to defend ourselves.

To those who think Australians have some divine right to be rich, just recall how, recently, with slave labour, Beijing destroyed Australian nickel mining.

The only salvation will be when a true statesman, one in the tradition of the great Sir Robert Menzies, ensures that Australia adopts what I call the Rinehart Plan, which would indicate an acceptance of the principle that the first duty of government is the defence of the realm.

This will also restore a love of country among our youth, and as this column will soon demonstrate, this can be done within the generous funding Australians already accord Canberra. Indicating she would have more to say on this ‘at another time’, Gina Rinehart told a recent Anzac Eve vigil that we must urgently do more to defend Australia.

We must start, she said, with ‘protecting our ports, airports, sea lanes and other vital infrastructure, while significantly boosting our smart sea mines, war drones and Israeli-style  (iron) domes.’

This would involve an immediate budget of 5 per cent of GDP, a figure Menzies surpassed in the Cold War. Surprisingly, this was immediately dismissed by both sides. Do they really think our enemies are gentlemen who will hold off any military action until our politicians lethargically achieve  2.3 or 3 per cent GDP in around 10 years?

By cavalierly betraying their first duty, the defence of this realm, they forget that defence was the driving force for the creation of this federal Commonwealth of Australia.

The reasons for the electoral choice made on 3 May 2025, a day I predict will in due course live in infamy, were threefold.

First, it was essentially the decision of generations who, over the last half century, we have allowed to be trained under the auspices of the state, if not to hate Australia, certainly not to love and honour it as previous generations did.

Last September in Townsville, Australia’s leading garrison city, the Institute of Public Affairs’ Daniel Wild released polling which, he said, revealed that after years of relentless attack on our values by the cultural and media elite, a growing number of young Australians are now so ashamed of their country, that they ‘would rather flee Australia than stay and fight for it’.

Then, in the recent election campaign,  Newspoll indicated that on a 2PP basis, an extraordinary 66 per cent of those aged 19 to 34 and 56 per cent of those aged 35 to 49  would vote to support the Albanese government.

These were generations which, through the far-left’s long  march through the institutions, engineered the substitution of indoctrination for education, despite the fact that this has been at the cost of producing ignorance and extraordinary levels of illiteracy and innumeracy. The surprising fact is that the existence of the long march continued, with impunity, under a succession of Coalition governments.

Second, that long march has extended, as Dutschke and Marcuse notoriously planned, into the media. It is unsurprising then, that while much of the mainstream media inserted the  adjective ‘false’ before any reference to claims by Donald Trump that the 2020 election was rigged, as demonstrated clearly in the Supreme Court case on this brought by Texas, no such qualification was attached to a constant stream of lies proclaimed by Mr Albanese during the election campaign, from such matters as the blatant untruths about Medicare to the costs of nuclear energy.

Nor was it surprising that during the vote, news of the massive and extended blackout caused by over-reliance on renewables in Spain, Portugal and parts of France was suppressed or downplayed with the obvious reason deleted.

In fact, since pushing the politicians’ republic, much of the mainstream media have openly engaged in biased reporting.

Why also were the facts that the government planned to tax unrealised capital gains on assets and was still delivering  unsustainable  levels of immigration, despite promises to the contrary, either under-reported or not reported? The answer is obvious.

Most mainstream media, the Murdoch media, Nine radio and this journal excepted, were prepared to use their outlets to ensure the people were uninformed as to the constant delinquencies of the first Albanese government.

Third,  it was obvious that with the advent of the Linos, Liberals in name only, the long march had extended into the very heart of the Liberal party. The Linos’ principal role is to sterilise the Liberal party, to remove its real nature as if it were some family dog or cat. As a result, the Liberal party then appears to voters as an unelectable, pale copy of the Labor party.

Meanwhile, the media are advancing another reason for the LNP defeat, the ‘Trump effect’.

Under this, voters likened the leaders of the Liberal party to Donald Trump, said to be unpopular in Australia.

If that is true, it is because most of the media’s presentation of Donald Trump has been extremely biased, even to the extent of suppressing favourable news.

Moreover, the situation is  different from Canada, where becoming the 51st state is the issue.

The real reason people steered away from the Liberal party was an antipathy bred during primary, secondary, and tertiary education in Australia, confirmed by both a biased media and the activities of the Linos.

That influence can be overcome, as John Howard and Tony Abbott have demonstrated. But this requires the careful development of principled policy and the presentation of clear and cogent messages on this.

In particular, if a revived Liberal party were to adopt the Rinehart Plan as core policy, it would establish its claim to accede to the government of a free, proud, independent and restored Australia.