Predatory political birds are hovering over the embattled federal LNP under Sussan Ley’s leadership. Even the Weekend Australian’s Inquirer has zoomed in on the speculation with a feature article (paywalled) from Paul Kelly as Editor-At-Large. According to Paul Kelly, true conservatives have become more apparent this week in “the ever-impressive Senator James Patterson of Victoria and the LNP’s likely alternative leader, Angus Taylor.”
As the LNP’s defence spokesperson, Angus Taylor places great emphasis on the strengthening of security ties with the USA with commitment to AUKUS and the US Global Alliance (Sky News 17 October 2025).
On the domestic front, commitments to business investment and labour productivity are paramount values over more government intervention and wealth redistribution as perceived by Angus Taylor at the Business Council Forum on 24 April 2025.
Regrettably for the LNP, new associations with military industrial companies to deliver Scott Morrison’s Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordinances (GWEO) come at a heavy price from US Military firms like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon-the proposed Strategic Industry Partners back in 2021 when Anthony Albanese was still leader of the opposition.
Expect more austerity with the arrival of any new LNP Government as in 2013. Thank your fellow voters that Peter Dutton did not make it to the Lodge.
Readers can also decide if these missile systems are going to foster better commercial relationships with China so badly damaged under the Morrison Government. Renewed trading links were tolerable necessities but the brakes were always new Chinese investment here on security grounds by US alliance stalwarts and their intel services (Data from KPMG2024):
The LNP’s preferred investment partners in the rank order of the USA, UK and the EU have not delivered compensating alternative sources of new investment when stalwarts rail about the security problems of Chinese Belt and Road Initiatives. ABS continues to update the shortage of new private sector investment here.
Lost investment from China on Scott Morrison’s watchcontributed to the investment and productivity problems which should be of concern to both sides of politics. Every billion in capital flow investment to Australia which is lost through far-right ideological politics contributes to the very problems which afflict regional Australia where this support base is strongest.
With Barnaby Joyce drifting from the National Party towards One Nation, there is indeed a remote possibility that One Nation might demand a place in a future LNP minority government or more likely a firmer negotiating position for the far-right in mainstream Australian politics.
Current polling anticipates this fate for many countries in Europe from Britain under a future Nigel Farage Government to Greece or France.
Nostalgia for lost political illusions were apparent on the streets of Brisbane. Bob Katter MP was there on the scene almost forty years after he served as Minister for Northern Development and Community Services in the last Bjelke-Petersen Ministry in 1987.
Marching Through Brisbane
From ABC News: One Nation’s Senator Malcolm Roberts spoke to crowds in Brisbane wearing an Australian flag draped around his shoulders. Robbie Katter also addressed the crowd.
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Great article that speaks up for the quiet majority who do not attend far-right rallies
Jimmy Paterson is about as impressive as explosive diarrhoea in a swimming pool!
Another Paul K was impressive when he said that you could be a conservative and have a sensible strategy, but Tone the Botty was all about taking this country back to where it was when John Howard was voted out. That’s all the conservatives want.
Has Denis joined AIM’s eyewitness news team? The Murdoch press will have its take up tomorrow morning and on tonight’s Sky News.
My family knew a chap who handled the essential medical equipment for anal examinations, being a specialist known as the “rear admiral.” So, perhaps Paul Kelly is quite similar. He looks up the conservatives and makes pronouncements about the health of it all and the likely advancement of some anal type to great altitude. Ley, Joyce, Littleprodder, Canavanolini, Angstgus, Poolean, all so ucking Fawful. And, we’ve just survived the shittery shamefulness of Morrison’s poxy persona..no more hasty stupid plots…
I think that political elites represent a special and selective class of Australians: Votes for the far-right are largely protect votes against the warped system of political representation. Few support the LNP. The Labor movement can revitalize itself through commitment to needs based policies and incentives towards trade union membership again.
Thanks for speaking out against those LNP intrigues to force Australian taxpayers into the arms of US and British military industrial complexes which are sheer business ventures that use up two trillion dollars of humanity’s resources each year.
Being the 51st US state is a costly business for Australians
Can our proposed missile systems be fitted with nuclear weapons? Dolphin Submarines leave Germany free of nuclear weapons and they are fitted in Israel: How can this happen?
It seems that Barnaby is using confusion as his weapon of choice as he strives for media attention. This morning he tells SKY (nobody else taking his calls ?) that he hasn’t resigned from the Nats and he hasnt signed on with One Nation.
It seems fairly clear that Vikki his wife and campaign manager has a strategy to unseat David Littleproud and slot her hubby in as Nationals leader ready to assume the position of Deputy PM [and that’s what it’s all about] should Andrew Hastie win the next election for the coalition.
You will note that Barnaby has said that he will not be standing for re-election in New England on behalf of the Nationals at the next election. This perhaps implies that he knows that he would not be pre-selected under the current leadership – very confusing, eh ?
Interesting read Denis. Thanks for sharing.
As anticipated, the meeting between Anthony Albanese and President Trump was a well choreographed event: Exports of rare earths to a value of $8.5 billion were traded as offsets for the enormous cost of AUKUS into the 2040s which could approach $400 billion.
The charade goes on according to Scott Morrison’s original plan:
The AUKUS “Optimal Pathway” for the delivery of the new SSN capability to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is divided into multiple phases:
• Interim Rotational Force (Submarine Rotational Force–West, SRF-West): This arrangement serves as a crucial interim step, beginning with increased visits from U.S. and U.K. nuclear-powered submarines from 2023, and evolving into rotational forces operating from HMAS Stirling in Western Australia as early as 2027. This rotational force, involving up to four U.S. Virginia-class and one U.K. Astute-class SSNs, is intended to build essential operational experience for the RAN and Australian industry personnel, and to enhance deterrence in the Indo-Pacific.
• Acquisition of U.S. Virginia-class SSNs: As an intermediate capability bridge, Australia is committed to purchasing three U.S. Virginia-class SSNs from the early 2030s, with the potential to acquire up to two more if needed. These vessels will be conventionally armed.
• Delivery of SSN-AUKUS: The final and sovereign capability will be the SSN-AUKUS, a new conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine based on a U.K. design but incorporating cutting-edge Australian, U.K., and U.S. technologies. The U.K. is planned to receive its first SSN-AUKUS in the late 2030s, while the first Australian-built SSN-AUKUS submarine is projected for delivery in the early 2040s, with a production line to be established in South Australia.
Hopefully, Australia can proceed with its own choice of investment options from Asian countries to balance the strategic hegemony of each US administration and its related intel services over our future.
I will take a look at the next Weekend Inquirer (25-26 October 2025) and report back to readers on the Take of the Murdoch Press on this week’s important events.
News Corp also dabbles in real estate through its ownership of realestate.com.au which has an estimate of the price of every house in urban Australia.
Like our strategic policies, house prices and rents move only in one direction.
I see that the intel of realestate.com.au on housing prices extends to more remote former mining towns like Chillagoe 250 kms west of Cairns: This three bedroom house is currently available for $200,000: https://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-chillagoe-148765784
I didn’t think that the illiberal were into conservation!
They keep recycling the same old garbage with the same old whiney voices in the wilderness.
Recycling populist garbage has a long history, Heather.
Our future is very much like the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 with the blowing up of Venezuelan vessels on the high seas and talk of an internal coup attempt with Venezuela itself.
I could not resist a peek at today’s Australian where the headline was about an aircraft incident somewhere in the South China Sea. It was sourced to Geoff Chalmers in Washington and counter-signed by Ben Packham.
An overseas journalistic posting in DC was hardly necessary for the Australia as the incident was well covered by Defence Media here and by a Door Stop Interview in Canberra on 20 October 2025:
“ACTING PRIME MINISTER, RICHARD MARLES: So yesterday afternoon, a Royal Australian Aircraft P-8 plane, was doing a routine maritime surveillance patrol in the South China Sea- it was in international airspace, above international waters. And at that time, a PLA-Air Force, Chinese Air Force, Su-35 fast jet came up alongside, that of itself is pretty routine. The Chinese Air Force plane then released flares again, that of itself can be a standard form of interaction between two military aircraft. But then, on two occasions, it released flares very close to the Australian P-8 aircraft. Having reviewed the incident very carefully, we’ve deemed this to be both unsafe and unprofessional. Now, let me be completely clear that our air crew are safe, and the plane was able to land perfectly safely, and it has not been damaged in any way. But we have sought, now, in instances of this kind, to have a very set procedure. So firstly, we are making the incident public. Secondly, we have advocated or raised this issue with the Chinese Embassy here in Canberra, and we have also made representations via our embassy in Beijing. Now our utmost concern will always be for the safety and welfare of the Australian Defence Force personnel, in this instance who are flying the Australian P-8. And we will also continue to undertake activities which assert the rules based order because the rules based order, and in this instance, freedom of navigation in the air and on the sea is fundamental to Australia’s national interest. I reiterate that the majority of Australia’s trade goes through the South China Sea, so it is profoundly important that the rules operate.”
Let’s here more about where this incident occurred as the South China Sea is a big open space with conflicting territorial claims from all countries in the region.
Why do our P-8 RAAF planes have to operate up there when China wants to expand its trading and investment ties with Australia.
Just which bases or aircraft carriers source the take-offs and landings of the P-8s?
This incident on the eve of our PM’s meeting with President Trump was so convenient. Was it a bargaining chip to the global commander in chief along with the supply of rare earth minerals?
A case of Follow the Yellow Brick Road revisited without the need for a coercive Australian broomstick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QoELNjcc9w
Recycling populist garbage has a long history, Heather.
Our future is very much like the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 with the blowing up of Venezuelan vessels on the high seas and talk of an internal coup attempt with Venezuela itself.
I could not resist a peek at today’s Australian where the headline was about an aircraft incident somewhere in the South China Sea. It was sourced to Geoff Chalmers in Washington and counter-signed by Ben Packham.
An overseas journalistic posting in DC was hardly necessary for the Australia as the incident was well covered by Defence Media here and by a Door Stop Interview in Canberra on 20 October 2025:
“ACTING PRIME MINISTER, RICHARD MARLES: So yesterday afternoon, a Royal Australian Aircraft P-8 plane, was doing a routine maritime surveillance patrol in the South China Sea- it was in international airspace, above international waters. And at that time, a PLA-Air Force, Chinese Air Force, Su-35 fast jet came up alongside, that of itself is pretty routine. The Chinese Air Force plane then released flares again, that of itself can be a standard form of interaction between two military aircraft. But then, on two occasions, it released flares very close to the Australian P-8 aircraft. Having reviewed the incident very carefully, we’ve deemed this to be both unsafe and unprofessional. Now, let me be completely clear that our air crew are safe, and the plane was able to land perfectly safely, and it has not been damaged in any way. But we have sought, now, in instances of this kind, to have a very set procedure. So firstly, we are making the incident public. Secondly, we have advocated or raised this issue with the Chinese Embassy here in Canberra, and we have also made representations via our embassy in Beijing. Now our utmost concern will always be for the safety and welfare of the Australian Defence Force personnel, in this instance who are flying the Australian P-8. And we will also continue to undertake activities which assert the rules based order because the rules based order, and in this instance, freedom of navigation in the air and on the sea is fundamental to Australia’s national interest. I reiterate that the majority of Australia’s trade goes through the South China Sea, so it is profoundly important that the rules operate.”
Let’s here more about where this incident occurred as the South China Sea is a big open space with conflicting territorial claims from all countries in the region.
Why do our P-8 RAAF planes have to operate up there when China wants to expand its trading and investment ties with Australia.
Just which bases or aircraft carriers source the take-offs and landings of the P-8s?
This incident on the eve of our PM’s meeting with President Trump was so convenient. Was it a bargaining chip to the global commander in chief along with the supply of rare earth minerals?
A case of Follow the Yellow Brick Road revisited without the need for a coercive Australian broomstick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QoELNjcc9w
Albo is playing political games with Trump: Trump is not liked here in Australia