The LNP Coalition – the Liberal and National parties – are a movement in permanent decline. They once claimed to be the party of aspiration, enterprise and strong economic management. But today, they stand for little more than obstruction, fear, and a clinging sense of entitlement. And Australians are seeing through it.
The truth is, the LNP has become politically useless. Their policies are uninspired at best, dangerous at worst. When they’re not opposing for opposition’s sake, they’re regurgitating ideas from decades past: tax cuts for the wealthy, coal mines for the future, and welfare cuts for the poor. There is no imagination, no compassion, and no courage – only slogans and sneers.
Even when they were in power, what did they leave behind? A decade of missed opportunities. A housing crisis ignored. Wages stagnating. A refusal to act on climate until global pressure forced their hand. Scott Morrison handed out billions in JobKeeper to businesses that didn’t need it, and still had the gall to tell struggling Australians to be grateful. The “born to rule” mentality isn’t just present in the LNP – it defines them.
They favour the powerful and punish the vulnerable. Their allegiance lies with gas companies, private schools, and billionaires in boardrooms. Their compassion doesn’t reach pensioners, renters, students, or the disabled – unless it’s politically convenient. In opposition their primary mission is to block progress: whether it’s clean energy, Indigenous recognition, or fairer workplace laws.
Their idea of leadership is to stoke fear: fear of immigrants, fear of the unemployed, fear of environmentalists, fear of anything that threatens the status quo. And every time the country takes one step forward, the LNP is there, trying to drag it two steps back.
There is no coherent vision for Australia in their ranks – only ambition, entitlement and resentment. They’re out of touch with younger Australians, with working families, with the future itself. In place of policy, they offer culture wars. In place of leadership, they offer smug superiority. In place of hope, they offer horror stories.
Australians deserve better than this hollowed-out husk of a party. We deserve ideas, empathy, and action. But the Coalition seems incapable of reflection, let alone reinvention. As long as they remain trapped in their arrogance, bitterness and 1950s worldview, they will never again be a meaningful force for the nation.
And they don’t deserve to be.
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Michael, a great summary.
We’re lucky that the ALP, despite adopting free market rhetoric, will always have a social conscience due to its union roots.
But when we look at Labour in the UK, even that positive feature cannot be taken for granted.
Remember when the Mad Monk was LOTO? He declared back then that the Opposition’s role was “to oppose.”
Well said, I could not agree more. The coalition has no future, I just hope they don’t take Australia down with them.
Cast an eye over the LNP rabble, and what does one see among present and former members?
Here’s a punter’s assessment; in no particular order… a deeply troubled alcoholic adulterer, a narcissistic venomous back-stabbing compulsive liar who’s totally incapable of forming enduring and responsible relationships, a slot of Luddites mired in backward-looking fantasies of King Coal as the only true source of energy, another whose default rhetoric was to see danger everywhere and villainise everyone from Aborigines to African migrants to refugees seeking safety from strife-torn regions, then there’s the ‘alleged’ rapist who inexplicably rose to be the country’s principal law officer, a man whose colleagues rorted the system, benefiting themselves before others, those very colleagues also instituted a deeply flawed system of penalising the poorest citizens of the country in a scandal known as Robodebt, subsequently found to be completely illegal but not before numbers of illegally persecuted individuals committed suicide, then there were the pork-barrelers funding fantasy car-parks, sporting venues, non-existent or dodgy charities, others like the Minister for Manila who just never turned up in Canberra, the Shrieking Harpy, the Member for Goldstein whose commitment is only to himself, the wacko kwacko from SE Qld with his multiple Facebook profiles and a nasty habit of harassing women, and in closing, lest we forget, this is the political mob who’ve gifted Australia with the pair of the worst prime ministers ever, namely, the pugilistic cyclist, and the lying sociopathic bastard who followed shortly after (after he’d knifed the then leader in the back).
Michael’s dead right… this mob are toast. Good riddance to them.
Long may they whinge, whine, fight each other, rant, rave and generally carry on like the shit throwing apes (minus a major amount of the poo which they save throw amongst themselves) they have become on the oppostion benches.
Who will win the right to use the spare brain cell this I wonder.
All I can say about this analysis is that I agree pretty well wholeheartedly. But the problem for a democratic system like Australia’s is the need for a coherent and viable opposition on the opposite side of the House, and we simply don’t have one now. You’re right – the LNP is a relic of a bygone era, a moment in time and space from which most of us have moved on.
I suppose that in a more rational world, the best chance for viable opposition ought really be The Greens. Clearly though, there is no help coming from that disunited and struggling party and nor is there likely to be any sort of real opposition (by ‘real’, I mean measured and coherent) from that quarter into the foreseeable future.
Teals, anyone? That might be a possibility. But this group is very new, and too small to effectively do the job.
Sigh.
I agree LNP stands for nothing but globalism. But ALP GREENS AND TEALS ARE GUILTY OF THE SAME.
Australia needs to remove itself from UN AGENDA 2030
Oh dear, the poor ickle LNP copping some of their own medicine. Gets more than a few deeply planted noses out of the pig trough. The screams of outrage should be interesting.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/labor-dumps-tradition-to-knock-coalition-mps-from-key-parliamentary-posts-20250728-p5mibj.html
You just have to look at their list of recent leaders to see how fast their decline has been. I believe it all started with Howard, then came Scabbott, Turdball, Scummo, Spud and now Suss. Each one progressively worse, although I am sure many would argue the man of many ministeries to be the absolute worst. I almost feel sorry for their new leader Suss, just have a look at the current “cream of the crop” she has to deal with. OMG is about all I can muster on that one.
If the National Party (devoid of Barnaby Joyce) would truly represent the needs and aspirations of independent farmers, rural and regional communities and preservation of viable farmlands threatened by corporate dominance then they could be a powerful voice in opposition in their own right.
The LNP legacy continues with an unfinished NBN to all Australians, a crippled Medicare and ever rising costs to visit a GP and healthcare, it is a long list. However, they saved the best till last, they self imploded with the tallest having the farthist to fall. Now just a blot in Australia’s political history.
Sadly too many labor(18) and loonies preferred tim wilson over Daniels