Memo to Angus & Libs: Albo's the Enemy, Not One Nation

I've known Angus Taylor since before he replaced the late Alby Schultz as the Member for Hume. We sat together in the Liberal Party party room before I resigned from the Liberal Party. Angus is a decent bloke and, in my view, the best the Liberal Party currently has.

But Angus, mate... the enemy is the Albanese regime, the most incompetent government since Federation. Not One Nation.

You need to train all your guns on Labor. Every breath you take and every word you write or speak should be devoted to exposing the danger Australia is in under this dangerously incompetent government; their lies, their reckless spending, their economic vandalism, and the way they are dragging the country backwards.

There is certainly no shortage of targets.

Virtually every major economic indicator shows Australia going backwards. And you've got far more than just Anthony Albanese to hold to account.

Look at Labor's front bench:

• Jim Chalmers: a clueless Treasurer whose last Budget was an economic train wreck.
• Chris "Blackout" Bowen: a pompous fool whose ignorance is exceeded only by his arrogance, and whose ideological obsession is destroying Australia's energy security and international competitiveness.
• Clare O'Neil: hopelessly out of her depth. She doesn't have a clue what she's doing, and virtually every housing policy she touches makes Australia's housing crisis even worse.

The list goes on. An entire ministry of incompetence.

So, Angus, please mate, forget about One Nation. You're the Leader of the Opposition. Your job is to hold the government of the day to account.

One Nation is growing. It is attracting voters from Labor and from Australians who have simply given up on the major parties. Whatever issues you think One Nation has, let them sort those out themselves. Your responsibility is to expose the failures of the Labor Government. And Angus, you can't afford to fail.

If the Albanese regime is re-elected in 2028, the Australia we know and love may be changed beyond recognition. But it isn't just Angus Taylor who has fallen into the trap of attacking One Nation instead of the Albanese government. This week NSW Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg did exactly the same thing.

With the mountain of failures engulfing the Albanese government available for criticism, Senator Bragg instead chose to parrot an Australian Financial Review hit piece on X, claiming One Nation's mortgage policy "may cost hundreds of billions" and branding the party "socialist." Pathetic.

While One Nation's housing policy may still have a few rough edges to iron out over the next 18 months before the election, one thing is crystal clear, as Malcolm Roberts has repeatedly explained. The proposal simply reallocates the $11.5 billion already set aside for Labor's failed Housing Australia Future Fund. That money has already been appropriated. It is not new spending. It is a reallocation of existing funding.

The AFR's hysterical claim that the proposal could cost "hundreds of billions of dollars" is simply absurd. The proposal is explicitly capped at the existing $11.5 billion already in the Budget. Nothing more.

And if Senator Bragg has suddenly discovered a burning concern about "socialism" and government debt, perhaps he should explain where that concern was when his own party was in government. Where was his outrage when the Morrison Government sprayed billions of taxpayer dollars at companies that never needed JobKeeper in the first place, with no obligation to repay a cent? Some businesses were so embarrassed by the windfall they voluntarily returned the money, exposing just how reckless the program had become.

Where was Senator Bragg when the Liberal Party embraced Net Zero, the socialist fantasy built on endless subsidies, government intervention, central planning and market distortion that is actively driving up electricity prices, undermining Australian industry and making our nation less competitive?

Where was Senator Bragg when the Morrison Government ordered more than 250 million COVID vaccine doses, almost ten doses for every Australian? That was fiscal insanity dressed up as crisis management.

And where was Senator Bragg when the Liberal Party embraced medical authoritarianism? It was a Liberal government that destroyed the sanctity of the doctor-patient relationship and effectively reduced doctors to bureaucratic functionaries, required to follow centrally dictated protocols regardless of their own clinical judgement? Those protocols were not merely flawed. In many cases, they proved disastrously wrong.

So spare us the selective outrage, Senator. Australians are tired of politicians who suddenly discover fiscal responsibility only when it provides an opportunity to attack their political opponents.

The Albanese government has handed the Opposition more than enough genuine failures to expose. Focus your fire where it belongs. Stop wasting ammunition attacking One Nation, and start holding the Albanese government accountable for the damage it is doing to Australia.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.”
― Sun Tzu