With Pauline Hanson’s One Nation eclipsing the Coalition in the polls, former Coalition advisor John Adams explains why he joined One Nation.
You don’t have to be a genius to know that Australia is in a state of crisis.
From the economy, to domestic security, to education, mental health outcomes and public integrity, Australia is in a perpetual state of decline. This is not just the current mood but rather can be measured across an objective set of empirical metrics dating back to the early 2000s.
Millions of Australians are finally waking up to the fact that the Labor-Liberal/National uniparty establishment (coupled with a club of willing bureaucrats) is running the country into the ground and that neither has any intention or ability to address the pressing problems facing Australia.
No better example can be identified than the response to the Bondi terrorist attack which has resulted in unprecedented and dangerous laws that, with no public consultation or democratic consent, has the capacity to suspend the civil liberties of ordinary Australians while doing little to add to public safety.
Given this context, in this past week, I decided to join One Nation as a party member.
No easy decision
This was no light decision. Having been a former economic advisor to a Coalition Senator and a former member of the Liberal Party (I quit the party in 2016), such a decision is likely to have material ramifications for me personally.
However, having been in the political wilderness for the past 10 years as an independent, I cannot in good conscious continue to allow Australia’s corrupt uniparty establishment to impair the nation.
Rather, if my family and I (including my three children) are to have any future in Australia, the uniparty must be destroyed root and branch.
Why One Nation?
Over the past 14 years as being a parliamentary staffer and an independent policy advocate, I have had significant access to the Federal Parliament.
I have seen our nation’s most senior parliamentarians behind closed doors. I have seen how they really think, their level of honesty, their capacity to be courageous and pursue issues, and their genuine commitment to the Australian people.
Across a wide variety of issues that I have personally worked on, whether it be:
- fighting entrenched misconduct within Australia’s banking system;
- preserving the freedom to use physical cash;
- fighting against digital censorship and control;
- resisting the draconian COVID-19 lockdown laws and vaccine mandates;
- pursuing failures in public administration (such as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission);
- Australia’s housing crisis; or
- exposing entrenched corruption (including elite paedophilia);
One Nation has the been the most consistent, courageous and outspoken political force both in Federal Parliament and on the ground across Australia.
Both in public and behind closed doors, I have personally witnessed the genuine and sincere concern that One Nation has for ordinary Australians and the nation’s current predicament which is in contrast to the uniparty.
Bondi Terror Attack
However, beyond this, the Bondi terrorist attack has become a tipping point for many Australians, including myself.
The root cause of the attack does not only go back to radical Islam or Israel’s war in Gaza, but when considered from a multi-decade perspective, can be traced back to Australia’s policies on immigration, settlement, citizenship and national identity.
On all these points, millions of Australians are now seeing Hanson’s sincere and long held beliefs dating back to the 1990s as having much more virtue and wisdom compared to how they were received at the time.
Similar to the constant warnings given by Winston Churchill to the UK House of Commons in the 1930s about the rise of Hitler and German rearmament, Pauline Hanson has long warned about the social and cultural ramifications of having disunited and fractured society that is derived from a non-homogenous population.
While Hanson’s blunt phraseology had a stunning effect on the Australian political system in the 1990s, her views were similar to those echoed by mainstream Australian political leaders such as former Prime Minister Robert Menzies who cited the case studies of South Africa and the United States as examples which Australia should seek to avoid.
The Hawke tradition
When the House of Representatives on 25 May 1989, unanimously passed a motion put by then Prime Minister Bob Hawke that enshrined a non-discriminatory and bipartisan immigration policy, it was done so on the condition that as expressed by Hawke on Australia Day in 1988 that to be truly Australian, one must demonstrate a “commitment to Australia and its future”.
However, in the past decade, the Turnbull, Morrison and Albanese Governments have abandoned the Hawke condition.
This can be demonstrated by the many concessions giving to Australians who joined the Islamic State after its spokesperson Abu Muhammad al-Adnani formally declared war on Australia on 22 September 2014. This includes recent efforts to facilitate the return of the so-called ‘ISIS brides’.
The ISIS Brides
Why Australian ISIS fighters and their brides as well as other associated supporters in Australia have not been treated as traitors to the nation by successive uniparty governments remains baffling to millions of Australians.
The outrageous proposition advanced in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack by Prime Minister Albanese and NSW Premier Minns in multiple media conferences that civil liberties need to be suspended in order to preserve Australia’s multicultural society has alarmed many Australians.
While social cohesion and social harmony is of significant importance, millions of Australians do not support and have not given their democratic consent to the curtailment of their personal freedom to preserve the uniparty multicultural project.
To date, the only political party that has expressed a willingness and has the capacity to both deliver social cohesion and protect civil liberties through dramatic changes to immigration, settlement and citizenship policies in the wake of Bondi is One Nation.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Australia needs bold, principled and consistent leadership. Leadership that is both unafraid and forward looking.
Senators Pauline Hanson and Malcom Roberts have long sounded the alarm that Australia’s current policy direction would result in disaster. Many of their warnings dating back to 1996 have proven to be correct.
Recent opinion polls are signalling a structural shift in the political views of the Australian people.
Demoralised and frustrated voters are tired of seeing the rapid decay of Australia at the hands of the uniparty establishment. I am one of these Australians.
One Nation represents the only viable political entity with long established credentials that is committed to reversing the current policy direction and saving Australia. I have now committed myself to this effort.
John Adams is a professional economist and was an economic advisor to Senator Arthur Sinodinos in 2012/13. He was also a member of the Liberal Party from 2005 to 2016.
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