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Memo to Coalition: take heed of Trump

By Stephen Saunders - posted Monday, 29 September 2025


Like, stakeholder insurgency, exceptional leaders, environmental disasters, popular unrest, and international pressure.

But stakeholders invited to Treasurer's roundtable were Big-Australia more than ever. Exceptional leaders are few, what with 90-95% of our 227 federal reps being "democratically" preselected to lean Big Australia. Australia's environmental disasters count for nothing, while popular unrest is vehemently disapproved.

International pressure on Australia runs the wrong way, as in the UN, OECD, EU, and so forth. Coalition, make no mistake, Trump is a unicorn.

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Never once before, and not likely afterwards, will you get the leader of the world's most powerful economy telling UN HQ itself – open borders and net zero are toxic. And you have time, he's in power through 2028.

Hope he drums in the message, if he meets Albanese, October 20. It's not like the latter can have him sanctioned by his "Human Rights" Commission or "Race Commissioner". Or smear him too, as neo nazi.

While Australia's No 1 gas-lighter for mass migration, ANU Alan Gamle, gets cockier than ever. Now he claims Australia's immigration-housing narco-state is "pre-political", that is to say entirely outside the political contest. He's not that far wrong.

Yet even low-migration advocates, some still urge that ole respectful conversation and let's blame the March . Respectfully, I disagree, only unicorns can do it.

Yeah, I know, Australians "dislike Trump". The mini-Trump smear hurt Peter Dutton. But that was before Albanese, already the all-time Australian champ for inflaming homelessness and housing unaffordability, so openly disparaged his own people in favour of UN governance.

Adding to this March fallout, Trump and his pointed intervention present an unlikely opportunity, for the Coalition to side with legacy citizens and not the UN. Which I rather hope, they don't spurn. Ley is uni-party – tends to side with Labor against voters.

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Let's face it, however. To swim against the elite tide, Hastie-Price would need full samurai suits of armour, as they display in the Japanese museums.

 

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