Hastie the first to confess the uniparty erred on immigration and monetary expansion. By Robert Gottliebsen in The Australian.

Andrew Hastie has become the first among the Liberal and ALP ranks to confess that two fundamental mistakes made by both parties triggered the rapid rise in support for One Nation. …

Hastie correctly confesses that both parties set immigration numbers that were too high and also allowed migrant standards to be too low.

And two decades of expansionary monetary policy and cheap debt had boosted housing prices and encouraged huge public sector spending over successive terms of government. He says that people now believe the system is broken and are blaming the major parties.

Two more mistakes, as yet only highlighted by One Nation:

But in my view, the major parties are still making two other fundamental mistakes. Firstly, the parties dismantled our refining and fuel storage systems because they could save money by relying too much on Singapore, which in turn ties Australia to the Strait of Hormuz which the US has yet to reopen. Our past major party political foolishness makes us very vulnerable to what is happening in the Middle East.

Secondly, no senior ALP or Liberal Party Canberra politician has called out what is arguably the biggest infrastructure construction disaster in our history, the $40bn Snowy 2.0 project. Snowy 2.0 has the potential to lock Australia into high-cost electricity systems for decades ahead and destroy huge areas of prime agriculture.

And at this point, dangerously for the major parties, only One Nation has isolated the Snowy 2.0 mistake and is putting forward serious answers.

As I pointed out last month, the Liberals thought up the Snowy 2.0 project but the ALP implemented it in the knowledge of its cost and horrific impact on our agriculture. The project involves around 2000 towers often 60 to 70 metres high on prime agricultural land. One Nation declares that we must stop putting towers on agricultural land and those erecting towers must set aside money for their demolition. In the Farrer by-election, with a farmer as a candidate, she will no doubt campaign on the disaster which is set to have a severe impact on farmers in the Riverina section of the Farrer electorate. One Nation also plans more irrigation water for farmers. …

Like Trump, because the same reasons apply in Australia:

Hanson may have policies and they are controversial and many of the cost savings are similar to those of Donald Trump. But they are on the table.

Hastie, of course, wants the Liberal Party to leave the Uniparty and go back to its role as a true center-right party, championing the constrained or tragic view.