Hastie leads. By Noah Yim in The Australian, quoting from a recent interview of Andrew Hastie:

“A lot of Australians feel like the system is rigged against them.

“They don’t feel like aspiration matters anymore. They don’t see reward for their effort. A lot of them have lost hope completely of ever owning their own home.

“I think as a dad of three kids aged 10, 8 and 4, do my wife and I need to start planning for them to get into a home rather than my own retirement?”

Mr Hastie told his own party that this kind of thinking, that could buck Liberal Party orthodoxy, was necessary for the party’s survival.

“(The Liberal Party) got smashed in 2022,” he said. “We got smashed in 2025.

“Our primary vote is being cannibalised from both the right and the left.

“So I think adopting a posture of humility and being open minded is important, not being reactive.” …

Many corporates have become globalist and woke (they had to, or else the bureaucrats would make life difficult for them):

“The Liberal Party is not the first line of defence for corporate Australia,” he told the ABC’s Insiders program.

“I think multinationals and big business in this country have lost their social licence”.

“They’ve made no effort to recover it.”

Andrew Hastie is a breath of fresh air in Federal politics. Principles! Ideas! Changing directions! We haven’t had that spirit in such abundance since perhaps Bob Hawke.

Perhaps the Liberal Party chose the wrong leader in Angus Taylor, who so far has shown little connection to middle and lower Australia or shown he understands the urgent need to cut way back on immigration.