Understanding the Australian Liberal Party. By Jame Hunter in The Noticer.

I am a former party member and political staffer for Liberal Party politicians, giving me a deep understanding of the internal landscape. This article is submitted under an alias …

First, it’s important to understand that the Liberal Party is dominated by two main factions. The Left, or Moderates, and the National Right, or Conservatives. There is a smaller Centre-Right faction, but for all practical purposes, it functions as an extension of the Moderates, sharing similar ideology, behaviour, and influence. For simplicity, I will refer only to the two primary factions going forward.

The Moderates are careerists and weakly pro-globalist:

The Moderate faction ideologically adheres to small‑l liberalism. It attracts relatively high-IQ individuals aiming for or currently in successful white-collar careers, but often carrying personal vices such as hedonism, drug use, and homosexuality. More than ideology, they are motivated by the networks, connections, and access to wealthy figures, MPs, ministers, and government departments that the Liberal Party can offer to advance their wealth and social status. …

The Moderate faction is most vulnerable to the consequences of electoral defeat. Being out of government federally and in most states has reduced lobbyist contributions, dried up jobs for the boys in ministerial offices and lobbying firms, and cut off government access for party-aligned businessmen. The last federal election and NSW state election left the Liberals with a much reduced parliamentary team, and saw the loss of several former blue-ribbon state seats to teal independents. This has already significantly reduced the number of taxpayer funded electorate office staffer positions available to give to party operatives in exchange for their efforts with branch membership growth and campaign work. As a result, political and organisational activity from both the Young Liberals (controlled by Moderates) and senior moderate branches has noticeably declined. …

The Conservatives are ideological and anti-globalist:

The Conservative faction is far more ideological. It is a somewhat diverse coalition of traditional Catholics, hardcore free-marketers and libertarians, climate-change sceptics, and a handful of common sense patriots and nationalists. They are bound together less by a single, cohesive worldview than by the fact that the Left faction offers them nothing or very little on the issues they care about. Networking and career advancement remain factors tying them to the party, but ideology is the primary driver of their involvement. This is the party’s base or true-believer wing — the members who fondly reference the oft-cited We Believe statement and insist the party must return to its roots. …

To weaken the Conservative faction, their members must be repeatedly reminded of the party’s repeated betrayals of White Australians’ interests and shown that a viable, winning alternative exists, whether that is One Nation, the White Australia Party, or otherwise. The Liberal Party has done little to endear itself to its conservative base in recent history. It has failed to curb mass immigration and the demographic replacement of White Australians, helped pass hate speech and prohibited organisation laws at both state and federal levels, waved through social media restrictions, and established the widely reviled eSafety Commissioner, among other actions.

Unfortunately, many conservative members are lifelong die-hard members and boomers, and they often suffer from a severe case of Stockholm syndrome, clinging to the belief that they can reform the party if they just try hard enough. This is despite decades of yielding little movement on this front except for within the South Australian division. The faction is also not without its own flaws as many members naively believe in a harmonious multi-racial society where anyone can become Australian if they adopt the right values, and too often display fervent, uncritical support for the Jewish lobby and Israel. Despite these issues, conservative members of the Liberal Party can be coaxed away from the party, ceasing their support and thereby advancing nationalist aims, even if we do not agree with them on every issue.

The nationalist parties are ascendant for now, but will it last?

As the Liberal Party continues to rot and collapse, it is absolutely critical that ascendant nationalist parties do not allow every opportunistic turncoat to waltz in unchecked.

Only the truly loyal and ideologically committed should be welcomed. Many are political refuse, ready to drag things backwards by reintroducing the same cowardly and careerist politics that corrupted the Liberal Party. If these self-serving parasites are allowed to infiltrate, they will turn the new vehicle into a hollow shadow of the movement it could be, just as we’ve seen with defectors from the UK Conservative Party to Reform UK.

I’m still waiting for the talent and organization on the non-left to align with the interests and dreams of the great mass of conservatives. Don’t hold your breathe. Can the globalist uniparty continue to buy off much of the talent on the right side of Australian politics with career baubles like nice jobs and minor media fame? It’s worked a treat for the last 20 years.