Remember Who We Are …

The first line was used in the closing remarks at ARC 2025 by CEO Philippa Stroud. It inspired me to add the rest.

For far too long, people have been bullied, harassed and silenced for speaking the truth about some of the absurdity being pushed down our throats by activists and social reformers. But not the social reformers of old, who strived to make the world a better place, but reformers who force their opinions and beliefs on society and in doing so take away our rights. And people who have the temerity to challenge, question or to point out the dangers of many practices being forced on society today, those challenging end up in court! 

We are supposedly a free people. Our forefathers sacrificed much to provide that freedom. Some even sacrificed their lives. Many of us have continued to fight for rights, for decency and freedom. 

But we are no longer free if we are bullied and silenced for holding a different opinion. If we are forced to accept laws that isolate and divide us and result in our rights being removed to accommodate the rights of others based on their chosen lifestyles. And most importantly, we are not free when we are no longer treated equally under the law.

It’s time to take our rights back. 

Lessons we can learn from the Triffids..

“Vanished past the day of the truffids” 

The quote below signified the end of the old world and the dawning of a new, uncertain, and dangerous one. It reflects the idea that the world before the Triffids was gone forever, as illustrated by the survivors’ struggle and the new social order that emerges from the chaos. 

When The Day of the Triffids was published in 1951, Britain was just emerging from World War II and entering the Cold War. People were haunted by recent experiences of totalitarian regimes, wartime rationing, government control, and the dawning threat of a nuclear or biological catastrophe. Wyndham’s novel channels those anxieties into fiction — not just as a disaster story, but as a reflection on what kind of society might rise from the ruins.

We haven’t suffered from a freak meteor shower that made most of the world’s population blind, which led to the emerging of the Triffids taking advantage of the chaos that followed. But we have and are experiencing a manipulated societal shift, which is delivering a similar phenomenon; a more dangerous and hateful world. A less prosperous and free world. A world where it’s becoming increasingly acceptable to silence and even kill people others disagree with. A world where increasing numbers of people are being blinded to the dangers of reliance on the Government to save them. 

What we have instead of Triffids are groups and individuals doing precisely that; Net Zero acolytes, Marxist and far left groups, pro-Palestinian groups, Religious fundamentalists and terrorist who are extremely skilled in manipulating a naïve west into supporting them and condemning those fighting for their survival against the brutality. We have the leftist elite, the Sovereign Citizens and other groups of their ilk. And dare I say, far too many elected representatives in our parliaments. All intent on smashing our tenuous free society to gain power and control to mould society into what these groups and individuals deem an acceptable society. 

In his book, John Wyndham explores the fragile balance between freedom and order in the aftermath of catastrophe, offering a more hopeful vision than many of his postwar contemporaries. Like George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Fourand William Golding in Lord of the Flies, Wyndham questions whether humanity can preserve freedom when civilisation collapses. Orwell portrays freedom as destroyed by political control, while Golding depicts it as undone by humanity’s own savagery. Personally, I believe we are fighting against a mix all three.

And, as we discover in the post-Triffid era, social orders are not free in the liberal sense. Most of them impose hierarchy or compulsion as the price of survival. And Wyndham’s seems to explore how fragile freedom is when civilisation collapses — and how easily it gives way to control when people are desperate. Which raises the question about the deliberate attempt of interested parties to smash society and to quench their thirst for greater and greater control over us. 

However, Wyndham suggests that moral responsibility can sustain liberty even in chaos. He sees this as being led by protagonist Bill Masen’s rejection of authoritarian plans for rebuilding society. Masen, a biologist, becomes a key survivor after the meteor shower blinds most of the world’s population. His temporary blindness from a prior triffid encounter saves him from the effects of the “comet” shower, leaving him as one of the few sighted individuals to navigate the post-apocalyptic world alongside other survivors like Josella Playton. 

There are lessons here for us because through Bill Masen’s rejection of authoritarian plans for rebuilding society, Wyndham argues that true freedom arises not from the absence of rules but from voluntary cooperation, compassion, and ethical restraint. His survivors choose to live freely by conscience rather than by compulsion, embodying a distinctly postwar optimism: that civilisation’s survival depends less on institutions than on the moral choices of individuals.

But to do this requires society to wake-up and to accept responsibility for the part they’ve played in destroying the prosperity and freedoms our forebears fought so hard to gain for us. And we don’t have long to do that. Because the world that is ahead of us if we don’t change will make the apocalyptic Triffid assault look like a children’s game.

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The Destruction of the Natural Order

Everywhere we turn today the “natural order” is being shattered and the warnings from history ignored. Whether that’s by design or ignorance is questioned. Personally 

I think it’s a combination of both design and the ignorance of the masses. 

When the “natural order” (ecological balance, moral framework, social contract) is ignored, history shows us three likely paths:

1.Collapse (nature or institutions break down).

2.Chaos (conflict, revolution, fragmentation).

3.Imposed Order (rise of authoritarian or ideological systems promising to restore balance).

 

𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲..

𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐲..  will lead us to rising political violence or a backlash in the form of authoritarian “order”. 

People are more likely to express disdain, hatred, or even joy over someone they see as an ideological opponent. Online platforms provide “fuel” for that kind of behaviour: they reward content that stirs emotion, outrage, or tribal identity.

When opponents are stripped of their humanity and reduced to caricatures (“evil,” “vermin,” “traitors”), their suffering no longer registers as suffering. They’re considered to be subhuman. Once someone is viewed as subhuman, their death can be reframed as “justice” or even entertainment.

We have witnessed that again with the murder of Charlie Kirk. 

It’s bad enough when impressionable teenagers and young adults do it. But when mature adults do it, the alarm bells should ring loudly. And when members of our parliament acknowledge those who are devaluing death, the bells should ring even louder.

History shows us that celebrating the death of enemies has often flared up during moments of deep social fracture — and many times, those moments preceded collapse or violent upheaval.

Based on history, this path leads to either increasing political violence or an authoritarian response. And people better wake up pretty soon because neither of other scenarios are palpable.

Multiculturalism is failing us

After years of relative stability, multiculturalism is failing us. Perhaps it was always going to fail, or perhaps it’s merely the result of several more recent factors. But to me, there is one key factor that appears to be the root cause of most of our current collective problems. That is a clash of values.

Multiculturalism assumes different cultures can coexist peacefully, but sometimes values directly conflict (e.g., on gender equality, free speech, religion in public life).These tensions can spark cultural flashpoints, protests, or even violence.

The values clash has been percolating under the surface for sometime. Thinking about it, the border control under Rudd and Gillard was mismanaged, and many Australians have been anxious about the events since. It needs to be said that most people who come here do so with the express purpose of building a better life. That includes some who came here via the backdoor, but not all do. And since 7 October 2023, we have been living the manifestations of the hatred and the clash of values that have been here for several years just waiting to surface.

There has been no better example of that than the celebrations on streets of Lakemba following the sadistic murder of people in Israel. That was followed by a protest on the steps of the Opera House. For almost two years, we’ve endured protests on our streets where people wave terrorist flags and call for the death of Jews. These are NOT people who are here to help create a cohesive society. We even have people sitting in our own parliament who are not native to this country calling those of us whose families have lived in this country (and died for this country) for nearly two hundred years colonisers!! She even stated in the Senate yesterday, “This country’s violent discrimination and racism started with colonisation and has never really stopped.” 

In reality we shouldn’t have to say we don’t want this culture developing any further here because the leaders of this country should be but they don’t and they aren’t. Their silence has given legitimacy to this abhorrent, vile behaviour.

And because the leaders of this country have been silent, we now see the coming together of those who aren’t here for the right reasons with those who are ideologically at odds with Western democracy. As a result, we’ve witnessed a dramatic increase in violence, gang behaviour and hence intimidation. This country is in trouble and, alarmingly, those leading the country are ignoring it to keep the faith with socialist reformists and ethnic groups. Those supposedly leading the country wonder why people are taking to the streets to say we have had enough. 

And let’s not be intimidated into silence about this changing ‘culture’.  The reason those who defend it brand all of us Nazis or far right etc is because character assassination has long been the central tactic used to enforce multicultural orthodoxy. They use it as a tool to silence those who oppose them. 

Anthony Albanese and his Govt have failed us, and they’ve failed the country. They need to hear it from as many as possible.