This week on THE OTHER SIDE… (Ep 433 w/c Fri 7 November 2025)
Energy prices have soared 24% in a year, fuelling doubts about Net Zero and deepening divisions within Australia’s conservative parties as their support plunges to historic lows. While One Nation surges, two LNP veterans launch ReclaimTheDream.com.au to reform the party amid collapsing membership and rising global socialism.
The following summary of the good video above is by CAS News.
Twenty-four per cent. That’s not just a number – it’s a seismic shockwave through Australian politics. The latest News Poll has the Liberal–National Coalition scraping the bottom of the barrel with a record low primary vote, while One Nation surges to heights that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. If you thought the centre-right was merely bruised after the last election, think again. It’s bleeding out.
This week’s episode of The Other Side doesn’t pull punches. Damian Coorey lays bare the uncomfortable truth: the Coalition is in freefall because it has forgotten who it is. While the elites in Canberra obsess over net zero and appeasing inner-city moderates, ordinary Australians are staring down power bills that have skyrocketed 24 per cent in a year. Inflation bites, interest rates climb, and the cost of living crisis deepens – all while the Albanese government fattens the public service by 8.6 per cent. That’s $41 billion of taxpayer money feeding bureaucracy while productivity tanks.
The message is clear: Australians aren’t buying the climate crusade anymore. They’re feeling the pain in their wallets and asking why a nation of 30 million should cripple itself for a policy that won’t move the global needle while China and India build coal plants like there’s no tomorrow. Yet the Coalition’s leadership seems paralysed, terrified of offending the green elites and their billionaire backers. Meanwhile, the Teals and Climate 200 wage slick PR campaigns to keep the gravy train rolling for renewables – even if it means blackouts, factory closures, and job losses for our kids.
Enter three men who’ve had enough of watching the slow-motion train wreck. Graeme Haycroft, Heath Goddard, and Matthew Rowan – seasoned entrepreneurs and long-time LNP supporters – have launched the Liberal Reform Association. Their mission? Reclaim the dream of a truly representative, conservative party. Their plan is bold but simple: grow the membership base, democratise leadership elections, and return power to the grassroots. No more closed-shop delegate systems. No more party elites treating members like an inconvenience. If Canada can do it – with 700,000 members and leaders chosen by the rank and file – why can’t we?
The conversation in this episode is electric. Haycroft exposes the perverse incentives that keep politicians cosy and complacent: taxpayer-funded election subsidies that make parties less reliant on members and donors, and more beholden to government largesse. Goddard speaks with the passion of a man who’s built businesses from scratch and knows what strangling red tape does to ambition. Rowan brings the tech-savvy vision for transparency and engagement that could actually make reform work.
But this isn’t just about fixing a party. It’s about fixing a culture. As Damian points out, the right has ceded the emotional battleground to the left for too long. While socialist mayors in New York spin feel-good fantasies, our own conservatives mumble about “avoiding culture wars” instead of boldly championing the truth: Australia is a great nation, and it’s time to stop apologising for it. If the Coalition can’t rediscover its backbone – on energy, on freedom, on opportunity – it will die. And maybe it should.
Yet, as these reformers argue, it doesn’t have to. The choice is stark: fight for renewal or watch the party implode while One Nation and the Libertarians pick up the pieces. For those who still believe in the Menzies vision, this episode is a rallying cry.
Don’t just read about it – watch the full conversation now.
