Liberal Party leader Angus Taylor’s fraud and theft of $80 million from the federal government in a dodgy water buyback scheme would have played a huge part in the Liberal Party losing the byelection in the seat of Farrer, but the old media are not reporting that.

The old media have reported that the federal government’s water buyback scheme was an issue for voters in Farrer and every voter in Farrer would have heard the story of Angus Taylor ripping off $80 million, which is known as #Watergate, and that would have played a part in Liberal voters deserting the Liberal Party.

One Nation received 6,803 first preference votes at the May 2025 federal election, and Liberal Sussan Ley, who won the seat, received 44,743 votes. (Click here to read more)

On Saturday One Nation’s David Farley, who won, received 38,868 first preference votes, with the Liberal candidate receiving 12,164 votes.

One Nation didn’t win the seat with new policies, Liberal voters deserted the Liberal Party because they didn’t like Angus Taylor and what he stands for.

It is interesting to watch the old media rip One Nation apart on every issue, whether minor or major, that they think might be embarrassing to One Nation, but the old media refuse to criticise the Liberal Party and Labor Party with the same vigour.

A point that many journalists and people on social media made was that the voters in Farrer had legitimised One Nation and their policies by voting for One Nation with the inference that the whole world was about to cave in because of it.

What did the journalists and people on social media want? The voters of Farrer to vote for the Liberal Party and legitimise Angus Taylor and his $80 million water buyback fraud and theft?

The great political reset

I published on the 25th of January, 2026:

The coalition self-exploding this week is part of a longer trend over the last 40 years or so of Australia’s political reset, where voters have been slowly moving away from voting for the old political parties to new parties and independents.

The Liberal Party and National Party coalition separating has helped expedite the political reset by driving more voters away from them, with polls showing Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is the major beneficiary of the coalition’s failings.

The federal Liberal Party / National Party coalition is dying before our eyes and, come 2028, will be an unelectable rabble who will never again govern Australia. Or at least not without the support of minor parties and/or independents.

There will be no return to the glory days for the federal Liberal Party / National Party coalition, as they don’t have anyone of real calibre to lead them out of the wilderness that they are stuck in. (Click here to read more)

The end of the Liberal Party

As the Stealers Wheel song goes, the Liberal Party are stuck in the middle, with clowns (Teals) to the left and jokers (One Nation) to the right.

As Liberal Party and Coalition leader Angus Taylor takes the Liberal Party to the right, as per the below video, to try to win back One Nation supporters the Liberal Party will lose more seats and voters to Community Independents (Teal).

And if Angus Taylor takes the Liberal Party to the left to try to win back Community Independent (Teal) seats and voters, the Liberal Party would lose more votes to One Nation.

If the Liberal and National Parties had not given their preferences to One Nation, then the Community Independent candidate would have likely won the seat.

One Nation’s byelection win in the NSW seat of Farrer should not surprise anyone, as it is almost a carbon copy of the Teal strategy to win seats, which is to go after Liberal voters who feel let down or deserted by the Liberal Party.

Is the Labor Party next?

The SMH reported on the 8th of May 2026,

Labor has also started bleeding some support to the populist right. Albanese has told colleagues of the potential for both the Greens and One Nation to surge if housing remains unaffordable and pessimism about the country and the world remains entrenched. (Click here to read more)

The budget is an election budget 2 years early, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party know they are in for a massive fight between now and the 2028 federal election.

But I don’t think the budget can save the Labor Party from losing majority control of the government at the 2028 federal election, although I think it is almost certain they will have enough seats to form a minority government.

There are 2 things we will hear constantly between now and the next election. One is “broken Labor Party promises”, and the other is the budget deficit, which no party at the moment has a plan to get back into surplus.

Whether or not the major changes Labor has made in the budget are any good won’t be known for a couple of years at least, and promises need to be broken otherwise we would be in even more trouble. Whether Labor broke the right promises, I don’t know.

What I do know is that we have broken through the $1 trillion debt mark, and the budget says we will hit $1.25 trillion by 2030.

I was very surprised that the Labor Party has no plan to reduce the debt, and if any other party jumps on that issue, it could be very damaging for the Labor Party.

This article isn’t about the budget, but the reason I mentioned the few issues above is that One Nation, the Teals and others could and likely will use those issues to attack the Labor Party and will likely get good results in doing so.

The bottom line is Australia has a Liberal Party and National Party, who are both shot to pieces and will likely never govern Australia again, and a Labor Party that is ripe for political attack by the other parties.

What will save Labor is the fact that they have 94 seats, they realise they have major trouble brewing to hold power in the future and they are willing to change.

I am no fan of One Nation, but as we transition away from the Labor / Liberal Uniparty and Duopoly that has done a lot of damage to the country, we will have a lot of minor parties and independents in government and I’m fine with that.

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