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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Categories: Angus Taylor, Senator Pauline Hanson
One wonders when the NACC will start an investigation into Angus Taylor & Watergate. Probably never & if it did would we even know? btw,nice that some one else remembers those classic lines by Stealers Wheel,Shane.
Thank you KCA for your dedication to exposing and reminding the Australian a public of the scumbaggery that is going on unfettered by a corrupt Cabal of Scumbags that regardless of party are running this Country into the ground.
A very good and concise article. Unfortunately some of the issues driving voter dissatisfaction could be addressed by a functioning NACC but that avenue has been blown up by design
And today we hear from Pocock that the Auditor Generals Office is not properly funded. We already know that FOI is not properly funded which is one reason requests take so long.
A few years ago i had the misfortune of using the Commonwealth Ombudsmans office. Getting an outcome took over 12 months. In thrvend all i got was a lesson in what a toothless tiger they were. All these bodies are a key part of out democratic system. Unfortunately, apart from a few independents and the Greens, nobody seems interested in protecting our democratic system
We see today that Andrew Forrest has had to pay 150 million to the Aboriginal traditional owners of the Land where the Solomon’s mine in the Pilbara because apparently it was mined without permission
Yet here we see these Politicians caught red-handed stealing massive amounts of money from the Taxpayer with not a single prosecution .
The “penalty” was just a slap on the wrist considering what Fortescue would have stolen by their actions. The $150 million just a cost built into their business plan. A drop in the bucket, which won’t deter them or other miners.
Thanks to your work on this issue I always preface Angus Taylor’s name with ‘The Criminal’ and am then happy to explain further if anyone queries that
Like you, KCA, I hope that One Nation will be the trigger for the end of the Duopoly’s tyranny. We can see where that leads by how both parties in the US have morally bankrupted the nation, as well as in every other way possible. I remember Tony Windsor’s take on the problem: “I’d wipe the parties out. The Constitution doesn’t have any mention of the word ‘party’. This coagulation of people together in so-called like-minded groups over time has polluted the political process. It’s got worse since the Hawke/Keating wage accords. We broke away from one major party representing the worker and the other representing the boss. Now we have these management teams under the guise of political parties vying for power. In a lot of cases their backers are the same people, so the power transfers to some of the backers rather than the people.” He identified the Duopoly before the term was coined. Like the United States, whom we’ve emulated so slavishly, we eliminated the machinery for making gradual reforms as well as the possibility of major reform. That’s cultural stagnation, not just political, and we see it in grotesque form in America at this moment. The inexorable success of One Nation at future elections is our best chance of getting reform via the back door – the growth of independents and the disabling of the management team syndrome blighting our country. Political parties are a way of using all the techniques of the bully and gangsterism with none of the bad press. The Mainstream Media certainly aren’t going to soil their nest by barking about it. Like America, we’ve made our best people go underground. Today, if you want decency returned, you have to become a revolutionary.
One Nation are not the trigger, the voters are. We have been moving away from the Duopoly / Uniparty for a long time which is proven by the fact we have 10 independents in the House of Representatives and that number is growing.
One Nation are just part of the transition
It’s always the voters. The concern in Farrer is that this is where a lot of our food is grown and that the move away from the LNP didn’t guide them to an environment-supporting party like the Greens. We get what we deserve and in this instance it’s the PHONeys.
Milthorpe got 25,000 preferences lat year, just less than 10,000 on Saturday.
What happened?
Well, she did improve 8,000 on Primary votes, but the rest voted for One Nation, so their preferences weren’t counted.
I see no reason why One Nation can’t use that formula to win Teal Seats and Labor Seats.
Nationals performance of 9,500 was reasonable, considering they haven’t stood for 25 years, perhaps they can hold One Nation at bay in some Qld and NSW seats.
Rural/provincial Qld Seats that Liberals hold or have held, such as Wright, Groom, Herbert, Fadden, Forde, Leichhardt, Blair, Longman, Petrie, Fairfax, hard to see them making the 2PP in future on Saturday’s result.
I can’t see One Nation ever winning enough seats to have significant influence in the parliament once people realise who their leadership really are. One Nation gets massive support from billionaires, one who reckons miners, the source of her massive wealth, should have to compete with Africans who will work for $2 a day. One Nation is supposed to be the party for Battlers but their Senators have voted against every initiative that benefits the low paid. Hanson and Rinehart go to Mar-a-lago to fawn after Trump and copy the MAGA disaster.
Trump [and Hanson] are anti Globalists.
Labor, the Liberal Party and the National Party are globalists.
Since Globalism is being rejected by voters all over, Labor aren’t talking about Trans and Refugee issues anymore, but they are using the phrase “Working Class” more in Question Time this week than in every QT over the last 20 years put together.
Gina Rinehart pointed out that her Iron Ore mines directly compete for contracts with African mines where Rio Tinto pay workers $2 a day. Rio are big donors to Labor and employ ex Labor Resource Ministers like it’s going out of fashion.
The remarks were in the context of “drivers” of fully automatic driverless trains in the Pilbara applying thru Fair Work for a 20% Wage Increase to their $495,000 a year salaries.
Yes. We all know about Angus’ crimes. Everyone except the NACC.
Angus Taylor now walks into Australian politics like a bloke who accidentally reversed a bulldozer through a Bunnings nursery and still insists he improved the landscaping.
Tonight’s Budget Reply Speech should be fascinating. Australians will finally get to hear Angus explain how he plans to rescue the economy while looking like a bloke who just lost a USB full of spreadsheets behind the couch at Parliament House.
The Liberal Party now resembles a rental car company that handed the keys to Angus, watched smoke pour from the engine, heard two tyres explode, clipped a school zone sign, and still said: “Nah… give him another lap.”
The Liberals keep trying to sell him as a future prime minister while half the electorate looks on like: “Mate… we wouldn’t leave you alone with the office petty cash tin, let alone a $700 billion federal budget and a garden hose rebate form.”
At this point, Angus doesn’t so much lead the Liberal Party as host a collapsing reality TV game show called Who Blew Up The Coalition This Week? — where every episode features Nationals MPs storming off set, Liberal strategists hiding under desks, a panicked intern deleting tweets at 2am, and three traumatised media advisers clutching spreadsheets like survivors hanging onto driftwood after the Titanic hit an iceberg made entirely of polling data.
By the time Angus finishes his Budget Reply tonight, economists, journalists and half the Coalition frontbench will all be staring blankly into the distance like contestants on MasterChef who’ve just realised someone replaced the recipe with a Centrelink form, a Murray-Darling water licence, and a Bunnings invoice.