Look out, you latte-sipping do-goody Greens, there is a movement preparing war against your party for the upcoming federal election (to be held any time between March and May, 2025).
No, it’s not Labor.
It’s a whacky little fringe-dwelling party called Advance Australia (AA).
Who are they? They were the main lobby group behind the ‘No’ campaign, which successfully defeated the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum in 2023.
One high point of their ‘No’ campaign was convincing the Australian Financial Review (Nine) to publish a full-page US Jim Crow-era style cartoon, depicting an Indigenous Voice campaigner as a dancing monkey at the feet of white people.
Nine later apologised.
So yes, Advance Australia is well funded and super classy.
And ambitious.
After destroying the hopes and dreams of First Nations people, their next target is to demolish the Greens, who they claim are a threat to their Christian Judaic values.
Their three Orwellian pillars – that presumably come with a hat and t-shirt – are ‘freedom, security and prosperity’.
Matthew Sheahan, CEO of Advance Australia, made a guest appearance on the Youtube site of discredited Zionist group, the Australian Jewish Association (AJA), last July.
Sheahan laid out his reasoning for the impending attack, with the usual ramblings of a paranoid middle-aged white reclusive male, locked in a cabin somewhere deep in the woods.
The Greens, he says, are growing in numbers while other parties are not.
‘They are anti-Semitic, anti-capitalist, they want to do away with the US alliance, they want to legalise hard drugs, which is what they did in the ACT; they want to get rid of public funding for private schools, which would increase school fees; they want to do away with borders and immigration and open it up to anyone’.
So get ready for the ‘Greens Truth’ campaign, which will be the focus of Sheahan’s shady mob between now and the federal election.
A point of difference the Greens have over other parties, he says, is their brand.
Sheahan points out that nobody knows what the major parties stand for anymore, which leaves the Greens with the impression they are warriors for the environment.
He even admits the Greens have the strongest brand in the country, and suggests that given the lack of recognition of what the Nationals stand for, ‘I’d trade in that brand’.
So the messaging will be that, ‘they are not what they used to be’, followed by attacking their policies. Sheahan plans to use ‘geo-targetted messaging, like we did in the Voice campaign’, and mansplain to ‘predominantly women aged between 33 and 49, who are persuadable’.
He says focus groups are telling AA mums are most concerned about the legalisation of hard drugs, national security and law and order, and safety and security.
Given AA knocked the ‘Yes’ voice out off the park, and the recent Trump election, will they make a difference?
Their manifesto is at https://tinyurl.com/5ybtcmrd.
Hans Lovejoy, editor
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