The Last Redoubt of Globalism: Australia’s Descent into Self-Censorship and Decline, By Paul Walker and James Reed

Australia, once a beacon of pragmatic liberalism and economic resilience, is rapidly becoming the last stronghold of a globalist ideology that accepts external concerns over domestic well-being. As David Llewellyn-Smith argues in his Macrobusiness.com.au article (see below), the nation is ensnared in a system of mind control, where media, academia, and politics conspire to suppress critical debates on issues like immigration, energy policy, and economic productivity. This discussion expands on Llewellyn-Smith's thesis, arguing that Australia's obsession with globalist sacred cows, Palestine, climate change, and unchecked immigration, has led to a self-inflicted decline in living standards, social cohesion, and policy efficacy. This descent is not accidental but the result of a deliberate, decades-long cultivation of self-censorship, driven by vested interests and amplified by a compliant cultural elite, to force Australia into the Chinese communist New World Order, and replace the white population.

Llewellyn-Smith describes Australia as the "last redoubt of the globalists," a nation consumed by debates over issues with little direct relevance to its own survival. The national discourse by the chattering class, fixates on distant conflicts like Palestine, while ignoring pressing domestic challenges such as housing affordability, wage stagnation, and energy security. This misalignment is no coincidence. It reflects a broader globalist agenda that elevates abstract ideals, multiculturalism, anti-white racism, environmentalism, and global equity, over the tangible needs of Aussie citizens.

For instance, the Productivity Roundtable, as Llewellyn-Smith notes, avoids discussing immigration, despite its central role in Australia's economic and social dynamics. Immigration has driven population growth to unsustainable levels, with the "Big Australia" policy, endorsed by Kevin Rudd in 2009, projecting a population of 35 million by 2050. This rapid expansion has strained infrastructure, inflated housing prices, and suppressed wages, yet it remains a taboo subject; keep people quiet until the Great White Replacement is inevitable A 2025 Macrobusiness.com.au analysis highlights how real per capita GDP fell by 0.2% in Q1 2025, underscoring the economic toll of unchecked population growth.

Similarly, the energy transition debate sidesteps Australia's reliance on gas, which could provide a stable, affordable bridge to renewables. Instead, the government pursues an 82% renewable energy target, despite warnings that intermittent energy sources will drive up costs. The closure of major manufacturers like Incitec Pivot and Qenos, cited in Macrobusiness.com.au, due to high energy prices, illustrates the real-world consequences of this ideological fixation.

This suppression of critical discourse is not organic but engineered. Australia's universities, heavily dependent on international student revenue from communist China, churn out graduates steeped in globalist ideals, choosing diversity and climate activism over pragmatic policy solutions. A 2025 Macrobusiness.com.au report notes that the "university obsession" has de-skilled Australia, diverting resources from vocational training and manufacturing to an education sector that profits from foreign fees from Asia. The media, too, plays a complicit role, with property-centric outlets amplifying narratives that protect real estate profits while ignoring the generational housing crisis. Llewellyn-Smith's point about "real estate underquoting" as a distraction from the broader affordability crisis, rings true: house prices have risen to the point where a single-income family, which could afford a home in 1970, now struggles under a mountain of debt.

Politicians, meanwhile, exploit this environment with vapid rhetoric, avoiding contentious issues like China's economic influence. Despite China accounting for 26% of Australia's trade, discussions about its impact, particularly if it shifts to a consumer-driven economy, as outlined in a Macrobusiness.com.au analysis, are conspicuously absent. Such a shift could devastate Australia's commodity exports, yet policymakers remain silent, praying at the "altar of Chinese prosperity."

This self-censorship is reinforced by a cultural elite, often young, urban, and university-educated, who champion globalist causes while ignoring their own future. Llewellyn-Smith describes these "self-destructive children" as the most vociferous supporters of policies that will harm them most, from housing unaffordability to job losses driven by AI and immigration. A 2025 Macrobusiness.com.au post warns that AI could reduce youth job prospects, yet the Productivity Commission downplays this risk, reflecting a broader denial of structural challenges.

The consequences of this globalist orthodoxy are dire. Australia's living standards are eroding, with real wages growing only 0.5% in 2024–25 and inflation, though eased to 2.8%, still outpacing wage growth for many. The National Accounts show a mere 0.2% increase in living standards in Q3 2024, with mortgage costs and population pressures squeezing households. Social cohesion is also fraying. Posts on X highlight growing frustration with immigration policies perceived as eroding national identity, with one user lamenting that Australia's leaders treat the nation as a "global economic zone" rather than a sovereign entity.

The housing crisis exemplifies this decline. Soaring land costs and immigration-driven demand have made homeownership a distant dream for younger generations. A 2025 Macrobusiness.com.au report notes that real estate prices are 100% correlated with money supply growth, yet policymakers refuse to address the root causes, focusing instead on minor issues like underquoting. Meanwhile, the energy transition's high costs threaten to further erode living standards, with wholesale electricity prices up 23% year-on-year in Q2 2025.

To halt this decline, Australia must break free from the globalist stranglehold and prioritise its citizens. First, immigration policy needs an honest reckoning. Scaling back the "Big Australia" model to focus on sustainable population growth would ease pressure on housing and wages. A 2025 Macrobusiness.com.au analysis suggests that per capita resource exports have risen dramatically, yet the benefits are not reaching ordinary Australians.

Second, energy policy must embrace pragmatism. Gas, as Australia's most viable transition fuel, should be central to any strategy to keep costs down and prevent further manufacturing losses. Third, universities must shift from being international student factories to hubs of practical innovation, fostering skills in trades and technology rather than ideological conformity. The freedom movement needs to get the courage to take the universities on. Let's have legal protests against them in every state!

Finally, the media and political class must end their self-censorship. Open debates on China's influence, immigration's impact, and the true costs of the energy transition are essential to restoring policy efficacy. As Llewellyn-Smith warns, the current trajectory guarantees the "ongoing decline of the Australian nation and self." Without a course correction, Australia risks becoming a hollowed-out experiment in globalist ideology, with no one left to record its fall.

Australia's status as the "last redoubt of the globalists" is a warning, not a badge of honour. The nation's fixation on globalist causes, climate, geopolitics, and unchecked immigration, has come at the expense of its own people, eroding living standards, social cohesion, and rational policymaking. This is not progress but a carefully orchestrated decline, driven by vested interests and a culture of self-censorship. By reclaiming its sovereignty, adopting pragmatic policies, and fostering open debate, Australia can reverse this trajectory and rebuild a nation that serves its citizens, not a globalist elite.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2025/08/last-redoubt-of-the-globalists/

"Australia is the last redoubt of the globalists. All we do is fret over other people's problems while our living standards and values are slaughtered.

This is not coincidental. It is the evolution of a system of mind control, many years in the making, much worse in Australia than anywhere else I can think of.

It has absolutely nothing to do with making the world a better place.

Issues like Palestine, climate change, geopolitics, and immigration are the sacred cows of the new globalists.

But their prominence comes at the expense of everything that actually matters: local living standards, liberalism, social cohesion and policy efficacy.

All of these are in chaotic decline as the tyranny of new globalism takes over. Or is it the other way around? I can't tell.

Consider the following. The national media and politics are currently consumed by debate around:

One of the smallest countries on earth, which has no practical reference to Australia.

A productivity roundtable that refuses to mention the only word that matters: immigration.

Real estate underquoting that matters naught to the generational house price conflict.

An energy transition that refuses to mention gas, Australia's only answer to the energy transition.

Never mentioning China.

The vested interests that run Australia have engineered the perfect Brave New World of media and political self-censorship.

Bizarrely, its most vociferous supporters are the self-destructive children who will suffer most from each policy failure.

This is a scale of brainwashing that is difficult to describe, cookie-cut in universities that feast on foreign student trade, loved by property-centric media profits, and mercilessly exploited by vapid politicians.

It is a terrible failure of reason and imagination that guarantees the ongoing decline of the Australian nation and self.

Soon, nobody will even be left to record it."