Wanted: A Statesman Like Roosevelt, Churchill and Zelenskyy
Australia faces mounting geopolitical, economic and defence threats, but its political leaders lack the bold vision and decisive communication needed to prepare the nation.
Asleep at the wheel, Australia’s political leaders are failing to confront domestic and international crises that rival the darkest days of the 1930s and World War II.
The contemporary political class exhibits a drift reminiscent of the leadership failures that preceded global conflict and economic depression nearly a century ago.
Just as severe institutional inertia fractured the political landscape back then — until Robert Menzies united the centre-right in 1949 — similar fragmentation is unfolding today, threatening years of political instability at a critical time in history.
How Statesmen Lead
History shows that monumental crises require exceptional, direct communication from a political leader. During the Great Depression and World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill rallied public resolve through regular, transparent radio broadcasts. Today, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy maintains daily broadcasts with his besieged citizenry.
Australia urgently needs a statesman who will look the nation in the eye, and, in regular broadcasts, outline the harsh realities we must confront alongside bold policies for national renewal. Such a leader needs to say that a future vision must start with a stark acknowledgment: after a long era of relative peace, we have entered the most perilous geopolitical climate in 80 years.
This danger stems not only from the massive military expansion of aligned hostile powers — China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea — but also from hostile actors using artificial intelligence (AI) to launch devastating cyber-attacks against our economic infrastructure and defence forces.
Rebuilding Australia’s Industrial, Energy and Defence Capacity
In this dangerous new world, a statesman needs to say Australia must become far more self-reliant by:
Industrial rebuilding: Double the domestic manufacturing sector within a decade, prioritising strategic industries essential for survival if global trade routes are severed, while decentralising production.
Energy independence: Utilise our abundant coal, gas, and uranium reserves to guarantee reliable electricity and lower domestic energy costs.
Fuel security: Rapidly expand oil exploration and refining capacity, supported by a minimum 90-day reserve of liquid fuels.
Food security: Expand vital water infrastructure and agricultural output to secure long-term national food supplies.
Financial infrastructure: Establish a dedicated national development bank to finance emerging and expanding strategic industries.
Defence: Rapidly double defence expenditure to meet escalating geopolitical threats and vastly expand cybersecurity capabilities.
Critical stockpiles: Maintain strategic reserves of essential materials, such as water-treatment chemicals and microchips, necessary to sustain basic societal functions during a crisis.
Civic preparedness: Conduct nationwide resilience exercises modelled on natural-disaster responses to educate communities on geopolitical risks and strengthen economic preparedness.
The challenges ahead demand heroic leadership, and new economic and defence priorities.
Where is this statesman to be found in Australia?
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suspect it’s too late. Albanese has signed stage 3emisions plan.we need those people as you say but 12 of them on all sides working as a team.where is there anyone like that.that doesn’t put their hip pocket first.
Zelenskyy?? Forgive me but this man is about as far as one could get from the idea of a statesman. he is a former actor and comedian who paraded himself around naked and now is persecuting the Christians in Ukraine, he has gangs of thugs roaming the streets to capture men to force into the meat grinder of a pointless war. He has misappropriated millions of dollars to spend on himself and his cronies to live in luxury. There’s many instances where he has appeared in public intoxicated clearly having indulged in illicit drug use.
Australia certainly does NOT need anyone even remotely similar to this despicable man, we already have a few good statesmen in this country: Ralph Babet, Alex Antic, Gerard Rennick even Pauline Hanson. You ought to be supporting and encouraging these men and women not some pathetic clown, puppet tyrant who is genuinely responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people.
Thats exactly what i was thinking after i read this ridiculous article.
Zelenskyy belong in a jail cell.
Succinct and “dead on the money” Patrick. It was once observed that “cometh the hour, cometh the man”. Maybe this came out of the WWII leadership you pointed to. Now it’s “Cometh the hour … despair”. So will Christians rise and fight as one in the spirit of the knights Templar or do we lock our doors and pray that the Parousia comes sooner than later?