IT WAS A YEAR OF REVOLUTION – FOR THE QUIET AUSTRALIAN

Common sense has won out this year over the strident rantings of an arrogant rabble.

AT the start of the year the media was telling you we were stuck on a course to a woke revolution.

A giant step backwards, where for the first time in decades race, gender, sexuality and faith defined you more than anything you say or do.

A relegation where people who had worked their whole life and were able to pay for their own retirement were painted as rorters who were ripping off the system.

A revolution where the cost of your power bills and the reliability of the grid were less important than calming the souls on Twitter and prancing about at international conferences about climate change.

This year, we stood at a fork in the road and we chose the right path.

I know the election was a long time ago now, but we can’t underestimate how defining it was for what real people think and what those who seek to bend our country to their inner city views really think of us.

The ultimate manifestation of their arrogance was Bob Brown’s convoy from Tasmania to Queensland to fight the Adani mine. He was cheered on by the media at every step of his sanctimonious journey. From one ABC morning program to the next, he was there to drive a stake into the heart of mining, to the delight of the elite.

However, once he crossed the border it changed. The closer he got to the Queenslanders who were going to be robbed of a job and a life, the louder the

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pushback. When he got to Clermont the streets were lined with locals telling his mob to go home. Leave them alone, stop telling them how to live and what they can do for work.

There are a lot of people who claim credit for the rise of the quiet Australian, but the ones who were heard loudest that day showed millions more across this great land that we are not alone. Our time has not passed and our numbers are still stronger than their tantrums.

Never forget the people who said Queensland should be kicked out of the country as the election night results came in.

Of course the same people cheered when the sunshine state voted for same sex marriage. But they were to be cast aside because they rejected Shorten and soundly endorsed Morrison to run the joint for us for the next three years.

Never forget the sooks on Twitter who said they would move to New Zealand, yet got an OAM, the highest civilian award we give out for their services to the sisterhood on Twitter.

And never forget the media who said Labor was “inevitable’’.

All year they made the most of every molehill, thinking it was the last bumpy ride of a government destined for the end. With it they hoped conservatives would be crushed for a generation and anyone sceptical of their agenda would shut up and pay for it.

In many columns this year I have had a go at the media, which comes at a cost. I have lost friends and my career path narrows each time.

But we must push back. You need to know what’s really going on and how these people seek to shape the news, not just report it.

In the end common sense won, and it won big. While the government majority is only one in the House, the margins they won by to form government have grown. For instance, take Herbert in and around Townsville, which was a Labor seat held by 37 votes. Phillip Thompson now has a 15,000 vote margin for the LNP.

Thompson is one of the great finds of the political year – a man who served his country on the battlefield, now in the halls of power. Our county is better when his kind are in charge, not the Twitter mob.

These are my last writings for the year.

I want to thank you for all your support and for taking the time to read what I have to say.

Merry Christmas and enjoy the break with your beautiful family and great mates.