The Hon. John Ruddick

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2 Worlds Collide Podcast · #96 - The Hon. John Ruddick - Government Trust, Immigration & Who Takes Power Next · 19 Apr 2026 podcast

So who knows where this is going to stop?

And I think Pauline Hanson would be a much better prime minister than Liberal or Labor.

But I do think that, I reckon somewhere in about five to 10 years, there's going to be some, if One Nation keeps going, then I hope that One Nation can think about having a very democratic process.

where you can have a big open debate about who's the leader, then you'll get a conservative right-wing agenda as the leader.

Now, they won't always win the election for Prime Minister, but at least without them on the... I think they'll win a lot more than they lose, but I think that what'll happen is it'll just sort of move the debate if you've got the opposition leaders saying good things.

Yeah, it's really bad.

I saw it in the 1990s.

There was this militant left-wing faction coming out of New South Wales.

And they were really, they were basically teals.

Yeah, they are the teals, the left-wing liberals.

Well, what's happened in the major parties is that basically factional bosses get to choose who goes into parliament and therefore, you know, personalities, policy.

But if we make these parties much more democratic, then the factional bosses won't have control.

And the factional bosses are usually tied up with lobbyists and foreign interests and

But if we make it a very democratic thing, then it removes that as being a possibility.

We need to follow, do what they do in Canada.

And that's how, if the Liberal Party doesn't embrace this reform, then I believe they will die.

There will be total liberal death.

This is the only thing that can save them.

And I wrote the book, I wrote the book all about it in the year before COVID.

So, but look, I think what could happen here is if One Nation keeps going,

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