This from J Warner Wallace, on eyewitness evidence:
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Citizen Go asked me what I see as the big issues beneath the political seismic rumblings of our day. 
Many feel the ground shifting beneath our feet.

1. It is the seismic rumbling of worldviews.
The Hanson train appreciates the value of the historic Judaeo-Christian faith that gave rise to the Western Values upon which Australia was Federated. Grinding against this is the Secular Socialism that now characterises the Labor Party and secular progressive more broadly. Liberals and Nationals are torn between the two. 
Many people don't think deeper than the competing value sets of party platforms. Many don't even think about the value sets; they just vote with their gut, which is also tainted by human fallenness. But beneath the team colours, beneath the Party Platforms and value sets, are competing foundational worldviews.
If these worldview foundations continue to be overlooked, the current rumbling will worsen into earthquakes.
Australian society will continue down a well-worn track of socialism producing decline economically, socially, spiritually, and personally. Socialism historically leads to communism, or these days is more more likely to be replaced by political/militant Islam imitating Mohammed who was a religious, political, then military leader. 
Why would I say Islam? Because since the Ottoman Empire fell, history keeps repeating that trajectory in country after country around North Africa, the Middle East, Europe, across the 10-40 window into Asia down to Indonesia. See Ayaan Hirsi Ali on this. 
Can Australians fail to notice the manoeuvrings of Socialists in inner city politics, and of Islam into the suburbs? 
Christianity has had a stabilising and creative influence on Western culture. It is responsible for the unique goods of Western civilisations, especially in the federation projects of USA, Australia, and in the Pacific. The more nations adhere to Bible-based value sets, the more fair and free they became, conversely the further they stray from the Bible the less fair or free they become. 
Secular socialism has had a destabilising effect. Without a Biblical reference point, factions devolve into tribal power struggles over whatever each tribe deems is right in their own eyes. 
Islam has historically sought to ultimately dominate. Since the rise of Hitler, Islam has entered nations on the coat-tails of Christian compassion and socialist destabilisation, migrating as a religion, then becoming political then militant - just like Mohammed. "The ballot or the bullet." Ratcheting in Sharia Law. 
These worldviews change the fortunes of nations. Which do we want? That's my clarion call to voters. 

2. Reducing Freedoms of Conscience
But, some assert, doesn't a Christian-based government dominate others too? No. 
The Bible-based federation projects (USA, Australia, Pacific) were explicit about freedoms of conscience. Even as Australian federation assumed "humbly relying on Almighty God," and even as Christians educated people to submit to God and upheld Judeo-Christian jurisprudence, Christianity also instituted freedom for people to dis-believe it. 
Over time such freedoms became more detailed, such as removing anti-gay laws, so that you could believe and practice your persuasion. But it was not expected that the Judeo-Christian political worldview that gave rise to such freedoms should be overthrown. 
But socialism has sought to upend Christianity as the freedom-protecting worldview of our federation. "Conservatives" - which now appears to be code for those who articulate a biblical worldview - are wrongly labelled as extremists and oppressive.
Now in 2026 we see socialist governments impose legislations that increasingly restrict Christian freedoms. For example, removing the freedom to disagree about gay lifestyles, on threat of job loss, defunding, heavy fines, prison time. We are now seeing increasing totalitarian overreach, enforcing socialist worldview, excluding biblical worldview. History repeating. 
The need for religious education, worldview education, across all sectors of society cannot be understated. 

3. God
Meanwhile, beneath these worldview tectonic plates is the Ground of all being - God.
The Christian worldview offers God in a unique way that Indigenous animism does not, Socialism doesn't, and Islam doesn't.
Australia's founders knew that, said so, and assumed Christianity generally underlay the Constitution. "Humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God." 
As much as worldview education would really help the world, it is only God who ultimately brings growth/blessing. Deuteronomy 11 is specific that God will bless or curse, depending on whether "we" will try to follow Him or not. 
Widespread personal repentance is key. This too underscores the importance of religious ed, because "we" need to recognise that we need God. There's no good reason to avoid saying so. 

Notice: Australia was not intended to be a theocracy, such as Islam, or as Anglo and Roman governments of the dark ages have tried - in fact having learned from the Reformation, the founders of federation sought to avoid that. But they did assume that the Bible would be its reference point. Not a Christian organisation such as the Anglican church or Catholic church. Sure, we can argue a lot about how to interpret the Bible, but at least we'd be on the same page. 
And so to participate in the democracy as envisaged, our public needs to recapture its Biblical literacy. 
(Also note that Bible-literacy can be manipulated, and has been  by the left in its coopting of the language of human rights and Christian civics, while replacing the meanings of those words with their own definitions. Labor's Platforms should be read through Socialist lenses, not projecting Christian values - the two readings reveal very different visions.) 
Christianity sees the need for government to make room for unbelievers to disbelieve. The rain of good governance should fall on both believers & unbelievers alike. Government is not to force belief, which is the true definition of the separation of church and state. But government should protect the Christian belief that makes it protect freedom of conscience. 

4. The race card furphy
Another danger is referring to race rather than values & foundations. We don't want "white Australia," we want Judeo-Christian values Australia. I know it's harder to say, but melanin levels are not the point!
Besides, because Christianity is the only truly cross-cultural worldview, we have Christians from every country sharing Christian core values. But also, Christianity discerns the good from the bad in every culture, including Australia's. That value set is what we need to appeal to.
It's a value set that can evidently be appreciated by those who don't believe the worldview itself, because of its uniquely freedom-producing consequences. 
"White" does not describe any of that. It is so simplistic as to be wrong. Neo-Nazis need education about this.

[Update: 4b. Multicultural equivocation and as foundation
"Multiculturalism" needs definition. Do we mean to celebrate all cultural differences indiscriminately? including values that would undermine and dominate the country? everyone pulling in disparate directions causing endless conflicts? Or do we define it to mean those various cultural forms below an agreed set of unifying values.
"Monoculturalism"? The word begs the question, what do you mean by that. If you mean all levels of cultural expression must be the same, it is gross overreach.  But if you mean one set of core values that keeps the country unified in a healthy way, to which all citizens should subscribe regardless of their other cultural forms, then yes. Obviously without that a country tears apart. 
If we define words reasonably, we might come to an agreement: multicultural about our various cultural forms, yet monocultural about a set of unifying values. Then we just need to be clear about that core values set, assumed at federation...  
- HOWEVER, that's the cause of this seismic problem - our Government does NOT agree on that unifying core values set. Let us speak plainly about this.
Socialists are consciously seeking to remove & replace Christian core values, with their own. Socialism sees the State as the Saviour, not God. So they seek to remove Christian freedoms of faith, family and foundations, from the public square. 
- See the 74 Acts of Parliament since 2000, that restrict Christian freedoms.
- See recent moves to remove the Lord's Prayer from parliament's standing orders.
- See Albanese Labor Government’s Home Affairs Multicultural Framework Review, “Towards Fairness: A multicultural Australia for all.” Read alarm bells here. Listen to Labor sawing off Christian heritage: 
This Home Affairs Dept review says the "nation itself is inherently multicultural." Multicultural. This simplistically ignores the massive national influence of Christian-based British parliamentary democracy, Federation, common law, English language, Christian moral assumptions, civic duty, self-government, military sacrifice, the fair go, loyalty to one flag. All the things that made modern Australia recognisably Australian are treated as background material, while pushing multiculturalism as THE great organising principle. 
The review refers to “violent attempts to eradicate anything deemed counter to Western Anglo society.” It says legal and political structures enabled “Anglo dominance” while reducing the significance of other cultures. It complains that past government responses promoted “shared Australian values” that all groups were expected to follow. It says the move toward “social cohesion” included “assimilationist attitudes.” It even says social cohesion has become problematic “to the point where the term itself has become problematic.” 
It refers to a “once-in-a-generation reform agenda.” This is conscious root-removal, a “whole-of-government and community approach,” to “drive social change.” 
It calls for “continuously applying an intersectional, gender-equality lens to multicultural policy and services.” This is Critical Race Theory, Critical Gender Theory - victimhood theory. Affirm every culture as oppressed, except for the one blamed as the oppressor - ie. the Judeo-Christian values set that can actually unify us under Almighty God.
This government review proposes re-education by its proposed "Multicultural Affairs" offices, with compliance regimes and KPIs... Labor's "social justice" agenda is to remove the values of "Anglo, colonist Christianity," and replace them with their socialist values of oppression-survivors complying with their final authorities - their Government. 
That is the sound of political ground shifting.] 

5. Name the worldviews & values
The Australian Christian Party get it - its in the name.
One Nation is trying to name these values & issues. And name ensuing practical issues.
- They've rightly named "Australian values" as Judeo-Christian.
- And the need for social cohesion.
- They've rightly named the discord caused by Welcome to country ceremonies, the need to become One nation, not co-sovereigns. Christian Values such as "humbly relying on Almighty God," clash with indigenous animism, tribalism, and with the socialism that drives much of government and corporate efforts in Aboriginal lands. 
- They've rightly named political Islam and its over-representation in immigration. 
- They've rightly named simple mathematics when it comes to immigration numbers. 
They've been criticised for being racist when they name these things, but that's the detractors being guilty of simplistic racism in their own categories. 
Jacinta Price and Tony Abbott get it. Does the Liberal Party get it yet, after their long dalliance with 'progressives' within? Depends if the conservative swing is a return of conviction or just a ploy for the popular vote. They need not compete with One Nation, but cooperate.

6. All the green facts
The "Green Economy" has taken so long to release all the relevant facts that we can now surmise it must be ignoring or refusing the relevant facts, otherwise they would produce them, right? Fair to ask if  the facts are not forthcoming because they don't fit the policies & interests?
Page Research Centre has made the best effort I've seen of trying to collate them - the total costs involved, from producing infrastructure to maintenance to disposal, and, equally relevant, all the scientific facts about CO2 and the biosphere's complex capacities to process it over time and long cycles. CO2 levels may indeed be a red herring, such that other adaptive changes are being ignored. 
Scientific "consensus" has become a power play by a mix of political and financial interests. Science always progresses from the margins, not the consensus.
Normal value-driven Aussies have waited for the relevant facts, but we're still waiting and are getting suspicious. Many smell a rat around the push for the electric grid, we are concerned that we could be literally disempowered by the flick of a switch. But we don't have the words or facts to describe the truth accurately. Who can provide the facts & words we're groping for? We appreciate it when some tries to ask these questions. Even more when they try to give the answers. 

7. Fact-based reporting
We need a reliable media outlet that gives actual facts, not just opinions. There are some, but they are dispersed and underfunded. Support the causes of groups like: The Australian newspaper. Jerusalem Post. Discovery Institute (Center for Science and Culture). Creation.com. The Page Research Centre. Australian Christian Lobby. Australian Christian Party. Freedom for Faith. Australia Christian Freedom Index. The Canberra Declaration. 

ARC (Alliance for Responsible Citizens) is full of good papers and thinking on such issues as these.

Well, that's my brain dump for you. For what it's worth.

​This movie should be excellent.

​And this is logically uncontroversial. 

https://www.thestoryofeverything.film/home#trailer 

The Compass is me.
North is God. I’m made for him, to point to him. We’re to glorify him through all the earth. God gently pulls us towards Himself, the true fulfiller of all our desires.  
Sin is what happens when something else becomes magnetic to us. We desire it instead, as a shortcut to fulfilling our desires.
But the shortcuts cannot fulfil, they only ensnare us in an addictive spiral of diminishing returns. 
Pride - Desire for significance pulled toward self-glory. x
Greed - Desire for security pulled toward money/things. x
Lust - Desire for acceptance pulled toward consumption. x
Envy - Desire for flourishing pulled toward comparison. x
Gluttony - Desire for enjoyment pulled toward excess/addiction. x
Wrath - Desire for justice pulled toward revenge. x
Sloth - Desire for rest pulled toward avoidance. x

The desire itself isn’t evil, and the object of desire may not be either, but being pulled away from God is evil. The magnets are misplaced worship. Sin is desire pulled away from its true fulfilment. Sin means missing the mark, falling short of the glory of God. 

​So, with every “no,” God is removing a magnet, so I can receive His greater “yes,” so my heart can turn to Him again. 
Here’s a list of "No to the magnet → Yes to the desire fulfilled in Christ":
No to pride’s self-glory → Yes to significance humbly in Christ
No to greed for things → Yes to security from the Father
No to lust to have → Yes to deep acceptance as one betrothed to Jesus 
No to envy’s comparing → Yes to flourishing in gratitude for Jesus 
No to gluttony’s addiction → Yes to the pleasure of being mastered by Jesus 
No to wrath’s revenge → Yes to trusting the justice of Christ 
No to sloth’s avoidance → Yes to the rest that Jesus gives to His servants

Holiness realigns my life, submitting my life back to The Creator’s intent - filling the whole earth with His glory in Christ. Holiness causes my life to expand, to reach its proper goal. 

In ​Philippians 2, The Cross shows us the properly functioning compass: Power under control. Desire submitted. Glory through surrender. Jesus had every legitimate desire yet never misaligned them.
And He is not just our example, He is our magnetic reset.

When my heart comes near to Jesus, my desire needle steadies on Him. The only true, gentle, life-giving Fulfilment of all our deepest desires. 

A thought about reactions to the Ayatollah’s death. 
Many who celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk, are now openly mourning the death of the Ayatollah as leader of their religion. Some commentators are defending this grief in the name of religious freedom, but they are equating violent Islam with all religions. 
What values does such mourning and commentary mirror? To ourselves and to our governing authorities. 

Nuance check - 
- Yes, we may mourn that a human being has died. 
- Yes, people can be forgiven for irrationality in grief. 
- Plus, I also mourn that it has come to this: that some so misguidedly agree with the views and violence of the IRGC and their terrorist proxies, that they must be so forcefully resisted. 
- And such sword-bearing is not the authority of private citizens. But it is within the avenging authority of governments (Romans 12:17-13:4). 

Equivocation check - 
For discerning governing authorities, mourning the death of the Ayatollah as a leader of your religion is NOT equivalent to mourning the death of the Pope as a leader of my religion. 
- Is your religion the Ayatollah’s religion? It explicitly incites violence against unbelievers and the imposition of his republic by force. This is a worldview from which unbelievers of goodwill must be protected. 
- Is your religion the Pope’s religion? It explicitly calls for peace even with unbelievers, and conversion by informed and free conscience. This is a worldview that unbelievers of goodwill must protect. 
(Note: even if Popes of the past did try to impose their religion on others by force, a rare and overblown instance, Christians themselves opposed this as NOT true Christian religion.) 
- Muslims who do mourn the Ayatollah as leader of their religion are aligning themselves with his Islam, one violently opposed to Australian-Citizenship-values. 
- Muslims who support Australian values for all (not just for muslims) would NOT be equivalent to the Ayatollah’s religion. They ought not mourn him as leader of their religion, lest they equivocate peaceful Islam with violent Islam. 

​To equivocating governments and commentators, I say, under legislation about incitement to violence, Australian citizens who violently oppose Australian citizenship values are forfeiting their Australian citizenship rights, by arrest or deportation. 

What does your reaction reflect to our government about your worldview and citizenship? 

PS: For muslim friends - a 60 day series of readings with the Prophets.