Sovereign Australia
THE BLOG
Brett Murrell’s daily record of the campaign — the political journey and the personal one. Written the day it happened, published here as well as on Facebook and X.
Brett Murrell’s daily record of the campaign — the political journey and the personal one. Written the day it happened, published here as well as on Facebook and X.
The treaty chain behind AUKUS, the legislation that was quietly changed, and the questions Australians were never asked.
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Thank you for bringing so much light into this world. Dolly Parton, 1946–2026.
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A full room in Rockingham, the Echidna strategy, and a former foreign minister calling Pillar I one of the worst decisions this country has made.
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National Day of Action Against AUKUS — Churchill Park, Rockingham, Sunday 20 September. Your voice matters.
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The Sunlight Agenda in one post: COVID-19, media, lobbying, family law, Indigenous royalties, local government, FOI.
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Sound bites with the three majors — and the thirteen other candidates who were not asked a question. That in itself is a story.
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The PM was in Perth but not at the booth. The state Liberals printed a cut-out and called the media. Four candidates recreated Abbey Road instead.
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The first radio interview drops. Pre-polling starts again, and sixteen candidates share one car park.
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The Western dream usually means fewer people around. More time in your own thoughts, and your mind runs. Say hi to a stranger today.
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Compulsory questioning, restricted legal representation, and prison for telling anyone it happened.
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Working class electorate, small businesses, hands-on people. They have had enough of not being listened to.
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The signs go up at pre-poll — 22 departments to 7, water from the north — and an open invitation: come down and talk policy.
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First day at a pre-poll booth. Fourteen candidates, one decision on preferences, and the view that we are not enemies.
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The booth design for Secret Harbour — the whole platform, one sign at a time. Jelly beans, good tunes, and eleven days of pre-poll.
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A criminal set-up presented as terrorism, three bills passed in its shadow, and a select committee that still has not reported.
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Pre-polling opens at Port Kennedy. Sixteen candidates and their volunteers in one car park for two weeks.
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The barometer for knowing a person. Unity is the path to peace — and a postscript admitting my own frustration was dividing too.
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Three parties, one unanswered question. If the alternative will not say where it stands, it is not much of an alternative.
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A candidate turned up for his radio interview and was pulled by his own party. Sixty-three years on, the faceless men argument has not changed.
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Made it into The West by accident, walking into the shops. The tri-party showdown — and the Castle Defence memo drops.
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Why the shift to One Nation happened, why it worries me, and the eight-category breakdown showing all three lined up on the same foreign policy.
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Cards go up around town, next door to Garden Island. 2,300 Americans by 2030, a US Navy unit on the base, and nobody was asked.
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Four years of travel, and Australians have stopped talking to strangers. One stranger in four years offered me a bed. We were once the hitchhiking capital of the world.
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Infrastructure or weapons. Export power, water and compute from the desert — and the irony is the infrastructure defends us better than the weapons.
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Sixteen candidates — the largest field in history. Ballot position 16, and number 7 on Labor’s preferences.
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Division is the first sign of a failing nation. The job of government is to unify — reopen the past to heal it, not to stir it.
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Bowel cancer in the young, dementia, autism. Test the food, the water and the medicine — prevent the illness instead of paying for it forever.
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Suicide and overdose are the leading causes of death for working-age Australians. One in thirty deaths. And government stays close to silent.
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Retirees do not like Pauline, tradies do. Labor is handing out gifts. And all three land in the same place on the questions that set the direction.
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A billion-dollar illegal trade that our own legislation created. Not another ban — regulate it, tax it, and let Australian growers in.
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An order granted without the accused being told, permanent after 21 days with no hearing. WA holds the Royal Commission power and has never used it here.
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Your beliefs have been fought over since you were a child. Understanding that is the first step. Questioning all of it is the second.
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The ban pushed kids off a controlled web and onto the adult one. Prohibition never removes demand — it just moves it somewhere nobody can see.
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Labor swept it under the carpet. From the Liberals, crickets. Our position is published, issue by issue, beside everyone else’s.
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Eight years building a community on a farm, and what the zoning rules taught me. Retirement villages, mine camps and prisons all do it — but try it yourself.
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Billions thrown at housing, and every party repeats the same plan. Bandaids over problems, and vote-collecting policy rather than fixes.
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32,000 people, one electorate. Fifteen issues split across local, state and national — and a question back to the people who live here.
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Get the attention, then give the winning impression. That is the whole campaign — now to work out how.
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Back in the West in time to register. Running as an independent, because the party is not yet registered. Four weeks to go.
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We grow it and ship it to Europe. Process it where it grows and it offsets ten per cent of the diesel we import.
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Without diesel the trucks stop. Everything else we argue about assumes those wheels keep turning — and nobody treats it as the first priority.
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Three parties, one foreign policy. AUASIA instead of AUKUS — and truth, integrity and accountability back in politics.
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An island nation is a castle. Submarines do not open sea lanes, they close them. The only real defence is what is inside the walls.
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Most of what our government does makes sense as positioning against our largest trading partner. The South China Sea is where a regional war starts — or where it is prevented.
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My sister Clare’s birthday — and the party becomes the Sovereign Australia Party. Truth, Integrity and Accountability; Australians and Australia first.
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A tribunal called them rocks, and that changes who owns the water. Six nations, big boats and guns — and ten years of nobody agreeing.
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You forget how big this country is until you drive across it. Green country, crops in, and a rainbow with no rain cloud anywhere.
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Brumbies at Jindabyne, and a question: before you argue about an ideology, do you understand the structure of power underneath it?
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A wall of Pacific treaties built to lock out our largest trading partner — most carrying a clause giving Canberra a say over who else the partner can deal with.
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I did consider it. But every one of them backs AUKUS, and none will ask where that alignment leads. A century of following others into war is enough.
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A country can be treated as an asset in someone else’s strategy without ever being asked whether it wants the job.
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A mutual defence pact signed in Suva. A Chinese ballistic missile test the same day. Read them together and it is not a peace agreement.
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A nation is not one pyramid with a leader on top. It is pyramids within pyramids — and if the small ones are hollow, nothing above them stands.
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Seventy days in the Duat, then Sirius blinks on at dawn. The ancients set their calendar by it — and ours has drifted from the sky it was built on.
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Even if the United States wins a war with China, Australia loses it. Submarines cannot answer a war decided by blockade rather than battle.
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Three second-hand boats, five unbuilt, a yard that does not exist — and a question nobody answers: can eight submarines escort the tankers we need to eat?
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Nobody in question time is rewarded for saying “that is a fair point, here is what we could do.” They are rewarded for the clip.
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Go and watch question time in person. These people run the country — and for a long time nobody was watching them. Now we have the result.
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Once a war cannot be won, the logic of force collapses. Arming harder buys nothing a blockade cannot take away.
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We were told the number. The real cost runs further than money — it is what we tie ourselves to, and what we give up to get it.
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Three seas closed in three years, and not one reopened by the navies sent to reopen it. Nobody asked whether we wanted the boats.
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When the Nullarbor flooded, the West ran short in days. That was weather, not a war — and everything here runs just in time.
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A former prime minister with no election left to win, saying plainly what serving members will not.
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Two days in question time, a corridor of prime ministers, and a memo on what Hormuz teaches us about a war in this region.
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Organise a group. Meet regularly. Bring the people who are worried about this country into the same room. Peaceful, inclusive.
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Independence, a public oath to Australia, and a Royal Commission into AUKUS. None of them costs anything — and all of them would be resisted.
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A million in every capital, a million in Canberra, and a meeting place in every town. Peaceful, and staying until they listen.
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An ordinary man who spent his last three and a half weeks carrying the wounded down Monash Valley, until it cost him his life. He was twenty-two.
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Where it started. Nobody asked us about AUKUS — and this country should be a unifier in the region, not a divider.
Read →The record runs from Day 1, the day I arrived in Canberra, to the current day. Read from the bottom up to follow it in order. The daily posts also run on X and Facebook.