Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s sacking from the Liberal front bench this week is further reminder that the fault line in Australian politics is not between Liberal and Labor.

It is between those who hold a woke worldview and those who do not.

The former includes the likes of Anthony Albanese, the Greens, Liberal Senator Dave Sharma and Sussan Ley.

The latter includes Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, Matt Canavan, Tony Abbott and most of us in centre right minor parties like Family First.

I’ll come back to the fault line. But first, it’s important to unpack what Nampijinpa Price said which set off a week-long media firestorm.

Her “crime” was to say Labor allowed more Indian migrants in because they overwhelming voted Labor.

That is a claim difficult to prove because Australia’s immigration policy is officially non-discriminatory, as it should be.

She has openly admitted that alleging this was a mistake.

“I reiterated my regret in not being clearer in my comments on the ABC last Wednesday,” she said in a statement yesterday.

“I never intended to be disparaging towards our Indian community. And I wish no ill-will whatsoever to the Indian community – or any other migrant group,” she said.

“My concern – as it is for millions of Australians – is Labor’s mass migration agenda and its ramifications.

“My concern is not migration itself – it’s the magnitude of migration. Migration at the current scale and pace is putting excessive pressures on housing, infrastructure and services.

“And that makes life tougher for all families. I want to see a better life for all families – whether you’re a migrant, a resident, or a citizen – and regardless of your background.”

On these latter points she is 100 percent correct.

The woke left, which includes the majority of the Parliamentary Liberal Party, did not want to discuss the substance. This was too good an opportunity to pile-on and demonise someone who does not hold their woke worldview.

A good woman was hung out to dry in a pernicious campaign to destroy the reputation of one of Australia’s most effective conservative voices.

They wanted to pull her down a peg or two.

Media hounding demanded to know if she had confidence in Ley.

Price was too honest to say she did. Why would she? Ley doesn’t believe in anything Price or mainstream Australia holds dear.

Ley of course had no choice but to wield the axe. She and the woke Liberals who control the party of Menzies would rather boot the likes of Price so they can stay in tune with elite ideology.

The Liberals have form in going after bold conservative women.

They tried to break Moira Deeming’s spirit because she dared to stand up against the LGBTIQA+ political movement’s attack on girls and women.

The Liberals are still trying to destroy Moira by threatening her pre-selection, learning nothing from former Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto’s humiliating legal defeat.

With the Liberal party in lockstep on the gender bending Sex Discrimination Act, unwilling to let go of the Net Zero economy-wrecking ball and tepid on the mass migration crisis, the woke left has free reign.

As Shari Markson opined on Sky this week, Australia is now like America would have been if Kamala Harris had won the US Presidential election.

Government spending is out of control, immigration is out of control, gender ideology reigns, our kids can’t afford a house, abortion-to-birth is sacrosanct, and freedom of speech and religion are in peril.

The Liberals have contributed to or acquiesced to all these pathologies.

The modern Liberals, dominated by libertarians like Tim Wilson who advocate for the buying and selling of babies to “gay married” men, will not be the vehicle that rescues Australia from the woke curse and restores the Australian dream.

It’s telling that in her statement yesterday, Nampijinpa Price said she was now free to fight against:

“The economically immiserating and freedom eroding policy of Net Zero. The indoctrination of children in our classrooms that engenders national guilt and inhibits national pride. The Albanese Government’s determination to move Australia away from a free-market economy and towards a state-directed and controlled economy – having embraced the same statist ideas that have devastated economies and people wherever and whenever they’ve been implemented. And the Chinese Communist Party’s military aggression in our region and its foreign interference in our country that presents a great danger of our age.”

Sadly the Liberals don’t fight, and a Liberal must be free from Shadow Cabinet solidarity rules to tell the truth.

No wonder the public are confused. They never hear the counter argument from Liberal leaders.

Like Senators Matt Canavan and Alex Antic, Senator Price will be a strong and fearless voice on the backbench speaking truth but totally ignored by the dominant woke Liberals.

The challenge for those of us who want our country back is to unite the disparate voices on the centre right.

If the likes of Price, Canavan, Antic and others can prevail in the battle for ideas within the Coalition, there may be hope.

But there is no sign of this being realised any time soon.

Minor parties like Family First will continue to take votes from the Liberals with the aim of jolting them back to Menzien values.

That is going to take time.

Price’s sacking shows where the battle lines are. The enemy of a better Australia lies well and truly within the Liberals.