The big question arising from Donald Trump’s electrifying address to Congress today is why don’t our leaders have his courage?

Whatever one’s view of Trump the man, the narcissist etc - 90 per cent of what he said is common sense.

How hard is it to get biological males out of girls’ and women’s sports?

Fix the cost-of-living crisis by “drill, baby drilling” and getting out of the Paris climate accords?

Even former Prime Minister Tony Abbot says Australia should do what Trump is doing and declare an “energy emergency”.

Ban child gender transition?

Trump’s not afraid to take on the noisy LGBTQI+ lobby but Peter Dutton is petrified of them.

Restore freedom of speech?

Trump has banished cancel culture – the sort that has Family First National Director Lyle Shelton embroiled in a five-year legal battle against two drag queens who have weaponised the law in the service of their hurt feelings.

“We are getting wokeness out of our schools, out of our military,” Trump said.

“Wokeness is trouble, we don’t want it.”

Hear, hear!

Sadly, both Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese are wedded to woke.

They are too scared to touch any of what Trump talked of today.

They are both going into this election pledged to net zero and forcing us to pay the Paris premium on our electricity.

Both refuse to change the Sex Discrimination Act to restore the definition of woman, leaving girls and women unsafe in their private spaces and sports.

For casual observers of politics, Trump’s war on woke might seem new.

But he’s simply implementing long-standing Family First policy.

Many of us thought the radical left was so ascendent that we may not see the tables turned in our life time.

But here we are on the right side of history.

Trump’s list of wasteful spending on US AID was comical.

“$8 million to promote LGBTQI+ in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of,” Trump said about the landlocked 2-million-person country surrounded by South Africa.

“$8 million for making mice transgender — this is real,” Trump read.

“$1.5 billion for voter confidence in Liberia … $59 million for illegal alien hotel rooms in New York City … $14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia.”

The list went on.

Imagine what would be found if a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop in Canberra.

Trump chronicled the end of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) programs and the teaching of critical race theory, which teaches children to hate America.

The woke mind virus, to use the phrase Elon Musk coined, has infected Australia equally.

Leadership in America is turning the tables on the radical left.

The Democrats sat indignantly. One held at sign saying “this is not normal”.

Weird from the same people who think taxpayers’ money should be spent on making mice transgender.

Democrat women wore pink in protest of Trump’ supposedly anti-women policies.

But 24 hours earlier they voted against getting males out of girls’ and women’s sports.

Nancy Pelosi looked like she was sucking on lemons.

Dutts and Albo are yet to get the message.

If you want common sense for Australia, vote 1 Family First.

On my run this morning I listed to the live audio feed direct from Donald Trump’s victory rally from the Capital One Arena in Washington DC.

Livestreaming allows ordinary people access to information unfiltered by the spin of the legacy media.

There’s no doubt it was inspiring, despite the usual over-the-top American kitsch and team-Trump hyperbole.

But that’s all part of the fun, Kid Rock and all.

Doubtless there will be more from 3am tomorrow when coverage of his second inauguration begins.

I’ll be up.

Underneath all the glitz though, was serious policy for families which I hope will reverberate to Australia.

Trump’s boldness on so many commonsense issues is killing Woke and its toxic DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) offshoot that infests big corporations, government departments and universities.

That is good news for mums and dads.

For those who don’t know, DEI pushes racial discrimination and LGBTIQA+ issues and career limits and punishes anyone who questions its orthodoxy.

Woke ideology and DEI has given us forced pronoun compliance and biological males in girls and women’s sports and their private spaces.

That’s why on the campaign trail and then again at the victory rally, Trump continues to lambast it.

At the rally he repeated:

“We will get critical race theory and transgender the hell out of our schools. We will keep men out of women’s sports. It will be done tomorrow”.

Trump’s policy adviser Stephen Miller told the crowd:

“It's not up to you if you are a man or a woman. That decision is a decision that is made by God and it can't be changed.”

Apart from Family First and a few others in the minor party space, no Australian political leader has spoken with such clarity and resolve about one of the major cultural issues destroying the lives of thousands of our young people.

(In fairness the Liberal leader in WA, Libby Mettam, has been good).

If Peter Dutton similarly pledged to save girls’ and women’s sports and get LGBTIQA+ ideology out of our schools, along with critical race theory, he would win the up-coming federal election.

Because of the leadership vacuum, Family First is standing Senate candidates in Qld, NSW, Vic and SA – supported by a team of lower house candidates – who are committed to protecting children from Woke LGBTIQA+ indoctrination.

Trump also said he would restore patriotism in American schools.

Like America and much of the West, Australian children have also been taught to question the legitimacy of their nation and this badly needs to be addressed.

If young people don’t love their nation, despite its faults, how can we expect them to fight for it if the time comes, which it might given current global instability?

Elon Musk, who famously took the “red pill” and switched from being a left-wing Democrat to a full-blown MAGA Trump supporter, has single handedly saved freedom of speech by purchasing Twitter, which he renamed X.

Suddenly conservatives had a voice without the censorship of their ideas that the likes of Mark Zuckerberg of Meta have only dropped since Trump was elected.

Musk took the stage this morning and declared that the Trump project was looking well beyond tomorrow when Trump’s flurry of executive orders will restore sanity to girls’ sports, the border, energy and so much more.

“We want to set the foundation of America to be strong for a century.”

If Trump delivers in his final term and if JD Vance succeeds him, that vision may well be fulfilled.

The Biden-Harris attempt to continue the Obama experiment has shown the world what Woke is and the voters didn’t like it.

Australians are only just starting to feel the pain of Woke policies and haven’t fully realised the nightmare.

But things are moving quickly thanks to Trump.

The question for the up-coming election is will the “Trump effect” affect Australia?

Family First hopes so and our candidates will carry similar commonsense policies on energy, family and gender to this election.

Whether it is this election, or a subsequent one, Woke’s days are numbered.

RIP DEI.