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.

As mums and dads struggle to pay their electricity bills, Anthony Albanese today announced another $2 billion of borrowed money would be thrown at windmills and solar farms.

This is for so-called “green energy” to prop up aluminium smelting which is struggling because so-called renewables are expensive and unreliable for manufacturing.

In contrast, Donald Trump will take the oath of office tomorrow vowing no more taxpayer money for windmills.

“Windmills are an economic and environmental disaster. I don’t want even one built during my Administration. The thousands of dead and broken ones should be ripped down ASAP. Most expensive energy, only work with massive government subsidies, which we will no longer pay!”

He plans to “drill baby drill” to unleash the “liquid gold” under Americans’ feet and in doing so slash energy prices.

But everything Anthony Albanese and nine years of net-zero-obsessed Coalition government has done has raised the price of electricity and pushed us into a cost-of-living crisis.

Aluminium smelting didn’t need “green energy” subsidies from the taxpayer when power came from cheap and reliable coal.

“We need to be more than a quarry. We need to be a country that value adds ourselves, not that exports the raw material, waits for someone else to create jobs and value add, and then import the products back,” Albanese said today as he justified his latest election handout.

But if “green energy” was so cheap (remember the $275 reduction in electricity prices?), why does it need to suck on the taxpayer teat?

We were value adding our aluminium very well before the Coalition and Labor started closing coal-fired power stations to “save the planet”.

Australia’s gold may not be liquid but it is gaseous, rocky and yellow caked.

Albo won’t touch any of it for domestic use because he thinks that’s virtuous for the climate.

Hypocritically he’s happy to take the rivers of gold in royalties from coal and gas sent overseas, ignoring that burning it there is still burning it.

As Trump tacks away from the Coalition and Labor’s commitment to the economy-destroying Paris accord and as Australians watch America becoming wealthy again, pressure may well build here for political change.

Family First is standing Senate candidates in Qld, NSW, Vic and SA, supported by a team of lower house candidates, who are committed to cutting power prices by prioritising gas, coal and nuclear.

Family First is pushing for a pause on Net Zero policies until a proper economic and engineering cost-benefit has been produced.