Australia is Collapsing
Nation First looks into how the elites Are Driving a First-World Nation Into Third-World Ruin.
Dear friend,
Australia is being dismantled.
Not slowly. Not accidentally. But through deliberate policy, cultural sabotage, and institutional decay.
The image of a prosperous, stable nation is now a mirage. Behind it lies economic disintegration, collapsing birth rates, militarised debt, mass psychological breakdown, and a political class unfit for survival, let alone leadership.
But this isn’t just an Australian story.
What’s happening in Australia is not isolated. It’s the canary in the coal mine for the entire Western world. A nation rich in resources, tradition, and stability is being methodically hollowed out; not by war, but by ideology. The same blueprint is being applied in America, Britain, Canada, and beyond. If they can break Australia, they can break any of us.
This article is a review of Greg Sheridan’s bombshell column “Australia divided, misgoverned, in retreat: our nation in decline” in The Weekend Australian, which reveals how Australia is becoming the West’s warning sign—from military decay to economic ruin and engineered demographic collapse.
Read the article in full at: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/australia-divided-misgoverned-in-retreat-our-nation-in-decline/news-story/3d9fe27928e63130d05a9b055863cc23
Australia is collapsing by design—through bad policy, weak leaders, and cultural rot.
The economy’s wrecked—$1 trillion debt, fake forecasts, and tax that punishes work.
Schools fail despite record spending—kids dumber, results worse, future bleak.
The military’s a shell—shrinking forces, junk gear, zero deterrence.
Net zero is a scam—killing our energy while China builds coal plants non-stop.
Greg Sheridan, one of the last remaining voices of integrity inside mainstream media, has laid out the full anatomy of collapse in The Weekend Australian. His piece strips away the lies and illusions. The numbers are brutal. The trajectory is unmistakable.
How does a wealthy, resource-rich country go broke?
Federal debt has exploded to over $1 trillion, not counting billions more hidden threw off-budget trickery.
Interest repayments alone will cost taxpayers $27 billion this year, and that burden will only grow.
Long-term fiscal projections are based on fantasy assumptions: no defence increases, minimal growth in the NDIS, and a sudden, magical rebound in productivity. Sheridan calls these assumptions “ludicrous.”
Australia’s top tax rate kicks in at less than twice the average income, higher than the U.S., U.K., or New Zealand. Punishment for productivity.
What happens when you spend more on schools, but your children get dumber?
According to OECD data, Australian students are now four years behind their peers in Japan, Singapore, and South Korea in maths.
In 2023, 15-year-olds were performing at the level of 14-year-olds two decades earlier.
In 2024, NAPLAN data revealed one-third of Australian students failed baseline tests in reading and maths.
Sheridan’s verdict: “The more we spend, the worse the results.” This is not education. It’s intellectual sedation.
Can a country even be called sovereign when it has no real military?
In 1990, Australia had 69,000 full-time ADF members for a population of 17 million. Today, with 28 million citizens, it has only 59,000 soldiers.
The naval fleet is ageing. The submarine force is antique. The drone capability is token at best.
Sheridan’s warning is crystal clear: “Militarily, we are somewhere between asleep and hopeless.”
How do you kill a future without firing a shot?
Home ownership among under-40s is at record lows. The median home price is nine times the average income nationwide and 13 times in Sydney.
Fertility has collapsed to 1.44 children per woman, the lowest in Australian history, below replacement, below recovery.
This isn’t about women choosing careers. Sheridan cites “overwhelming sociological evidence” that people simply can’t afford the families they want.
And the health of the nation is imploding: two-thirds of Australians are overweight or obese. Life expectancy, once rising, has now declined.
Most damning of all: Suicide is now the leading cause of death for Australians aged 15–44. Youth mental illness has risen 50% in 15 years.
And at the heart of this engineered decline? The cult of net zero.
Sheridan drops the pretence: “Net zero is a fraudulent concept, as everyone knows.”
China opens two coal-fired power plants a week. India, Russia, and Indonesia are expanding fossil fuel use. Even in the U.S., support for climate extremism is fracturing.
But Australia? Australia is self-immolating, dismantling its energy system in real time to appease an ideology the rest of the world ignores.
Sheridan calls it what it is: “a cultural cringe”, where elites worship foreign approval from Paris and San Francisco, while selling out their own nation.
The illusion of prosperity remains. But the structure underneath has collapsed.
Sheridan writes, “Australia is a first-rate nation whose leaders just now are determining we’ll be second-rate.” He compares our trajectory to Nauru, once among the richest nations on Earth, now a cautionary tale of squandered wealth and broken systems.
He closes with a sobering reminder:
“It’s more likely we’ll continue our recent practice; we’ll just look away and assume, without any justification, that decline will always be gentle.”
It won’t be.
This is not drift. This is deliberate deconstruction.
And it is not just happening in Canberra. The same formula is playing out in Ottawa, London, Berlin, Brussels, and Washington:
Dismantle energy.
Smother productivity.
Tax the middle class into submission.
Gut education.
Militarily disarm.
Collapse fertility.
Flood the system with mass dependency.
And call it “progress.”
Australia is not an outlier. It is a warning.
This is the end result of rule by technocrats, globalists, and ideologues. If they can do this to Australia—a nation rich in coal, uranium, iron, wheat, cattle, gold, and history—they can do it to anyone.
If you’re reading this from America, the UK, Europe—this is your fight too. The global machine is well underway. What’s collapsing in Australia is already being constructed around you.
But this trend is not unstoppable.
It can be confronted. It can be reversed. But only by those willing to name it, reject it, and fight like a nation’s future depends on it—because it does.
Until next time, God bless you, your family and nation.
Take care,
George Christensen
George Christensen is a former Australian politician, a Christian, freedom lover, conservative, blogger, podcaster, journalist and theologian. He has been feted by the Epoch Times as a “champion of human rights” and his writings have been praised by Infowars’ Alex Jones as “excellent and informative”.
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— George Christensen.
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My 2 cents: This is a deliberate ploy to cause citizens throughout the West to feel betrayed by their governments and make them more amenable to accepting centralised governance from a New World Order. Trump is one of the few leaders pushing back and the only leader showing precisely how to save one's nation from decline. Hence, the intense opposition to him by the Globalists.
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second-rate people who share its luck." Donald Horne.
.... except now with Albo, Bowen, Burka, Wong we're lucky if we have fourth rate people at the helm.