The Liberal Party and the Coalition remain focused on what actually matters to Western Australians

Last week and over the weekend, while Western Australian families were worried about the cost of living, mortgage stress, and whether their kids will ever afford a home, the Labor Party gathered in Adelaide for its National Conference.

And what have they spent their time on? Themselves.

Not you. Not your family. Not your job, your business, or your future.

Labor's National Conference was about placating the activist left of the party on the flag, on our borders, on gas, and on Israel.

It is the clearest picture yet of who really runs the Labor Party, and it isn't the Australians who elected them.

Let's start with the flag.

Delegates at Labor's conference debated whether to remove the Union Jack from the Australian flag.

My answer is simple: no. I love Australia. I love our flag. And I will always defend it.

This isn't some fringe view inside Labor either. It goes to the top of the Albanese Government.

Housing Minister Clare O'Neil was asked directly on Sunrise whether she supports changing our flag and rather than defend it, she dodged and weaved.

When your own Cabinet ministers won't stand up for the Australian flag, you have to ask what else they won't stand up for.

The Liberal Party and the Coalition will always defend the flag that our servicemen and women fought and died under.

Labor should be ashamed that this is even a live debate at their conference.

And it doesn't stop there.

While Western Australian families continue to face rising costs and a workplace relations system that's becoming more complicated by the day, Labor's answer is to create an entirely new Fair Work Court.

It’s another layer of lawyers, another layer of bureaucracy, another layer of cost.

The Coalition believes in a workplace relations system that is simple, fair, and easy to comply with, one that delivers timely justice for workers and gets businesses back to doing what they do best: creating jobs.

If the Department of Employment can't get the basics right, what confidence should Western Australian small businesses have that yet another court will make things simpler?

It won't. It will make things slower, costlier, and more confusing and WA businesses and workers will pay the price.

Then there's Labor's National Conference push to weaken our borders.

A motion moved sought to enshrine a 90-day rule into law, meaning illegal immigrants would be released into the community after just 90 days if their protection claim isn't resolved.

Let's be clear about what that means: if people smugglers can get someone here, that person will be walking our streets within three months, regardless of how they arrived.

Three months is nothing to someone who has already spent months, and thousands of dollars, paying a criminal syndicate to get to Australia.

This isn't border protection. It's a green light for the people-smuggling trade to start back up, and Western Australians, who know all too well what unpoliced borders in our north can mean, should be alarmed.

With more than 70,000 illegal overstayers already in this country, ISIS-linked individuals returning to our shores, and people-smuggling boats already landing in Western Australia and Queensland, Labor's instinct is to make it easier, not harder, for illegal arrivals to stay.

Our borders should be decided by what keeps Australians safe, not by what keeps activists happy at a party conference in Adelaide.

Western Australians should also take note of what Labor is cooking up on gas.

Leaked drafts from the National Conference reveal Labor is looking at a new gas tax, despite Resources Minister Madeleine King promising, on the record, on no fewer than fifteen occasions, that no such tax would ever be introduced. Fifteen times.

For a state like ours, where the resources sector underpins jobs, regional communities, and national prosperity, this matters enormously.

The oil and gas sector already contributes around $22 billion a year in tax and is the second largest corporate taxpayer in the country.

Even former Labor resources minister Martin Ferguson has called the idea "a shocker," warning that scaring away investment is the last thing we should be doing given global instability.

The Coalition's approach is the responsible one: bank 80 cents of every windfall dollar into a Future Generations Fund that invests back into Australia, while continuing to grow the sector that so many WA jobs depend on. Labor's answer, as always, is just another new tax.

Finally, posturing on Israel should concern every Western Australian who values our long-standing friendship with a fellow democracy.

Under the Albanese Government, Australia has repeatedly sided with anti-Israel motions in international forums, and Labor's own activist base is now pushing the party even further down that path.

The Coalition's position is clear and has not wavered: a genuine two-state solution requires the terrorist group Hamas to have no role whatsoever in a future Palestinian state.

If Labor's conference delegates no longer agree with that basic principle, Anthony Albanese owes the Australian people an explanation as to why, and what message that sends to a terrorist organisation looking for its next propaganda win.

What we have seen from Labor's National Conference this weekend is a party talking to itself, about itself, while the country's real problems, the cost of living, housing, energy prices, and community safety, go unaddressed.

The Liberal Party and the Coalition remain focused on what actually matters to Western Australians and all Australians: fixing the economy, restoring our standard of living, and protecting our way of life, our borders, and yes, our flag.

I will keep fighting for that every single day, and I know I have you standing with me.