We would love to see something coalesce before the next election, and there’s a few ways that could happen. The political landscape will shift, but for now (May 2025, just post election) these are some pathways:

• The leadership votes and spat between the Libs and Nats shows both parties have lost some clarity of purpose. Much of the current Liberal Party would find a more familiar home in Labor these days. So if a handful of strong MPs from both parties could get together on the basis of easing off on Net Zero, reducing immigration, and a return to robust and responsible economic policy I think we’d be off to the races, and back on track to re-balance the political landscape. I’m looking at you Matt Canavan, Alex Antic, Andrew Hastie: if so and you agree ‘Prosperity’ is a good name, it’s yours
• The Libertarian Party could soften their ‘Minarchy’ ideology, and rebrand as Prosperity. You can’t really expect the masses to vote the anti-government party to, y’know… be the government. They’ve done a great job organising a professional niche party for that mindset, but their stated end goal is a bit harsh for most people, myself included. I prefer the idea of a smaller, highly capable government, rather than trusting everything to the free market. A successful pivot would require attracting some Libs+Nats defectors, else people will dismiss it as just a shallow re-branding. Also, the Libertarian name is also an obstacle to broad popularity in Australia, hard for the wider voting population to differentiate from the Liberals.
• Gerard Rennick’s People First Party could evolve past him as an individual into a wider party. They would need several strong track-record candidates, previously independent or defecting from the majors, and a firm de-Rennicking in the brand, to open the door to other strong candidates — might I say “Prosperity” is a good name for such a thing? I suspect something along these lines is already the plan, they did a remarkable job gaining traction in a short time leading up to the 2025 election, and I certainly wish them well in any case.
• Given the disappointing results for the minor-right parties this election, they should be more open to a grand merger, agreeing to put aside egos and any issues outside of core policy. Not to diminish fringe issues, there are some very admirable causes, but they poison the chances for wide support. For this to succeed it would need to be a fresh new and independent party, not a re-branding of an existing one. This would be an ideal outcome for our efforts here with a vision for a Prosperity Party, but I’m sceptical all these cats can be successfully herded to such an end.
• The Liberal Party could get back to their roots, grow a pair, and adopt the vision and policies here as their own. Ideally this would also be a re-branding as Prosperity to help with communicating this fresh and positive vision, make a clean break with their now much-diminished name, and also bring in some strong independents/minors who wouldn’t want to join the Libs (we’ll gladly consider handing over the domain name if so!)

In any case we should start building this community, encourage debate on the issues, and form more specific policies. Become a focal point for everyone wanting a centre-right party to get back to reality and push prosperity hard in Australian politics.

The team getting this started have no wish to run as public figures, or have this be “our” party, we’re not interested in ego or legacy, just to see things change. Being too personality-focused is one of the things holding back a few of the minors, they would do better as platform parties.

As this gathers momentum I hope there will be an obvious group of leaders who we can recognise in time as key figures and ‘founders’, but even then we should keep focus on the policy of the party rather than any individuals.