We grew up in a country where you could speak plainly without checking which pronouns were safe that week.
We could walk into a bank and open an account without proving we weren’t a terrorist.
We could question the government without being shadow-banned, de-platformed or visited by men with badges.
We could raise kids who played outside until dark, not inside behind screens because the streets were no longer safe.
We had borders that meant something, schools that taught history instead of ideology, and a currency that wasn’t quietly being replaced by digital control.

We had freedom — real, lived-in, unapologetic freedom — and we let it slip through our fingers while we were busy trusting the wrong people.

That’s on us. Not you.

This isn’t about saving our own generation. We’ve already had our turn at the wheel.
This is about giving you back the keys to a vehicle we crashed — or at the very least, handing you the blueprints so you can build one that actually runs on truth, not promises.

The Australia First movement isn’t a nostalgia project.
It’s a survival project.
For you.
For your children.
For the grandchildren you haven’t met yet who deserve to inherit a nation, not a corporate administrative zone with a flag on top.

So when you feel the weight of it — the meetings, the ridicule, the endless paperwork, the years it might take — remember this:

You’re not fighting for old men and women who miss “the good old days”.
You’re fighting for the version of yourself at 25, at 40, at 70, who will look back and say:
“They could have given up. They didn’t. Because they knew we’d need this one day.”

We’re not asking you to save us.
We’re asking you to save yourselves — and to do it better than we did.

With everything we’ve got left,

Commonwealth Oath Restoration Initiative
Australia First — for those who follow in our footsteps.