Peta Credlin: How Albo should have responded to anti-Semitic report
If the government was serious about anti-Semitism, the PM should have been ready to act immediately, and yet all we got were just more words, writes Peta Credlin.
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The Prime Minister would be a lot more credible on the anti-Semitism he deplored last week if there’d been some specific actions the government was about to take, rather than just welcoming yet another report with official hand-wringing.
Almost all of the recommendations in the report from his own anti-Semitism special envoy Jillian Segal can be acted upon now, including the deportation of people spreading hate. And yet for months and months, the bile being spread in some mosques goes unchallenged while, overseas, we’ve seen examples of zero-tolerance in the case of Italy, which expelled a pro-Hamas imam despite him being a resident in Bologna for 30 years.
When a synagogue is firebombed with worshippers inside, and when a mob ransacks a Jewish restaurant with the police on hand making just three arrests, our country doesn’t just have a Jew hatred problem but a general challenge to the rule of law from people who think they can intimidate others with impunity.
There’s now a tactical partnership between recent migrants who haven’t left behind the hatreds of their homeland and cultural Marxists who want to turn Australia upside down.
Jews are the initial target, but the real enemy is western civilisation itself. Without strong action, it soon won’t just be one community that’s targeted but every law-abiding Australian and history is our lesson here; look at Europe in the 1930s and look at what’s happening again in Europe today.
This is why the Prime Minister’s response to the report released last Thursday was so underwhelming, because we still have time to turn this around, but it’s as though he’s only half-interested.
I was staggered to hear Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan admit at her press conference on Monday that, despite a weekend of racial violence, she had not spoken with Albanese.
Can you imagine John Howard or even Kevin Rudd being asleep at the wheel like this, treating the prime ministership as a part-time gig?
Take the example of defunding institutions that react inadequately to anti-Semitic eruptions and removing their charitable status. If the government is as serious about these recommendations as it claimed to be last week, the PM should have been at the press conference with a list of universities and arts bodies that he was defunding immediately, and yet all we got were just more words.
On so many issues, it’s hard to avoid the conclusion that the Prime Minister is a modern version of Nero, fiddling while Rome burns.
He’s about to embark on a leisurely six-day tour of communist China, that will include his fourth meeting with President Xi Jinping; while eight months after Donald Trump’s re-election, Anthony Albanese has still not had six minutes with the leader of the free world. While in Beijing, our PM will doubtless join the communist dictator in espousing the merits of free trade – that will be an obvious slap at Trump – while saying nothing about Xi’s boycott of $20 billion of our trade in response to Australia’s call for an inquiry into the Wuhan virus.
Then there’s the PM’s obstinate refusal to increase defence spending even though our armed forces are obviously being hollowed out and Australia is gaining a reputation as a weak ally that expects to freeload on others as NATO countries take the global threats seriously and scale up.
And given he’s been a hard-left antinuclear activist for much of his life, I am fast coming to the view that Albanese wants Trump to walk away from AUKUS because nuclear power at sea (in our subs) makes his opposition to nuclear power on land increasingly unsustainable.
Even on childcare, the subject of understandable public alarm after the revelation 10 days back that a worker employed at some 20 centres was on charges including the rape of children aged between eight months and two years, with 1200 infants now being tested for STIs, it turns out that the Albanese government’s training manual for childcare workers prioritises “cultural safety” (including sexual orientation) over the safety of children. And despite ending last week with yet another male childcare worker charged over sex crimes at a NSW centre, we still have not seen any action to better protect our most vulnerable.
All this is quite apart from the fact that we’ve had two years of declining GDP per person and an 8 per cent fall in living standards exacerbated by the government’s pro-union workplace changes and climate policy obsessions that are sending business bankrupt or offshore.
Our country is drifting backwards fast under a Prime Minister who seems to think that his election victory was a personal endorsement rather than just the rejection of an Opposition that plainly wasn’t ready for government.
THUMBS UP
No ‘trans-men’ in women’s prisons – for now. But unless new self-ID laws in NSW (and Vic) change, this will happen.
THUMBS DOWN
Smelter bailouts – government is about to spend billions bailing out smelters due to government policies. How about we just fix the policies and spare taxpayers?
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