Piers Akerman: Border insecurity and divisions created by Albanese’s juvenile government are unlikely to be fixed
The juvenile Albanese government and its obsession with undergraduate ideologies lacks the maturity and courage to confront the shameful issues it has created, writes Piers Akerman.
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Anthony Albanese always says he is acting in the national interest, but that claim is as phony as his Medicare card-only clinic visits and his electricity price cuts.
He may be a “handsome boy” to the Chinese government as he encourages the communists to sell us more solar and wind factories (likely built by slave labour) but he is not serving the national interest.
Our national interest depends on foreign and domestic security.
The Prime Minister and his inept government fail on both fronts.
He definitely won’t remind his fawning hosts this week their navy endangered the lives of Australian divers, and he won’t mention the live-fire exercises by the CCP’s ships in the Tasman Sea, the underwater survey of submarine cables by their submersible robots, or holding Australians as political hostages.
His hosts will clap him on the back and congratulate him for his false claims about our historical reliance on our only serious defence ally, the US, and his proclamation of our sovereignty, just as President Xi Jinping sides with such respecters of national sovereignty as Russia, Iran and North Korea.
Serious leaders of Western nations do not permit themselves to be duchessed by authoritarian regimes, but the Albanese government has turned its back on the allies with who we once claimed to share common values.
On Tuesday, in her first major speech to the European Parliament since Denmark took up the presidency of the EU, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, once the heroine of Leftist Euro-progressives, aggressively called on member states to close the door on asylum seekers and increase military spending.
“European citizens have a right to feel safe in their own countries,” she said. “That is why we need to strengthen our external borders. We have to lower the influx of migrants to Europe. We need to help stabilise EU’s neighbouring countries. And make the process of returns easier and, of course, more efficient.”
Albanese’s government has done just the opposite. The fact Australia finally appointed a special envoy to combat the toxic surge in Jew hate that arose after October 7, 2023, is a clear demonstration of this failure to control our borders.
The Albanese government offered 3000 tourist visas to Gazans approved by terrorist organisation Hamas after it invaded Israel.
In December 2023, 72 per cent of Gazans supported that attack, yet our government issued visas without basic security checks.
The disgusting anti-Semitic ravings by Islamist clerics and the unchecked outrageous demonstration by a mob outside the Sydney Opera House before any Israeli counteroffensive had been launched were the trigger for the anti-Jewish protests in our cities and on our university campuses.
Had Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke shown decency and courage then, there would have been no need for special envoy Jillian Segal’s appointment. But he didn’t, and nor did any of the Labor ministers, including Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen, or Education Minister Jason Clare (all of whom have significant Muslim populations in their electorate), call out the hate speech.
Segal’s comprehensive report makes a number of sound recommendations that Albanese has said the government would consider.
Good luck with that. Another review, spare us all. The national interest demands that the divisions created by Labor, whether it be its failure to protect its Jewish citizens, or the continuing pandering to Islamists, or activists promoting separatist Indigenous policies, be dealt with maturely.
Unfortunately, this juvenile government and its obsession with undergraduate ideologies lacks the maturity and courage to confront the shameful issues it has created.
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