Akerman: We can’t continue to be divided by race, religion as we face greatest global test in 80 years

Australia cannot continue to be split by race and religion if we are to meet the challenges we face, writes Piers Akerman.

Australia has never been more vulnerable internally and externally since World War II.

Most millennials don’t have a clue what are the real threats. The febrile nature of political leadership in our greatest ally has been highlighted by the dubious conviction of former US president Donald Trump by a politicised New York court.

If Trump wins in the November election, he will certainly be distracted by the numerous court suits that Democrat states have brought against him and will be unable to give his attention to the foreign crises reaching a boiling point. The near certainty of the election of UK Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in July does not instil any confidence or certainty in the delivery of Britain’s contribution to AUKUS.

Worse, UK Labour is as riven by identity politics and as beholden to Islamists as is Anthony Albanese’s ALP. None of our enemies regards identity politics as an issue, but here the use of personal pronouns is of such supreme importance, even joking about them can pose a threat to employment and reputation.

Starmer has already indicated his government would implement green-Left policies, such as giving the vote to 16-year-olds and implementing a green energy plan that would end what remains of UK manufacturing and send power prices soaring. Sound familiar?

Sir Keir Starmer. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Picture: NewsWire/Damian Shaw

It is as lunatic a plan as the expensive and inefficient unreliable wind and solar program Energy Minister Chris Bowen is hellbent on inflicting on Australia. Adolescent truant Greta Thunberg may as well have written Starmer’s and Bowen’s platforms.

While our great and powerful friends are entangled in domestic problems, China is intent on expanding its hegemony in our region and we have no viable defence capability.

Israel is bravely committed to eliminating the monstrous, murderous and barbaric forces of Hamas but the pro-Palestinian lobby’s false narrative has swept through Western universities where Left-wing academics actively promote anti-Semitic tropes.

They aren’t alone. Our ABC has repeatedly shown its anti-Israel bias and reluctance to acknowledge the facts of the October 7 massacre as painfully laid out in last week’s Sky News documentary hosted by former treasurer Josh Frydenberg.

The total lack of leadership from Anthony Albanese and his failure to accept any responsibility for Immigration Minister Andrew Giles’s release of murderers and rapists into the community has again highlighted his lack of any redeeming ethical traits. Constantly hedging his bets, Albanese has always placed his petty political goals against the greater national good.

Sacrificing our foundational ties to the state of Israel to placate radical Muslims in Labor electorates is utterly reprehensible, but typical of the abominable divisive behaviour we now expect from our Prime Minister.

There should be consequences for those Muslims who rallied to celebrate the rape and murder of civilians last October, but there has been none. Supporters of Hamas, a proscribed terrorist organisation, continue to occupy university campuses and disrupt Australians.

The mosques where so-called imams exhort rabid followers to eliminate Jews should be bulldozed to demonstrate that this hate speech has no place in Australia.

Our nation has striven since its earliest settlement to promote the concept of the fair go, not always successfully, but certainly not under this government while Jewish people are now fearful of assault and in fear. This government is promoting division, not unity.

We cannot continue to be split by race and religion if we are to meet the challenges we face. There must be consequences for this contemptible government’s actions.