Andrew Bolt: Albo’s toxic race politics pollutes Anzac Day

The day that once united us is being destroyed, thanks to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese trying to divide us into warring tribes.

Trust Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to turn even Anzac Day into another soapbox to divide us. What a tragedy.

Anzac Day was the one day left where we expected Australians to come together out of respect for this country and the people who gave us our freedoms and wealth.

Australia Day has already been ruined, again with Albanese’s help.

Green councils refuse to celebrate “Invasion Day”, Albanese let public servants skip it and activists even use it to preach civil war against white Australians.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaking at the Dawn Service at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Picture: Getty

“This is war,” shouted race-baiting Senator Lidia Thorpe at this year’s Australia Day.

“F*** Australia, hope it f***ing burns to the ground,” yelled Tarneen Onus-Williams of the Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance.

So only Anzac Day was left to remind us of our bonds. But no longer.

Tuesday was the worst Anzac Day yet – the most polluted by the toxic race politics that divides us into warring tribes.

First, some Dawn Services, like Melbourne’s, started with a Welcome to Country, as if Australians with fathers and sons who’d died for this country still needed to be welcomed to it.

Not even dying for this country makes it fully our own, if you’re of the wrong race.

Anthony Albanese has turned even Anzac Day into another soapbox to divide us. Picture: David Swift

Then Albanese used his Dawn Service speech in Canberra to campaign for his Voice to Parliament, an Aboriginal-only advisory parliament, by accusing his country of stabbing soldiers with Aboriginal ancestry in the back: “Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who donned the khaki fought harder for Australia than Australia was sometimes willing to fight for them.”

On it went. The Australian War Memorial even held a separate service for soldiers identifying as Aboriginal, as if they’d fought some different war or fought as a race apart.

What a perversion of our history. An Aborigine such as Captain Reg Saunders, himself the son of a World War One veteran, led men of all races. Men who were simply Australians.

How could our defence forces and the RSL condone what we saw on Tuesday – this racial division even in mourning?

How, when Governor-General David Hurley, once the head of our armed forces, declared the finest thing about Anzac Day was “marching with your mates”?

Instead, we’re now encouraging this perversion of marching instead with your race.

The Anzac Day that once united us is being destroyed.

What an insult to the dead, who died united in death, so foolish Australians today could live apart.

Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Albo’s toxic race politics pollutes Anzac Day