Aussies abandoned by a PM more interested in woke agenda

Anthony Albanese has the nation in a woke headlock, damaging Australia’s economic and social welfare, writes Piers Akerman.

Anthony Albanese has the nation in a woke headlock, damaging our economic and social welfare. He is enthralled by every Left-Green issue, from the fabrication of Aboriginal industry to the great renewable energy con game. 

Ignoring the stark reality that Australian voters rejected his personal Voice to Parliament project overwhelmingly in a 60-40 landslide in October, he has still not made the abject apology to those who were scorned and reviled during his referendum, which cost upwards of half a billion of your dollars. 

Instead, he has, in the most cowardly fashion, attempted to distance himself from the principal platform of his election policy and blame the Indigenous activists he kowtowed to when he tearfully pledged his support for a greater, more expensive, less representative Aboriginal-only tier of government. 

Instead of giving recognition to the true voice of the people, the activists at the ABC continue to stifle discussion on the appalling state of conditions in remote Indigenous communities even as the endemic violence continues in places such as Wadeye, where police roadblocks have been set up to prevent illicit drugs and alcohol reaching the township. In the past few days, extra police from the newly formed Territory Safety Division have been sent to the community and arrests have been made in relation to ramming police cars and attacks on the police station.

Anthony Albanese delivered his annual Christmas message to Australians, in which he distanced himself from the principal platform of his election policy, the Voice to Parliament. Picture: Supplied

 An estimated 500 people were left homeless when violence flared at Wadeye in 2021. 

Albanese, who bowed to the noisy, wealthy inner-urban Indigenous elite for the greater part of 2023, has done nothing but fart in the faces of the rest of the nation.

Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen at COP28 in Dubai. Picture: Jacquelin Magnay

His blanket refusal to address the issue of the nation’s economy-destroying energy policy and remove Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen – a buffoon who embarrasses the government with his inane claims for renewable energy – is an insult to the other members of the cabinet. Add Bowen’s Sir Les Patterson-like performance of an acknowledgment of Indigenous people during his address at the recent COP28 in Dubai and you have a perfect script for the Utopia television program – except Utopia is designed to be a satire and Bowen believes that he can be taken seriously. 

Selling coal to China to help its flagging economy build windmill blades and batteries to provide us with costly unreliable, intermittent and unsafe energy doesn’t make sense. 

The ban on nuclear energy should be lifted immediately to let private companies accept the risk and keep the lights on using the existing grid infrastructure without the destruction of further prime agricultural land and the unnecessary expenditure of literally countless billions. 

Australia is the only OECD nation not to accept nuclear energy in its energy mix.

By maintaining Australia’s status as the only OECD nation not to accept nuclear energy in our energy mix, Albanese is kowtowing to the Green-Left – which accepts nuclear energy abroad – and ignoring Australians who need cheap energy and real jobs, not as baristas and dog walkers. 

The prime job of any government is to protect national security – and here Albanese has really let Australians down. Not only did Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus fail to understand that the High Court could approve the release of more than 140 hardened criminals from immigration detention, the Albanese government approved 860 visas for people fleeing Gaza without there being any possibility that the usual security checks were conducted. As every poll taken of Gazans before and after Hamas raped, mutilated and murdered more than 1200 Israelis and seized more than 140 hostages, there has been widespread support for the illegal terrorist organisation. 

Across Australia, deluded members of the Islam community – supported by some perennial activists and a few trade unions – have shown their support for Hamas, even infamously celebrating the barbaric attack in demonstrations. It is more than apparent that there exist dangerous elements and imams who use their weekly sermons to demonise peaceful Jewish Australian citizens. 

For the first time in their lives, Jewish people here no longer feel safe. Our greatest war hero, Sir John Monash, a Jew, was honoured by 300,000 mourners lining the streets of Melbourne when he died in 1931. 

The Albanese government’s response – and that of the governments of Victoria and NSW – has been weak at best. 

With Hamas’s supporters in the Houthi-controlled Yemen conducting piracy along our trade route through the Red Sea, Albanese has failed to support the international fleet, ignoring a request from our most important ally, the US, to supply a ship on the most specious grounds. 

Albanese’s decision was praised by Hamas and China. By kowtowing to members of this axis of evil for the sake of appeasing Muslim voters, he has, again, farted in the face of the nation and our closest allies.