Right royal moron: Greens’ Adam Bandt couldn’t wait to play politics with Queen’s death

The only surprising thing about the crass tweet Adam Bandt posted as millions mourn the loss of the Queen was that he waited a few hours to send it. Sadly, there more to come.

As sure as the sun was going to rise this morning, you could be certain the Greens Party would immediately find a way to play politics with the death of Australia’s head of state.

The only surprise is it took Adam Bandt until 8.27am to hit send his tweet calling for an Australian republic.

It is presumably an inadvertent revelation of the time he gets out of bed.

You could be outraged, but that would be playing into Bandt’s hands.

Generating outrage is a core part of the Greens Party’s business model which is why the best response it to treat them with a dismissive contempt.

Rest In Peace Queen Elizabeth II.

Our thoughts are with her family and all who loved her.

Now Australia must move forward.

We need Treaty with First Nations people, and we need to become a Republic.

— Adam Bandt (@AdamBandt) September 8, 2022

Being the all-politics-all-the-time people the Greens are, Bandt made didn’t waste the opportunity to have a backhanded crack at the Labor Party either, making sure to mention the need for a treaty with Indigenous Australians rather than Albo’s priority, the voice.

Those of us who are feeling sad and numb this morning need to brace themselves because there will be more of this in the coming days, even before Australia’s longest serving monarch is laid to rest.

Greens Leader Adam Bandt. Generating outrage is a core part of the Greens Party’s business model. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

The Left won’t be able to help themselves.

Already Bandt’s crassness is being defended by Twitter morons on the grounds of ‘why not if not now?’

You might think it’s crass and demonstrates a profound failure of imagination not to understand that many Australians are feeling a sadness that will have taken them by surprise.

We knew this day would come, but that doesn’t make it any easier.

Most of us alive today have never known any other sovereign but Queen Elizabeth II.

Flags fly half-mast on the Sydney Harbour ridge as a mark of mourning and respect for Queen Elizabeth II. Picture: Getty Images

She has been a fixture in our lives, Queen for more than half of the 121 years Australia has been united as a nation.

When she ascended the throne in 1952, Australia and the world was a very different place.

Britain still ruled over what are now the nations of Singapore and Malaysia as well much of the Pacific and Africa.

Australian soldiers were fighting in Korea and young men were required to do national service.

Her first UK Prime Minister was Winston Churchill, while Robert Menzies was in office in Canberra.

If that seems a different age, it’s because it was.

A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in Sydney’s St. Andrew's Cathedral on Friday. Picture: Getty Images

Television was still four years away. Australia’s currency was still pounds, shillings and pence.

The death penalty was still in force in most of the country, Indigenous Australians were treated appallingly and the White Australia policy was still in force.

Across the seven decades of her reign, the world changed and the monarchy changed with it.

Its survival in Canada, New Zealand and Australia is a testament to that skill.

That very adaptability explains the republicans’ frustration and why they have for long pinned their hopes on this day.

In sense Bandt’s early intervention to try and use this moment might be crass but there is a logic to it.

Since they got a resounding smack in the chops from the public in 1999, Australia’s republicans have bided their time knowing they had no chance of revisiting the issue as long as the Queen lived.

With her passing they will be hoping their time has come.

We’ll see about that.

In the meantime brace yourself for Bandt-style crassness in the coming days.

Originally published as Right royal moron: Greens’ Adam Bandt couldn’t wait to play politics with Queen’s death