Andrew Bolt: Anthony Albanese is gaslighting conservatives with regard to the Voice

Anthony Albanese blames conservatives for trying to “start a culture war” but he started it by waging war on Australia’s constitution, culture and economy.

Anthony Albanese gave a speech on Sunday with the most laughable line I’ve heard from him since he became Prime Minister.

He complained that people like me who reject his racist plan for an Aborigines-only Voice to parliament, written into our constitution, are just “trying to start a culture war”.

What lunatic hypocrisy. It’s classic gaslighting – making other people feel guilty for your own bad behaviour.

This Prime Minister, who blames conservatives for trying to “start a culture war”, himself started it by waging war on Australia’s constitution, culture and economy. We’re just trying to stop the damage.

Not even the $5 note is safe from Albanese’s assault, with the face of our monarch to be ripped off and replaced with a picture of some as-yet unchosen Aborigine in the Prime Minister’s crusade to turn us into a republic of tribes, heading for apartheid.

I doubt many Australians realise the vast scale of Albanese’s culture war. Yet.

It’s much more than his plan to divide Australians by race, to give people claiming to be Aboriginal an extra advisory parliament with unknown powers.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has accused Voice critics of trying to incite a ‘culture war’. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gary Ramage

Albanese has also appointed an Assistant Minister for the Republic to exploit the Queen’s death, and is hiring a new Ambassador for First Nations People to represent Aborigines already as almost a separate nation and “help grow First Nations’ trade”.

On it goes. Albanese’s ministers now display not just the Australian flag at press conferences, but the Aboriginal and Torres Strait ones, a vivid symbol of the racial division this Socialist Left prime minister is deliberately creating.

He’s also attacking another symbol of Australian unity. Albanese last month told public servants they didn’t have to mark Australia Day.

Now he’s spending your money to recruit more warriors for his war. Last week Albanese announced he’d give the arts nearly $300m more, but implied at the launch he wanted quo for these quids: “I would ask the arts community to join with me in urging … yes to a Voice to our parliament.”

He’s even exporting his culture war to the world. Foreign Minister Penny Wong last week gave a speech in London telling Britain to confront its colonial past, as if Britain’s legacy – here, too – was entirely shameful.

The Malaysian-born Wong brazenly painted her own Hakka and Cantonese Chinese ancestors as victims of the wicked British colonialists: “Many from these clans laboured for the British North Borneo company in tin mines and plantations”, while her grandmother was a servant for “British colonists”.

In fact, these Chinese clans emigrated from China to North Borneo from the 1880s precisely because the British there were offering jobs and a better future than was China, even before China’s Communist Party slaughtered more than 50 million Chinese. Wong’s ancestors weren’t victims of British colonialism; they exploited it.

By the way, has Wong ever told China to face up to its terrible past? Of course not, in part because Albanese’s culture war aims to make Australia less like Britain and more like China.

I exaggerate? Only a little. Just last week, Treasurer Jim Chalmers opened yet another front in Albanese’s culture war, announcing he’d “build a better capitalism” and “redesign markets for investment in social purposes”.

This “capitalism” would be nothing like the classic kind inherited from Britain. Instead, Chalmers plans to rig markets and push companies and superannuation funds to risk their money – and your retirement savings – on Labor’s pet schemes. Already he’s put socialist-style prices caps on coal and gas.

Penny Wong suggested that Britain needs to do more to confront its colonial past.

Even that’s not the end of Albanese’s culture war on our economy. I’ve left the big one until last: global warming.

This government babbles non-stop about making us slash emissions to save the planet, even though there’s actually no “climate crisis” and nothing Australia does could stop one.

No, global warming is the Left’s new religion and excuse for socialism – as well as for your soaring power bills.

But where’s this climate crisis? Look: our dams lapping with water, another record wheat crop, fewer cyclones, record coral cover on the Great Barrier Reef, and not one notable bushfire all summer.

Or check the latest satellite measurements of the world’s temperature: January was cooler than the mean temperature in the last decade of last century.

Such facts are trashed in Albanese’s culture war on our past, present and future. And he now has the Putin-class hide to accuse us, who won’t surrender, of being the aggressors.

Prime Minister, you started this war. We’re just the resistance.