Andrew Bolt: Labor’s race-dividing First Nations foreign policy plan

Penny Wong’s plan to appoint an “Ambassador for First Nations peoples” is Labor’s way of imposing a race-dividing, anti-Western agenda even in our foreign policy.

“Send me your ambassador!” the Chinese strongman will command Penny Wong, the Albanese government’s foreign minister after Saturday’s election.

“Which one? “ he’ll be asked.

“The Aboriginal representing the First Nations, or the one representing everyone else?”

That is no exaggeration. Wong herself last Friday confirmed Labor is working to bring apartheid to Australia.

She told the National Press Club: “I am pleased to announce today that, if elected, Labor will deliver a First Nations foreign policy.”

This Labor policy somehow “weaves the voices and practices of the world’s oldest continuing culture into the way we talk to the world, and in the work of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade”.

What’s more, Labor would “appoint an Ambassador for First Nations peoples” and “ensure First Nations peoples have a stronger voice in our engagement with the world and deepening their long-held ties across countries of the Indo-Pacific”.

This is extraordinary. Wong will give “First Nations” – separate from the Australian nation – their own ambassador, to deepen their imaginary “long-held ties” with countries such as the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Tonga, and given them a “strong voice” in our diplomacy that’s denied to Australians of other “races”.

Who does this racism benefit?

Penny Wong says Labor will deliver a First Nations foreign policy. Picture: David Clark

And see how such politicking actually works. Aboriginal Australians are increasingly “represented” by Left-wing urban activists, predominantly in our universities and urban areas, who actually have many non-Aboriginal ancestors.

This is really Labor’s way of imposing a crude race-dividing, anti-Western and radical green Leftist agenda even in our foreign policy.

To see what that looks like, check New Zealand’s Labor Government, now increasingly pushing for a 50-50 “partnership” with the Maori people who make up just 17 per cent of the population.

New Zealand’s foreign minister is Nanaia Mahuta, whose father is a knight and an academic who studied at Oxford, and sent his daughter to an Anglican boarding school

Mahuta also became an academic, but then became obsessed with the new race politics, got a moko tattooed on her chin six years ago, and see this woke warrior go now.

Mahuta has been notoriously soft on China, refusing, for instance, to co-sign a statement with other members of the Five Eyes alliance – Australia, Britain, Canada and Britain – criticising China for arresting Hong Kong democracy campaigners.

At first I thought New Zealand was just cynically selling out its friends for rewards from a grateful Chinese dictatorship, but Mahuta last year gave a bizarre speech that made clear a giant Maori water serpent helped to inspire her kowtowing to tyranny.

She rhapsodised about the taniwha, a giant serpent or dragon of Maori mythology which supposedly hides in seas, lakes and rivers, and which this former Anglican schoolgirl sees as a nature god and inspiration for New Zealand’s foreign policy.

Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne with her New Zealand counterpart Nanaia Mahuta. Picture: Getty

“Taniwha are protectors or guardians, often of water, and hold dominion over rivers, seas, lands and territories,” she explained.

“Deeply steeped in culture, they are spiritual and one with nature … And like the (Chinese) dragon, they … are a symbol of leadership, prestige and strength, and are to be revered.”

To Mahuta, the taniwha are like China’s equally mythical dragon, and bring democratic New Zealand closer to communist China.

“I see the taniwha and the dragon as symbols of the strength of our particular customs, traditions and values, that aren’t always the same, but need to be maintained and respected.”

This irrational mythologising, I suspect, is what Wong now imagines for Australia’s foreign policy as Labor “weaves the voices and practices of the world’s oldest continuing culture into the way we talk to the world”.

We even have our own Rainbow Serpent, to which Labor paid tribute at its campaign launch, and which our allegedly science-based Bureau of Meteorology cites as one of the “Dreamtime stories (which) often contain vital information” and is “linked with water, being the lifeblood of the country”.

I can see it already: Labor co-opting the Rainbow Serpent for its green agenda, just like Mahuta reinvented the taniwha as being “at one with nature”.

But more extraordinary than Wong’s announcement of a “First Nations foreign policy” is that the Morrison government has said not a word against it.

It’s the same sad story. Morrison has shown almost no interest in resisting Labor’s cultural war on our nation’s institutions, traditions and history, and on the Western values of reason, science and individual responsibility.

His government didn’t have the guts or conviction – and so a society crumbles.

Take me to your leader! But which leader? Of what?