Our politicians’ duty is to unite us, not fund what divides

The lack of interest in Victoria’s treaty process means people claiming to be Aboriginal can get paid $50 to share their “deadly ideas”.

Peter Dutton has sniffed the cultural wind.

The federal Opposition Leader started the Liberals’ election campaign on Sunday with a vow to have Australians “coming together under one flag”.

Pity he said it in Melbourne, which has the country’s biggest collection of three-flag Liberals, but even his wokest candidates must realise voters now hate the tribalism tearing us apart.

This goes way beyond flying two race flags alongside the Australian one.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has vowed to have Australians ‘coming together under one flag’. Picture: Peter Dutton Facebook.

Let me give two more astonishing examples of this division also funded by Labor governments.

Victoria’s government wants a treaty with the First Peoples Assembly it set up to supposedly represent Victorians claiming to be Aboriginal – only 10 per cent of whom voted for it.

That uninterest is such a problem the assembly is paying $50 to any person claiming to be Aboriginal who turns up to some of its “treaty gatherings”, to hear “your deadly ideas”.

Really? Paying people $50 to tell us they’d like even more, on the grounds that they’re Aboriginal?

That’s Labor bribing people to join a race movement.

The assembly is paying people $50 to attend ‘treaty gatherings’. Picture: Getty

At Wyndham Vale the bribe was bare: “Enrolled attendees will receive a $50 voucher.”

For the gathering at Stawell, the bribe was called “an added incentive” to attend.

For the Geelong meeting it was for travel expenses “for enrolled mob living 50km or more from Geelong”.

Will Labor now pay non-Aboriginals $50 to turn up to meetings to discuss the treaty?

The second example is just as bad.

Will Labor now pay non-Aboriginals $50 to turn up to meetings to discuss the treaty? Picture: Luis Enrique Ascuia

The Albanese government has a Community Language Schools program to help 90,000 young Australians by “connecting them to the languages of their parents, grandparents and broader communities”.

Excuse me? How does it help Australia for governments to pay to connect children of immigrants to their parents’ homeland cultures, rather than just our own?

The dangers are obvious with communities that seem to resist assimilating.

One of the government’s $33,600 grants went to the Alsadeq Arabic Association, which oversees a “scout” program and lessons in Arabic to help NSW students read the Koran. What’s more, the leader and three of the 30 staff and volunteers of this “Mi’raj Scouts Academy” openly mourned Hassan Nasrallah, the assassinated leader of the Hezbollah terrorist army.

Enough. Our politicians’ duty is to unite us, not fund what divides.

Dutton realises that, but Labor is still a three-flag divider.