Anthony Albanese starred in the wokest Australia Day ceremony Canberra has held
A culture of hatred and division has exploded under Anthony Albanese’s leadership and things only got worse for him during a disastrous weekend.
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Labor politicians surely shuddered as Anthony Albanese completed his disastrous weekend by starring in the wokest Australia Day ceremony Canberra has held.
The Prime Minister was already under pressure ahead of Sunday’s national citizenship ceremony, with the Resolve poll showing Labor now four points behind Peter Dutton’s Coalition.
Making it worse, he’d let himself be photographed the day before laughing and shaking the hand of former Australian of the Year Grace Tame at the Lodge, as Tame wore a T-shirt with F---Murdoch printed in full.
Here was another example of the culture of hatred and division that’s exploded under Albanese’s leadership.
Albanese now realises many Australians hate this tribalism, so came to Sunday’s ceremony with a speech praising Australia as a nation “where every citizen counts themselves as an equal” and “your hard work matters more than where you came from”.
But the ceremony screamed the opposite – Albanese’s Australia judges you by your tribe.
No fewer than four speakers – including Albanese and Governor-General Sam Mostyn – gave long acknowledgments to the traditional owners.
“Uncle” Warren Daly then gave a welcome to country, telling Australians they shouldn’t enter Canberra without the traditional owners’ permission: “As in the white man’s world, you wouldn’t want your neighbour or total stranger to enter your home or yard without asking permission.”
We’re now “strangers” in our own country?
A verse of the national anthem was sung in an Aboriginal language, and newly-sworn citizens were given a certificate “of official arrival” and “cultural items” by three Aboriginals, one in a T-shirt saying “I see deadly people”.
To make it even woker, an announcer outlined the Governor-General’s activist career – her work on “social justice and gender equity”, “reconciliation” and “environmental sustainability”.
To add to Albanese’s woes, Dutton promoted the Coalition’s most popular politician, Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, to an additional frontline job, targeting government waste.
No-bull Price – of Aboriginal and Celtic ancestry – shows our better past and future: judging Australians by their talents and not their race.
Yes, a horror weekend for Albanese, now the leader Labor cannot afford.
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