You have to hand it to the Labor Party… Last week they scaled previously unexplored heights of hypocrisy.

Senator Penny Wong, who was not born in Australia, attempted to lecture Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, a part-Aboriginal woman, about the recent adoption of modern ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremonies and the public backlash to them, mostly from people who were born in Australia but happen to be of colonial heritage.

The conversation began when Senator Pauline Hanson and her three accompanying Senators turned their backs in a silent protest against one of the many ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremonies that took place.

For those who don’t play identity politics, everyone in this conversation is Australian. End of story.

However, in the Left’s new world of identity politics, there is a hierarchy of privilege based on a complex interaction between race and adherence to progressive ideology which is amplified or cancelled out depending on your victimhood status.

Senator Price is a conservative woman of Aboriginal heritage who believes in equality rather than Marxist equity, and so when she stands and speaks in Parliament about the offensive nature of politicising a group of people based upon their race, Labor feels the need to scorn her for it.

To the rest of us, the sane Australians who continue to believe in the lessons of the Enlightenment, Senator Price is the Leader of the Opposition in spirit, if not in reality.

She said:

‘What concerns me as an Indigenous Australian, as a Member of this Parliament, is the ideological way in which Indigenous Australians are objectified, and I mean in such a way that we are used as a political token for political point scoring … the idea of Welcome to Country has become exactly that. And what we do need to recognise, and it is important for all of us as leaders of this nation to recognise, the reinvention of culture which diminishes traditional culture.

‘… as a woman of Indigenous heritage, but first and foremost as an Australian, I am absolutely done with the virtue signalling that takes place.

‘I am of the belief that it is not necessary to have an acknowledgment because we are all Australians.

‘… First Nations isn’t even an Australian terminology, for crying out loud! It has been adopted from Canada, from America. It is just a reinvention that is actually belittling and watering down traditional culture.

‘… if you speak up against it, if you mention it, you are painted as a racist … imagine if we treated every single racial group in this manner in this country. It is horrendous. And it begins with the virtue signalling. The politicisation of a group of people in this country because of our racial heritage. And I am sick to death of it.’

She went on to say that she was proud of her heritage, her whole heritage, and that all Australians should be proud.

The descendants of convicts and free settlers are allowed to be proud?

That is not the message the Labor-led Parliament wants to put out because guilt is the oil that keeps identity politics moving.

After a long and nauseating lecture, Senator Wong unwisely said in reply, ‘I would hope that the Opposition would reflect on the words of their own leader in relation to Welcome to Country.’

I don’t know if you laughed, but I did.

Linking ‘Welcome to Country’ to Sussan Ley is an interesting choice, given they hold roughly the same level public support outside the self-congratulatory bubble of Canberra. It is doubtful many Australians know Ley’s position on the matter, or care, for that matter. They are far more interested in what Senator Price has to say.

‘Decency and respect cost us nothing,’ added Senator Wong.

To which Australians might remind the Foreign Minister that the children of Australia are fed up with Marxist performance art masquerading as culture making Australians feel unwelcome in their own nation.

And they would quite like Senator Wong to criticise the Members of Parliament who shout awful things such as, ‘Pay the rent!’ in the face of Australians.

Senator Michaelia Cash was quite right to scream across the floor in Senator Wong’s direction:

‘I suggest you read the story of Bess Price before you ever come in here and cast aspersions or tell us, Senator Wong, to respect other words.’

She added:

‘I will stand by and respect Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price who, every day, has lived and breathed reconciliation in this country. Her father is white; her mother is black. So please, do not ever come into this place again and pontificate to us.’

Senator Wong absolutely deserved the outrage directed at her, given the insufferable manner in which her vile comments were delivered.

The speech that Senator Price gave was one that demonstrated genuine virtue, rather than the hollow virtue signalling woven into the fabric of Labor which preaches unity while slapping Australians of colonial descent in the face with blood guilt – demanding they cough up land and money while heading to the back of the queue for jobs.

The establishment of state treaties are themselves a betrayal of the Voice to Parliament referendum in which the majority of the nation told the Labor Party to cease and desist with its exploitation of race politics.

If Senator Wong wishes to ‘build a sense of unity’, as she claims, she should tear strips off the state Labor governments for outrageous racial policy that will see, when complete, families on the same street treated differently at state and council level in everything from taxes to land rights.

So yes, the people of Australia supported Pauline Hanson and the One Nation Senators who turned their backs on ‘Welcome to Country’.

And they certainly support Senators Price and Cash for the value they add to what’s left of our democracy under the brutal regime of Labor and the Greens.