So far, it’s only Australians and a few close allies that have had to witness the sheer buffoonery and incompetence of the worst government in our history. But all that changed this week, when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen took their undergraduate socialist clown show onto the world stage.

The recognition of Palestine was the main act. Emboldened by being in the same circus tent as fellow hard-core lefties Emmanuel Macron, Mark Carney and Keir Starmer, Anthony Albanese got to fulfil the dream he had harboured in his small mind from the day he stood, megaphone in hand and suitably attired in appropriate tea towel, denigrating and demonising Israel at a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney only months before the beginning of the murderous second intifada. (The Australian teenage girl Malki Roth was murdered at a birthday party in a Tel Aviv pizza parlour by Palestinian terrorists during that intifada.)

Mr Albanese’s speech was as callous as it was shallow, mouthing empty platitudes of appeasement towards Israel to supposedly justify handing the butchers of Hamas an unbridled propaganda victory. Australian Jewish community groups have all universally slammed this idiotic action by the Albanese government, and rightly so. From the moment they took office, Labor and Ms Wong have gone out of their way to pander to the Muslim vote by insulting and distancing us from Israel whilst failing to provide any serious condemnation of the antisemitism that has plagued Australia since that sinister night on the steps of the Sydney Opera House of 9 October, 2023.

Worse, Mr Albanese showed himself to either be the most cynical leader in the southern hemisphere or one of the most gullible and naive leaders in the world with his ludicrous suggestion that somehow Australia could play a role in bringing peace to the Middle East via commitments given to him by Palestinian President Abbas. How China must be chortling.

Even worse (yes, it did keep getting worse), Mr Albanese, or more likely his speech writers, tried to draw a parallel with the role former Labor leader ‘Doc’ H.V. Evatt played in the foundation of the state of Israel and his own supposed role in bringing about a ‘state’ of Palestine. The grotesque ghoulishness of this comparison is simply breathtaking.

The tragedy of Labor’s approach is that by offering a glittering propaganda reward, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority will have drawn the only logical conclusion: weak left-wing Western leaders will always cower in the face of terrorism. The bloodier the better.

President Donald Trump made it extremely clear that his administration views this phoney Palestinian recognition with nothing but disdain and contempt. Once a trusted ally and friend, it is clear – and completely understandable – that America now views our government as foolish, untrustworthy, unreliable and unserious.

Labor has not only deeply offended Israel, Labor has also grovelled to China. Labor is flirting with extremely serious infringements on free speech which will be, again, anathema to the Trump administration. Labor is refusing to suitably increase our defence budget and treating Aukus with barely disguised disinterest. The list goes on.

But the Albanese-Wong double act was nothing compared to the sheer idiocy of the Bowen bandwagon which also rolled into New York. Only hours before Mr Trump made his devastating denouncement of the entire climate change hoax, there was Mr Bowen on the world stage performing his preposterous pea-and-thimble trick on renewables, selling his climate con job like some Coney Island side alley charlatan. Needless to say, Mr Bowen had to fall back on his now familiar cry of ‘climate denier!’ to somehow justify the wholesale destruction of this country’s future prosperity and energy requirements.

So much for Australia’s great week on the world stage! Back home, there were, finally, signs that the Coalition might just be starting to wake from its post-election slumber. Perhaps (hopefully!) energised by our cover and cover story last week, the Coalition decided to finally step up and do the thing they are supposed to do: oppose Labor. It was a significant and welcome statement from Ms Ley that the Coalition in office would reverse the recognition of Palestine. (Given that Ms Ley was herself once closely associated with pro-Palestinian parliamentary politics, this was doubly significant.) Amusingly, Ms Wong accused Ms Ley of ‘running a rogue foreign policy’, whereas of course that is the perfect description of what we have seen from Labor for the last three-and-a-half years.