When the history of this miserable, lazy, reckless, and disgusting government is written, two names deserve to stand out in gigantic letters.
The names of two little girls whose deaths this government bears full responsibility for: Matilda and Kumanjayi Little Baby.
Two little girls who were unfortunate to live in a country governed by the modern left and it’s sick and perverted ideology of sanctimonious virtue-signalling compounded by a recklessly stupid green left ideology – what I shall call the left’s sacred ‘isms’ – that prioritises the fantasy woke topics of the chattering classes and the champagne socialists over the hard, dangerous, and precious lives of everyday, real people.
Two little girls whom deserved so much better. Two little girls who did not deserve to die and who would not have died if the Albanese government had heeded the warnings it was given and had acted upon them. Instead, in both instances, these two little girls’ lives were callously and cruelly snatched from them by a pernicious modern evil: the evil of modern leftist morality that prizes left-wing causes and dogma ahead of protecting little girls from pure, genuine, predictable, and resolute evil.
Matilda, god bless her soul and may she rest in peace, was the youngest victim of the horrific Bondi Beach Hannukkah massacre of last December that decimated the lives of untold numbers of families here and abroad and plunged an entire community into a crippling fear and dread which many will never truly escape from. We know the names of the two vile men allegedly responsible for pulling the triggers that led to these killings and to Matilda’s death, but even to this our political leaders still refuse to utter the name of the evil ‘ism’ that fuelled their killing spree – radical Islamism.
They won’t attack radical Islamism because they fear, or by some as attacking Islam itself. And they don’t dare attack Islam or anything to do with Islam because that goes directly against their most precious ideology – multiculturalism.
The interim report released this week from the Royal Commission into the Bondi massacre managed only a handful of mentions of Islam, but zero mentions of radical Islam. How can you have a report into a vicious antisemitic attack allegedly carried out by two radical Islamists without mentioning ‘radical Islam’?
Instead, the interim report mentions ‘guns’ and two references to the idiotic and fabricated noun ‘Islamophobia’, a word which simply means ‘fear of Islam’…
Hello? Anyone out there afraid of Islam? Just asking. I bet Matilda would be if she were still with us.
Speaking of which: Sweden, apparently, has just banned the term ‘Islamophobia’. Bravo. But I digress.
The chief point here is that there were ample warnings which were studiously and repeatedly ignored by the Albanese government. They were repeatedly warned by intelligence agencies, by all sorts of groups, and individuals from within the Australian Jewish community, by visitors from overseas and by so many commentators – predominantly in The Spectator Australia and on Sky News Australia, I might add – that bloodshed or a pogrom against Jewish Australians would occur unless radical Islam was confronted directly by the authorities and unless the endless Jew hatred and hate marches were curtailed in this country.
The Spectator Australia ran a front cover the week of October 9, 2023, following the vile and shameful radical Islamist hate march at the Sydney opera House literally calling it the Pogrom at the Opera.
Cover by Sarah Dudley, illustration by Ben Davis
And there could not be a more accurate description. Pogroms in Europe always began with angry crowds gathering in the darkness yelling ‘Where’s the Jews?’ Yet our idiotic NSW Police thought that that phrase was somehow an acceptable one and preferable to Gas the Jews. What a sick joke.
But nothing was done about that hate march, and nothing was done about all the other hate marches, and nothing was done – indeed, many MPs participated in it – in stopping the vile and despicable hate march across Sydney Harbour Bridge last August. Opera House… Harbour Bridge… What on Earth could come next? Beats me. I can’t think of any other iconic Sydney landmarks to desecrate, can you?
Meanwhile, this government was doing plenty to support or arguably encourage the ideological belief incentives behind radical Islamism – Albanese recognising Palestine, endlessly criticising Israel and Netanyahu, Tony Burke inviting thousands of Gazans to come to our shores, not to mention the ongoing fiasco around the Isis brides, Penny Wong refusing to visit the site of October 7 – on and on it went, a nod here, a wink there, to the forces that lurk behind what we politely call radical Islam.
Labor’s number one priority, it would seem, has been to pander to the Islamic vote in the name of the touchy feelyideology of ‘multiculturalism’. Matilda, a ten-year-old girl, born of immigrant parents ironically, was, in my opinion, sacrificed on the altar of Labor’s precious pro-Islamic multiculturalism.
And then there’s Sharon, also known as Kumanjayi Little Baby. A five-year-old Australian girl. Murdered last week in the most horrific crime. Again, the alleged killer awaits trial. But Labor’s precious ‘isms’ that permitted and probably even determined this horrific murder are again plain for all to see.
Above all, so-called ‘anti-racism’, the idea that it is racist to demand the same of Indigenous Australians as we do of non-Indigenous Australians. A sick and perverted ideology born of cultural Marxism, another leftist ‘isms’, and the leftwing belief that purely Indigenous communities, such as the town camps and homelands, are somehow acceptable or even preferable and beyond criticism because they are collectivist and run along ‘anti-capitalist’ lines and all that they need is more and more subsidies to fund them. Which is born of separatism; the leftwing belief that Indigenous communities can remain separate, rather than assimilating and integrating into the mainstream – you even had Nugget Coombs preposterously claiming that an Indigenous or even stone-age ‘economy’ would happily merge with a modern economy if left to its own devices, or some such nonsense. Anti-colonialism. The idea that white people intervening in Aboriginal dysfunctional communities is somehow a repeat of colonial oppression and in particular that taking young boys and girls out of such dangerous environments is somehow a repeat of the so-called ‘stolen generations’.
And the worst, by far the worst, ‘ism’ of all. Fear of being accused of racism, whereby any criticism of or intervention to prevent the wrongdoings of black male Australians or culture is withheld or prevented for fear of it being seen as ‘racist’. In my opinion, precisely the same leftwing mentality that refused to tackle the grooming gangs of the UK for fear of being labelled ‘racist’ is what condemned Sharon to her ghastly fate. A refusal to acknowledge how bad things really are for fear of being labelled racist.
White left-wing authorities, including the Albanese government, have had ample warnings – again, by so many commentators on Sky News Australia and in the pages of The Spectator Australia, by Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, by Warren Mundine, by Anthony Dillon, by Mal Brough, by Adam Giles, by so many caring and concerned Australians – so many warnings about the abuse of women and children in these town camps and in hellish remote indigenous communities, the drug abuse, the pornography, the alcohol, the domestic violence, the cruel and callous despotism endemic in many remote communities, in many of the homelands and outstations, so many warnings – but this government has done nothing to stop it because that would be, in their demented way of thinking, ‘racist’ to do so. Above all, it would be an admission that the collectivist, socialist policies going right back to Gough Whitlam and Nugget Coombes have been an unmitigated disaster for Aboriginal Australians. Remember Howard’s intervention? They cried racism!
Instead, we get ridiculous, costly, and meaningless welcome to countries paraded at football matches, and nonsensical mantras about leaders past present and emerging. Tell me, which past leader, or present leader, or emerging leader, will take the blame or responsibility for the brutal murder of Kumanjayi Little baby? Any takers?
And the ABC? Where have they been? I’m sorry but I struggle to recall all those in-depth TV programs lamenting the dysfunction and corruption within the Indigenous leadership of Indigenous Australian communities.
I forgot, it’s all ‘colonialism’s’ fault… If we ‘decolonise’ Australia everything will be just fine and dandy, apparently.
But the fantasy world that our Canberra elites think Aboriginal Australians actually live in, with all its symbolism and tradition, was on full display only just over a month ago when the head of the EU Ursula van der Leyen visited our Governor-General and was welcomed on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour with a ludicrous and embarrassing performance that required the head of the EU and our Governor-General to stand twirling themselves around a bucket of smoke.
Words fail me.
And the Coalition? Yes, they have tried – I mentioned Howard’s intervention – and to his credit Tony Abbott took the entire Cabinet into a remote community every year, but Turnbull then axed that. Of course, Senator Price has done a great job attempting to open the eyes of Canberra to what is really going on, and was supported by Peter Dutton in those efforts. But there was little appetite from Turnbull or Morrison to seriously step in and get to the root of the problem.
The Albanese government has been a disgrace. Albanese and his crew talk the talk of Garma every year, a kind of Aboriginal Disneyland for white Indigenous fantasies, and they all mouth the platitudes of Reconciliation as they breathe in deep the eucalyptus smoke of Welcome to Country ceremonies.
But tackle the town camps? Stop the chronic corruption, the black-on-black violence, the crime and the dysfunction?
Nope. The Labor lefties won’t have a bar of that. It’s ‘racist’ you see.
Instead, just bang on about Treaties and a Voice and truth-telling and all the fantasies of the pampered, often predominantly white, modern Indigenous activist class. Above all, keep the taxpayer funds rolling in by the billions into the deep pockets of the activist elites and the huge industry built up around so-called ‘Recognition’.
We have two little Australian girls, Matilda and Kumanjayi Little Baby, neither of whom should ever have died. The danger both girls faced was warned about repeatedly, here on this magazine, and in Parliament and in the conservative media, for years. Time and time and time again.
May both girls rest in peace, and may their families find it in their hearts to forgive this nation. But nothing, nothing will ever forgive the chronic neglect and the vacuous, stupid left-wing ideologies and ‘isms’ that led to their deaths.
