Albanese ploys betray Bondi victims

Population growth-rates are matching economic growth-rates, keeping productivity-growth in a 60-year cellar. But Treasury execs emote, for UN net-zero. In their woke budgeting, the fire and flood-wracked continent can never have too much immigration.

Forty million here we come – who needs water – we just need better "planning". Vanishingly few urban "planners" dare say otherwise.

Both under conservative and liberalgovernments, the other Anglophone (Five Eyes security) nations have prudently pausedmass levels of immigration. Australia's world-exceptionalism continues to defy voters. This I call "Democracy 101".

Albanese subverts the Bondi responses

From the start, Albanese lucked on to a Bondi miracle from central casting.

Brave Ahmed al-Ahmed showed, we stood "cohesive". Bondi, as it were, was Not Who We Are. Al-Ahmed quickly became a world media circus.

Having his saint and miracle, Albanese also needed parables and prayers.

Australia has gun controls - when we care to use them – with very low rates of intentional homicide and gun homicide. Yet, Albanese immediately looked-over-there at guns. "No one can justify why this household had so many firearms," intoned Tony Burke. As if, before December 15, we never had central government.

Up until December 14, non-allegiants with extremist affiliations could gain and maintain state licences for multiple inappropriate weapons, under leisurely Mr Magoo forms of scrutiny. As if, diversity and inclusion were licensing criteria.

Albanese's 19 December gun-tactics included a Howard-style gun buyback. The original Port Arthur reformer raised his eyebrows.

At The Guardian, Karen (sorry, Sarah) Martin claimed Howard was "dog-whistling" up a "terrifying" anti-immigration debate. Worse than AI.

By 29 December, Albo was onto security. Dennis Richardson (who else?) would do dentistry on the capacity of ASIO/AFP intelligence to prevent terror.

No matter, that Australia had enacted more than 50 pieces of "anti-terror" legislation in the first decade after 9/11, nearly 40 more, the following decade. In 2019, Richardson had already recommended a revamp of horse-and-buggy-era surveillance powers.