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Albanese ploys betray Bondi victims

By Stephen Saunders - posted Friday, 30 January 2026


So, what was with the covert repatriation of ISIS brides, fast visas for 3,000 Gazan refugees, Labor's citizenship rush-job before Election 2025, Burke's rare and selective visa-cancellations, the favouring of Palestine demos and "recognition" of Palestine, also government abuse heaped on low-immigration protesters? Never happened, I guess.

Does not Labor get the memo, in Islamism, mass migration tends to support jihad. After Bondi, Labor is keen as ever, to talk up the neo nazi peril. Guys, low immigration would moderate both threats.

From Frydenberg to sport stars, from business leaders to Ley, the virtuous classes still craved that Royal Commission.

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Supposedly, Albanese failed to read the room. Said national chorus, his Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion was a humiliating backdown.

Nah, he read the room. Like COVID before them, the 15 who died were another perverse opportunity, to shore up mass migration. To fake inclusivity and unity, as never before.

Said Australia Day Albo, you the people must be"cohesive". But you can't have relief, from indiscriminate mass migration and the divisiveimmigration/housing crunch.

Immigration is subverting democracy

Albanese swanned around England as a progressive patriot. His policy record says authoritarian, regressive, globalism.

Before and after The Voice referendum, 'twas said only "racists" would reject the proposition. Not by Albo direct, but federal acronyms such as SBS, ABC, ANU, HREOC. His concession speech ignored the gulf between inner-city woke (voting Yes) and ordinary folks (No). Similarly, the snarling attacks on low-migration protesters came from senior ministers, not from him.

Albanese took a loss - on his misnamed Misinformation Bill - but not the under-16s social media ban. Says Bondi's posh-Teal MP Allegra Spender, Australia just needs a Minister for "Social Cohesion". Upper-class insensitivity, at its best.

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Albo's power-play was the omnibus Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill. Chutzpah, coming from a world-fashionably pro-Islam pro-Palestine government.

We'd long had a non-criminal hate offence under 18C of Racial Discrimination Act. This Bill added severe criminal penalties, for vaguely defined racial vilifications, also for ministerially decreed "hate groups" or perpetrators of "hate crimes".

The dodgy vilification (hate speech) clauses exited the eventual legislation. It was still bad law, chilling for dissent. To think, Scott Morrison got panned for his failed Religious Discrimination Bill. Which was far less draconian.

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