While Australians are distracted by everything from Donald Trump fascism to a handful of Melbourne neo-Nazis, local democracy is in far greater peril as it lurches the other way.
As “Beijing Bob” Carr and “Manchurian Dan” Andrews head to Beijing to warmonger with their Beijing masters, John Bolton took time out of his days of persecution to write at the AFR.
China’s real political objectives here certainly involve marking Japan’s 1945 defeat, but even that goal embodies a heavily slanted view of what actually led to victory. Scholars and political leaders have widely diverging views on how the respective Chinese combatants actually waged their side of the Sino-Japanese war, which effectively started World War II in the Pacific region. We can be sure that this week’s events will attribute China’s share of victory to Mao Tse-tung and the Communist Party, essentially ignoring the role played by China’s legitimate government under Chiang Kai-shek.
I acknowledge that this is a much-debated issue, but the weight of history suggests that Chiang’s Nationalist forces, inept and corrupt as they may have been, bore the brunt of main-force fighting – and the attendant casualties and destruction – against Japan. Communist efforts, by contrast, were largely guerilla actions against the Japanese, as often as not aimed at enhancing Communist efforts in the civil war with the Nationalists, after defeating Japan.
It all adds to the drip, drip, drip of Albo’s gaslighting of the Americans. More at The Australian.
Foreign policy experts have warned Mr Andrews, who has stayed silent on his attendance, and Mr Carr, who confirmed his travel plans, that they risk becoming “organs of the Chinese propaganda machine”.
More still at The Australian.
Jacinta Allan will lead one of the biggest delegations of Victorian Labor MPs to ever visit China with a junior minister and four backbenchers joining the Premier for her historic trip to the communist giant.
The Labor MPs represent electorates with large numbers of Chinese voters in suburbs like Chadstone, Mount Waverley, Glen Waverley, Ashwood, Clayton South and Vermont South and the taxpayer-funded mission is a major political play to consolidate support among Chinese-Australian voters heading into the 2026 Victorian election.
This is highly damaging to the national interest. It feeds CCP propaganda and alienates Washington even more, not to mention undermining democracy.
But let’s face it, this is part of a strong Labor pattern. So much so that it is difficult to conclude anything other than Labor is engaged in a highly destructive pincer move against Australian freedom.
Consider.
On one hand, Labor is running Chinese immigration at record levels to build out more electorates with ethnic Chinese voters that are alienated from the LNP. To placate them, it is deploying Beijing’s 14 conditions of silence to guarantee that no politician can adopt any hawkish policy regarding China, wedging the liberal LNP even further from power. This gerrymandering is intensified by Indian migration, which is also strongly Labor voting.
On the other hand, it has Sinophile Kevin Rudd bent over and offering a permanent brown eye to Washington while refusing to increase defence spending as Albo apes CCP propaganda, wedging ANZUS.
The Labor pivot to China is increasingly ribald, even as Beijing becomes more violent and assertive towards Australia, recently running nuclear-capable missile drills off Canberra.
Why on earth would our capital choose to weaken American ties and limit its scope of movement regarding Chinese foreign and strategic policy, as well as soften local defence capability, just as the Chinese navy moves into the Tasman Sea for the first time in history?
Because Labor has gotten the message of Chinese gunboat diplomacy. It has been told to pivot at the point of a the CCP cannon, and, rather than defend the national interest, it is collapsing into self-interest because it knows that only Labor can govern a Chinese satrapy Downunder.
To wit, the ALP is behaving more and more like its Beijing master, banning media it dislikes, censoring words it dislikes, and now, making the business of government beyond reproach even as it centralises our lives.
For now, Albo’s Chinese satrapy only “cancels” free-thinking people, but, in the longer run, it will send them to re-education camps in the Pilbara for pro-immigration training or organ harvesting, according to the SMH.
Labor is hiding information from the public more often than the Morrison government despite campaigning on a platform of integrity, frustrating a critical accountability mechanism intended to maintain faith in bureaucrats and keep politicians honest.
Analysis by the Centre for Public Integrity shows Canberra’s culture of secrecy has sunk to its worst point in more than a decade, with the proportion of freedom of information requests released in full plunging from almost half in 2021-22 to just 25 per cent under Labor in 2023-24.
Labor is also trying to thwart FOI requests:
And on Wednesday, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland will introduce a bill to force Australians to pay for access to federal government documents, which opposition leader Sussan Ley labelled a “truth tax” and the biggest attack on FOI in 15 years.
“It’s not an accident because FOI requests have already exposed uncomfortable truths,” Ley said in a social media post. “Secrecy is not strength, it is the refuge of weak governments. Australians should never have to pay for the truth.”
A few more years of Albo and The Guardian cheerleaders, and there will be no going back to democracy.
