Perhaps we can be grateful that Australia’s capital city and its national interest policy process are so far gone from sense that no legislation is any longer possible.
Thus, the response to the horror of the Bondi massacre appears to be melting down faster even than it was ill-conceived.
Having allowed himself to be bullied into a Royal Commission, Anthony Albanese appears unaware that this was his best chance to build community support for government action in whatever form it took.
It is not obvious how he could be unaware of this basic political principle. Politics 101 is to persuade the community first.
Perhaps he was pressured by others to act too early on his hate laws. Probably. He is the political “yes man” after all, dedicated to votes from all, no matter the national interest cost.
The opposition is not doing much better. Having stoked the hysteria to bring parliament back early, it is now using every trick in the book to undermine and confuse any kind of response, including offering its own version of hate laws.
Even some Jewish groups are now retreating from Albo’s hatefest. Parts of the MSM are waking from their suicidal slumber.
Most importantly, the Greens have ruled out any quick deal with the government unless it outlaws hate altogether, as if that were even possible.
The party’s deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi confirmed the minor party would not be supporting the government’s proposed hate speech laws, claiming it undermined “political, civil and human rights”.
“This bill is broad, it is vast, and it is really complex. And we need to make sure that it is scrutinised and we do our due diligence on this bill,” she said.
“Our society should be one that rejects hatred and racism in all its forms. Whether it is a queer person who is attacked for who they love, if it’s a Muslim woman in a hijab, or a Jewish man in his kippah, or a trans person for their gender identity.”
Not to mention those who resist the lies of a political class that sells the benefits of mass immigration and gender mobility while hiding the destructive externalities.
Ironically, the vast majority of Australians are worried about the dehousing of youth, weak wage growth, eroding public services, crime waves, and falling living standards. Notably so on behalf of local children of all colour and creed.
That vast majority should not be hated, either, and the elite action of doing so is pushing swathes behind One Nation in droves to fight it
Pauline Hanson has demanded a ‘please explain’ over Anthony Albanese’s crackdown on hate speech insisting it will strip Australians of their freedom of speech.
Warning the laws could be weaponised against ordinary Australians, the One Nation leader has warned it could make calls to ban the burqa an offence.
“This is no doubt another one of those bills, but worse. Australians will be stripped of their freedom of speech, opinion and ability to express the pride they have in their culture and nationality,’’ she said.
…“Look at what’s happened to a councillor in Britain for saying she was ‘born and bred’ there. It is up to you to fight back and send in a submission opposing this legislation, or accept it and live with the consequences.
For now, perhaps, the nation has dodged a totalitarian bullet as Canberra melts down into a pool of self-interested sludge.
We remain vigilant.
