Hollow man Albo dumps his hate bill

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There is one great thing we can rely upon when it comes to Albo. His desire to obtain and maintain power is so strong that he will quickly abandon anything that disturbs any significant group of voters. (Apart from the gas cartel, which owns him).

Thankfully, this vacuity of identifiable human values has led Albo the hollow man to dump his hate bill faster than he created it.

Anthony Albanese has dumped plans to criminalise racist hate speech for now, as he tries to salvage at least some of his anti-Semitism laws.

The Prime Minister said he could not guarantee the eradication of anti-Semitism without the hate speech laws that top Jewish bodies have called for, and said it was up to the Coalition to explain why it had blocked them.

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Parliament will still sit on Tuesday to vote on separate bills as part of the legislative response to the Bondi terror attack.

One bill will ban hate groups like Hizb Ut Tahrir and the neo-Nazis, as well give the Home Affairs Minister power to reject the visas of foreign anti-Semites.

The other bill will institute Labor’s $1 billion gun buyback scheme.

Australia has escaped a severe threat from an unworthy man masquerading as a PM. He’s got to go.

Let the irrelevant culture wars resume!

About the author
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.