When it comes to Aboriginal affairs and “closing the gap”, the biggest gap is that between the left’s words and their deeds.
For all the Albanese government’s posturing and pontificating about “First Nations” and “closing the gap”, which culminated in the “Voice” referendum, their commitment to actually doing anything is notably absent. When the Aboriginal youth crime anarchy in Darwin became a public scandal, PM Anthony Albanese barely deigned to fit in a flying visit to Darwin for a single afternoon, somewhere between drinks at the Lodge and scarfing up free VIP seats at the Australian Open.
Even Albanese’s token cabinet Aborigine, Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy, is long on words, but very, very short on actions. Yet again the deplorable condition of Aboriginal children in increasingly dysfunctional communities has become a national scandal. In Western Australia, the shocking condition of Aboriginal children in ‘care’ is nothing short of scandalous.
‘Not our problem’, says the Albanese government. ‘Airbus Albo’ has all the time in the world to jet off to New York to get his belly rubbed by the globalist elite, but neither he nor his indigenous Australians minister can be arsed making the short hop over to WA. Albanese is parading a tourist-brochure version of ‘indigenous culture’ in New York (bringing to mind Barry Humphries’ old jibe about “Sober up a few Abos, put ’em on stage: ’ave a corroboree!”), but is pointedly avoiding having to confront the grim reality of actual indigenous culture for too many Aboriginal children.
Our intrepid leader, currently swan-diving into the plush waters of international grandstanding in New York to pitch for a coveted UN Security Council seat, found himself entirely allergic to ministerial accountability. When pressed regarding the harrowing child protection failures in Western Australia, where vulnerable indigenous children have suffered unspeakable neglect, the prime minister airily waved away the carnage:
“We’re not about to intervene against the Western Australian government,” Mr Albanese said. “This is a Western Australian issue.”
How convenient. When it comes to lecturing everyday Australians or meddling in local affairs, the Commonwealth is a roaring lion; when actual children are imperilled under state watch, our prime minister transforms instantly into a mute spectator. Not content with merely handballing the crisis, His Aloofness offered an absolute untruth regarding international oversight:
“It hasn’t been raised with me by the UN at all and … state governments have a responsibility for child protection,” he said.
This is a falsehood of staggering proportions. Only months prior, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination explicitly expressed public alarm over the appalling overrepresentation of indigenous youngsters within the justice system. Yet according to our globe-trotting premier, it is as though the United Nations has maintained a Trappist silence.
The hypocrisy reaches dizzying heights when contrasted with the prime minister’s domestic obsessions. While he refuses to lift a finger for neglected indigenous youth, he spent his American sojourn blatherskiting endlessly about “keeping children safe online” – a transparent legislative euphemism designed to institute bureaucratic snooping over adult citizens’ internet usage. The man who cannot be bothered to convene a genuine emergency response for children suffering in the Pilbara has boundless energy for digital censorship regimes.
The climax of this globalist comedy tour occurred at Apple headquarters, where our beaming leader posed for photographs alongside tech royalty:
We all have a responsibility to make the online world safer for our kids. It’s a belief @tim_cook and I share. Today at Apple HQ, we spoke about what we’re doing to protect children from online harm and the work ahead.
Australians can only be left breathless by the sheer gall. Here is the Australian prime minister earnestly exchanging pleasantries with the chief executive of a trillion-dollar corporate titan whose manufacturing supply chains have faced repeated scrutiny regarding forced labour practices involving Uyghur populations in China. Apparently, safeguarding children only matters when it can be weaponized to control domestic internet traffic or secure a glossy photo-op in Silicon Valley. The bruised and neglected Aboriginal children of regional Australia, much like the exploited youth in Xinjiang’s gulag archipelago, are treated as inconvenient backdrop props for an ego trip.
If Australia’s UN Security Council bid, marketed under the empty slogan We listen. We Partner. We Protect, achieves nothing else, it serves as a monument to Abanese’s political chicanery and staggering duplicity. Mr Albanese jets across oceans seeking prestige among foreign bureaucrats while Aboriginal children are left to wallow in misery.
