Even after a radical ‘pro-Palestine’ leftist tried to assassinate an Australian politician, the media-political class continues to try and distract Australians’ attention. Independent journalist Avi Yemini has posted that, after listening to the ABC for a full day (I guess someone has to take one for the team), the would-be killer’s anti-Israel and extreme environmental ideology didn’t get a single mention. Instead, if the ABC are to be believed, it woz Andrew Tate wot made ’im dunnit: the narrative fix is ‘toxic masculinity’.
On the other hand, Australian voters know what’s up.
The latest News24.com.au Pulse/YouGov poll, conducted October 13–20, found 79 per cent of Australians held at least some concern about radical Islamic extremism.
That included 62 per cent of voters who said the issue represents a “growing concern for national security and social cohesion”.
They aren’t buying the stale, shop-soiled drivel being peddled by the taxpayer-funded propagandists at Ultimo. While the chattering classes are busy hyperventilating over the imagined bogeymen of the ‘manosphere’, the silent majority is looking out the window at the rapid disintegration of the social fabric. And they are, quite rightly, terrified.
This is not a fringe sentiment: it is a profound, widespread consensus that has crystallised in the wake of the December 14, 2025, Bondi Beach massacre. While Prime Minister Anthony Albanese engages in his customary ritual of deflection – rushing to announce an ‘Islamophobia envoy’ and shovelling taxpayer millions into the pockets of various ‘multicultural’ groups to combat the supposed plague of hurt feelings – the average Australian is staring at a national security landscape that has descended into a state of ‘probable’ threat.
We are, to put it plainly, living under the shadow of catastrophe. The recent attempt by an Omani co-pilot, purportedly radicalised during his time studying in the comfortable, safe confines of Melbourne, to hijack a Flydubai flight and crash it into Tel Aviv is not an isolated anomaly. It is a symptom of a malaise that this government is too weak, and perhaps too ideologically compromised, to treat.
While the Australian Federal Police continue their enquiries into the web of connections surrounding the MyCentre organisation and its ‘colourful’ leader, Samir Mohtadi, who has stridently rejected the suggestion that the accused pilot spent time at his establishment, the public is connecting the dots that the political class refuses to acknowledge.
Among One Nation voters, 85 per cent said radical Islamic extremism was a growing concern, followed by 75 per cent of coalition voters. The “growing concern” figure fell to 48 per cent among Labor voters and 28 per cent among Greens voters.
It is a fascinating study in cognitive dissonance. The further one travels towards the loony left of the political spectrum, the more the reality of Islamist militancy seems to evaporate, replaced by a fantastical preoccupation with right-wing extremists who exist primarily in the fever dreams of inner-city academics. Meanwhile, the actual, documented, real-world carnage continues. We have seen, as Pauline Hanson has repeatedly pointed out, a government that seems more intent on facilitating the return of alleged ISIS fighters and their families than it is on securing the nation against those who wish to see it burn.
The concern is not limited to the cities. In our rural heartlands, where the illusion of multicultural harmony is less easily sustained by the bland PR of corporate newsrooms, 67 per cent of respondents identified extremism as a growing, urgent threat. They see the degradation, they see the funding of institutions that view our civilisational values with undisguised contempt and they see the prime minister washing his hands of responsibility while the threat ‘festers’ in our Western Sydney suburbs.
The data is clear. The public has moved on from the government’s tired, performative ‘cohesion’ rhetoric. They are no longer interested in being lectured about ‘Islamophobia’ while they watch their national security and social order be systematically dismantled by a regime that fears losing a few marginal seats in Western Sydney more than it fears the next terrorist atrocity. When 79 per cent of the electorate expresses concern, the political class is no longer dealing with a fringe issue: they are dealing with a total collapse of public trust.
Frankly, looking at the state of this nation, one can hardly blame them.
