Judge Labor Collabos by Their Actions

We should always judge people by their actions, not their words. Especially Labor politicians.

Anthony Albanese can pontificate all he wants about ‘civility’ following the attempted murder of independent MP Helen Haines, but his actions speak louder. For weeks, Albanese’s own office was circulating a scurrilous and unfounded dirt sheet on Haines. All because she dared to criticise Albanese’s blatant pork-barrelling, to the tune of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, in the ‘Sports Rorts 2.0’ scandal.

Judge his actions, not his words.

The Albanese government can babble all they want about “generational equity” and the grotesque distortion of the housing market, but their actions speak louder. Not only is this a government made up almost entirely of multimillionaire property investors, but their much-touted tax changes around negative gearing and capital gains carefully siloed their own fortunes. Even worse, their idiotic ‘reforms’ have made rents dearer, mortgages for young Australians even harder to attain and plunged many recent young homebuyers into negative equity.

Judge their actions, not their words.

Labor bang on endlessly about ‘indigenous’ this and ‘First Nations’ that, to the point of trying to impose a constitutional amendment that would have turned Australia into an apartheid state. But, when a delegation of Aboriginal women travelled to Canberra to raise awareness about violence in Aboriginal communities, not a single Labor MP turned up to listen. Labor overturned restrictions on using welfare to purchase alcohol. In Labor-run WA, Aboriginal children are raped and murdered under the eye of state watchdogs and the Albanese government washed its hands of any responsibility.

Judge their actions, not their words.

But, when it comes to China, that’s when we really get to judge Labor harshly. Very harshly.

Former Labor elders sit on the boards of CCP-run corporations and mouth Beijing’s propaganda. Former Labor MP Daniel Andrews proudly posed for group photos with Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un.

In fact, when it comes to currying favour with a murderous communist dictatorship, Labor spares nothing.

Last month, Speaker of the House Milton Dick (a Labor MP) led a parliamentary delegation to Beijing. It was billed as bipartisan, but it wasn’t a 50:50 thing. Among the six Australian politicians, two were from the coalition: Nationals deputy leader Darren Chester and West Australian Liberal Melissa Price. The other four were from Labor – and weren’t they well chosen?

Indeed, the curation of this ‘delegation’ was about as subtle as a struggle session. Labor didn’t just send representatives: they stacked the deck with members whose electorates are teeming with the very demographics they hope will reward their sycophancy with electoral longevity. It is a cynical, transparent tactic. One wonders if the photos taken in front of the Communist Party’s International Department will feature prominently in the campaign brochures of Sam Lim, Carina Garland and Sally Sitou. Given that some of these worthies have already made the pilgrimage to Beijing once before, one suspects they are carving out a career as the local branch office of the CCP’s fan club.

Contrast this performative prostration before the red dragon with the treatment afforded to Taipei. When it came time to visit our democratic friends in Taiwan, the Labor benches suddenly resembled a ghost town.

The five-person delegation contained only a single Labor politician: Richard Dowling, a senator from Tasmania. Margin Call has been told that, until weeks before the trip, some friends of Taiwan feared there wouldn’t be a single representative from the Labor parliamentary team (which numbers 124 people).

One Labor backbencher had the gall to suggest they avoid Taiwan because of some sudden, newfound adherence to ‘official’ travel protocols. A touching sentiment, truly: if only it weren’t such a transparent falsehood. The man currently occupying the Lodge, Anthony Albanese himself, found no such protocol barrier when he trotted off to Taiwan back in 2018. But that was before he was King of the Canberra swamp, before he needed the approval of his party’s Sinophile faction to keep his throne.

It’s a sordid affair. When the CCP beckons, the Labor machine kowtows with alacrity, deploying its finest political operators to ensure the optics are just right for the comrades in Beijing. But when it comes to standing alongside a genuine liberal democracy in the crosshairs of an expansionist regime, they are nowhere to be found.

Judge their actions, not their words. Their actions tell us exactly who they serve – and it isn’t the Australian people.