Labor Shows Where Their True Loyalties Lie

With polls pointing to a minority government emerging from the Australian election, where the major parties direct their preferences is coming under scrutiny as never before. For the coalition, that means especially Pauline Hanson’s One Nation; for Labor, the Greens.

The Greens’ mask of nutty-but-harmless environmentalism has always been a lie, but 2024 ripped the mask off for all to see. The party lurched to the Stalinist left decades ago. Under leader Adam Bandt, it has got worse. As a student, after all, Bandt openly advocated that Marxists like himself join the Greens and take it over from within.

But, from the moment the news of October 7 broke to the world, the Greens have shown their true face as something even worse. When a Muslim stormed the Sydney Opera House, chanting, “Gas the Jews!”, the Greens marched proudly right alongside them. When anti-Semitic leftists carry placards demanding to “cleanse the world” of Jews – senior Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi happily posed for a selfie with them.

Over and over, for the past 18 months, the Greens have made their anti-Semitic hatred loud and clear.

So, why are ostensibly pro-Israel, Jewish even, Labor MPs siding with them?

The nation’s peak Jewish body has questioned how an eminent Jewish Australian like Mark Dreyfus could commit to a vote-swapping deal with the Greens, condemning the Labor Attorney-General’s pact with the anti-Israel party as “disappointing” and ­“difficult to comprehend”.

It’s not as if Dreyfus needs the Greens preferences: he holds one of the safest Labor seats with a wide buffer of 9.5 per cent. Dreyfus has openly criticised the Greens for violent anti-Jewish protests and for siding with Hamas.

Even worse, Labor are resorting to sly trickery in order to deceive their own voters.

The how-to-vote card only states [Matthew Kirwan] and the other candidates’ names and does not mention their parties.

Dreyfus is not the only Labor MP saying one thing and doing another.

No one’s cuddled up to the Jews quite like Labor MP Matt Thistlethwaite, which is why we keep seeing him jump at every opportunity to shake hands or stand solemnly at a photo call with the community’s biggest machers […]

When he’s not railing against the recrudescence of anti-Semitism he’s giving longwinded interviews belabouring every tired talking point of how the government really, truly, hasn’t abandoned the Jewish community, even though it really, truly has, and did for many, many months, starting with the insanity of ­telling Jews to stay out of the Sydney CBD on October 9, 2023 for their own safety, while a thuggish mob corralled outside the Opera House threatening ­violence.

When push comes to electoral shove, though, Thistlethwaite, like the rest of the ALP, shows where his allegiances truly lie.

Thistlethwaite’s how-to-vote cards order Labor voters to preference the Greens first.

Yes, the Greens, who effectively reject Israel’s existence; who walked out of parliament chanting “Free, free Palestine” when Labor tried to pass a solidarity motion with Israel in the days after the October 7 attacks; who were accused by Foreign Minister Penny Wong of collaborating with violent pro-Palestine demonstrators; who were similarly accused by Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus of inciting attacks on political offices; and whose deputy leader, Mehreen Faruqi, can’t bring herself to say whether terrorist group Hamas should be dismantled or not.

Even more than Dreyfus, Thistlethwaite has no excuse: his seat is even safer than the attorney-general’s, with a 13.3 per cent margin.

Across the board, Labor are jumping into bed with the anti-Semitic Greens.

Labor has struck vote-swapping deals with anti-Israel Greens candidates who claim “Zionism is on the side of Nazis” and that the Hamas attacks must be viewed in context, despite Anthony Albanese’s claims that he wouldn’t negotiate with the far-left party in the event of a hung parliament.

A majority of Labor MPs, including Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus, have formed preference pacts with Greens candidates in an effort to maintain majority government.

Education Minister Jason Clare has instructed his supporters to put controversial Greens candidate Omar Sakr second on their ballot sheet in an effort to stave off a potent Muslim Vote-backed challenge in his western Sydney seat of Blaxland […]

In the marginal Victorian seat of Bruce, Labor assistant minister Julian Hill directed his voters to preference Monash University academic and former local councillor Rhonda Garad who previously stated that Hamas’ terrorist attacks needed to be viewed with “the broader context”.

To damn them with faint praise, just two Labor MPs are running on an open ticket: not preferencing the Greens, but not putting them last – as the coalition is – either.

On the conservative side, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation are threatening to split the conservative vote, by refusing to reciprocate the coalition’s decision to preference One Nation in a raft of seats.

Pauline Hanson is refusing to repay coalition moves to preference One Nation in key battleground seats, putting minor conservative parties ahead of Liberal and National MPs and candidates on how-to-vote cards.

The coalition has directed its voters to preference One Nation second in a number of must-win seats it hopes to wrestle off Labor across Australia.

In Peter Dutton’s home state of Queensland, the coalition has put One Nation second in 18 of the state’s 30 seats.

Do you want a Labor-Greens government? Because that’s how you get a Labor-Greens government.

W B Yeats was right.