Nice Friends Our Governor-General Has

How long can Sam Mostyn remain in the Governor-General’s job?

Mostyn was always one of the worst imaginable picks for the job, anyway: not just an obvious diversity hire whose entire career consists of hopping from Labor jobs-for-mates to diversity appointments on boards, without ever actually building a business of her own, but a divisive political partisan clearly chosen by Anthony Albanese to further his personal republican agenda.

As virulent anti-Semitism has shaken Australian society, far from taking the unifying stance a Governor-General should, Mostyn has been shamefuly silent.

Worse, now her office is tainted by association with a violent anti-Semite.

A happy snap has emerged of the Governor-General posing with a militant activist responsible for leading pro-Palestine rallies while banging a ‘f**k Israel’ drum.

The apparent selfie was taken in 2023 and showed Sam Mostyn and Welfare Alliance chief executive officer Vivienne Moore smiling at the camera.

Moore also describes Mostyn as an ‘amazing friend’ and one of her ‘favourite people’ whom she’s lucky to have in her life. ‘Love you Sam’, she declared on Instagram.

Moore doesn’t have much love for Jews, though.

Her Instagram posts include a grotesquely anti-Semitic image of a snake branded with the Star of David, strangling the globe. This is a common anti-Semitic trope, which frequently denigrates Jews as a world-strangling octopus or snakes.

Moore is also a leading figure in the anti-Israel hate that’s slithered through the streets of Sydney since October 7, 2023.

The Australian can reveal that Welfare Alliance chief executive officer Vivienne Moore has led 50 of the 53 Sydney rallies as they march through the CBD, and was also charged earlier this year after allegedly attacking police ­officers during another pro-­Palestine rally.

Pictured again leading Sunday’s 10,000-person pro-Palestine march in the Sydney CBD, Ms Moore is one of the socialist left’s most vocal anti-Israel ­activists, even flying to Melbourne last month to take part in the Land Forces expo rally, and was a ­mainstay at Anthony ­Albanese’s electorate office picket.

It was at the Melbourne riot that Moore was arrested for assaulting a police officer. The ‘picket’ of Albanese’s office has meant that the prime minister has been locked out of his own electoral office by the threat of anti-Semitic violence, depriving the people of his electorate of access to their local member, a vital function of Westminster democracy.

For her part, the Governor-General’s office is frantically trying to put distance between her and the anti-Semitic hard leftist.

A spokesman for Ms Mostyn told Daily Mail Australia that the Governor-General did not support Ms Moore’s protest activities.

“The Governor-General volunteered alongside Ms Moore during Covid packing food boxes and assisting with mental health organisations,” the spokesperson said.

“She has not spoken to Ms Moore since well before taking Office and has never discussed Ms Moore’s protest activity with her.”

This isn’t good enough. Mostyn must personally step forward and not just ‘not support’, but forthrightly condemn anti-Semitism like this.

Australian Jewish Association Chief Executive Officer Robert Gregory said the association between Ms Mostyn and Ms Moore was a worrying one.

“Many Australians will be concerned if our Governor-General is close to someone leading racist rallies and who has been charged with attacking police officers,” he said.

“If the relationship is as close as claimed, it is hard to believe that the Governor-General is oblivious to Vivienne Moore’s leadership role in dozens of ugly, divisive protests as well as her sharing of racist images on social media.

“National leadership roles come with significant responsibilities.”

Remember, Peter Hollingworth was forced to resign as Governor-General, not for something he did, but for failing to do more to condemn what someone else did. Hollingworth was mercilessly attacked when it emerged that, as a newly appointed archbishop of Brisbane, he “failed to deal appropriately with sex abuse allegations” against a teacher at a school 127km away in Toowoomba. Hollingworth conceded that he hadn’t done enough, but pleaded inexperience and unfamiliarity, having previously lived and worked all his life in Adelaide and Melbourne.

Remember, too, how the left bayed for Tony Abbott’s blood after he was merely seen in the vicinity of a sign mocking Julia Gillard as a ‘witch’.

So, is Sam Mostyn going to be held to the same lofty standard?

Or is it different rules for lefty diversity hires?