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Spare us the hypocritical pearl-clutching of the elites. Yesterday, it was ABC journalist Patricia Karvelas finger-wagging about “misinformation” – even as she peddled gross misinformation of her own. Today, it’s the lefty politicians’ turn.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil has warned that democracy in Australia is under attack from the spread of misinformation, rise of new media platforms, threat of foreign interference and declining social cohesion.
Speaking in the wake of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Ms O’Neil said that declining trust was a major problem that needed to be addressed to restore confidence in democracy.
Excuse me while I try not to barf.
There are few people, beside the media, who have done more to facilitate all of those than politicians. Not least, left-wing politicians like O’Neil. In fact few, in Australia in recent months, more than O’Neil herself.
As Home Affairs Minister, O’Neil is directly responsible, along with Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, for the shocking blunder that saw hundreds of foreign-born criminals abruptly turned loose on the Australian community. Many of them violent and sex offenders – many of them without even token supervision.
And many of whom went right on to re-offend, including rape, child sex offences and the brutal bashing of a woman in her 80s.
And O’Neil wonders why people don’t trust politicians?
She also took aim at pro-Palestine protesters who had vandalised Labor electorate offices including those of Anthony Albanese in Sydney and Josh Burns, the Labor MP for Macnamara whose St Kilda electorate office was firebombed last month.
The Australian
Her whining might be more tolerable if it wasn’t that her own government, right up to the Prime Minister, has done so much to foster the violence and anti-Semitism of the “pro-Palestine” mob. Or, more precisely, so little to stop it. All because Labor are terrified of losing its key Western Sydney seats dominated by Muslims.
Forgive me, too, if I’m not buying O’Neil’s wittering about “strangling free speech”. This is the government, after all, which wants to strangle free speech online with its so-called “misinformation” bill.
Short pause to allow the irony of politicians lecturing anyone about misinformation to sink in.
Foreign interference? This, from the Labor party which took literal shopping bags full of cash from CCP-linked businessmen, and a roster of whose elder statesmen are on the CCP payroll?
While we’re at it, can anyone fill me on one thing governments have done to earn the public’s trust, in the last five years?
Just one?
