We all knew Labor would sell their own grandmothers to cling to the Muslim vote in its Western Sydney heartland, but this simply beggars belief. In a move reminiscent of the Moonies’ mass weddings or a North Korean ‘Dear Leader’ rally, Labor is staging mass citizenship ceremonies in Western Sydney on the eve of a federal election. Another 12,500 new voters will be added to electoral rolls in the seats Labor most desperately need to even hope to cling to government.
If it wasn’t obvious enough that this ‘industrial-scale seat stacking’, in a startling break from Labor practice, Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke will personally preside over what are too obviously Labor political rallies. This is the same Albanese government, remember, which previously refused to touch citizenship ceremonies to force councils to hold them on Australia Day.
Over three days from Friday, 6000 citizenships will be given to new Australians at Sydney Olympic Park, the Daily Telegraph reported, with plans to give out another extra 6500 ahead of the election.
Unconfirmed footage from the rally. The Good Oil.
Everyone can see this grotesque stunt for just what it is. In case anyone missed the point, towering over the sea of hijabs was a gigantic exhortation to enrol to vote.
“This is bullshit”
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has joined local mayors in accusing Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke of “pushing through” citizenship in marginal western Sydney seats […]
“He’s just pushing thousands of people through citizenship ceremonies without any explanation… and it’s right on the eve of the election,” Mr Dutton told Nine’s Today show, adding it was clearly a tactic to gain voters in marginal seats.
He said “I just think Tony Burke has departed from what would be a normal practice” and there were reasonable questions to be answered.
Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun told the Daily Telegraph “They have gone and rushed through citizenship applications for 700 people in Liverpool … This is bullshit.”
The disquiet is being felt across the political spectrum.
Independent member for Fowler Dai Le said she has not seen a minister attend a citizenship ceremony in her electorate of Fowler in southwest Sydney since she became MP […]
“I have never seen a minister attending any of our citizenship ceremonies. And to suddenly see a Minister turning up to be part of it was quite surprising and to do it on the eve of a Federal election, you know people can be very cynical about that, and can say why are they doing it now, why not three years ago?”
She said the timing was “absolutely” off.
“It looks like fast tracking through many new citizenships particularly in southwest and western Sydney, my seat included, (as well as) Werriwa, that is known as Labor heartland.”
Labor are, of course, notorious for ethnic ‘branch stacking’: that is, Labor wogs signing up – or at least, using the names and signatures of – hundreds of people from their local soccer team or mosque in a single swoop. Their membership fees are paid by backroom operatives and most never attend a party meeting, except to vote for the candidate they’re told to. In one recent scandal, a Labor powerbroker in Victoria bragged of signing up an ‘army’ of thousands of fake party members in order to secretly control the party and the government.
Nationals Senator [Bridget McKenzie] said in her entire 14 years in politics, she had “never seen anything of this scale, this urgency and I’ve never seen a minister (carry them out)” […]
“I do think we’re seeing industrial scale seat stacking by the Labor party across western Sydney,” Senator McKenzie told Sky News […]
“They’re not happening out in Shepperton or Dubbo or in Zoe’s seat of Brighton. they’re all in western Sydney because the Labor party is feeling the pinch.
In contrast to Labor’s shameful pandering to the Muslim vote, they barely deigned to notice an anti-Semitism summit in Sydney. Apart from sending their token Jew to play the Kapo.
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus […] felt the wrath of Jewish Australians in the audience disillusioned with the Albanese government, as he was jeered through his speech to the Sky News Anti-Semitism Summit at Sydney’s Central Synagogue. Some in attendance walked out for the duration of his speech […]
The Attorney-General – who was invited to the summit as the most senior Jewish politician in parliament – was forced to stop and start his speech in response to the defiant crowd, and upon its conclusion he quickly departed, disappearing as NSW Premier Chris Minns took the lectern after him. Mr Minns was the only other Labor delegate in attendance.
Making his case even worse, Dreyfus used his speech as a platform to attack the coalition – who’ve at least been unequivocal in condemning anti-Semitism from the very beginning. Summit organisers expressed their disgust with Labor’s cheap tactics.
Hopefully, Jewish-Australians will express their disgust at the ballot box – but Labor have done the most grotesque political calculus and judged that there are more Muslims than Jews in Australia. Now you know why Labor took so long to do even a single damned thing about anti-Semitism.
And long after the Albanese government are gone, the consequences of their venal actions will continue to plague Australia, just like the consequences of Malcolm Fraser’s reckless idiocy in 1975.
