The Lefties Are at Each Other Again

Pass the popcorn, the lefties are in-fighting again! It’s the Silly Name tribes vs the Towel Hat tribes in a showdown of lefty outrage. Who can be the most offended and take home the Victim trophy?

Furious Indigenous leaders have slammed Fatima Payman for claiming and rebadging the voice for her own political brand, as the former Labor senator refused to outline policies or reveal candidates.

Senator Payman’s announcement on Wednesday that she would lead a breakaway political party named Australia’s Voice has angered some of Australia’s most distinguished Indigenous figures, who are in solemn reflection over the defeat of the voice referendum a year ago on Monday.

“Solemn reflection”? Oh, pull the other one. They’ve been whining and moaning and stamping their little taxpayer-funded feet since about seven o’clock on 14th October last year.

Let’s cross to the Silly Name tribes for some classic lefty bellyaching.

Uluru Dialogue co-chair Megan Davis, a Cobble Cobble [surely they’re just taking the piss?] woman and constitutional expert who worked on the voice process for 12 years, described Senator Payman’s announcement as “curious timing given it’s the anniversary of the referendum and many of our people are still grieving”.

Still whining, she means. And not ‘many’ – just a handful of professional grievance activists.

But even Davis is hard put to out-whine a hijabi ‘refugee’ who slunk into the Senate with a micro-vote on a party ticket, then decided to make ‘Palestine’ her only concern. Which begs the question of why the ‘Senator for Palestine’ doesn’t bugger off there. It’s only a short hop from her native Afghanistan.

Four months since she crossed the floor to vote for Palestinian statehood, the West Australian senator launched the Australia’s Voice party in Canberra, saying her policy platforms would “come with time”. In a later interview on ABC, she described Palestinian recognition as overdue.

If anyone’s got cause to complain about the name, it’s Australians – Payman clearly cares far more about a bunch of Hamas supporters on the other side of the world than anything else. Australian voters clearly don’t agree with her. How dare she claim to be ‘Australia’s Voice’?

Edward Synot, a Wemba Wemba [oh, come on!] man and senior member of the Uluru Dialogue, said the name of the new party “smacks of political opportunism”.

Which is kind of rich, coming from the Silly Name professional opportunists. Perhaps he’s just jealous.

Mr Synot said his group – the custodians of the Uluru Statement from the Heart and its call for an Indigenous voice – were not consulted about the new party or its name.

Newsflash, trougher: not even a hijabi chancer is in the least obliged to ask your permission for anything. Get off your arrogant high horse.

Another former Labor senator, Nova Peris, at least has half a point.

Ms Peris said Senator Payman had also hijacked her people’s flag by wearing a lapel pin with the Aboriginal flag paired with the Palestinian flag.

“It speaks volumes about her priorities and those of her party,” Ms Peris said.

“This is not a party that respects either Australia or Indigenous Australians. Where is the Torres Strait Islander Flag? Where is our national flag? Why is the Palestinian flag there in preference to those flags?

Peris is also one of the few Labor figures to show any moral clarity since October 7.

“Given the proximity to the anniversary of the October 7 massacre and the crowds of purportedly ‘pro-Palestine’ protesters openly expressing support for Hamas and Hezbollah in recent days and weeks, this symbolism and timing should be of great concern to all Australians, particularly the government and police given that Hamas and Hezbollah are listed terrorist organisations.”

Of course, Labor would have known exactly what Payman stands for when they made her a candidate in the first place. Don’t bullshit us that they don’t vet candidates any more.

They wanted a trophy Muslim, they got one.