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# This Is Nothing New
- URL: https://goodoil.news/this-is-nothing-new/
- Published: 2026-10-27T03:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-27T02:59:59.000Z
- Description: Political violence has a long history in Australia that they don’t want us to talk about.
- Author: Lushington Brady
- Tags: AUS Politics, Terrorism

From the moment the shocking news of the attempted murder of independent federal MP **Helen Haines** broke, the official narrative has been that it marked some kind of supposed ‘turning-point’ in Australian politics. A narrative that, just coincidentally no doubt, fits nicely with the government’s continued efforts to censor free speech in Australia. But the claim that political violence “has no place in Australia” begs one glaring question: *since when?*

Few people – with the exceptions of left-wing bloggers like **Hannah Ferguson**, who tried to excuse the murder of American conservative **Charlie Kirk** by insisting that violence is “sometimes necessary”, and left-wing politicians like **Zali Steggall**, who endorsed her views – would say that political violence should have a place in Australia. But only a complete historical ignoramus or liar (or both: they so often seem to go together, after all) could possibly deny political violence has a long and sordid history in Australia.

Political violence sits at the core of some of our celebrated stories: **Ned Kelly** was, stripped of the romanticism, a murderous Irish nationalist terrorist. Australia’s first terror attack was the mass shooting by two Muslims at Broken Hill in 1915: an enthusiastic Islamic response to the Ottoman empire’s call to jihad.

The current hysteria, predictably, attempts to frame these events as some recent, imported contagion. Yet, as the historical record screams, the reality is far more entrenched. We have played host to an absolute smorgasbord of violent radicalism for decades, most of which follows a distinct pattern. Of the hundreds of terrorist incidents, documented terrorist threats and outbreaks of political violence in Australia since Federation, the overwhelming majority fall under the rubric of three, often intertwined, brands: the political left, multicultural and ethnic grievances, and most especially Islam.

The right are not exactly innocent, of course. While the left were petrol-bombing the homes of apartheid-era South African embassy staff, white nationalists shot up the home of Australia’s African National Congress representative. In the late 1980s, **Jack van Tongeren**’s Australian Nationalist Movement ran a campaign of arson and terror attacks on Chinese restaurants in Perth.

But the deplorable violence on the right is overwhelmingly eclipsed by the shocking litany of left-wing, ethnic and Islamic terror.

> [In \[1972\] post office workers](https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/australias-long-overlooked-history-of-political-violence/news-story/59355bd180b476b1e35287a8e3967111?ref=goodoil.news) intercepted five Black September Organisation letter bombs addressed to Israeli diplomats in Sydney and Canberra, as well as letter bombs sent to two members of the Jewish community.  
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> On November 19, 1975, letter bombs addressed to the then Queensland premier **Joh Bjelke-Petersen** exploded when they were opened, injuring staff. A similar device sent to **Malcolm Fraser**, then acting prime minister, was detected and defused.

Bjelke-Petersen, the ultra-conservative (and toweringly corrupt) premier of Queensland for decades, was the bête noire of the Australian left for decades. Although posthumously embraced for the left for his sanctimonious cant on illegal immigrants, Fraser was as hated by the left in the 1970s as **Donald Trump** is today. Fraser was regularly denounced as a “fascist” and caricatured with Nazi imagery.

The Calabrian mafia, the ’Ndrangheta, remains a testament to the fruits of the unbridled social engineering of Multiculturalism. The brutal execution of **Donald Mackay** in 1977 was not just a ‘criminal’ matter: it was a brazen, violent intervention by foreign organized crime into the very machinery of Australian political life.

The Calabrian mafia and the murder of Mackay were both strongly linked to Labor’s **Al Grassby**, the ‘father of Australian multiculturalism’. ‘Supergrass’ **Gianfranco Tizzoni**, testified that Grassby was at the “beck and call” of the Calabrian Mafia for at least 40 years. **Tony Sergi**, identified in court and in parliament as the Mafia leader who ordered the execution of Mackay, was one of Grassby’s closest associates.

While the political establishment toasted their successes in diversity, the Multicultural tribes were carving out fiefdoms and silencing dissent with the bullet and the bomb.

The list of atrocities is as dizzying as it is damning. We have seen letter bombs sent to premiers and acting prime ministers, the assassination of judges and the firebombing of synagogues. The 1970s and ’80s were essentially a training ground for the sectarian violence that our leaders told us wouldn’t happen here.

> Ethnic hostilities originating overseas erupted again on Australian soil when the Turkish consul general and his bodyguard were assassinated in December 1980 outside the former’s home in Sydney. Responsibility was claimed by the Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide.

Then, of course, there is the persistent, darker shadow cast by Islam. From the 1990s onward, the narrative shift was palpable. We moved from ethno-nationalist squabbles to a sustained, ideologically driven campaign against the West.

> In 2014 and 2015, police and ASIO disrupted multiple Islamic State-inspired plots in Sydney and Brisbane, including one to randomly kidnap a member of the public, drape them in an Islamic State flag, and behead them on camera. In Melbourne, a man stabbed and tried to behead two Victorian counter-terrorism officers outside the Endeavour Hills police station before he was fatally shot.

Of the more than 30 terror attacks and intercepted plots in Australia since 2014, less than a handful were not the work of Muslims. Of those, at least two were ascribed to far-left, environmentalist or anti-Christian/pro-homosexual motives. In 1996, a mob of union thugs and Aboriginal activists attempted to storm Parliament House in Canberra. In 2021, Aboriginal activists attempted to burn down the old Parliament House, ironically now the Museum of Australian Democracy.

The tragic reality, which the current clutching of pearls over Haines fails to address, is that the social cohesion we are told we possess is a thin, tattered veil. We have opened our borders, dismantled our national identity and allowed every imported left-wing grievance and sectarian conflict on the globe to set up shop in our suburbs.

When the inevitable explosion occurs, our leaders reach not for the truth, but for the censorship lever, hoping that if they silence the internet, they might just silence the consequences of their own failing policies.

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