‘Welcome to Country’ is back in the news again. On the one side, we have the left-elite representatives, such as PM Anthony Albanese, on the other, centre-right ‘most Aussie party of them all’ according to Distinguished Professor of political science Ian McAllister, One Nation. Three guesses where each stood.
And take another guess at the Greens’ sole contribution.
One Nation senators turned their backs during an acknowledgment to country in the upper house, following an interruption by Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi of Governor-General Sam Mostyn’s opening of parliament with an anti-Israel protest, in a rowdy beginning to the Albanese government’s second term.
Faruqi, in keeping with her virulent anti-Semitic hatred and total disconnection from reality, held up an anti-Israel sign claiming that ‘Gaza is starving’, which is somewhat at odds of even the most recent photos of porcine Hamas fighters. They’re about as much ‘starving’ as Faruqi is on a crash diet.
Albanese, meanwhile, against all evidence, claimed the ludicrous ‘indigenous’ theatre was ‘not controversial’. He also parroted the same line of unconvincing bullshit that nobody fell for during the disastrous ‘Voice’ referendum.
“What a welcome to country does is hold out, like a hand warmly and graciously extended, an opportunity for us to embrace and to show a profound love of home and country,’’ the prime minister said.
Bollocks, it does. Australians know perfectly well what it means: Aboriginal activists and the left-elite regard Australians as permanent strangers in their own country. You don’t welcome family into your home, you only do so to strangers.
Not only are Australians fed up with the tacit racism of ‘Welcome to Country’, they’re also well aware that the whole thing is a fake, a sham confected out of thin air in the 1970s.
More than anything, they’re completely over being browbeaten with this phony bullshit being thrown at them every day. Literally at the opening of an envelope (Amazon Australia, clearly not getting the message, has taken to printing an ‘Acknowledgement of Country’ on its envelopes).
So, One Nation gave the Aboriginal Industry a dose of its own medicine.
Pauline Hanson and all three of her party colleagues protested the practice by turning away from the Senate president during the reading.
While Senator Hanson has turned her back during the acknowledgment before, it is the first time her colleague Malcolm Roberts has chosen to do so.
Newly elected One Nation senators Warwick Stacey and Tyron Whitten also turned their backs, marking the most people to protest against acknowledgments in the opening of parliament […]
Senator Hanson said the One Nation protest reflected what she had heard from constituents who were “fed up” with the “divisive” ceremony being held arbitrarily.
Liberal leader Sussan Ley, meanwhile, continued to spruik the clueless, ‘Us, too!’ wokeness that has done so much damage to the party’s fortunes.
Opposition Leader Sussan Ley sought to differentiate herself from Peter Dutton by embracing the role of acknowledgments and welcome to country ceremonies ahead of parliament resuming this week.
And she wonders why the Libs’ centre-right base has walked away in disgust.
