One thing you can say about Australia’s DEI-hire Australian Federal Police Commissioner, aside from her dedication to collecting as many medals as they’ll give away in her showbag, is that she’s guaranteed to rabbit on about anything but her most important job: terrorism prevention. This is, after all, the fatuous prat who denied any religious motivation in the Bondi terror attack. Just ignore the ISIS flags and the targeting of Jews.
It’s hard to come up with something more idiotic than that, but she’s giving it the old jolly hockey-sticks try.
[AFP Commissioner] Krissy Barrett, who has been criticised for arresting Aussies for social media posts while the ISIS-inspired Bondi shooters were planning their massacre undetected, presented the AFP’s Corporate Plan 2026-27 on Monday.
In a foreword, Ms Barrett laid out her five “enterprise priorities” – “futureproofing our workforce”, “supercharging global operations”, “defending Australia’s domestic security and our region”, “protecting vulnerable communities, prioritising social cohesion”, and “investing in science and technology-led capability”.
Notice what isn’t on that laundry list of woke nostrums?
That’s right: preventing or prosecuting terrorism.
The Corporate Plan emphasises the need for a “diverse” workforce, and states that the AFP’s “operating context themes” are “global shifts and global dynamics”, “social cohesion and extremism”, “vulnerable communities”, “technology and criminal innovation”, “convergent crime ecosystems”.
“We prevent and disrupt threats and crime actors which seek to harm or radicalise vulnerable communities.”
Do, they though? Jewish Australians might have a thing or two to say about that.
Not only did the AFP sit on their hands while a visa-overstaying jihadi and his son, who was already known as part of an ISIS cell, amassed an arsenal of weapons right under police noses and travelled to a known terror-training ground (again, with the full knowledge of Australian authorities), but they spent the two years of foaming antisemitism leading up to Bondi wittering about the ‘far right’ and ‘Islamophobia’.
She’s still prattling on about it, as if someone allegedly saying something mean to a burka-clad Muslim is on the same level as murdering 15 Jewish Australians.
“We also remain committed to monitoring and targeting extremism and threats to social cohesion in Australia.”
Unless the threats and extremism come from Muslims, one of Labor’s most critical voting blocs.
New NSW leader for One Nation, Mike Newman, isn’t buying the bullshit from Barrett or her slimy boss in the Lodge.
NSW One Nation leader Mike Newman has lashed Anthony Albanese’s handling of antisemitism.
“I look at all of the statistics around all the antisemitism that went on under (the prime minister’s) watch for three years – nothing happened. He was playing tennis with Jay Weatherill (now Australia’s High Commissioner to the UK) in Perth then attended the Adass synagogue (where an arson attack took place in December 2024) three days later. It just goes to show the man is a hypocrite, the man is a liar,” Mr Newman told News24 on Monday.
“He’s not fit to run this country – we don’t even have to go into melons.”
Recruiting candidates is one of the most critical issues facing One Nation as it tries to capitalise on its meteoric rise in the polls. At both state and federal level, poll demand ahead of elections looming in Victoria and NSW is leaving the party playing hurried catch-up. That comes with its own set of risks: recruiting new candidates (especially in an age of social media witch-hunts) is a fraught exercise. No sooner is a candidate announced than the media and activist class will be scouring the past couple of decades of social media activity for any comment, like or post that smacks, however faintly, of Wrongthink. Worse, a rushed process leaves the party vulnerable to chancers and just plain dropkicks.
Newman is one of the more impressive recruits the party has garnered since Barnaby Joyce and Cory Bernardi. His credentials will be crucial in the NSW state election due early next year.
While One Nation’s greatest strength is its grassroots appeal, the party also needs, not university-to-politics insiders, but at least people with some relevant experience. Newman brings much-needed experience and heavyweight economic credentials to the party. He has decades of experience in financial services across a range of industries, including the defence, automotive and aerospace sectors in Australia, Japan, Korea and the United Kingdom, including as NSW Senior Trade and Investment Commissioner for North Asia. Newman has seen how the public service works – and is far from impressed.
Consequently, in an impressive recent interview of News24, Newman floated wide-ranging cuts and reforms to the public service to nobble the permanent bureaucracy. If successful, this would be exactly the kind of long-term reform the nation so desperately needs.
A more effective antidote to the sort of DEI-hire cretins like Krissy Barrett is hard to imagine.
