So Prime Minister, you have failed us. By Geoff Chambers in The Australian.
Josh Frydenberg’s Bondi Beach speech is one of the greatest in the nation’s history and puts every politician and government on notice.
Through his pain and grief, Frydenberg spoke more clearly, more directly, more factually and more honestly than any Australian politician in attacking the failure of Anthony Albanese’s government to protect citizens from evil Islamic radicalism, extremism, anti-Semitism and terrorism. …
Palestinian-loving Albanese (perhaps he dislikes Israelis because they are smarter than him) bravely confronts the right’s base with more gun control. He must confront his own base:
John Howard, the nation’s second-longest serving prime minister who Frydenberg worked for, confronted his base on gun laws following the Port Arthur massacre in 1996. He passed the leadership test by having the courage to take on angry farmers and recreational shooters.
If Albanese wants to pass the Howard test of leadership, he must confront his anti-Israel, left-wing and Muslim-Australian base. And he must go back to visit the Bondi Pavilion memorial site and cop whatever emotions are directed at him.
The country is screaming out for leadership and Frydenberg has shown the way.
Excerpts from Frydenberg ‘s speech:
Our Prime Minister, our government, has allowed Australia to be radicalised on his watch.
It’s time for him to accept personal responsibility for the death of 15 innocent people, including a 10-year-old child. …
So Prime Minister, I am going to give you some ideas about what you need to do.
Firstly Prime Minister, ban the hate preachers. On October 8th in Lakemba, you had Islamic preachers say that October 7th was backed off courage and pride. When the Muslim community hears that message for the last two and a half years, is this any surprise?
The shooter here who did this was linked to a factory of hate in Bankstown.
How can that factory of hate be allowed to open its doors for one day more. I say no, I say never.
Second Prime Minister, ban these extremist organisations that have been allowed to flourish on your watch in our country …
Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned in the United Kingdom. It’s banned in Germany, it’s banned in moderate Muslim states, yet it is not banned here in Australia.
18 months ago, the Channel 9 papers and 60 Minutes with Nick McKenzie exposed how his Hizb ut-Tahrir was grooming young men in schools, in universities, online and across Australian society,
Prime Minister, for 18 months, what have you done?
The answer is nothing, and the result is this. …
Sixth, Prime Minister, put in place a much more effective and rigorous and strong immigration system.
On your watch, thousands of people have come from a terrorist hotspot without sufficient security checks. …
You tell me how that is in Australia’s national interest. You tell me how bringing people to this country who don’t accept, don’t know our democratic ideals, our values of tolerance, you tell me how that makes any of us, Jew and non-Jew alike, more safe.
It doesn’t, and until you change our immigration system to remind people it’s a privilege to come to this country, it’s a privilege to stay in this country, it’s not their right, then nothing will change.
Seven, Prime Minister, and this brings great shame to you and your Home Affairs Minister and your government.
Your hand-picked special envoy on anti-Semitism, she put together a comprehensive program that had initiatives from everything from the digital and media space to our universities and to our creative arts to hard security to soft security. …
Yet she presented her report to your government more than 150 days ago, in July of this year. It has been gathering dust on your desk.
If there ever, if there were ever (was) a metaphor, if there was ever a sign, if there was ever an example, if there was ever an illustration of your failure of your government’s failure to treat the dangerous rise of anti-Semitism with the urgency and the importance that it deserves, that was it.
For 150 plus days, you had a report and you did nothing, and this is the result.
Notice how Albanese and his government have said nothing about Islam?
Well, let me tell you, guns may have stolen the life of 15 innocent civilians, but it was radical Islamist ideology that pulled the trigger.
And if you, Prime Minister, can’t say those words, Islamist ideology, if you can’t speak them, you can’t solve them.
So Prime Minister, you have failed us.