Jesus wept…the election cannot come quick enough to kick these turds out…

Today’s Saturday Tele:

LABOR’S BLOWING UP LINKS TO ISRAEL

ANGIRA BHARADWAJ
23 Nov 2024

Australia’s relationship with Israel is on the rocks as the Albanese government condoned the International Criminal Court’s pursuit of Benjamin Netanyahu over alleged war crimes in Gaza.

It comes after former Israeli minister Ayelet Shaked was barred from entering Australia on character grounds – a move the Israeli Foreign Ministry said would damage the relationship between the two ally nations.

Despite the US and Israel condemning the ICC’s arrest warrants against Mr Netanyahu and his former defence minister Yoav Gallant – with Mr Netanyahu dubbing it “anti-Semitism” – Foreign Minister Penny Wong said she “respected” the court’s independence.

Likewise, Hamas and its sponsor Iran were delighted. Hamas celebrated the decision, while ignoring that warrants were also issued for its war crimes, such as using civilians as human shields.

Her colleague and senior minister Ed Husic said the court was simply “doing its job” and he would “let the law run its course”.

The warrants were issued alongside one for Hamas chief Ibrahim Al-Masri, also known as Mohammed Deif – even though he is believed dead – a move the US President blasted as equivalence between a terror group and Jewish nation.

The Australia/Israel Jewish Affairs Council executive director Colin Rubenstein described the ICC’s case against Mr Netanyahu as a “ideological witch hunt”.

“All Western governments should be looking closely at why the ICC has chosen to break the rules when it comes to Israel. Joe Biden and our Opposition took the correct approach,” he said.

“It’s a great pity our government didn’t adopt a similarly principled stance.”

Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive Alex Ryvchin said by accepting the ICC’s decision, the government was telling Australians “they could be next. It is an attack on a democracy fighting a lawful and just war”.

The push against Labor’s position comes as Australia’s relationship with Israel took a “negative” turn with the Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein saying the decision to deny a visa to the former minister Ayelet Shaked was “unacceptable”.

“The decision is deeply offensive and troubling, and will have a negative impact on Israel-Australia relations,” he wrote on X.

The moves mark a growing distinction between Labor and the Coalition’s positions on the Middle East – meaning Australian voters heading to the polls next year will have two very different choices if they have strong opinions on Gaza.

Coalition deputy leader Sussan Ley denounced the ICC’s decision as the “targeting of a democratically elected leader who is trying to protect his country from terrorists”.

Today’s Saturday Tele:

HOW GREENS TAKE OVER OUR COUNCILS BY STEALTH

Vikki Campion
23 Nov 2024

Just when you thought that poor horse had been flogged to death, the Voice is now being dragged back on to the agenda, via local councils at their recent annual conference in Tamworth.

Each year, a big chunk of ratepayers’ money from each council goes to the NSW Local Government Association to lobby other tiers of government. And now, you are now paying them to hassle state politicians to bring in a policy the great unwashed shot down at a referendum.

The reason for this obsession is Green activists who have press-ganged the shires into their ideological jihad.

The conference, saturated with puppeteered Greens and not-so-independent teal-flavoured councillors, voted to lobby Premier Chris Minns to commit to the Voice, with Canterbury-Bankstown Council moving for “implementation of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, Voice, Treaty and Truth”.

You would think Canterbury-Bankstown, a major growth area, would have more pressing issues such as cleaning up the streets or dealing with broken footpaths. But no.

“A NSW Voice would enshrine the fundamental principles of self-determination, representation, and understanding from the Uluru Statement from the Heart at the highest levels of decision-making in NSW parliament, state and local government laws, policies and matters that affect First Nations People and communities,” the conference moved.

But it didn’t stop there. The same councils that refuse to honour Australia Day voted for “all NSW councils to officially recognise and annually support Mabo Day”.

What’s more important to Australians, a day that unites an incredible egalitarian nation from the misery of a convict colony or a legal finding by the high court?

Which one represents the multicultural melting pot of NSW?

Yet the Greens’ organisation is vastly superior to any other political organisation I have seen up close, and the slickness of the machine was never more evident then this week in Tamworth. It was clear the most influential person at that NSW LGA conference was not in that room. The person calling the shots for the Greens was in the head office telling them how to vote via a group chat.

This was my observation and the observation of councillors with decades of experience.

Oh, and there’s no crossing the floor in the Greens, or like Lidia Thorpe you are ex-communicated.

It wasn’t just the blatant bloc-voting that frustrated the true independent community councillors there, but that each month the same motions miraculously appear on different council business papers across the state.

Either the Greens have a hive mind, or like their voting guide, these motions come from head office with a pre-prepped media pack and talking points written by a faceless apparatchik.

One Greens councillor, Liz Atkins, plastered social media with her train trip to the conference from Sydney to Tamworth, but was less forthcoming about the journey on the plane flight back. Atkins was most passionate about a motion to ensure “trans and gender diverse people to determine their gender marker on council identity documents such as gym or library cards”.

Why do we suddenly need a gender marker to read a book?

The conference also moved to create a new guideline to “assess inclusivity of frontline services, including queer and trans inclusivity, accessibility for disabled people and Aboriginal cultural safety”. Frontline services for councils should be, no matter what these Green councils claim, roads, rates and rubbish. A bad road does not discriminate on pronouns or Indigenous heritage.

Our national road accident statistics show soaring injuries and deaths. Bad roads transcend such things as sexual identity. Yet, after this, we will soon have guidelines for it. More than a decade ago, I reported on the same NSW LGA conference in the same regional city.

Back then, communities did not want politics on councils.

Now, it doesn’t matter what how much you volunteered at the local footy club, or the P&C, or with Meals on Wheels; it is increasingly coming down to the colour of your political banner, which is how the Greens have swarmed NSW councils while real community-minded, independent-thinkers are left with a dwindling chance of giving their community real representation.

Lifter:

Premier Chris Minns and Police Minister Yasmin Catley for further exclusion zones to stop morons for committing economic self-harm at our coal port.

Leaner:

Treasurer Jim Charmers and Katie Gallagher for the misuse of Australia’s Future Fund to further subsidise intermittent energy.