At last, Irish/Australians are catching up.

Greg Sheridan was born a Republican in a fanatically anti-British family.  Like many, an Australian Republic was an act of faith for him, like the beliefs taught by the Church.  Now he says he is close to "joining that select but growing group -- republicans for a constitutional monarchy."

This is the issue that put New Whig at odds with other groups that claimed to be in the political centre.  It was evident from the debates leading up to the referendum that such a change was costly, unpredictable and of no actual benefit but with a lot to lose.  It has taken this long for the message to seep through to the more fanatical and irrational supporters of Constitutional Change for the sake of out-dated ideology.

Greg Sheridan in The Australian 4-2-16

The Labor Party's Stalinist obsession with Israel

Yesterday it was Warren Mundine and today it is Peter Beattie, former Queensland Labor Premier, that is criticising the opposition to Israel that purvades the Labor Party along with most of the "left".  This must be a sign that the peak has been passed in the wave of anti-Semitism that has swelled up in recent decades. 

Jerusalem remains contentious because those same closet anti-Semites refuse to accept an undivided city as the capital of Israel.  There is no historical claim to Jerusalem by Palestinians who only want half of it for their proposed State Capital to stop the genuine, historical claim by Jews, as well as a foothold for their planned destruction of Israel.  When the UN, EU and the rest stop giving false hope to the Palestinians with respect to Jerusalem, then the new suburbs being built will be legitimate and not "illegal settlements".

Mr Beattie quoted in The Australian

"Disgusting . . . Illogical" Jew-hatred.

“Disgusting . . . Illogical,” says Warren Mundine, a leading Australian Aboriginal leader.  He was Labour Party President before chairing the Indigenous Advisory Council.  

antijewish-labor-bid-sickens-warren-mundine The Australian 

The Australian newspaper has reported this, but it would mostly remain unknown to Australians.

Much of the Labor Party’s “anti-Jew” policy is pragmatically driven to win votes of nominally anti-Semitic Moslem voters in crucial Sydney seats, but it is sourced in the shockingly Jew-hating prejudice that pervades the “left”.  Partly a naïve acceptance of the propaganda from Israel’s enemies that purports to paint the Palestinians as victims, despite it being they who have rejected the two-state solution three times, and despite Palestinian refugees (who did have legitimate claims of displacement with the return of Jews to Israel) living permanently in refugee camps, now into their fourth generation, who maintain the fiction that Israel will soon be eradicated and they can return.  These poor people are preserved in their suffering by all the wealthy Arab countries that will not resettle them nor financially fund them, in order to keep them as a visible humanitarian symptom of supposed Jewish barbarism.

Criticising Israel is legitimate, and certainly, fighting a war of survival will lead to errors, but singling out Israel for continual condemnation while being silent on the world’s other social problems can only be attributed to Jew-hatred.  Ironically, Israel was founded by Socialists and the Kibbutz is one of the few examples of the successful implementation of a true Communism.

If anyone is surprised that Aboriginal people care about Jews, remember that one of the few, if not only, Australian protest against Germany’s treatment of Jews was by an aboriginal delegation in 1938 led by William Cooper that tried to protest to the German consul general in Melbourne.

Without singling out names, there have been many Australian Jews, particularly lawyers, who have been significant in the fight for Aboriginal Justice and Recognition.  Despite the denial by some respected Historians who showed that the claim could not be corroborated with surviving, hard evidence, Australian Aboriginal people have suffered what was a ‘holocaust’, being the deliberate policy of racial extermination.  Perhaps this is a source of empathy.  It would be nice to think that Mr Mundine’s attitude was widespread amongst Aboriginal people instead of the opposing, leftist view.