Well it looks like the ALP's plans to ride out the community anger over the kid-glove treatment of Islamists is falling apart. Their private polling must be horrendous because Albanese et al are running as fast as they can away from all that.

They originally hoped changing a few gun laws would placate the populace. But that's failed. So now they are promising to implement the type of laws many have been advocating for two years but which were staunchly opposed by the Islam friendly ALP.

Expect those who mocked the proposed changes as an attack on liberal democracy and collective punishment (yes we're looking at a few members here) to meekly fall into line behind the ALP. Suddenly policies based on religion will be not only acceptable but desirable.

In a sign of how incompetent the current opposition is, the ALP has been forced into doing what's good for the nation (as opposed to what's good for its electoral prospects) by the likes of Howard, Josh Frydenberg and the ubiquitous Pauline as well as an outpouring of rage from a populace who've had enough. The opposition is trying to go along for the ride, rather than leading. Pathetic.

I hope so. But its hard to believe that they won't tough it out, as they usually do, until things die down: a distinct possibility with our complacent, navel-gazing population, that reacts emotionally to horrible events, but soon forgets.

“For most of the past two years, the Albanese government has been all but clinically unable to utter the word antisemitism without referencing Islamophobia as well, as though they were equal phenomena… This is one of countless ways the fatal ideology of antisemitism was minimised and marginalised” – Greg Sheridan, 16 December 2025

Hi John Daysh,
"The problem is that once guilt is presumed at the group level, evidence no longer functions as a safeguard - it becomes something individuals need to produce to escape suspicion. That's the inversion of the rule of law."

I don't disagree with your arguments.
I said this discussion was going to get ugly.

"If 'other countries' are the standard, then the question is which policies reduced violence without dismantling civil rights. That requires specificity, not generalisation across countries."

Exactly.
Which policies? Apparently none of them.
That's my point.

I can't point the finger at individual Muslims.
But it's probably not wrong to point the finger collectively.

Let's say we got them all together for a public meeting.

"I don't know that any of you individually are going to do something stupid, but I'm pretty certain a few of you will, sooner or later."

But acts of terrorism isn't what concerns me.

It's constant daily attacks on women and girls that concern me.
Not able to walk down the street for fear of being raped by people who were happy to parade them in cages and marry them off as sex slaves.

We talk about the rights of women to feel safe etc.
That claimed virtue goes strait in the toilet once their numbers go up and get emboldened.

The question IS NOT whether or not we should stick to 'principles'
Instead, the question is 'Do you love your daughters and granddaughters'
Because in light of the second question, the first one does not matter as much as you think it does.

Islam says 'Make treaties with them when you are week, until you are strong enough to ignore them'

None have managed to beat religious nuts with their religious texts, they can't be told.

We've brought in people from countries the West has attacked.
Many harbour past resentments and want to settle scores.

I don't want this shown below for Aussie women and girls.
We owe our girls that, their future is worth fighting for.
Policy-makers live in safe gated communities.

Everyone Is Sick Of It
http://youtu.be/iEWSRJo9gbE

The Bondi terror is being described as the worst slaughter of Jews since Oct 7 in Israel, and more Jews were murdered (let's drop the ‘died’, ‘lost their lives’ and so on bollocks; they were shot down, slaughtered like animals) than were murdered in 2018 Pittsburgh US synagogue.

Good one Australia! We weren't on everyone's lips globally (one US senator repeatedly called Australia ‘Austria’) but two people who should never have been in Australia have put us on the map. And, now, the world is finding out that the atrocity has been coming for 2 years, and the three people they might have heard of for the taxpayer funded world travel, Albanese, Wong, Burke, did absolutely nothing to stop it.

The world now knows one thing about globally insignificant Australia - it's not a safe place for Jews; and if its politicians keep bringing in unsuitable migrants as they are, and lying about the “benefits” of multiculturalism, it won't be a safe place for the rest of us.

Were I a Jew with a family, I would be applying to go to Israel, where they actually defend themselves - Jews and Arab Muslims together.

“Antisemitism is the single most lethal hatred known to man – it always leads to lethal genocide”. (Qanta Ahmed). That “lethal genocide” occurred here, despite the warnings from ASIO over at least two years, should be enough to bring legal charges against Anthony Albanese, who has pretended to be a leader, but has proved to be nothing of the sort. If he was a private sector CEO, he would be sacked in disgrace.

The above-mentioned Qanta Ahmed, an observing Muslim herself, feels increasingly unsafe in the West, where she has lived for decades. On a visit to Iraq, where she asked about the Muslim Brotherhood, she was laughingly told there was more of that stuff going on in Columbia University in New York than there was in Iraq.

Her friends in the Middle East are astounded at the spread of radical Islam in the West.

On a different note..

Muslim Bondi Hero Ahmed Al Ahmed has been visited by the PM, NSW Premier and the Governer-General.
The PM brought thanks and well wishes from the King.

Bondi hero receives thanks from the PM and the King
http://region.com.au/bondi-hero-receives-thanks-from-the-pm-and-the-king/930251

As much as we discuss the drawbacks of Islamic extremism and what we see in other coutries, the fact remains that we have a million Muslims now, and they're likely not going anywhere.

Maybe if we show them that if they act like Aussies they can be accepted.
And maybe if we stop blindly supporting Israel and don't take part in wars against Muslims, maybe we can have a different relationship with these citizens than the kind Europe has.
(though I'm sceptical)

One thing that's different here than in Europe is that Muslims here at least came legally not gatecrashed as refugees.

The bloke does deserve to get a medal for heroism.
He confronted one of the gunmen, disarmed him.
Did what the cops should've done.
He not only put himself into the line of fire but was shot twice.
The U.S. and U.K. won't even admit he was a Muslim, as it doesn't fit their narrative.