Some time back I suggested that there is a new contender – the incumbent – for the title of Australia’s worst ever prime minister. The odds against Albo making it back to the Lodge for a second stanza must be lengthening by the day. Ditto the odds about his even being there for the next ALP election launch.
When nearly half of your own party voters can’t bring themselves to support your one big idea, well. You know you are peering into the dustbin of history. The Albanese Government is that peculiar combination of nasty overreach (digital ID, anti-free speech laws, commitment to pandemic treaties), utterly ignoring people’s real problems (like an inflation tsunami, a housing crisis and an energy malaise), wasting time and resources on pretend problems (climate crises, the voice, wind farms), damaging the nation’s soul (with mass immigration) and kowtowing to ideology (where to start). It isn’t often that a government can simultaneously pull off the big four. It is that bad.
A recent commenter at The Australian – as good a barometer of Club Sensible as any – asked where the prime minister even was (inevitably not in the country), another commenter replied that he was “twerking in Tuvalu”. He was at a beach party somewhere in the South Pacific. Inevitably in a silly shirt.
I am not making this up:
On Thursday, on the small island of Aitutaki, the PM ditched the diplomatic metaphors and went for an actual jiggle.
Albo is in the South Pacific so often that Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein II would probably have regretted not including him in the musical.
Perhaps they had Penny Wong in mind when they composed There is Nothing Like a Dame. She certainly isn’t a hundred and one pounds of fun. Perhaps, with their current leader in mind, the ALP caucus is going to wash that man right out of their hair. Next election night won’t be some enchanted evening. The Government is certainly full of Bali Ha’i.
Enough of South Pacific.
The possibly racist and certainly White Australia Policy afficionado, the former Labor Leader, Arthur Calwell, infamously said once, “two wongs don’t make a white”. Well, I don’t know what this Foreign Minister adds up to.
At least Wong was actually elected by the voters, unlike her brand new British counterpart as Foreign Minister, the astonishingly resurrected Lord David Cameron. Like the late Andrew Peacock, Cameron has confirmed that a souffle can, indeed, rise twice (with apologies to Paul Keating). Here is James Delingpole on Cameron:
I liked him well enough when we smoked weed together at Oxford. But it seems to me that like all my former friends turned politicians he has become grotesquely corrupted by the system and is now working for Satan. That’s all I have to say. I’m not interested in the devious machinations of a political class which has no autonomy (or principles) and is simply doing the bidding of a mostly invisible Predator Class.
Source James Delingpole at Telegram, 14 November 2023.
Indeed. Laurence Hodge at TCW notes, in relation to the re-appointment of Cameron:
It’s one of Nature’s cruel jokes that the Prime Minister’s diminutive physique should be so powerful a metaphor for his pygmy administration, but in his reshuffle he is at least providing the country with a seasonal display of comedic fireworks.
… It has been a while since this role was filled from the House of Peers, most recently by Lord Carrington some forty years ago in the period running up to the Falklands War. Carrington resigned on principle, taking upon himself responsibility for the lack of intelligence within his department which made Argentina’s invasion of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands such a surprise. Reflecting a different calibre of man, Cameron, if asked where the South Sandwich Islands are, would likely point to the occasional tables at the far end of his drawing room.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/poor-little-rishi-and-cameron-the-man-of-honour/
What a difference a generation makes. Lord Cameron certainly won’t save Sunak. The “divisive” Braverman might have. Well, she might have helped save some of the furniture. (She still might).
But apart from Wong being elected, she is barely above contemptible as a Foreign Minister. Wong, like Cameron is part of a globalist cabal. Her first, of three recent, ill-considered blunders (or, rather, carefully considered ideological masterstrokes) was hosing a hundred million dollars up the World Health Organisation’s wall in an effort at global pandemic preparedness. As reported by Sky News:
“COVID-19 demonstrated that global challenges require collective action,” Minister Wong said in a statement.
Covid did no such thing. What it demonstrated was the precise reverse. Global action delivered global panic, global pain and global totalitarianism. It delivered WHO-inspired, fake science (aka propaganda) that, through “global action”, spread the world over at the speed of social media. She speaks jargon and gibberish on behalf of the Predator Class, and delivers globalism that threatens us all. Proposed pandemic treaties would allow WHO both to define “pandemic” and to override national jurisdictions in response to them. It would be signing away what little remains of our sovereignty.
Her statement recalls the wise words of Ivor Cummins who has described how the Rockefellers, back in the 1950s, concluded that the pathway to world government was to manufacture crises that “required” global solutions. Pandemics were on the original Rockefeller list (as was “climate”).
Glenn Ellmers at The Claremont Review of Books notes:
More than a few analysts have speculated that the most constitutionally dubious pandemic measures were pretexts to solidify and embolden an emerging authoritarianism on the part of global elites. Such concerns are not evidence of paranoia. This May, the Rockefeller Foundation announced a new multi-million-dollar partnership with the World Health Organization’s Berlin-based Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. The funding is intended to enhance international coordination for treating climate change as a public health crisis.
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/pandemic-pandemonium/
As if on cue.
Wong sings to the Rockefeller hymn sheet. Like all of them, she is a puppet, as Delingpole described all politicians to Cory Bernardi recently.
More recently still, Wong has managed – whatever one thinks of the Middle eastern quagmire – to sell out Israel and reveal the shallowness and murky cluelessness of her pro-Hamas views in a statement about “higher standards for Israel”. Israel is an ally of ours and Hamas is a terrorist organisation. A statement that should have brought instant dismissal. Unsurprisingly, local Jewish leaders were not impressed.
Jewish groups call out Australia's foreign minister for promoting 'false and harmful' narratives
But it isn’t just the bias. It is the club-footedness. She might, rather, have taken a leaf from Hillary Clinton’s book on this occasion. In a moment of rare clarity, Clinton stated:
You have to remove from the scene terrorists like Hamas who don't believe in peace. They don't believe in it for their own people. They are using their own people as shields and they don't believe that it's possible to do a deal with Israel. Let's try to have people who can lead us to peace.
As Canada’s National Post noted:
She sees Hamas as the terrorists they are — terrorists who kidnapped and killed civilians, abuse their own people, have no interest in a two-state solution and are intent on obliterating Israel.
Clinton was also reported as saying:
It would be such a gift to Hamas because they would spend whatever time [that] there was a ceasefire in effect rebuilding their armaments... to be able to fend off an eventual assault by the Israelis.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-770790
Unlike Wong, Clinton nailed the core issue for the cease fire callers, both the well- and the ill-intentioned. They appear to think, as the Canadian journalist put it, that de-escalation is the magic formula needed to get things “back on track.” Back on track was where we were just prior to 7/10 (or 10/7).
Setting aside Wong’s patent and embarrassing foreign policy illiteracy, she has now, in a rare opportunity for policy intersectionality, simultaneously excelled on three of the ALP’s favourite missions – bloated immigration, refugees and climate change. Following The Twerker’s excellent South Pacific adventure, Wong sees climate induced immigration as a wider-than-Tuvalu gambit.
Bizarrely, The Australian Financial Review calls all this “creative climate diplomacy”. An extraordinary phrase for an extraordinary policy.
Under the far-reaching treaty that Anthony Albanese signed with Tuvaluan counterpart Kausea Natano on the sidelines of the Pacific Islands Forum in the Cook Islands on Friday, Australia has agreed to resettle as permanent residents Tuvalu’s entire 11,200 population if a global warming-driven rise in sea level inundates the tiny Pacific island nation.
But, then, it is the Fin Review, after all.
It must be some sort of record, inviting a whole country to go and become part of another country. And they said colonialism is dead. Not even the invading Albanians currently occupying hotels at taxpayer expense across Britain have pulled off a one hundred per cent population transfer.
We are, as The Guardian put it last year, “standing with the Pacific Islands on the climate crisis”.
Oh dear. Just when the rest of us are getting moderately-to-seriously worried about a major Middle Eastern regional war between nations with nuclear weapons, Australia’s political class is prioritising re-locating (allegedly) sinking Tuvaluans. Back in 2018, Craig Kelly, then a Liberal and then in Parliament, noted a peer reviewed study that showed that Tuvalu’s land mass had actually grown over recent decades.
Results highlight a net increase in land area in Tuvalu of 73.5 ha (2.9%), despite sea-level rise, and land area increase in eight of nine atolls. Island change has lacked uniformity with 74% increasing and 27% decreasing in size. Results challenge perceptions of island loss, showing islands are dynamic features that will persist as sites for habitation over the next century, presenting alternate opportunities for adaptation that embrace the heterogeneity of island types and their dynamics.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1
Real science, using hypothesis testing, replicable empirical methods and real world observation, can be confounding and messy. This is a fact that even the ABC RMIT fact checking machine was forced to acknowledge.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-19/fact-check-is-the-island-nation-tuvalu-growing/10627318
The Tuvaluans may not need us after all.
There is no climate crisis. There will be no climate refugees, simply people wanting a better economic life using bogus climate science as an excuse to move here. When rich greenies stop paying tens of millions of dollars for waterfront homes, then we could, perhaps, take them a little more seriously about their climate fantasies. As least, unlike the geniuses who run the Maldives, the Tuvalu Government has never, as far as I know, held an underwater cabinet meeting to make a point. They do, however, believe global warming to be an “existential threat”. And they do undertake climate stunts:
The threat of total evacuation in the decades to come is being treated as serious by the country’s leaders, with the UN describing the nation as being “on the extreme frontlines of the global climate emergency”.
Tuvalu’s Foreign Minister, Simon Kofe, unveiled a world-first response to this existential threat at the United Nations COP27 conference in Egypt in November last year.
Mr Kofe delivered the speech virtually, standing inside a digital replica of Te Afualiku, an uninhabited islet on the atoll.
“As our land disappears, we have no choice but to become the world’s first digital nation,” he said.
… “And to keep them safe from harm, no matter what happens in the physical world, we will move them to the cloud.”
Hence the weird headline:
Tuvalu says the impacts of climate change have forced it to create a digital copy of itself in the metaverse.
Whoa! You couldn’t make this up. Anyone still left in the real world might ponder why we are inviting these people to come here. Perhaps the Tuvaluans should consult the long list of dire yet bogus climate predictions made in the past to see how many of them have actually come true. They might then allow themselves to relax a bit, and allow Australian governments to get back to more serious, pressing matters.
With Australia lurching from one made-up crisis to the next, while the country goes down the proverbial, and with Wong and Albo – on the increasingly rare occasions that he visits us – at the helm, Tuvalu isn’t the only place with a sinking feeling. Pretty soon, we will no longer be twerking like it’s 1999.
Paul Collits
14 November 2023
That will be the day;
“When rich greenies stop paying tens of millions of dollars for waterfront homes, then we could, perhaps, take them a little more seriously about their climate fantasies.”!
Wenny Pong? What do you expect from a gook dyke?
Just another sick puppy in a sick government apparatus.