by PAUL COLLITS – THE appointment of Sam Mostyn as governor-general this month is an Albanese charade to usher in an Australian republic while bypassing the constitution.
It’s similar to Labor’s dealing with last year’s Voice referendum when, after a crushing defeat, Labor State governments implemented the Voice anyway, through legislation.
- The Labor republicans have a plan, and it is already emerging into the daylight.
- The role of governor-general is seen as one of process and protocol.
- But Sam Mostyn is promising to prioritise kindness, care and respect.
This charade with the new governor-general turns out to be another version of replacement theory.
PM Albanese knows Australians will not vote for a republic, yet he plans to have one anyway by simply changing the role of governor-general.
FLIPPING
This is Labor flipping the bird at the Australian electorate. It simply takes to another level the various infractions already routinely committed against voters.
The broken election promises. The policies enacted without a mandate. The imposition of policies the Government knows that we hate and/or do not need.
Labor MP Andrew Leigh has suggested (on Facebook) that Ms Mostyn will be a “remarkable” governor-general – and that is the problem.
Her significant salary increase isn’t the problem. Nor is the bond she has with Labor. Nor is her wokeness.
The problem is the government transforming the narrative about the role of our Head of State. This should be causing the most unease.
All of the proposals for a president at the Constitutional Convention and beyond, back in those distant late 1990s, suggested “leadership”, “a new chapter” and the emergence of someone “remarkable” to take the nation to a very different Constitutional place.
The whole system of Constitutional Monarchy rests upon having a non-remarkable governor-general.
If Malcolm Fraser was to have been known as Kerr’s Cur – it didn’t stick – perhaps Samantha Mostyn will become known as Albo’s Trojan Mare.
Setting aside some of the initial attacks by the Right on her appointment – that she was a political appointment, that she was a woke Leftie and that her pay rise was an awfully timed move – there are more important issues in play.
Mostyn isn’t the first partisan political appointment. Bill Hayden’s in the 1980s raised a few eyebrows at the time, and he proved to be a gem of a Head of State.
Then there is the salary issue. The salaries of all of our current lot of public officials are, to use that old Leftie term, “obscene”. They should all receive nothing. They should be paying us!
The “queen of woke” descriptor of Mostyn aired back in April at the time of the announcement might well be true.
Michael Costa, on the Andrew Bolt show, noted that she deleted many of her woke tweets from X. Like calling Australia Day “invasion day”. Yawn.
But there is a clue to the real Mostyn worry in her salary.
Perhaps the Government wants her to earn it. One couldn’t imagine either the Prime Minister or his republican sidekick, Matt Thistlethwaite simply making a nondescript appointment and then ignoring the rich opportunities for republican narrative development.
EMOTING
The Labor republicans have a plan, and it is already emerging into the daylight.
Our new Governor-General has certainly hit the ground emoting. One report suggested that “she wants to put her arms around us”. Oh dear. I don’t want any Head of State to put his or her arms around me.
The role of governor-general is seen as one of process and protocol, but Sam Mostyn is promising to prioritise kindness, care and respect.
She vows to deliver a more humanitarian flavour to the role.
“These testing times call for an unstinting focus on kindness, on care and on respect,” she said after being sworn in.
“I will be an optimistic, modern and visible governor-general, committed to the service and contribution that all Australians expect and deserve from the holder of this office.”
Mostyn seems nice. But Australia doesn’t need nice. Australia needs a governor-general who shuts up and sure-footedly safeguards the Constitution against creeping political elites.
Australians want action and accountability, not kindness and care. We want honest governance, not stroking. Cuddling is what Mostyn wants. It is not what we want.
And we do not need her to be an advocate, another role seemingly implied by her initial words and deeds.
“I want to visit all of you all around the country and be visible, listen to you when I come to visit, and then take your messages back where I can to whoever I can.”
We already have advocates – our local members of parliament – at least in theory.
They and those to whom they report in Canberra have done a pretty good job of ignoring us and annoying us. Of bullying us. And, during COVID, of locking us up and lying to us.
THEATRE
They are still doing that. Anything the new caring governor-general might do is mere theatre. Yes, woke theatre. But theatre.
So, what is Labor up to? The Prime Minister went on the record thus: “Australia will begin a new chapter with the appointment of Ms Mostyn.
“In Sam Mostyn, our nation has the right leader, you are a person of intelligence and compassion, of loyalty and integrity,” he said.
“You have clear eyes and a big heart and both have shaped your vision of who and what we can be as a nation.”
The alarm bells are clear, and plentiful, if you look for them:
- “The role of governor-general is often seen as one of process and protocol” – but not anymore;
- “A new chapter”;
- “The right leader”.
There you go. No, there is no mandate for “a new chapter”. And no, the governor-general is decidedly not meant to be a “leader”.
And you do not have to look very far to see the game plan.
At least Albanese isn’t trying to hide Labor’s agenda. They never bother, these days. They know they will never be held accountable. Such is the decrepit state of our democratic safeguards.
The Australian public’s understanding of basic civics, the sort of understanding that would lead to an actively questioning electorate with sharp politic antennae and some basic knowledge of policy, has been surgically removed from our education system.
And the PM is choosing his words very carefully, I would think.PC
The King appoints a G-G ‘on the advice of the PM’ because it is the PM who represents government and thus, in theory, the majority who voted for him. The King must do it that way but it would be better if the Leader of HM’s Opposition had equal say in the appointment as that would at least mean a more representative choice. Should this new G-G prove her now much hidden former thinking everything will rebound on the PM and although that is small comfort, it at least puts blame where it should be put. On the other hand this richly diverse woman might surprise us – it has happened before. We shall be watching, as I imagine will the King.
Why do monarchists want Australia’s head of state to be inferior to the UK’s head of state?
The job of Assistant Minister for the Republic (who was the Minister? ) has gone as part of the Cabinet reshuffle. That must mean something?
The added money for Albanese’s friend is a disgrace.
The wretched woman had the gall to say that she felt the CPI pressure!
She needs to shut her mouth , do what all her predecessors have done – nothing.
Perhaps you should direct your complaints to the person by whom the GG is appointed, for whom the GG acts, and to whom the GG answers.
Even better.
Monarchists complain about the politics of a political decision made by a politician regarding the so-called HoS.
While squealing about a ‘politicians republic’.
You people are a farce.
The hypocrisy is staggering.
Monarchists demand a say on who is appointed their so-called head of state.
That is, a republic.
And I suspect you are too stupid to spot the irony.
Ha ha ha.