by ROGER CROOK – THE holidays are nearly over. Now it’s back to the real world in Australia where, for most of the time, the best things about this country is the weather.
Long warm days, sunshine and a swim are great tranquilisers. A cool evening, a beer, a barbeque and a laugh with friends is a great panacea for the challenges of life in Australia today.
- Those sorts of things occur in other places; then Bondi happened.
- Some shout “Intifada”; some wave flags for the Greens alongside the flag of Palestine.
- How long does the patience of the majority last when an aging minority is causing damage to the welfare of our youth?
Life doesn’t seem half as tough as it does when the days are short and the weather is wet and cold.
For most people, their public life is an iceberg; what you see is only a fraction of what is under the surface and hidden from view, and not for debate.
BROKEN
New Year resolutions are already being challenged, some have been broken.
Commitment is difficult, because so much in life seems temporary. The rate of change is extraordinary.
How long will it be before there is open hostility towards government and police authority as the trend towards anarchy and incitement to riot intensifies?
We said it will never happen here; those sorts of things occur in other places; then Bondi happened.
Before that, Muslims celebrated as the Jews were slaughtered in Israel.
They met on the steps of our Opera House, they cheered their leaders, set off flares and fireworks, and burnt our national flag.
Then thousands of “Australians” marched across our Sydney Harbour Bridge in support of terrorists.
Some carried the Palestine flag. Many wore the Keffiyeh as others carried the picture of the Islamic leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei.
In Iran over the past few weeks, the Khamenei regime has slaughtered tens of thousands of their own people as they have protested about life in that country under Muslim theocratic control.
Iran International claims that sources within Iran’s Interior Ministry puts the number killed at least 36,500.
Nobody who walked across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on that day in support of Palestine, including Labor Party luminaries, has said a word in public about the massacre of thousands of Muslims by the Muslim police and military in Iran.
They, the Sydney Harbour Bridge mob, still have plenty of hate for Benjamin Netanyahu – but nothing about Khamenei. Why is that?
Are they just political poseurs? Are they charlatans, pretenders, or con artists?
Is their public image that of being sanctimonious, when it comes to Hamas, Palestine and the Jews – yet blasé, when it comes to Iran?
Where is Ed Husic and ex-Labor Foreign Minister Bob Carr and all those other publicity-seeking would-be luminaries.
They carried the “March for Humanity” banner across the harbour bridge while thousands were being killed in Iran?
KILLED
The other night at the remembrance service at the Sydney Opera House for those killed at Bondi, there were snipers on the roof. Welcome to multicultural Australia in 2026.
On Australia Day, an Aboriginal man set fire to the national flag, claiming it was Invasion Day, and that he wanted his land back.
Do they want it back in the condition it was in when Captain Cook arrived? They already have recognised rights and interest over 57 per cent of Australia.
Some were shouting “Intifada”; some waved flags for the Greens alongside the flag of Palestine.
“No justice, no police, no racist police.”
“There is only one solution, intifada, revolution.”
“Palestine will be free.”
That was what some Australians and maybe non-Australians chanted on Australia Day.
We have become a nation of tribes; that tribalism is encouraged by multiculturalism; by ethnic diversity and a resistance to change.
A resistance to change from the old ways of their tribe to the ways of this Australian tribe, the one that gave them refuge when they asked for it.
The one that has given them the best welfare system in the world; the one that offers them medical care second to none; the one that educates their children and takes care of their aged.
There was a time when we were a nation of Aussies, Poms, Wogs, Dings, Slavs and we were all one tribe. As The Seekers sang, “We are Australian”.
Life was bonza. We were proud of Crocodile Dundee and the bloke off the Sydney Harbour Bridge who made it.
Even though we were not known as a nation of church goers, there was a strong Judeo/Christian way of life, or ethic that ran through the country.
We had grown up with knowing the difference between right and wrong; we knew nothing else.
A nation of larrikins who understood and respected the rule of law and those who administered it.
One thing that united us was living in what the rest of the world knew was the country that had the best of everything; including one of the highest standards of living in the world.
In June last year I discussed the likelihood of civil war breaking out by 2030, most probably in Europe but maybe in America at 80 per cent.
That prediction was made by David Betz, who is the Professor of War Studies at Kings College in London.
He contends that a civil war, of the kind Northern Ireland experienced for many years, but may be worse, could break out in one of 12 countries, and then quickly spread to the rest.
Many of the problems that are being faced by the Millennials in the low-to-moderate income class in America are the same in Australia and throughout Europe.
Does that mean that if we have the same ingredients for unrest here in Australia – as they have in the northern hemisphere – that we could face civil unrest or riots in Australia?
LESS
David Betz makes the point that in the UK (almost certainly in Australia as well) the Millennials are the first generation in history to earn less than their ancestors at the same age.
For how long does the patience of the majority last when an aging minority is causing damage to the welfare of our youth?
The housing crisis in Australia and in other countries like America, Britain and Germany has been principally caused by a rapid increase in population due to migration.
Over the past twenty years the population in the UK has increased from 60m to 70m people.
In Germany with a population of 83m, there were 12.4m foreign nationals living there in 2024. The top three diasporas being Turkey (1.4m), Ukraine (1.1m) and Syria (889,000).
ILLEGALS
Unsurprisingly, nobody in America knows how many “illegals” entered the country during President Biden’s years; a fair bet is that was around 15m.
The total population of America is about 342m, which means the population increased by about 4.3 per cent in Biden’s four years to 2024.
In Australia, the population grew by about two million between 2022 and 2025 to 27.5 million, which is an increase of about 7.5 per cent over those three years.
In three short years Labor, under Albanese, deliberately, added a population equal to that of Perth – which houses nine per cent of the national population.
They either had no idea what they were doing – and the effect it would have on the economy and the people – or, they knew exactly what they were doing.
As a nation, most Australians wander around with fingers in their ears.PC
White against brown is NOT the primary issue: the real issue is the left wing, white, brow, brindle or yellow, which foments discord and promotes, irrationally, violently and implacably causes which have only one purpose: the destruction of Western society, the best society humans have invented. The real problem are the left.