by DAVID FLINT – IN 2012, during a heated Labor caucus meeting, then-Foreign Minister Bob Carr reportedly issued a challenge to his colleagues.
This has since become a chilling piece of political folklore.
- Albanese’s defence policy is such a failure that we don’t have a ship to send anyway.
- Labor always feels the need to rush to the microphones to reassure Islamic voters.
- Tony Burke’s seat is more important than struggling Australian families.
Arguing against Julia Gillard’s insistence on maintaining bipartisan policy and not recognising Palestinian delegates at the UN, Carr allegedly demanded to know: “How could I possibly explain this from the steps of the Lakemba Mosque?”
Fourteen years later, it appears the “Lakemba Veto” has evolved from a desperate plea into a formal pillar of Australian national security – at least while Labor is in office.
CONTROLLING
As such, it now serves as a controlling criterion not only in relation to the foreign policy but also to the defence policy of the Commonwealth.
On March 16, 2026, Federal Transport Minister Catherine King – a minister whose portfolio usually stops at the coastline – stepped onto the national stage to issue a pre-emptive and highly provocative snub to our most critical ally, the United States.
Speaking to ABC Radio National, she didn’t just decline a request; she ruled one out before it was even made.
In a statement that felt more like an electoral bribe than a strategic briefing, Ms King declared: “We won’t be sending a ship to the Strait of Hormuz. We know how incredibly important that is, but that’s not something that we’ve been asked or that we’re contributing to.”
This, of course, also assumed we had a ship.
According to commentary, the Albanese defence policy is such a failure that we do not have a ship to send anyway.
She went on to reiterate: “I’m informed that we’re not intending to send ships to the Strait of Hormuz. We’re well prepared here in this country to whether the economic crisis that is occurring as a result of the Middle East, but we’re not planning to send a ship.”
The gratuitously provocative and insulting nature of this refusal is staggering.
At the time of her broadcast, the Trump Administration had made no formal, specific request to Canberra.
Yet, Labor felt the need to rush to the microphones to reassure a very specific Islamic audience that Australia would not lift a finger to help the United States secure the world’s most vital oil artery.
The most likely reason for this pre-emptive “no” isn’t a lack of naval capacity or a sudden pivot to the Indo-Pacific.
It is a calculated act of political survival.
Following the 2025 election, where Labor’s primary vote in Western Sydney was significantly reduced by the “Muslim vote” movement, the Albanese Government is now in a state of terminal fear.
They are so beholden to the concentrated voting blocs in seats like Watson and Blaxland that they have effectively adopted what is an antisemitic line of least resistance.
PROXIES
By refusing to oppose the Iranian regime’s blockade of the Strait – a regime that funds the very proxies their inner-city and Western Sydney constituents support – Labor has decided that saving Tony Burke’s seat is more important than securing the global energy supply.
Recent events will make the Albanese Government even more wary.
Notwithstanding all Labor has done, including its many years of tolerating antisemitism – which accelerated after the Hamas outrage of 2023 – when PM Albanese and Minister Burke visited the mosque at the end of Ramadan recently, they were vigorously booed.
While they play to the mosque steps, they are abandoning the traditional working-class voters who are being driven into the arms of One Nation.
They are the ones paying $3.00/L at the petrol pump – a direct consequence of the instability Labor refuses to help quell.
Labor is banking on the idea that these blue-collar families will eventually preference them back, but they are ignoring the deep-seated disgust at a government that prioritises identity politics over the national interest.
Apparently, Australia’s defence strategy is no longer being written in Russell Offices; it is being dictated by an assessment of the electoral effect through that barometer for Labor: the steps of the Lakemba Mosque.
If the Albanese Government continues to allow such pressure to veto our international alliances, are they planning for us to end up without allies and even without fuel? PC
[…] blue-collar families will eventually preference them back […]
English for beginners: “preference” is a noun, not a verb.
Good grief- now you want people to be educated about Islam? I met a Muslim girl in early 2011. She was wearing a hijab and kept putting her fingers underneath it. I asked her what the problem was, she lifted the hijab and showed me the worst contact dermatitis all over her scalp. I understood the cause immediately as I have scalp problems with hats in summer in hot weather. I said ‘You need to take that scarf off your head, that is causing that rash’. This poor young girl replied, “I can’t, my brothers would kill me’. This girl was genuinely terrified. I was shocked and thought that this a dangerous ideology. I subsequently went to many lectures and even studied the Quran with an Arabic speaker. Every time someone tries to speak about the danger, they get shouted down with cries of ‘racist’ and ‘religious bigot’. So here we are with massacres and antisemitic attacks on Australian soil dismissed (one Christian suggested to me only today that the Jews shouldn’t celebrate Hannukah in public) as the victim’s fault. I told her that my friend’s mother, a Christian, attended the celebration for decades and the only reason she wasn’t there was because she had to babysit her grandchildren. The first terrorist attack in Australia was the Battle of Broken Hill when two Muslims opened fire on a train full of people going to a New Year’s Day picnic. This was on the first of January in 1915 (Gallipoli hadn’t even happened). These people want a worldwide Caliphate. Whether radical or moderate, their desire is the same. Stop the excuses and get rid of vote obsessed unintelligent politicians and virtue signalers from bringing in more and start deporting the abusers of the system. Also, throw the seditious ones (you know who they are) out of parliament.
There are 2 essential studies about islam which need to be read. The first is by an Australian, professor Clive Kessler, a world expert on islam who addresses the issue of what % of muslims support the introduction of sharia law to replace Western laws, either by violent or non-violent means:
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2015/06/deradicalisation-of-militant-muslims-not-a-viable-option
The second is by another expert on islam, Dr Peter Hammond, who has examined how muslims take over a Western nation in stages related to the muslim population in that Western nation:
https://www.godreports.com/2015/09/how-islam-takes-over-countries/
Based on what happened to our pathetic PM recently at a Lakemba mosque I think it is fair to say after what was basically a declaration of war by the secretary of the Lebanese muslim association, gamel kheir, Australia is well advanced down Dr Hammond’s scale of islam taking over our laws.