by PAUL COLLITTS – THERE are a number of potential explanations for an allegedly conservative NSW Premier presiding over a government that isn’t remotely conservative.
One is that Dominic Perrottet is ruled by the Leftist Moderate Faction and its unelected lobbyist-controllers, and has to do as he is told.
- Perhaps Perrottet sees himself and his government as doing the Pope’s work.
- The correlations are impressive, upon examination.
- We know the current Pope is Catholic-lite – but is it possible the Premier is a committed papist?
Another is that the Premier is a conservative in name only. That he doesn’t actually believe in the things he says he does.
A third explanation is that he is a conservative (of sorts) but believes that to stay in office he has to lead a Leftist government – fully green, authoritarian and woke – and so keep the millennial-led electorate happy.
FEARING
A fourth explanation is that the Premier is simply over-compensating, fearing being typecast as a big C Conservative and determined to avoid it.
But there is actually a fifth potential explanation for the NSW Premier’s unexpected ideological trajectory. One which may surprise many.
It is at least a plausible hypothesis that Dominic Perrottet leads a Leftist government because of his connections to the Catholic prelature (or “sect” to its enemies), Opus Dei.
It is well known that Perrottet “has links” to the dreaded Opus Dei. He went to school at Redfield College, a Pared (Opus Dei connected) school. Other members of his large family have been involved with Opus Dei organisations.
The Leftist corporate media were keen to reveal this about the then newbie Premier
Such a characterisation is nothing more or less than was expected. And more than a little ironic in the claim of Catholic patriarchy given the Premier’s recent obsession with getting more Liberal women into parliament (at considerable cost at a number of levels).
These risible, undergraduate, Dan Brown-level “analyses” of Perrottet and of Opus Dei gets it hopelessly wrong, of course. Gerard Henderson has previously called them out.
But this isn’t to say that Perrottet isn’t an Opus Dei premier. And that this might well explain his Government’s colour.
The one thing rarely mentioned about Opus Dei is its utter fidelity to the Pope, and the priority given to this core element of its prelature.
Not only Popes in general but each and every Pope. Including the current misfit, who no one on God’s Earth could accuse of being “far Right”.
You will often get silence from Catholics in response to questions and comments about the current incumbent. But not from members of Opus Dei.
From this corner of the Church, you will only ever get a vigorous defence of the man. Despite all that he has done to destroy the Barque of St Peter.
The Vicar of Opus Dei in New York has stated: “Love for the Holy Father is part of our DNA. We pray for him every day. We learn from him.
“As head of Opus Dei in the United States, I want to affirm that all of us in Opus Dei support the Pope and his work as pastor of the universal Church.
PRAYER
“We support the Pope, we pray for the Pope. He needs our prayer, he needs to feel that support.”
Opus Dei views Pope Francis in the exact same way it has viewed every Pope since Opus Dei was founded in 1928: Support for the Pope and his teachings; affirming the Pope as the Vicar of Christ on Earth; loyalty to the Pope; and, perhaps most important, prayer for the Pope.
Pope Francis, of course, is ultra-Leftist, globalist, green, feminist and beyond woke. No one bar Blind Freddie would dispute that.
Perhaps The Dom sees himself and his government as doing the Pope’s work. Or, at least, it is how he justifies his government’s papal-level Leftism.
The correlations are impressive, upon examination.
Francis appoints Leftist bishops. Perrottet appoints Leftist ministers.
Perrottet’s government is the greenest in Australia, by a fair stretch. Indeed, it was so recognised by the World Wildlife Fund. Outflanking Daniel Andrews in energy policy takes some doing. While the Pope says climate scepticism is a sin.
Perrottet is rabidly in favour of promoting women, as we have seen. He seems intent on prolonging the NSW Liberal Party’s almost constant state of civil war in order to get his way. Pope Francis wants women priests (though he knows he cannot get this one through just now).
Perrottet sat quietly at the Cabinet table while his predecessor sent the army to patrol the streets of curfewed, locked-down, max-vaxxed Western Sydney.
As Premier, he allowed the unvaxxed to be excluded from retail outlets for nearly two months. He sits atop a government that sacked thousands of its workers for being unjabbed.
KILL & MAIM
His Health Minister continues to promote mRNA products that have been proven to kill and maim people. They are being given to children who do not need them.
For his part, the Pope is practically on the Board of Pfizer. He and his bishops didn’t bat an eyelid when governments the world over closed down churches.
Nor did the Pope or his bishops raise any objections when research of COVID “vaccines” and their manufacture was conducted using cells from aborted foetuses. Even Pared schools sacked staff who refused to be jabbed on moral grounds. It is a funny old world.
The Premier’s “personal” opposition to abortion and euthanasia didn’t stop him readily agreeing to a conscience vote that all but guaranteed that these vile measures were passed on his watch.
He hardly even bothered to turn up to express his “personal” opposition. The current Pope is of the view that pro-life Catholics should tone it right down. He recently had a pro-life American priest laicised, that is, sacked.
The journos who think Perrottet is dangerous because of his conservative Catholic beliefs often point to his alleged economic liberalism.
Not something shared with the Pope, of course. But this is a myth. He appointed a mad Leftist as his Treasurer.
His policies are not noticeably fiscally conservative, either now nor when he was Treasurer. His is a big government premier. He hasn’t been remotely libertarian.
CATHOLIC
The question for our times might well turn out not to be “is the Pope a Catholic?” (we know he isn’t) – but rather, is the Premier a papist?
It seems that he is, after all, and not remotely in the ways that lazy, ignorant, ideological journalists believe.
Just like the Pope, the Premier doesn’t seem able to find a Left-wing cause he doesn’t go out of his way to pursue.
A strong case can be made for the close alignment of Premier and Pope, and therefore a plausible explanation for why our “conservative” Premier isn’t.PC
Congrats! This article can now lay claim to the most objectionable, intellectually bereft and anti-religious that this website has ever published. It is hard to work out what is worse: the factually contorted analysis which is all over the place (but nowhere near the truth) or the naked sectarianism of weaponizing a man’s faith against him. The undergraduate prose barely rises to the level of interesting but is non sensical with every sentence; then you finish with a flourish declaring against ” lazy, ignorant, ideological journalists”.. have you read your own article?
The irony is so think you could cut it with a knife, perhaps you can use the one you staked in the heart of sensible commentary. Bottom of the class for you, Sir.
The author states the obvious: which is the Perrottet government is not conservative; in fact no LNP government, at a federal or state level has been conservative for a long time despite conservative leaders like Abbott and Howard. The author offers a number of reasons for this before offering the novel explanation for the Perrottet government’s lack of conservatism. There is no doubt there is a strong left wing, communist even, element in Catholicism. For instance, the 2006 Evangelical Climate Initiative regarded the IPCC as foundational in developing its position on AGW; sort of like an updated version of the 10 Commandments. This pope is a fanatical advocate for AGW. He has also supported communist China in many respects. Perrottet has not refuted any of this and offers no counter to his resident greenie, Matt Kean.
Ultimately though it doesn’t matter what the reason is: the fact is the LNP government (s) in this nation are no longer conservative. They are also stupid because they have not learnt the lesson offered by the election results in WA, SA and victoristan where they were punished for being pale imitations of the communist alp/greens.
Last night on Sky Katherine Deves and Teena McQueen were being interviewed. Katherine said that Matt Kean was going to identify as a woman and run as a Teal. Kean had treated Katherine abominably before the last election but Teena, the VP of the federal Libs, would have none of it and firmly castigated Katherine saying Kean as a minister deserved respect. McQueen has been subject to recent criticism by lefties in the libs such as Birmingham and no doubt was feeling the pressure. In doing so she personified the real problem for the LNP, especially the libs: they lack guts; the courage to take on the commies who are destroying Australia. Until they gain courage the real reason for their leftism is irrelevant and the Perrottet government will be the latest LNP government to be destroyed at the ballot box.