For those who have even a cursory knowledge of the history of the Liberal party and its predecessor the United Australia party, Dutton’s attempt to pose as defender of all things decent and the local Jewish community, is amusing.
Senator James Paterson of IPA origins lead the Liberal party crusade against section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act which makes it illegal to offend, insult or humiliate someone because of their race.
This was when refugees and Muslims were being vilified.
All minority communities and the democratic section within the Liberal party opposed this stupidity. The distinction was made between freedom of speech in the US Republican style and hate speech. Paterson did not get it.
Undeterred by the failure of the federal parliament’s joint committee on human rights to endorse the change, “Senator Paterson sees that as a starting point and he has no intention of abandoning the push for substantive change to the law itself.”
“The government has today everything it needs to act on 18C,” he said. “It has specific recommendations on how to improve the Human Rights Commission processes…” [Senator Paterson.com.au]
Despite this checkered past the same senator is now the darling of the Zionist right, for his demanding that antisemitic graffiti be classed as terrorist. Freedom of speech and 18C are no longer mentioned.
The anti-Semitism politicisation campaign of the LNP, with the breathless support of Sky TV and the ABC, loudly supported by the Zionist Federation, is attempting to link the attacks to the anti-genocide demonstrations taking place all over the country.
ASIO stymied this to some extent with its consideration of the likelihood of foreign actors, but this did not deter Frydenberg in his platform on the ABC 7.30 Report where he tried to link the Holocaust, the demonstrations and Labor neglect into an outrageous political statement.
The Liberal party which grew from roots in the UAP, should be the very last political organisation to pose as defenders of the Jewish community.
In 1923, the premier of Victoria, Lawson, later a minister in UAP Lyons government had a private audience with Mussolini in which he expressed his “keen sympathy with the fascist movement”, and the New South Wales premier at the time likewise expressed admiration for the new regime.
Likewise the Liberal and Country League premier of South Australia, R H Butler, along with the Director of Technical Education for the state, visited Germany in the mid-1930s and both were said to have been “especially impressed by the Youth Labour Camps.
Upon request from Antonio Grossardi, the fascist Italian Consul-General, the Australian government used its wide-ranging war powers to outlaw Italian anti-fascist publications and prevent their import.
Fascist-sympathising Italians also found it much easier to secure citizenship than anti-fascists. [2017 Louise O’Shea ASSLH Canberra]
Menzies admiration of the Third Reich after his 1938 visit is well known.
Liberal party representatives regularly attended April 10 celebrations of the Ushashi, the Nazi puppet regime which exterminated all Jews in its jurisdiction then started on Serbian Orthodox believers.
The open celebration of this regime in Australia has concerned the independent state of Croatia. [The Jewish Independent, 13 June 2023]
Craig Kelly, representing PM Abbott at the 2014 celebration apparently endorsed the puppet flag.
“In a statement to SBS, the Croatian Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed it had called the Australian Ambassador to explain.” [SBS News, 22 April 2014]
The flirting of the Australian Tories with the nastiest elements of the Cold War Nazi warriors was highlighted by the exposure of “The Uglies” faction in the NSW Liberal party and its nest of Nazis in the NSW Liberal Party Migrant Advisory Council of the early 1970s.
Their recent concern over anti-Semitism does not ring true.
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