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Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Australia. Show all posts

Monday, July 27, 2026

Australian courts and returning jihadists; Albanese government on the wrong side of history, like all godless governments

 

Australia: Court grants bail to Islamic State bride, can’t bar ‘Doctor Jihad’ from returning to the country


In the future, some historians may wonder how Australia died as a free society. One key cause of death will be found to have been the loss of all idea of self-preservation and self-defense, and the ascendancy of the idea that the rights of criminals and jihadis took precedence over the right of Australians to be protected from those criminals and jihadis.



Criticism over ISIS bride bail triggers judges’ rebuke

by Noah Secomb, Australian Associated Press, July 23 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

The peak body of judges has warned the federal opposition leader’s questioning of the decision to grant bail to a member of the ISIS bride cohort risks undermining trust in the legal system.

The Victorian Magistrates’ Court granted bail to Rayann El Houli, who faces charges of travelling to a restricted area and being a member of a terror group, on Monday.

Angus Taylor said in a social media post that ”it’s an utter disgrace that an accused ISIS bride has been granted bail by a Victorian Magistrate”….

“No ISIS bride should have been allowed back into our country in the first place.”

The, comments made on the day of the decision, prompted the Australian Judicial Officers Association to respond….

“The decisions of judicial officers are not immune from criticism. However, any criticism must not undermine public confidence in the courts: it should be measured and fair and recognise that it is the duty of judicial officers to impartially apply the law.”

Meanwhile, the government faces an impending dilemma as up to 13 men linked to Islamic State imprisoned in Iraq seek to return to Australia.

Among the group is Perth-born pediatrician Tareq Kamleh, colloquially known as “Doctor Jihad”, who travelled to Syria in 2015 to join the terror organisation and was assumed to have been killed….

The government may not be able to stop Kamleh from returning home due to strict constitutional limitations….


 


After Worst Muslim Terrorist Attack, Australian Government Tackles ‘Islamophobia’


The cover-up continues.

Anthony Albanese, X Screenshot


The radical Albanese regime in Australia solicited a 60 page report on Islamophobia from its ‘Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia’ which conveniently never actually defined Islamophobia, but did call for removing religion as a motive in terrorist attack because that would discriminate against Muslims…

…and is now set to spend tens of millions on fighting this ‘Islamophobia’.

This comes not long after the Bondi Beach Muslim massacre of Jews at a Chanukah Party that was the single worst Muslim terrorist attack in Australian history.

Instead, the Albanese regime keeps referencing the killing of Muslims in a mosque in New Zealand back in 2019, rather than talking about the Bondi Beach Muslim terrorist attack in December 2025, because an attack in New Zealand from 7 years ago is somehow more relevant than an attack in Australia 7 months ago.

Albanese took the time to attack Pauline Hanson of One Nation, a patriotic party which has been polling well, and which had called for dealing with Islamic terrorism, falsely claiming that she is damaging ‘social cohesion’. No word about whether hospitals having to hide the Bondi Beach terror attack victims from Muslim nurses ‘damages social cohesion’.

A Muslim minister in the Albanese regime falsely claimed that “Islamophobia is dangerously close to being normalized”. No, but the denial of Islamic terrorism has been once again normalized.

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Saturday, July 18, 2026

Aussies turning farther and farther from God

 

The 2026 Census Will Show Australians Are Still Turning Away From Christianity


In the 2021 Australian Census, 9,886,957 people (or 38.9% of the population) ticked “no religion.”

The population selecting no religious affiliation grew from roughly 7 million people in 2016 to nearly 9.9 million people in 2021.

Australians identifying as “no religion” rose to 38.9% from 30.1% at the 2016 census and 22.3% in 2011 – an increase of 16.6% in a decade.

The data indicates a massive, multi-generational shift away from Christianity in Australia.

For the first time in Australian Census history, the 2021 results revealed that fewer than half of all Australians (43.9%) identify as Christian, a steep drop from 52.1% in 2016 and 61.1% in 2011.

Fifty years ago, in 1971, that figure was 86.2%.

St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, Dxwkx, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0


The implications of this are massive, especially when growing populations who practice expansionist, proselytizing religions such as Islam are filling the void.

We can fully expect to see the Muslim population reach 1.2 million and 4.3% of Australia’s population in this year’s census.

It has been roughly doubling every decade, and Shady Alsuleiman, president of the Australian National Imams Council, has been rejoicing at the trend.

“We as a Muslim community, right now, according to the pattern and the trend, we double every 11-12 years,” he said on a podcast in 2025.

“We need to be a part of the decision making,” he said.

“Halal, for example, hijab, for example, masajid [mosques], for example. We need to plan for the next 50-100 years.”

Conversely, Sydney Catholic Schools’ manager and Network Catholic Identity, Dr. Robert Haddad, said overall the religious affiliation numbers for the 2021 Census make very “disturbing reading.”

He said the huge increase in the number of those describing themselves as “no religion” evidences that we are losing the battle for the hearts and minds of upcoming “millennials.”

“For the second census in a row, the number of Catholics has fallen both as a raw number and as a percentage of the Australian population,” he said.

“Unless something dramatic is done, we Catholics and Christians in general, run the risk of becoming an aging and shrinking minority in our own country, putting at further risk our religious freedoms. However, we must resist any temptation to fall back into the ‘bunkerm’ and redouble our efforts to evangelize the culture and emerging generations. We have to promote the faith in ways that are faithful, relevant and joyful all at the same time, which is not an easy task, but definitely a necessary one.”

So what will Australia’s 2026 Census reveal? At this point, the outcome seems painfully predictable.

A further shunning of the foundational pillar of Christianity sounds another death knell for Australia.

How responsible is the Royal Commission into Institutionalized Child Sexual Abuse for the movement away from Catholicism and Christianity? I have no doubt there is a correlation, as there should be.

My concern is that as Aussies turn farther from God, they will gravitate toward wokeism and antisemitism, both of which run hand in hand with godlessness.

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Thursday, June 18, 2026

Politics Downunder > Is Pauline Hanson Australia's smartest politician?

 

‘We must be monocultural’: Hanson demands end to multiculturalism, calls climate change a hoax

Updated ,first published




Pauline Hanson’s first speech at the National Press Club has outlined her plans to clamp down on Muslim migration, end multiculturalism and axe the government’s climate change department, as the One Nation leader claimed four of Australia’s closest allies were “absolute s-holes”.

Hanson began her no-apologies speech on Wednesday by identifying immigration and housing affordability as two of the most pressing issues facing the country, insisting Australia “cannot be a multicultural society”.


“We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural,” she said while attacking the assembled media for continuing to “repeat the lie that we are a racist party”.

Supported by her fellow One Nation senators Malcolm Roberts, Sean Bell and Tyron Whitten and star defector Barnaby Joyce, Hanson approached her question-and-answer session with Canberra press gallery journalists with defiance and sometimes direct hostility, saying they had been part of the problem, along with incompetent government ministers and a lazy and bloated public service.

The speech, Hanson’s first address to the press club in 30 years in politics, came as polling found primary vote support for One Nation has surged past Labor and the Coalition, and after Hanson was named preferred prime minister in the latest Resolve Political Monitor.

The speech was interrupted briefly by a stunt banner unfurled behind the leader as she spoke, planted by activist group GetUp. The press club has referred footage of the incident to the federal police and issued an apology to Hanson, who paused briefly to look at the banner before continuing on with her speech.

Asked if Australia was in danger of being swamped by Muslim migrants – as she had claimed was happening with Asian immigration during the 1990s – Hanson said, “Not if I’ve got any say in it.

“Radical Islam is my grave concern ... I think we’ve got 18,000 people on ASIO watch lists at the moment, and probably 220 very serious [cases], in a country like this? What about … what happened in Bondi, which I have expressed. We can’t keep up with the personnel to keep an eye on these people. I’m not apologising for anything, and I’ve seen too much footage on our TVs from what’s happening in Britain, Canada, France, Germany, they’re all just absolute … s-holes.”


It is not clear what the source is for Hanson’s claim about the watch list. ASIO has previously indicated it does not have a watch-list tally.

Hanson vowed to shut down multicultural broadcaster SBS and make the ABC subscription-only in capital cities. She also promised to shut down government departments including “the climate change department, the Aboriginal department” and parts of the education and health departments.

She told the club that any money saved from scrapping these services would go into consolidated revenue.

“We’re all treated as Australians, equally, on an individual needs basis, not based on race, and with that, yes, that money will go into consolidated revenue, where any Australian can get that help if they need help.”

Hanson also railed against “the hoax of global warming”, which she blamed for rising energy costs, and said she would scrap all subsidies for renewable energy projects.

On nuclear power, she said the Coalition made a mistake committing to seven power plants, and she would build them only as needed. Barnaby Joyce was a big promoter of nuclear power when he was with the Nationals.

“No more wind turbines to be put in; that will be scrapped,” Hanson said. “No more solar panels on agricultural land – gone. Put it up on your roofs. I don’t care. Coal-fired power stations, yes. We need to have that one in South Australia, one in Queensland, to deliver the power that we need. And then from there we move forward and put in a reactor. Start with one. It all comes down to if you can afford it.”

United Nations science body the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said human-induced greenhouse emissions are the dominant cause of global warming, which is raising the atmospheric temperature and increasing extreme weather. Its findings are subject to more than 2000 independent scientific reviewers.

While the Coalition has scrapped its support for a net zero target, the other major parties still agree that man-made climate change is real.

Hanson said the childcare system and the industrial relations system should be completely overhauled and repeated her opposition to pay rises for workers, arguing that businesses tell her that employees are lazy and too difficult to sack.

“You need to look at the other side of the ledger. Can businesses afford and pay that? I understand there is a struggle that is happening in people being able to afford and pay their bills, but there has to be a balance,” she said.

“Industrial relations, I can assure you, needs a complete overhaul because it’s not working.”

Asked about her stance on abortion, Hanson said, “I’m not against people and circumstances, women that need to have an abortion for medical reasons, for some circumstance. I’d rather educate women to use contraceptives than to go through an abortion; too many abortions in this country, anyway”.

Asked earlier in the day if One Nation was fit to govern, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the party was “opposed to all of the cost-of-living measures that my government has put in place” and noted he had watched an interview “from the One Nation leader where she was talking about making it easier to sack people and concerned about the minimum wage increases”.

Greens leader Larissa Waters described Hanson’s speech as “incoherent hatred”.

“Pauline Hanson’s incoherent hatred today offered nothing more than the same tired Islamophobia, transphobia, racism and protection racket for fossil fuels we’ve heard from her for decades.

“Pauline Hanson wants Australians angry, divided and scared of our neighbours. It’s an ugly and racist distraction from her servitude of the same billionaires and corporate superprofits as the major parties.”

Does she really want the country divided and scared, or does she just want them to wake up to the needless dangers around and among them?

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor also asked if Hanson was fit to govern when interviewed on Darwin radio station Mix 104.

“Are they fit to govern? Have they got a credible plan for the country? And we’ve got a member of One Nation we see today saying that the United States is the ‘worst terrorist organisation in the world’. I mean, seriously?”

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Friday, May 29, 2026

DeIslamization begins in Sydney > Police break up street praying by bunch of Muslims

 

Sydney Police physically clearing Muslims praying on public streets… support it or call it overreach? Be honest 🥺

https://x.com/i/status/2060017841961906282

https://x.com/i/status/2060017841961906282