[Peetwo]

The Green Hall of Shame - 

Via the APH:

Freedom of Speech

ANTIC (South Australia) (13:32): History tells us that civilisations and empires are transitory. There are increasing signs now that Western culture has reached a tipping point. Left-wing activism supposedly based on equity, diversity and inclusion uses its allies in the media, the corporate sector and politics to prohibit any views it disapproves of. Too many of our modern leaders are not across this threat. They seem to think that defending our values is beneath them and that we have time on our side. We do not. Suicide and depression rates in our young people continue to skyrocket. We've failed to instil in them a sense of meaning and purpose, replacing it with empty modern ideologies like climate alarmism. On leaving school, young adults have little knowledge of history, the result of a curriculum denuded of Western history, replaced by critical race theory and a sense of victimhood.

Sadly, too many have cowered before these ideologies, afraid of being called the various isms and phobias, and they're wreaking havoc across the West. If a principled defence of liberty was ever needed in this country, it was over the past 2½ years, yet we were told that those concerned with freedom were dangerous extremists. We need more brave men and women to stand up for future generations of Australians and hand them a culture that is greater than the one left to us. The relative prosperity and peace we've enjoyed have allowed us to become complacent, thinking that such a decline couldn't happen here, but the time has come for our leaders to stand up for what is right. Without urgent, strong leadership the West is doomed.

Senator Thorpe: Why do you have to be so racist?

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator O'Neill ): I just want to draw to the attention of senators that these are short statements of two minutes, and I do expect members to be heard without interruption.

Senator Thorpe: This is my workplace.

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Thorpe, you are out of order. You need to contain your commentary to an appropriate standard for the Senate.

Senator Thorpe: I will not stand by—

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: You will not be heard.

Senator McGrath: On a point of order, a senator in this place just called another senator a racist, and I would ask for that to be withdrawn.

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: I think that's entirely reasonable. Senator Thorpe?

Senator Thorpe: I was stating a fact.

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Thorpe, you must stand and withdraw.

Senator Thorpe: I'm not withdrawing, because it's a fact.

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Right, take your seat, Senator Thorpe. Turn off the microphone. I'll take some advice from the Clerk. Take your seat.

Senator Thorpe interjecting—

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Thorpe, please resume your seat for a moment.

Senator Thorpe interj ecting—

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Thorpe, I'm going to give you an opportunity to withdraw. Will you stand and assist the orderly business of the Senate by withdrawing?

Senator Thorpe: Can you tell me what happens if I don't?

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: No, I'm not going to tell you anything else. I'm going to ask you to stand and, for the benefit of the Senate and the orderly progress of business, for you to withdraw. Senator Thorpe.

Senator Thorpe: With all due respect, Acting Deputy President, could you please inform me what the ramifications would be for me to remove my remark about somebody being racist and me not feeling safe?

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: I don't want to give you a platform to repeat the terms that you've used.

Senator Thorpe: I need to know what the ramifications are. Could I seek advice?

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Turn off the microphone. Senator Thorpe, resume your seat. Senator Thorpe, you have the opportunity to assist the Senate by acceding to our standing orders and withdrawing a remark that was unparliamentary. That is what you are being asked to do. It doesn't remove it, but I am asking you, for the benefit of the Senate, to withdraw a remark that was not parliamentary. I'll take a point of order from you, Senator Faruqi.

Senator Faruqi: I want to raise this point of order. It has happened in this chamber before that often, when there is racism thrown around in this chamber, it is the people who raise the—

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDEN T: Senator Faruqi, please resume your seat for a moment. I just want to be clear that we're not going to reprosecute every time that offence has occurred in the chamber, and I don't think this historical contribution is assisting at this point. I need you as, a fellow member of this chamber, to advise your colleague about standing orders and principles. It would be appropriate for the senator to withdraw. If she is unable to take that on—

Senator Faruqi: I think people, when they are throwing around racism, need to be aware of what they are doing and how it's impacting on other people.

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Broadcasting, do not open the microphone unless I called the senator's name. Senator Faruqi, what is your point of order?

Senator Faruqi: My point of order is this: when decisions are made in this chamber, I think consideration needs to be given to the impact of comments from other senators on appropriateness and on racism.

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: I have to agree with you, Senator Faruqi, and that is why we have standing orders. So thank you for your point of order; please resume your seat. I am going to give you one final chance, Senator Thorpe, to withdraw your comment that was unparliamentary. You can either withdraw or you may not. What is your choice?

Senator Thorpe: With all due respect, I need to be pointed to where using the word 'racism' in this parliament—I need to know where it's unparliamentary because I don't understand. I'm feeling violated—

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Thorpe, please resume your seat. I'm assuming that you are refusing to withdraw and so I will be reporting this matter to the Senate. You no longer have the call. We will return to the program because this has taken up the time of people who want to speak. Senator Faruqi, you have the call to make your contribution.\

UFB! - The intelligence on display from these 2 Greens make Pauline Hanson look like a rocket scientist...

Next I note that the Greens didn't waste time jumping all over the death of the UK's beloved QEII (may she RIP!  ):

Via Twitter:

Adam Bandt
@AdamBandt

Rest In Peace Queen Elizabeth II.

Our thoughts are with her family and all who loved her.

Now Australia must move forward.

We need Treaty with First Nations people, and we need to become a Republic.

And from Senator Faruqi:

Mehreen Faruqi
@MehreenFaruqi

Condolences to those who knew the Queen.

I cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples.

We are reminded of the urgency of Treaty with First Nations, justice & reparations for British colonies & becoming a republic.

Hmm...I second the PH tweet reply sentiments - 

Pauline Hanson ??
@PaulineHansonOz

Your attitude appalls and disgusts me. When you immigrated to Australia you took every advantage of this country. You took citizenship, bought multiple homes, and a job in a parliament. It’s clear you're not happy, so pack your bags and piss off back to Pakistan. -PH

   
Finally to a put line under all this Green extreme woke, leftist,  virtual signaling bollocks, I refer to the following clear, concise and rational email correspondence from Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price:

Dear P2,

The woke left just hate being called out.

They hate it when they’re confronted with the logic and facts that destroy their paper-thin emotional arguments.

Instead of holding their ground, and arguing their positions they cry, “RACIST!”

It’s the quickest way to shut down a debate, right?

It’s a trick that Greens Senator Lidia Thorpe pulled in parliament this week.

She couldn't stand the sense made by my friend and colleague Senator Alex Antic, who was arguing that too many people live in fear of being labelled with an “-ism” or a “-phobia” by left-wing activists.

So how did Lidia respond? She jumped to her feet, interrupted him and cried "RACIST!"

“Why do you have to be so racist,” she said. “This is my workplace… I’m feeling violated.”

Yes, that’s what she ACTUALLY said.

There’s no way she heard the comments this week of Northern Territory Supreme Court judge Judith Kelly.

Justice Kelly said there is an “anti-racism” cult which wrongly labels people racist to shut them up.

As just one example, she said that in the NT over the past 22 years, two Aboriginal men had been shot by police.

Yet in the same time, some 65 Aboriginal women were killed by their partners.

This is what Justice Kelly had to say about it:

Everyone is willing to talk about the over-representation of Aboriginal men in prison. It has been called Australia’s shame and so it is. But, as I have said before, the stream of Aboriginal men going to prison is matched by a steady stream – a river – of Aboriginal women going to the hospital and to the morgue. It is an epidemic of extreme domestic violence...

Where is the wall-to-wall media coverage for those women?

Where are the protests from Labor and the Greens and their woke inner-city mates?

They’re busy screaming “RACIST!” every time someone points out a problem and offers a REAL solution.

You and I need to keep speaking the truth, even if the woke left call us racists.

Justice Kelly is absolutely correct.

There is an “anti-racist” ideology spreading in this country that denies what's going on in remote communities.

It denies the voices of victims and it’s the reason why the violence keeps happening.

The woke left want to trap Indigenous Australians into a permanent state of victimhood.

They think that what goes on in our communities has to do with the colour of our skin, so if you do stand up and point out that the emperor has no clothes, then you're somehow racist.

We have to stop that rhetoric, because it's poisonous, it's divisive and it contributes to the demise of our most vulnerable.

It’s not racist to see the REAL problems and call for REAL solutions.

Just as I finished writing, I saw the news that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has died peacefully at Balmoral.

I wonder what she would’ve made of all this.

Her Majesty was a remarkable monarch who dedicated her life to serve not only the Commonwealth but the world – and she had a special relationship with Indigenous Australians.

She was a leader and stateswoman who united us. She brought people together, she never divided them.

Our leaders should turn to her for inspiration on how to unite us as a nation, rather than divide us by race.

Rest in Peace, Your Majesty.

And may God save the King!

 

MTF...P2