Archiving the “strange death of Europe,” as Douglas Murray put it, and the West more broadly, at the hands of the neoliberal technocracy.
Australian prime minister warns against "rising threat" of "right-wing extremism" in aftermath of Islamic shooting
Despite the fact that the father-son mass killer duo were radicalized Muslims with, reportedly, a pair of homemade ISIS flags in their car, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, in the aftermath of the killing spree, foreshadowed a crackdown on “right-wing extremist groups,” after he claimed Australian intelligence had fingered them as a “rising threat.”
"We take [Australian Security Intelligence Organisation]'s advice very seriously, we work closely with them. We receive regular updates as well. The Director-General of [Australian Security Intelligence Organisation] has warned about a range of threats, be it antisemitism, uh, the rise in right wing extremist groups as well. And we continue to work closely with our security agencies."
The Prime Minister of Australia says the true threat is “right-wing extremist groups” after the Islamic terrorist attack yesterday.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) December 15, 2025
Actually absurd.
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Australian MP after Bondi shooting: "Diversity is our strength"
Unable to resist the opportunity to obliquely demonize white people with rhetorical nods to “diversity,” Labour MP Lola McEvoy took to GB News while the bodies were still warm to demand Australians “detoxify the way that we think of people who are not like us.”
I don’t want to speculate on what the factors are that contributed to this awful tragedy that seems to be of a huge scale…
It’s important to note that the, sort of escalation, of this narrative of who we’re against and how much we want to divide each other and how much we want to attack each other, that is really at the core of a lot of the problems we have in the country…
As much as possible, we should try to detoxify the way that we think of people who are not like us. Because our diversity in this country is our strength.
I can't believe what I've just watched.
— Lee Harris (@LeeHarris) December 14, 2025
This is what Labour MP Lola McEvoy said following the terror attack on Bondi Beach.
"We should try to detoxify the way we think of people who aren't like us, because *diversity is our strength*"
This is what you call suicidal empathy. pic.twitter.com/cWaDzDAqnD
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What’s truly remarkable is how fully irrelevant the identity of the perpetrator of any given crime actually is, in the sense that the exact same talking points about evil white people being the problem emerge in any scenario, no matter who pulls the trigger.
"Hundreds of thousands of firearms" to be confiscated by state, announces PM Albanese
Even though Australia already has among the most draconian gun control laws in the world, thanks to a prior gun confiscation program after a 1996 mass shooting, Prime Minister Albanese announced a new program to mop up whatever remains of Australian gun rights:
We expect hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and destroyed through this scheme. Consistent with the approach that was taken in 1996, the government is proposing that states and territories will be responsible for the collection, processing, and payment to individuals for surrendered firearms. The Australian Federal Police will then be responsible for the destruction of these firearms.
🚨 WTF?! Prime Minister of Australia announces "hundreds of thousands of firearms will be collected and DESTROYED" after the Islamic terror attack
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 19, 2025
They are now having residents SURRENDER their firearms.
Absolute insanity. It's not the guns. It's Muslims. pic.twitter.com/Y28nfqOkTy
The above-referenced 1996 gun confiscation scheme was also the result of a mass shooting in Port Arthur, Tasmania. Immediately, then-Prime Minister John Howard of the nominally “center-right” Liberal Party seized on the political capital that the tragedy provided to push through a program to accomplish what would not have been possible without a mass tragedy — problem, reaction, solution.
Via The Guardian (emphasis added):
Twelve days after the Port Arthur massacre, the Australian prime minister, John Howard, announced a sweeping package of gun reforms in a country where firearms had long been considered an essential prop in the national mythology of life in the bush.
“At that stage the gun lobby was the ruling lobby in Australia,” says Philip Alpers, associate professor at the University of Sydney. “What happened at Port Arthur is that they were outpaced, outflanked and outwitted by a man who had the power to move in 12 remarkable days.”
Tim Fischer was leader of the National party and Howard’s deputy prime minister in the Coalition government, charged with persuading sceptical country voters to support, or at least accept, reforms. “Port Arthur was our Sandy Hook,” he says. “Port Arthur we acted on. The USA is not prepared to act on their tragedies.”
