Just who does our government represent?

July 9, 2025

Noel Turnbull highlights the lack of confidence in Netanyahu and Israel by a considerable majority of Australians, so just who is it that the Albanese Government is representing?

Does it prefer to reflect the views of the US rather than its own electors? Does it actively honour the ALP platform on Palestine? Is it instead representing that part of our security fraternity/sorority with a narrow focus on hardware solutions to security, cavilling sotto voce at our trade relationships, and maybe in bed with Mossad?

Consider how much security our government’s failure to actively support longstanding international norms over Palestine has brought Australia’s Jewish people. Or our Muslim neighbours. Norms forged in Nuremberg and Tokyo, in the UN and in Geneva.

Security for us involves comprehensive healthcare and affordable medicine, and trading with China and Asia, top biosecurity, and low or no tariffs, all of which the US is attacking. It involves climate security, also under attack by the US. The US Big Ugly Act will undermine Australians’ economic security with its deficit and the likely quantitative easing which will push inflation worldwide. To return to the question – who does our current government (and, for that matter, Opposition) represent?

PS: The PM has received more than 65,000 pieces of correspondence on Gaza, as just revealed under FOI.