You Can Always Rely on the Greens

You can always rely on the Greens to be the worst people in the room — and they haven’t disappointed, as the world wakes to the news that Queen Elizabeth II has passed away.

Australia’s living past prime ministers and current leaders, even adamant Republican Anthony Albanese, were united in their respectful words and condolences for the only monarch that generations of us have ever known.

And then there’s the Greens…

Greens Leader Adam Bandt has declared Australia must “move forward” following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, saying the country needs to conclude a treaty with First Nations people and become a Republic.

Mr Bandt took to Twitter just five hours after Buckingham Palace announced the death of the Queen overnight.

This is the grub, recall, who refuses to even display the Australian flag because of its Union Jack — even at the same time as he trousers a couple hundred grand every year by swearing an oath of allegiance “to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second, Her heirs and successors according to law”. He leads a party of infantile cretins like Lidia Thorpe, who earlier this year perverted the Parliamentary Oath to “the colonising Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II”. Having got the attention she so desperately craves, and mindful that her parliamentary salary hinged on the matter, Thorpe duly swore the correct oath.

But in the race to the bottom that is the Greens, the wooden spoon goes, unsurprisingly, to Australia’s most odious Pakistani transplant, Mehreen Faruqi.

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

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Oddly, Faruqi also had no problems pocketing a lavish parliamentary salary in the Queen’s name.

Faruqi, it might also be recalled, never fails to brandish the fact that she is Muslim. You know, those Muslims who dub black people “Abed” (“slave”), still run slave markets selling black Africans, and built vast empires by murdering millions.

The beam in your own eye, you revolting parasite.

I mean, how bad do you have to be, to be out-classed by “Pirate Pete” FitzSimons?

The Australian Republic Movement was more restrained. “The Australian Republic Movement recognises and pays due respect to the significant contribution made by Queen Elizabeth II over more than seven decades as Head of State to Australia and 14 other nations, and expresses its condolences to the Royal Family,’’ it said in a statement.

“Many Australians have known no other Head of State – the length of her reign was unrivalled. As monarch, Queen Elizabeth was a patron of more than 600 organisations and served them admirably. She rose to become a respected representative of Britain and the Commonwealth” […]

Chair of the Australian Republic Movement Peter FitzSimons expressed his sympathies and gratitude on behalf of the Movement. “We are deeply saddened by the news of Queen Elizabeth’s passing and express deep gratitude and thanks for her service to the Commonwealth,’’ he said.

The Australian

As former Chief Health Officer Dr. Nick Coatsworth wrote on Twitter, “Just quietly compare this with the statesmanlike words from Albanese and Dutton and reflect on why these guys are perpetually at 10%. Have some respect son.”

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson was, unsurprisingly, much more forthright:

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

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Forget the Greens and the nasty stain they cast on Australian politics. Instead, consider perhaps the most eloquent tribute made by an Australian political leader, former PM Tony Abbott.

Almost no one alive today can remember a world without the Queen. That’s why her passing will leave billions of people feeling numb, certainly all those in the English-speaking countries and the wider Commonwealth for whom the monarchy matters most.

The Australian