The action isn’t letting up in the race to be Australia’s most revolting opportunist following the Queen’s death. The Greens leadership team were out of the gate with lightning speed, with Adam Bandt and Pakistani ingrate Mehreen Faruqi tweeting their bilious little hearts out within hours. Indeed, with even Pirate Pete FitzSimons pulling his sizable head in for perhaps the first time in his life, it was looking like an all-Grunt* race.
But the prize show-pony that the crowd wearisomely anticipated was, of course, Australia’s whitest “black woman”, the Greens’ (of course!) Lidia Thorpe. The Lidiot did not disappoint.
Greens senator Lidia Thorpe will snub the Queen’s memorial in Canberra on Thursday, breaking ranks with party leader Adam Bandt, who is attending the event.
With all federal MPs and senators invited to Parliament House, Senator Thorpe will instead be in Melbourne attending an Indigenous healing ceremony followed by an “abolish the monarchy” protest march.
The Australian
Who promotes a “healing ceremony” like this?
Still, I guess we can thank Thorpe for doing more work for the “Vote No” case for the upcoming “Indigenous Voice” referendum than a hundred op-eds.
But the Greens are just the festering head on the swollen, bilious sore that’s the Australian left. There’s plenty others to ooze in their wake.
Q+A host Stan Grant demanded robust discussions about colonisation and the possibility of Australia becoming a republic be aired on the program following the Queen’s death.
The Indigenous host, who fronts the national broadcaster’s flagship current affairs talk program, said he “fought” for a specific guest line-up on last week’s program.
The Australian
“Specific”, as in “the same composition as every Q+A panel: a token conservative, whose only role is to be shouted over by the rest of a panel ranging from left, to far-left, to lunar-left. Of course, they have to wait for the host to finish cutting off the conservative before they can start shouting.
It apparently hasn’t occurred to “Tan” Grant, either, that he has rather a lot to thank colonisation for: not least, at least half of his family tree. Not to mention such “whitefulla magic” as tanning beds.
But where would any Australian race to the bottom be without the ABC, and its taxpayer-funded roster of alleged “comedians”?
On Thursday night (Australian time), as the Royal Family rushed to Balmoral Castle and BBC presenters changed into funereal attire, the satirical comedy group known as The Chaser put out a series of tweets attempting (and failing) to make light of the situation.
And even less successfully attempting to remind the 90% of Australians who avoid the ABC like the plague that it is, that their taxes are ensuring that The Chaser, lamentably, still exists.
After an initial tweet referencing the Netflix series The Crown, The Chaser account offered up the following:
R U OK day not going well at palace
This lazy attempt to draw a connection between the Australian suicide prevention charity R U OK? and the Royal health crisis was apparently too much for even The Chaser’s followers, with many responding that it was in poor taste.
This was followed by an even lazier joke about Rupert Murdoch still being the leader of Australia […]
Whoever is currently controlling the Twitter account continued tweeting on Friday morning – apparently attempting to cause controversy with tweets like “God fails to save Queen” and “JK Rowling furious to hear monarch has transitioned to a man”. As satire, these “jokes” rise slightly above the level of blowing your nose on the flag. A thoroughly lame attempt at provocation, to be sure.
The Australian
But, just as all this gruntery is turning out to be the best argument for the “No” case, it’s also proving to be the best advertisement constitutional monarchists could hope for.
A survey by Compass Polling commissioned by the Menzies Research Centre showed support for the monarchy had grown since the death of the Queen. The survey, conducted last week, showed 57 per cent of people supported retaining the British monarch as Australia’s head of state, up from 43 per cent in January.
Seventy-five per cent of respondents believed Charles would make a good King, with half of Labor voters now opposing a republic.
The Australian
Keep it up, you lot: keep it up. Please.