This week, in a major speech, Prime Minister Albanese coined a new phrase to describe the actions of his lacklustre and decidely unimpressive government: ‘the Australian way’. Mr Albanese was referring to his defence policy, but it begs the question: under his government, what is the Australian way forward?

Is it the Australian way for Jew haters to smash up restaurants and set fire to synagogues? Is it the Australian way for businesses to go bankrupt due to energy costs in a land once blessed with the cheapest energy on earth?

The appalling events of the last weekend which saw Kristallnacht-style violence in the streets of Melbourne has rightly brought derision and scorn upon Australia from around the world. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Foreign Minister, along with any number of prominent Israelis, have voiced their horror at the Jew-hatred increasingly visible and prevalent on our streets. But instead of confronting the issue head on, both major parties engage in a fraudulent and dangerous game of refusing to acknowledge who the real villains are, and instead faff on about social cohesion pledges and task forces. So if our elected leaders will not bell the cat, allow us to. The antisemitism that is destroying the lives, the peace of mind and the security of Australian Jews is the direct result of decades of a warped and disingenuous policy of multiculturalism that has permitted certain antisemitic communities and cultural beliefs from the Middle East and North Africa to entrench themselves with impunity in the suburbs of our cities. These communities preach and teach hatred of Jews either directly by repugnant hate preachers or indirectly through ancient beliefs and prejudiced educators and we are all expected to just happily acquiesce in the name of ‘diversity’, ‘inclusion’ and ‘multiculturalism’. This is the result of every Australian government since Whitlam’s failing to embrace any of the assimilation policies that made Australian immigration and integration so successful from the post-war period through to the turn of the century. Yes, there are some grubby so-called neo-Nazi types who hold vile antisemitic beliefs, but there is no question that it was the disgraceful and wholly unprovoked pro-Palestinian ‘protest’ of 8 October 2023 (long before the IDF had moved on Gaza) on the steps of the Opera House that, by receiving scant punishment or condemnation from the authorities, gave the green light to those who hate Jews to express their antisemitism publicly. (Worse, the New South Wales police arrested a Jewish man at the event, and then released a farcical ‘audio-forensic’ report to downplay what the Jew-hating crowds had been chanting). Since then, the complete lack of any forceful or meaningful action by federal and state Labor governments against any Muslim organisations or individuals whatsoever is a disgrace. Where are those so-called ‘community leaders’ for various Muslim groups in Australia who are so vocal on so many other occasions yet seem strangely absent when it comes to condemning these pro-Hamas activists?

But then again, why would any Muslim groups care, when every one of our Labor ministers has made it abundantly clear they have no genuine interest in the Jewish community and certainly would never do anything to antagonise any of Labor’s Muslim supporters in the western suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne?

But it is not only Australian Jews who should feel their security has been comprised by this government. So, too, should every Australian of whatever background.

Apparently, ‘the Australian way’ specifically refers to the government trashing our single most important and precious security arrangement, that with the United States. Prime Minister Albanese’s ridiculous speech about John Curtin was breathtaking in its recklessness, its stupidity and its ignorance, as Rebecca Weisser details in her column this week.

Our alliance with America is critical to our security and now more than ever we need to be strengthening it to counter the threat from China. Due to our geography, our minerals-wealth and our history, Australia has a very simple binary choice. We are either under America’s umbrella or China’s. This week, as the Trump administration reviews Aukus, Mr Albanese has made clear what he means by ‘the Australian way’ by hopping not on a plane to Washington, but on a jet to Beijing.

And finally the economy. As this nation faces record business closures and lack of investment, it is apparently the Australian way for our socialist government to blindly pursue net zero fantasies with the fanatical obsession of a doomsday cult, oblivious to the desperate requirements current and future Australians have and will increasingly have for abundant, cheap and reliable energy in an age of AI.

Australia has traditionally been a wealthy, prosperous and peaceful nation. But a government mired in failure on the key issues of security, the economy and social cohesion does not bode well for the future. Once upon a time, the Australian way was a guarantee of success, prosperity and a fair dinkum way of life. Not any more, it would seem.