Everybody wants a royal commission into anti-Semitism, apparently.
With the government’s reasons for opposing a royal commission being widely panned and the inquiry being backed by leading figures in the business, sporting, legal and security sectors, the issue was scheduled to be debated earlier this week at a meeting of the national security committee of cabinet. After the meeting on Monday, Jim Chalmers did not explicitly oppose a royal commission and this language was replicated on Tuesday morning by Left faction heavyweight Mark Butler.
What good is an inquiry going to do? Do we think we are going to uncover some secret society of neo-Nazis? Pfft.
If people want to protest for and against a foreign war over which they have zero power, and which has no bearing upon their lives, then let ’em.
A royal commission isn’t going to stop it. Nor should it. It’s a free country. Or used to be. These calls sound more like senior snowflake’s demand for mind control.
To wit, I can tell you right now what a royal commission is not going to recommend because it will be precisely excised from its remit by those elites calling for a royal commission.
- There will be no recommendation to cut immigration to zero to prevent local proxy wars from getting worse.
- There will be no recommendation to change the Australian economic model, which currently smashes youth through immigration-driven dehousing, wage growth suppression, and excessive public service demands.
- There will be no study of where the next proxy war will come from, either an India vs Pakistan war or, most likely, the China vs Taiwan conflict, which will inevitably spill over.
In short, a royal commission into anti-Semitism, which is different from protesting against a war, will be backward-looking and cyclical, and unhelpful structurally, because those calling for it most loudly are the interests that benefit most from the very structural forces that are causing it by disenfranchising youth.
They are happy to signal their virtue but will ensure it comes at no cost to themselves.
A couple of sentences from Bill Kelty are more useful than any royal commission will be.
Labor luminary Bill Kelty has called on the Albanese government to embark on ambitious tax reforms, starting with big cuts in personal income tax for working-age people, to fix inequality for younger generations who are battling to get ahead.
Kelty said the government could afford the cuts by not offering tax relief to wealthier people with assets such as investment properties, shares and trusts, and by imposing higher taxes on mining exports.
Yeh, nah. Crush youth with mass immigration and let their anger be captured by causes of utter irrelevance to themselves and the nation, which is anything from genital mobility to millennium-long wars.
Then have a useless inquiry into one symptom, not any cause.
Rinse and repeat.
