On the evening of Sunday the 14th of December, 2025, a father and son named Sajid and Naveed Akram killed fifteen people on Bondi Beach in Sydney Australia. The people targeted were people celebrating Hanukkah on the beach and most of the fifteen victims were Jewish and many of these were born overseas. Depending on where you count, this is about the tenth such attack since 2014 and certainly the deadliest so far this century. It is hard to argue that all these attacks were not motivated by Islam or an “extreme form of Islam” for the squeamish. That the targets have also generally been Jewish or connected to the state of Israel in some way is also hardly a coincidence.
A look through ‘Terrorism in Australia‘ on Wikipedia will demonstrate that most examples in Australian history have not been perpetrated by Australians and by “Australians”, I mean the people that would have been considered Australian by those present for Federation on January 1st 1901. This is Wikipedia of course but in this case, the bias helps because the editors have clearly included as many examples as they could that conform to their political biases. Despite this, most terrorism and all incidents in recent memory, were perpetrated by people professing Islamic beliefs and who have a paper-thin connection to Australia. The names alone should tell you these aren’t people with an ancestor brought here on a prison ship or even someone that freely immigrated from the United Kingdom in the early part of last century.
Yet for all this, the response thus far of both the NSW state and our Federal government would suggest this attack was carried out by home-grown-neo-Nazis.
It hasn’t even been a fortnight since the attacks and Australia’s overly draconian firearm laws have been made stricter still as the attackers obeyed Australian law in so far as the firearms they used were obtained legally. The Premier of New South Wales has also openly stated that “multiculturalism” is more important that freedom of speech and there have been similarly odious statements elsewhere. The Prime Minister seems to believe that “neo-Nazis” are the biggest threat to our society though the few examples they have represent little more than public nuisance such as innocuous heckling at an Anzac Day event. A recent example is Joel Davis who was arrested (and has been denied bail over Christmas), for writing on his Telegram social media account that quite obviously was not a serious threat as the use of the adverb “rhetorically” would normally indicate. I won’t claim he was careful with his words but there is a world of difference between this and murdering innocent people. The linked article also notes that an Asian man who allegedly threatened the life of another MP and her family was granted bail.
Just today another apparent “neo-Nazi” with British citizenship is going to have his visa cancelled and be deported. Yet earlier this month, a Fijian man was granted a visa despite being convicted of a crime in Australia. He also had his identity protected which is a privilege few receive even prior to conviction.
The hypocrisy and double-standards here are almost legion but they’re not worth going into. What is clear is that these powers will be used to their very limits on people the government doesn’t like and not on others. Despite the known facts of the December 14th massacre, you will not hear much criticism of Islam because these communities vote Labor or at least send preferences their way. The Australian and New South Wales Labor Governments aren’t going to do anything that could potentially hurt this. And you can be sure the response from the Coalition will be weak and ineffectual. This is just the party political side which is much less important.
What should be all the more clear is that those with real power in this nation (whether Australian or not), do not care about the Australians people at all. The only example you need is that even the mildest requests to reduce the numbers of immigrants entering Australia while young Australians continue to be priced out of not only buying but even renting homes falls on deaf ears. The obvious solution to this isn’t even considered as a temporary measure because despite their apparent enthusiasm for democracy, they do not serve the Australian people. As with inflation of the currency, they continue to reduce the voting power of Australians through immigration in the hopes that they won’t have to factor us in to any decisions they make in future.
What is more insidious is that they’re now openly directing the Federal Police to go after Australians who are unhappy with the direction our nation has moved in; a direction that nobody growing up in the 1990s or earlier could have believed possible. I can’t even say for sure if what I’ve written on the blog crosses the line or not or if not now, if it will in the future. Am I safe now? Will I be in five years? As the targets are currently “neo-Nazis”, most Australians don’t seem to be paying attention but they absolutely won’t stop there and as with “racism”, what constitutes a “fascist” and a “Nazi” is conveniently elastic.
The response to “Covid” beginning in 2020 revealed how illiberal our nation (as well as those of our ethnic cousins), has become and how quickly and easily most of the population will go along in exchange for their dwindling comforts. Even as someone that was mentally prepared for this, I still remain shocked that it has come to this. Now, we are fast moving to the point where people that have the same views as our prime ministers (at least up until Robert Menzies), will be seen as having “no place in Australia” as our current prime minister is so fond of saying.