An open letter to the Federal parliamentary members of the Liberal and National parties.

Dear Members and Senators,

I am writing to you about the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 now transposed into split legislation.  You will be voting on this tomorrow, 20 January. I wish to make a few things clear that might be unclear right now.

If the Coalition wants my vote at the next Federal elections, you need to reject without compromise the entirety of this legislation, irrespective of whether the whole or individual parts of it are put to a vote.

Rejection must be absolute: no posturing tough by outlawing the National Socialist Network or its possible successors; no sucking-up to pro-Israel lobbies by banning Hizb ut-Tahrir; no channelling John Howard by making gun-laws even more draconian.

Australia already groans under your laws.  Australians are here and now cramped, hemmed in and menaced by a mesh of laws which complicate, disapprove of, and limit our exercise of free speech and which monitor our public discourse with the big stick of legal penalties.

Enough!

Let’s speak plainly.  These draft laws have only a tenuous connection with the murders of Jews on Bondi beach by two Muslim radicals.  This legislation has been sitting in a draw somewhere in the Attorney-General’s Department for quite some time, just waiting for the right moment to be dropped on us. Bondi merely provided the occasion.

The real reason behind the Antisemitism Bill is that our political class – to which your Coalition parties belong – wants to prop up an experimental, inherently unstable society created over the heads of us voters by your élite policies of mass immigration and multiculturalism.

It should not be forgotten that the process began in 1980 when your Liberal Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, appointed a Labor apparatchik, John Menadue, to be Secretary of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs in order — in Menadue’s own words – to “break the back” of Australia’s traditional immigration policy.  Up to that point, we had sought to meet Australia’s population objectives through an immigration policy which also confidently confirmed our Western cultural identity.

In order to “break the back” of that popularly supported tradition, it was necessary to exclude us plebs from ever casting a vote on the radical change of direction conceived by our political and social ‘superiors’.  Back in 1994, Prime Minister Hawke admitted that, in fact, there had been a silent pact made between the major parties never to allow ‘debate’ over immigration to leak into the public arena or election campaigns.

Well now, Libs and Nats, you fell in with that arrangement, and today Australia has gathered the grim results of your work.  Like it or not, you own a share in them. To come back from that, you’ve got to foreswear treating us as laboratory mice.  You’ve got to disavow your hugger-mugger alliance with Labor (and the Greens) over immigration and multiculturalism.

At this crucial moment, if members of the Coalition want to begin the work of your redemption  — and where the spilling of blood in concerned, a lot of redemption is needed – then you’ve got to deliver Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor party a defeat over this Antisemitism legislation to match that which they experienced over the referendum on “The Voice”.

Should your Liberal and National parties fail to deliver on that, then I for one will be voting One Nation at the next Federal election.  I reckon there’ll be many, many more who’ll do the same.

I trust that you will consider this letter seriously.

Yours sincerely

Gary Scarrabelotti
Scarra Blog