This is a necessarily long story of six quotes by Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese, detailed because he must never be let to gaslight them. They involve his lack of confidence on the world stage leading to his overseeing 75% of all Jews killed in the world by antisemitism in 2025 and its aftermath.

Background

Its midpoint came on 21 September 2025 when Albanese recognised the “independent and sovereign State of Palestine” at the UN.

Like other countries that did so before him, it didn’t worry him that this Palestine didn’t exist nor that it had no government for it to do so. It also didn’t worry him that it derailed a peace process being negotiated by the US that was about to disarm Hamas and return all remaining Israeli dead hostages, for Gaza to regain some calm.

Instead the terror group Hamas thanked him, held on to those corpses, and added to them murdering Gazans in turf wars.

The search for peace moved on but Albanese steered clear from it.

Peace is too hard

Word broke this past weekend that Albanese would ignore UN Security Council Resolution 2803 that called for a “Board of Peace” in Gaza.

This resolution, adopted on 17 November 2025, implemented Donald Trump’s “Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity of October 13, 2025”, otherwise known in public as the Trump Peace Plan.

The US President had invited Albanese to represent Australia on this unprecedented multinational board whose purpose was historic:

[To ensure] the conditions may finally be in place for a credible pathway to Palestinian self-determination and statehood … supervising and supporting of a Palestinian technocratic, apolitical committee of competent Palestinians from the Strip.

For the first time, world leaders would set the groundwork for a future State of Palestine. It should have been of immense interest to Albanese as it formed part of his Australian Labor Party’s platform. Yet, as of writing, behind closed doors he’d said no.

Albanese wasn’t a state builder as he was hot air.

Worse, he couldn’t bring himself to act without the approval of the UK and Canada. And UK’s Starmer had already said no using the excuse that it might entrap him in a “treaty”, while Canada’s Carney lost his invitation in a huff over tariffs.

In truth, Trump was calling Albanese’s bluff and he knew it. Albanese knew that history’s first Palestine couldn’t come from words alone. His UN dance was just theatre for the voters.

Albanese had been busy preparing an out instead.

Albanese said Australia is weak

It’s one thing for a leader to lack confidence in himself. It’s another to reflect it on his nation forgetting its proud history. Australians have helped shaped the world at its darkest times.

In WW1 Australians held positions in Belgium near the rural town of Ypres where the German Army had been stopped in 1914. When you think of Ypres, picture the hellish stalemate of wire, mud and artillery bombardments that were trademark of that war. At Ypres the world saw the first use of mustard gas and the flamethrower. Every Allied nation had fought there at one point to a static stalemate—until September 1917 when Australians leapt from their trenches and finally steamrolled through the German lines. Australia counted nearly 40,000 dead, wounded and missing by the time the Canadians, French and British continued on weeks later. But Australia had started Germany on the road to its surrender.

In WW2 Australians held the major Libyan port city of Tobruk surrounded by Rommel’s Afrika Korps. This was the Desert War of early 1941, the only place where the Allies could pose a threat to Hitler anywhere. Outnumbered, these Aussie “Desert Rats” denied Rommel the ability of resupply to destroy the British Army in Egypt and take the Suez Canal. The British instead regrouped and pushed Rommel out of Libya. Australia had handed Germany its first turning point in the war.

From Korea to Timor, Vietnam to the Global War on Terror, Australia had fought as an ally across land, air and sea.

Why then didn’t Albanese believe that Australia had any influence in Middle East?

– Quote 1

On 23 March 2025, in the second year of the Israel-Hamas War, Albanese was asked about a doctor who claimed that the situation in Gaza he’d seen (later proven false) was “catastrophic”. Albanese told the press:

“We want to see peace and security in the Middle East. Something that my Government is very focused on. We will remain focused on. But we’re not major players in the Middle East. That’s just the truth of the matter.”

(Source: Prime Minister of Australia Press conference – Parliament House, Canberra Transcript Monday 24 March 2025. https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-canberra-22)

– Quote 2

On 23 June 2025, Albanese was asked why he was late giving his backing to US action against Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions threatening Israel and the West. Albanese told the press:

“Well, we aren’t a central player in this conflict, that’s just a fact.”

(Source: Prime Minister of Australia Press conference – Parliament House, Canberra Transcript Monday 23 June 2025. https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-parliament-house-canberra-35)

– Quote 3

And on 30 January 2026 with Israeli president Isaac Herzog due in Australia the following week, Albanese told the press:

“Australia is not in a position to solve by ourselves the Middle East issues, and people don’t want conflict brought here. So, I’d say that people should recognise the solemn nature of the engagement that President Herzog will have with the community of Bondi in particular, and bear that in mind by the way that they respond over the coming weeks.”

(Source: Prime Minister of Australia Press conference – Sydney Transcript Friday 30 January 2026. https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-sydney-27)

But he has brought that conflict to Australia.

He’s migrated more Gazans to Australia than the UK, France, Canada and the US combined.

He’s brought back ISIS Brides from Syria under a veil of obfuscation.

And in recognising Palestine he’s put “Australia” in the mouth of the proscribed terror group Hamas in Gaza.

This contradiction can be explained:

Albanese is an activist.

Albanese said Islam is perverted by extremism

Albanese is also versed in Machiavelli; for even he knows that sometimes the truth must come out when activism makes him look like an electoral fool.

On 14 December 2025, Albanese’s Australia was victim to the largest terror attack against a Jewish community since Hamas invaded Israel on October 7 2023. Two gunmen shot 15 people as game at a public Hanukkah celebration. Luckily IEDs they’d brought failed to explode. Antisemitism killed more Jews in Australia than anywhere in 2025, on Albanese’s watch.

It is alleged that these terrorists were motivated by ISIS ideology. It is also alleged that ISIS ideology today permeates mosques located in Western Sydney’s Labor electorates where hospital workers had threatened to kill Jews, and most recently a Jewish Bondi victim’s identity was erased for her “protection” during surgery.

– Quote 4

On 19 December 2025, five days after Bondi Albanese told the press:

“I can say this, that one proponent of support for ISIS, motivated by a perversion of Islam that leads to extremism, is one too many … I want to deal with all of the threats, whether it be extremist perversions of Islam leading to support for the ideology promoted by ISIS, whether it be also concerned about the issue of sovereign citizens killing police in Victoria and Queensland. I’m concerned about neo-Nazis thinking it’s okay to march down our streets dressed in black, not worrying about their faces being covered, explicitly promoting that as well. Some of these things are not new. James Saleam, National Action person, tried to kill Eddie Funde from the African National Congress. When I was a student, I was a candidate against that reprehensible fascist at Sydney University in 1983. This has been around a long period of time. Issues have escalated and we need to take action against all of them.”

(Source: Prime Minister of Australia Press conference – Parliament House, Canberra Transcript Friday 19 December 2025. https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-canberra-30)

– Quote 5

On 22 December 2025, a week after Bondi Albanese told the press:

“Look, we take responsibility for everything that occurs on our watch. We have taken a range of actions. We are taking further actions, some of which we’ve announced today. … this was an ISIS-inspired attack, that we know that ISIS is an ideology, a perversion of Islam that essentially doesn’t agree with any recognition of nation states, seeks a caliphate. It is an extremist ideology that seeks a caliphate as its objective.”

(Source: Prime Minister of Australia Press conference – Parliament House, Canberra Transcript Monday 22 December 2025. https://www.pm.gov.au/media/press-conference-parliament-house-canberra-22-dec-25)

– Quote 6

And 19 January 2026, when calling for the creation of a Special Honours List for the dead and injured of Bondi he told the public in a speech:

“The defining and enduring truth of that fateful Sunday is not fear or bloodshed. It is not the cowardly antisemitic evil of the terrorists. Nor the murderous perversion of Islam they took as inspiration.”

(Source: Prime Minister of Australia Speech – Parliament House, Canberra Transcript Monday 19 January 2026. https://www.pm.gov.au/media/condolences-victims-bondi-antisemitic-terror-attack)

Take note of his repeated assertion that Islam can be “perverted” for terror.

For the Albanese government is currently in the midst of defining the crime of “Islamophobia”: a term resurrected in the West as a political construct in recent years intended to one-up centuries of antisemitism coalescing in Tsarist Russia in the late 1800s. Albanese has placed a limitation on it.

Note too, Albanese’s mention of his student Labor experience with the African National Congress and its Australasian Representative Sonwabo Eddie Funde.

Three telling features of this ANC relationship may have moulded Albanese’s weakness over Gaza: Fear of Far Right neo-Nazi assassination from the attempted murder of Funde, an insider’s look at the workings of the ANC’s Far Left protest machine, and exposure to ANC antisemitism.

Albanese therefore knows the global business of Palestinianism well: how money and votes are made protesting for “Palestine” while it can never be allowed to physically exist. It’s why the West’s pro-Palestinian marches are always left wing and never spontaneous. They’re paid. The “Left” is capitalist!

A perversion of Australia’s proud multiculturalism

These telling remarks collectively explain a ridiculous conflict of greed within Albanese to Australia’s detriment.

He supports “Free Palestine”, yet he knows it will be riddled with Islamist Perversion, so can’t get his hands dirty building it, but still needs to juggle its popularism for votes.

Proof?

Albanese hasn’t outlawed the Free Palestine movement’s slogan: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, though he knows it comes from the Perverted Islamic manifesto of Hamas; it is echoed in the Perverted Islam of ISIS; and is also in the charter of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas’s parent body.

The slogan calls for the eradication of the Jewish State of Israel meaning the extermination of the Jews. Hence there has never been a difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.

It’s sad considering what Australia once was.

Australia’s immigration policies from the 1950s to the 90s rewarded cultural, artistic, professional and economic skills that met the country’s needs. It gave proud asylum to true refugees: those of WW2, Europe’s Communism, Cambodia’s killing fields, Vietnam’s fall, Yugoslavia’s break-up and the 1990’s Somalian Civil War.

Things changed particularly in 2014 when Germany opened the EU to the birth of ISIS from the Syrian Civil War. Its jihad purposely set sail across the Mediterranean for the West. Jihadists set off for Australia too. Successive Conservative Liberal-National governments responded with a mix of detention centres and naval interception.

But then came Albanese in 2022. The lure of votes from the Palestinian vector perverted a once proud multiculturalism loyal to Australian values, replaced instead, in just three years, with street thuggery praising the terror of Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran.

Which is why Albanese must never be allowed to gaslight his way out of the quotes recorded here. Their words must stand.

Australia must never be weakened again by a prime minister who doesn’t believe in Australia’s light in the world nor the ability of all Australians to live in freedom, governed by the rights of liberty to do so, which protect what it is for all to be free.

© 2026 Adam Parker.
Picture credit: Soldiers of the 10th Field Artillery, Australian 4th Division, at Chateau Wood, Ypres, 31 October 1917. From front to rear: Gunner James Fulton, Lt Anthony Devine, 3rd soldier unknown. Australian War Memorial, item E01220. Public domain. Lest we forget.