Andrew L. Urban
There is a straight line between the Albanese leadership’s response to the Bondi Beach massacre on Sunday December 14, 2025 and its behaviour towards former Senator Linda Reynolds. That straight line points to a lack of integrity. Actually, it’s not just the response to the latest massacre of Jews, it’s the history of their behaviour towards Israel since that earlier massacre of Jews on October 7, 2023.
Readers following the Brittany Higgins/Bruce Lehrmann saga will be familiar with the claims of a cover up against the Liberal leadership, now legally exposed as baseless. PM Anthony Albanese’s ministers Penny Wong and Katie Gallagher led the charge, accusing Reynolds of covering up the claims of rape by Higgins, when it turns out Reynolds was acting in Higgins’ best interests, as two Australian courts have found.
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For the Bondi Beach massacre, Albanese blamed guns. For the massacre by Gazan Palestinian terrorists, the Labor thought leaders repeatedly heaped blame on Israel. Instead, he should have led his team to urgently devise legal ways to purge Australia of Jew haters and ensured that visa policy bars Jew haters from entering in future.
But then Albanese has never accepted responsibility for anything. So much so, that on Sky News, he is mocked with new lyrics to the famous 1963 Helen Shapiro song, Not Responsible.
Albanese has since been criticised for his ‘lack of courage’ in response to the expanding antisemitism throughout Australia over the past two years. I don’t call it lack of courage. I call it lack of integrity; the steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code.
You couldn’t find integrity in this Labor leadership with a microscope.
The scurrilous behaviour of that cohort in the rapid payout of $2.44 million in compensation to Higgins just adds a heavy payload to what led up to it. Brazenly resisting any inquiry into it with the compliance of Commissioner Brereton’s NACC seals the matter.
Lacking integrity is worse than lying; it’s a major character flaw.
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Here is an interesting story – extract below:
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-must-pick-a-ministerial-lane-for-counter-terrorism-responsibility/
“But in June 2022, the government moved the AFP from the Home Affairs portfolio back to the Attorney-General, for the first time splitting the peak law enforcement agency from the primary security agency, ASIO. Then, in July this year, ASIO returned to the Attorney-General’s portfolio.
Yet this latest shift has left the CT Co-ordinator and CT policy functions within Home Affairs, isolated from the key agencies and lacking direct insight into the immediate issues faced by the key operational agencies. The reality of the bureaucracy is that agencies within one portfolio will keep their minister informed of issues before they advise other portfolios.
It leaves a series of difficult but important questions about CT responsibilities, including on the mandate of the CT Co-ordinator. Do the CT agencies in the Attorney’s portfolio have any obligation to brief the Co-ordinator on CT operations in a crisis, or to support its broader co-ordination function? And where does responsibility sit for briefing the government on an emerging CT crisis if ASIO and the AFP are obliged to first brief the Attorney? How is the Home Affairs Minister briefed, not to mention who is responsible for briefing the PM? If there’s any confusion here it is sub-optimal for the co-ordination of such a key national security issue, whether in terms of co-ordinating agencies to prevent terrorism or, in those devastating situations, when having to respond to it.”
Mark Dreyfus (former AG) and Tony Bourke (Home Affairs) have today rejected calls for a Royal Commission. Was there a failure in communication and coordination? Hope there is no cover-up going on!
Thanks for the link to the ASPI article; very interesting, if a tad depressing for its less than favourable evaluation of government CT strategy.
How do you purge Australia of “Jew haters”? Deport all Arabs a la Trump?
I fear Andrew that you are tilting too far to the right recently like for example your vicious attack on Albanese’s character. Uncalled-for.
Oh yes, John, it is called for.
Higgins Reynolds It is difficult to align calling someone a “Lying Cow” as did Lynda Reynolds call Brittany Higgins as to be acting in “the best interests” of Brittany Higgins
The conclusions drawn on Albanese and his female cohorts are most accurate. The cry of tougher Gun Laws does not wash ! What reasonable minded person believes that terrorists and criminals abide by laws? Aside from that look at the methods of Muslim terrorists, they use vehicles to mow down innocents…are we going to introduce tougher license or driving laws ? What a smokescreen instead of tackling the ideology of these misfits Government permitted at the taxpayers expense thousands of these delusionals to take over the Harbour Bridge. Many of them inciting hate and violence. What action was taken against those vile people?
Just for the record, Reynolds called Higgins a lying cow re her accusations of a cover up – for which she not only apologised but paid some money. Yet the two courts found that Reynolds was justified …
Andrew. “The first casualty of the court is the truth” – many false claims (lies) told about the origin of that little piece of the bleeding obvious.
Some old Greek of 2500 years ago ? Or any Australian casualty of Australian court skulduggery? Not one mention of integrity. So what is the state of the current can of political worm farming ?
Netanyahu claiming the brave man was Jewish – who disarmed one of the Bondi Moslem Lunatics. (Dad from India-not Gaza) Can we of Judeo-Christian moral principles and ethical guidelines justify the recent extermination of up to 50 thousand Palestinian Children.?
Difficult to reconcile bare faced lies – with displaying integrity – typical of Australian Police Prosecutors with their use of flexible forensics and jury fooling gobbledygook. My wife admires my integrity- but frowns on my bare faced lying – why were you late home? Many an Australian politician has been referred to as a lying rodent by his colleagues (well-some have been). Speaking of which- one maybe shouldn’t chuck so much gravel at Alboneezy ? Elbow didn’t compose the gun laws – one doesn’t need 5 guns to be a bloody nuisance – just one from behind the pub !
Its worth reading the recent diabolical history of Israel- 1947 onwards to this murdering day ! Poisoning of drinking wells and killing of British soldiers. By 1949 800,000 Palestinians had been driven out of their homes and farms..As far as I’m concerned- they are all Semites-but similar to Catholics and Protestants – they hate each others guts ! Bit of a pity Noah’s boat didn’t sink – or alternatively- its a pity the Urbane Romans didnt stay and keep things a bit civil..
70,000 Palestinians dead from this latest religious massacre and land thieving dispute !
A history , not all that different from the wholesale massacre of the Australian Aboriginal women and children….by our Police Troopers..estimated by historians at many many thousands…..Little John sure doesn’t like that black arm point of view…integrity- blah !
Keep the Urbanes out of this. One of my ancestors was Pope Urban, you know! He left me his blessing …
Bullshit
Deeeep!
Andrew, so disappointed at what you’ve posted particularly in relation to the tragedy that unfolded at Bondi. This was a massacre by two supposedly radicalised ISIS. operatives, not yet proven to have been “ Jew haters “ yet but none the less ISIS carrying flag holders as has been well reported. Many nationalities have fallen foul of this group and believe the ‘hate’ factor spreads so much further than the Bondi innocents.
It’s sad you have used this ‘opportunity’ to vent your opinion in this way just as many other ‘opportunists’ are currently doing. I would have thought you had more intellect than to get roped into what you have posted.
SAD.
I stand by my post. Integrity is absent in both examples, that’s my point. Government leadership without intergity is without authority.