From George Christensen MP

Dear Subscriber First Name,

It’s official. Political correctness has gone mad.

Earlier this week we saw suggestions in the media that towns like Mackay and Townsville should be renamed because of their namesakes’ links to indentured labour.

We’ve already seen iconic products like Coon cheese, and Chicos and Redskin lollies, capitulating to the pressure to rename because they’re supposedly all racist, and now the madness has spread to our town names.

The idea that renaming a town could wipe it of its history or end racism is ridiculous. We can take heart that the common-sense people of Mackay didn’t take the whole thing too seriously. Sarina North and Pothole Place are some of the top name suggestions put forward by locals.

China attacks our economy again

While we’ve been preoccupied with the black armband revisionism nonsense, the Chinese Communist Party has continued its efforts to economically harm Australia. 

They attacked our barley growers, cattle farmers and meat workers earlier in the year and now they're going after our vineyards and potentially our mine workers.

Those in the know say it’s all about getting Australian business and industry to pressure the Australian Government to kowtow to China rather than stand up to them. Andrew Bolt pointed this out on Sky News Australia earlier this week.

Throwing our national security to the wolves

Perhaps it’s working. The outgoing head of the Australia China Business Council Helen Sawczak was quoted at length in the Chinese press this week defending the Australia-China relationship. The article claims there is "right wing manipulation" causing "anti-China rhetoric" in Australia. As if it's all in our heads!

Sawczak was the corporate leader who said, "There has been a lot of talk about national security concerns but these should not be overriding our economic interests."  I reject the line that profits come before patriotism.

Interesting that the corporations are siding with the socialists who recently came out against Australia and the USA and in defence of the Chinese Communist Party. 

Under fire for telling the truth

It looks as though former head of the Australian Christian Lobby, Lyle Shelton, will be taken to a government tribunal for speaking out against drag queens reading story books to kids in council libraries.   

Following the compulsory Queensland Human Rights Commission conciliation process, Lyle now waits to see if he’ll be taken to the tribunal to stand before a judge.

All this for sharing the same deep concerns as most rational parents regarding the exposure of children to radical LGBTIQA+ sexual concepts and gender-fluid theories.

In Lyle’s own words, he’s now, “at the mercy of laws that no longer respect the Western tradition of free debate and argument, but which now fall in favour of those who seek not to debate but to demonise.”

Please spare a prayer for this courageous speaker of truth.

Yours truly,

George Christensen MP

Beyond the fake news…

Beyond the mainstream media we discover the truth. Here’s what I’ve been reading:

Beijing opened a sprawling consulate in Adelaide around the time Australia announced it would be building 54 warships at a nearby site. Now, of course, spying activities are threatening this vital naval upgrade.  

This type of extreme overreach by Beijing means young Hong Kong citizen Joshua Wong lives in fear of sudden arrest and extradition to China for his activism against the new law that has stripped Hong Kong of its independence.

Despite the risks, the brave Cardinal Joseph Zen, of Hong Kong, continues to care for his flock in speaking out against the CCP’s attack on religious freedom, and the sell-out of Chinese Catholics by the Vatican. You can listen to my conversation with Cardinal Zen here.

On home soil, parents who tell their boy he is a boy and their girl she is a girl could face 12 months imprisonment under a bill that could be passed in the ACT this week. This bill is basically an extension of the bill passed in the Queensland parliament on Thursday night banning “gay conversion therapy”, a fictitious church practice.

As we suspected, conservatives, nationalists and Christians are now the opposition as Marxism makes a raging comeback a mere three decades after it was thought to have been defeated for good. Yet the world is not becoming more objective, rational and tolerant like the ‘woke’ crowd told us it would.

Where goes the US so goes Australia, usually a few years later, so the widespread civil unrest we’re seeing across the United States is concerning. It won’t end well.