Can you believe this guy?

Last weekend, during his annual trip to the Garma festival, Anthony Albanese had the nerve to call out those opposing Welcome to Country as fighting a “culture war” and using it as “a political weapon”.

He told those at Garma that people need to push back against those who “seek to turn the grace and generosity of a welcome to country into a political weapon.”

Excuse me?

Who is it, exactly, who turned the Welcome to Country into a political weapon?

Was it the ordinary Aussies who think you probably don’t need to do acknowledgements in public service Zoom calls?

Or was it the left-wing radical activists who started lecturing about “stolen land” and “always was always will be”?

Most Aussies don’t mind acknowledgements and Welcomes to Country at major events, provided they’re short and formal.

But when time and again they end up having to sit through rants about “sovereignty never ceded” and “land back” and reparations, it’s understandable they started to push back.

In fact, they’re right to.

Anthony Albanese and many other leaders on both sides of the aisle, stood by and let these “welcomes” get hijacked by activists and their anti-Australian agenda.

So he’s making a very deliberate choice to now call it out as political when people object.

If these ceremonies really mean so much to him, he should’ve thought of that before letting these activists in the door, just like he did for the Voice.

Because ordinary Aussies didn’t turn Welcome to Country into a political weapon, it had already become a political weapon.

If he doesn’t want culture wars, he shouldn’t start them.

But now he has, he should expect Aussies to fight back.

And we will.