Fresh of being booed and harangued for his feeble response to the Bondi terrorist attack, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese rang in the new year with an opinion piece in the Nine papers about our national character.

The piece, headlined ‘On our 125th birthday, let’s rise to the test of our national character’, is meant to be his statement about Australian values that we can take into the new year and unite around.

What he’s actually written is typical of the Albanese political experience: empty words, substanceless platitudes, and studied avoidance of any tricky questions or difficult conversations.

Especially about mass immigration.

He begins with some positives: pointing out Australia’s leadership in developing the secret ballot, being among the first to give women the vote and the right to run for parliament, and the benefits of compulsory voting.

But he quickly pivots to his pet political project, by putting all these achievements down to an “instinct for inclusion”.

The achievements this “instinct” has helped us achieve, according to Albanese, are Medicare, superannuation, reconciliation, and, of course, multiculturalism.

What an impoverished vision of what this country has been, is now, and has the potential to be!

According to Albanese, what makes our country unique and truly great are a bunch of things the government (mostly Labor governments, of course) have done.

There is nothing here about the enterprise, innovation, the courage, the camaraderie, the excellence, the prosperity, the genius of Australians through history.

The bravery of the Anzacs, the brilliance of our sports people punching well above our demographic weight, the minerals industry that powers the world, the greatness of our farmers and families who quietly work hard and keep the country afloat.

No, it’s all bureaucratic, elite top-down programs that make Australia according to our Prime Minister.

But the worst is yet to come.

Albanese writes [emphasis added]:

Our collective commitment to unity, respect and pride in our Australian identity matters more than ever in a world that is less certain and more polarised. The horrific attack on Australia’s Jewish community at Bondi Beach is terrible proof that our nation is not immune from the evils of terrorism and extremism. Our task is to confront and defeat the threat of antisemitism together as Australians. To meet this test of our national character by holding true to the best of our national character.

This is an absurd and, in fact, dangerous thing to say.

The obvious problem here is that when you allow mass immigration, you inevitably allow people who do not have a commitment to unity or pride in Australian identity to live here.

And with enough mass immigration, you allow a lot of them to live here.

The assumption that you can just bring people here and once they get handed a residency visa or even sign a citizenship pledge they are miraculously going to leave behind their religious or ethnic rivalries and prejudices is ahistorical, midwit nonsense.

It’s the core lie of mass immigration.

Let’s particularly note the irony that Albanese cites giving women the vote as a great Australian achievement while we bring in hundreds of thousands of people from countries where women are not even allowed to drive, much less vote.