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.