Labor Hack Slurs Menzies

Absolutely disgusting and disgraceful comments were made by Pat Conroy, a minister in the Albanese regime, smearing Australia's longest-serving and arguably greatest Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, as a "Nazi appeaser"... the very man who declared Australia at war with Nazi Germany.

This is vile, historically illiterate garbage that is typical of leftists who hate Australia's heritage, traditions, and way of life. 

It is a historically illiterate slur that demonstrates either a profound ignorance of history or a deliberate attempt to rewrite it for political purposes, or both. Sadly, this has become all too common among sections of the left, who hold the history, traditions, and national heritage that built our nation in contempt.

After the unimaginable carnage of the First World War, in which Australia lost more than 60,000 of our finest young men, Menzies was absolutely right to try to pursue peace during the 1930s. No sane, responsible national leader wanted to plunge Australia into another catastrophic bloodbath if it could possibly be avoided. The memory of the trenches, the deaths, shattered families, grieving widows, orphaned children, and devastated communities was still fresh. Seeking peace was not weakness; it was prudence.

But when diplomacy had failed, and there was no alternative, Sir Robert Menzies did not hesitate. On 3 September 1939, he solemnly announced to the Australian people that Australia was at war with Nazi Germany, fully understanding the enormous and painful sacrifice that would once again be demanded of our nation.

In his famous speech setting out the grounds for Australia declaring war on Nazi Germany, Menzies described the Nazi's as engaging in,

"... some of the most remarkable instances of ruthlessness and indifference to common humanity which the darkest centuries of European history can scarcely parallel."

"Moreover, it will I believe, demonstrate that the leader of Germany has for a long time steadily pursued a policy which was deliberately designed to produce either war, or the subjugation of one non-German country after another by the threat of war

That is leadership, not "Nazi appeasement."

The real reason the far left, including figures such as Pat Conroy, despises Sir Robert Menzies is much simpler than their distorted historical claims suggest. Menzies was a steadfast and unapologetic anti-Communist who recognised the dangers of totalitarian ideology long before many others. He was determined that Australia would remain a free, democratic nation built upon individual liberty, parliamentary government, and the rule of law.

The left of the Labor Party, riddled with those sympathetic to communist ideology, has never forgiven him for that. 

Their hostility towards Menzies has never really been about history. It has always been about ideology. They are cultural vandals, determined to erase pride in Australia's past and replace it with shame and grievance.

The left's hostility towards Menzies also stems from the fact that, while the left endorses censorship, in contrast, Menzies understood that freedom of speech is the cornerstone of every free society and that, once governments begin deciding what opinions may be expressed, liberty itself is in danger.

In his famous Forgotten People broadcasts, Menzies stated:

"The more primitive the community, the less freedom of thought and expression is it likely to concede. All things considered, the worst crime of fascism and its twin brother, German national socialism, is their suppression of free thought and free speech.

It is one of the many proofs that, with all their cleverness, they are primitive and reactionary movements.

One of the first actions of the Nazis in Germany was to regiment the newspapers by telling them exactly what they could print. The result was that newspaper controversy came to an end, since all sang the same tune.

When I was in Berlin in 1938, I mentioned this phenomenon to a high German official of the Foreign Office and, with about the one gleam of humour that I encountered on that visit, he replied that he thought it quite a good idea, since it saved buying more than one newspaper."

Those words remain remarkably relevant today.

It is, therefore, deeply ironic that politicians such as Pat Conroy seek to smear Menzies as a "Nazi appeaser", while it is the modern left that supports expanding government control over public debate.

Remember the Albanese regime's proposed Misinformation and Disinformation Bill?

Had this Labor Bill passed, it would have empowered unelected bureaucrats, directed by eSafety Karen, to police online speech and control what could be published, ensuring it conformed to a government-approved version of truth (saving us from "buying more than one newspaper") rather than encouraging the free exchange of ideas upon which democracy depends.

And Conroy doesn't just vilify Sir Robert Menzies, he describes his vile, historically illiterate garbage as "really important stuff"  which demands that "the left needs to embrace".

So what Conroy is calling for is that the leftists who have captured our education system and who preside over the state broadcaster, the ABC, pumping out anti-Australian propaganda, poisoning the minds of young Australians and turning them against their own country's heritage, customs and culture - should join peddling his vile, historically illiterate garbage.

That is why attacks on figures such as Sir Robert Menzies matter. They are not simply attacks on a single historical figure; they are attempts to undermine confidence in the very leaders who helped build modern Australia. They are attacks on the very foundations upon which Australia was built.

The final irony of Pat Conroy's attack on Sir Robert Menzies is particularly striking.

Menzies concluded his declaration of war against Nazi Germany with these powerful words:

"Whatever the inflamed ambitions of the German Führer may be, he will undoubtedly learn, as other great enemies of freedom have learned before, that no empire, no dominion, can be soundly established upon a basis of broken promises or dishonoured agreements."

Those words remain timeless.

Yet the Albanese regime, in which Conroy is a Minister, has built its entire grip on power, and continues to govern, on a rotten foundation of broken promises and dishonoured agreements: the very conduct that Menzies condemned when he declared war against Nazi Germany.

For Pat Conroy to accuse Sir Robert Menzies, a man who led Australia into the fight against Nazi Germany and devoted his public life to defending liberal democracy, of being a "Nazi sympathiser" is not only historically indefensible but also profoundly disrespectful to the generation of Australians who fought against the Nazi's following Menzies' declaration of war against them.

Pat Conroy should apologise and withdraw this gross distortion of history and this disgraceful personal attack. But, like all appeasers of totalitarianism, they never apologise.

Australia deserves far better than the ugliness and malice of this disgraceful Labor regime. Pat Conroy is just another reminder that this rotten, deceitful, and dishonest Labor regime must be thrown out of office at the first possible opportunity.

“Be careful of the people who call everyone Nazis, they are usually the ones who behave most like Nazis.”
― JT (@blockcemi) on X