Hey, a post that’s NOT about politics!
But it is political.
Anyhoo, for context, ‘Australia Day’ (26 January) marks the 1788 landing of the First Fleet and the begatting of the nation as we know it.
A minority of Australians call it something else — ‘Invasion Day’ — and gather in small, untidy groups to either commiserate rather than celebrate the begatting.
Me, I don’t give a shit either way.
I am ambivalent and take no side. I would neither wrap myself in the Australian flag nor set one alight in protest. There’s plenty that draw sides and do one of the other, making both friends and enemies in the process.
In Perth on Australia Day 2026, a white man threw an improvised explosive device into the Invasion Day crowd then ran for his life.
Clearly, he wanted to save his lilly-white skin because he expected the IED to explode.
Filled with shrapnel, it could potentially have killed and maimed dozens of people. Instead, it fizzled out, just like the mad bomber’s liberty.
He was in police custody within 24 hours.
But it’s taken eleven days for the authorities to concede that this was a terrorist incident. For most commentators, that’s about ten days too many.
Just ask Lydia.
There’s a suppression order because, laughably, the terrorist is concerned for his life while in custody should/when hjis identity becomes public.
But you’d have to think the clock is ticking for this bloke (see what I did there?) after his shambolic hoist-by-own-petard thing. What I don’t get it the criticism by the Aboriginal community of the police.
Blaming the cops is an Australian passtime, and our indigenous brothers and sisters take it to the max every chance they get. It is always, without exception, the pigs who are to blame because, y’know, racism.
But I can’t actually see what, if anything, WAPOL could have done better.
What cops do extraordinarily well is the after-the-fact stuff. But they’re always under fire for the hard part of the contract: protecting life and property.
But here’s an unpalatable question I’m sure Commissioner Col Blanch has privately considered: If there hadn’t been an Invasion Day protest, would there have been a bomber?
He’d never say such a thing out loud, of course. He’d “break the internet” as they say. It would be like saying that there would be less sexual assaults if women stopped flaunting their decolletage in public.
I know, right?
Such a dumb comment, perhaps even reprehensible, but incorrect? One-hundred-percent incorrect, or is there a kernel of truth in it?
You decide. Too political for me! Though, like the good commissioner, I harbour private reservations about standing around in public places purposefully antagonizing some potentially crazy motherfucker to do something awful to me.
Because not all neo-Nazi’s wear a cap.
It makes no sense.
Unless it does.
Horribly, the cynical conclusion has already been drawn that the Aboriginal community is milking this for all it’s worth. That the Aboriginal community see this as their Bondi Massacre (without the massacre), and a handy political wedge in their ‘Invasion Day’ agenda.
A dumb comment — perhaps even reprehensible. But incorrect? One-hundred-percent incorrect, or is there a kernel of truth to it?
You decide.