If a Welcome bothers you, then don't come.

There are many things wrong with the world as I see it. In no particular order (I find it very hard to rank catastrophes) we have democratic freedoms under siege, grotesque inequality and our precious Earth heating up while our leaders salivate over new fossil fuel projects. We have genocide in Gaza, which the mainstream media ignore and lie about. The oceans are filling up with plastic so fast that some people say the rubbish will soon outweigh the fish.

But the thing that gets Dutton going is the Welcome to Country. To be clear, he has an excellent track record for racist acts and racist speech. He walked out of the Apology to the Stolen Children in 2008. In 2018 he said people in Melbourne were so terrified of African gangs that they were not going out at night. So, here’s a question a journalist might ask him: “Do you object to being welcomed? Or do you object to being welcomed by an Aboriginal person?”

That would be a good thing to clear up before election day.

Let’s also be clear about another thing. The Welcome to Country at the Dawn Service at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance was disrupted by a well-known Nazi. Yes, a Nazi. And three days later, the man who wants to be Prime Minister, the man with a concrete record of racism, says he agrees with the Nazis, he doesn’t like Welcomes to Country either.

The fact that every headline the next day did not say “Dutton agrees with Nazis…” is a disgrace. This sort of cowardice toward Nazis and their sympathizers is literally how Hitler got into power.

Meanwhile, to all the haters out there, if you don’t want to be welcomed onto someone’s land, just stay at home.