Letter to the Editor
WASTED OVERSEAS AID OF NO BENEFIT TO US SHOULD HAVE FUNDED THE INLAND RAIL
Defunding the Inland Rail is a stupidly ignorant move to prop up a failed Labor government in Victoria before their election next year, Albanese and Chalmers do not appear to have the intellectual capacity or foresight to understand the great importance and benefits to all Australians by having the Inland Rail for fast transport of goods and as the incentive for industry to decentralise along the corridor bringing development and employment to rural areas, and taking overcrowding from cities. Once again, they are prepared to sacrifice the future of Australian for their political maneuvering.
Labor halted construction of this important rail infrastructure project at Parkes to divert funds elsewhere:
$500k Mosque Funding: The PM gave $30m in various financial grants to Muslim groups to empower and support them: $27.5M TO ISLAMIC COUNCIL whose cleric called for “GLOBAL JIHAD”
Penny Wong: Since 7 October 2023 — Over $130 million has been donated to UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. Much of this aid, as investigations have revealed, ended up in the hands of Hamas, not in the service of Palestinian people.
Media reports: 27 June 2026. Money taken away from the Inland Rail Line, a big suck-up for Muslim votes, pork barrelling at it’s worst.
Over the last four years since Labor took government in 2022, they have sent $19.6 billion worth of our tax money overseas under the guise of foreign aid.
Considered by Labor to be far more important than our national development, industry and trade.
Sincerely
Gil May
Forestdale 4118
Editor: Labor’s pork-barrelling
National Anti-Islamophobia Response: The federal Labor government committed over $65.5 million, including $41.9 million for community and security programs, $15 million for a Muslim sports centre, $6 million for mental health support, and $2.6 million for a multicultural affairs office.
State Grants: State Labor governments (such as in New South Wales and Victoria) also run localized social cohesion, anti-racism, and security upgrade programs for Islamic community infrastructure.
Taha Association Grant: Federal and Victorian state grants totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Melbourne-based Taha Humanity Association faced cancellation and formal investigation after reports the group hosted events or mourned the death of Iran’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
While 813,392 people identified as Muslim at the last official census, Labor has allowed many more into the country since then. It will be of great interest to see the new numbers of Muslims living in Australia as the 2026 census form is being distributed right now.
We assume the new immigrants have sufficient capacity to fill out the intrusive form.
Call-to-prayer on loudspeakers at Lakemba Mosque
A proposal to install four external loudspeakers at Sydney’s Lakemba Mosque to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer around midday every Friday has reignited a heated community debate.
When concerns were raised about noise affecting nearby residents, Canterbury-Bankstown Councillor Saud Abu-Samen reportedly offered this solution:
“If you’re really annoyed about the bell or about the sound, close your windows.”
