Just how much longer can a dithering, under-siege, Prime Minister resist calls for a real federal royal commission to uncover the grim extent of this pal of Palestine, this Hamas hero-worshipper, this two-state supporter, woke joke of a bloke’s role in inflaming the rapid rise of anti-semitism that clearly led to the Bondi Beach massacre?

That was the collective view around the beer fridge at Bug HQ this morning by this washed up, bitter, old hacks who compile this column after seeing the splash on today’s (Sunday’s) The Sun-Herald out of Sydney. (top and below)

Today’s effort by just one of the right-wing Australian mainstream media (Subs: please check to make sure this is not a tautology) shows how committed all media is to fatally tarnish Anthony Albanese’s reputation and give their beloved LNP even if SSussan Ley remains leader a chance to limit Labor to just two terms of wrecking this nation.

The thrust of the paper’s scoop was that more than 200 shelf-stackers in inner-Sydney Coles supermarkets had agreed to sign a letter demanding that royal commission.

And as one of our compilers pointed out as he untwisted the top off a fresh bottle of Bundy rum: “This campaign to finish off Albanese in the eyes of most voters escalated in recent days with news of all sorts of peak groups using open letters to call for that royal commission, including the families and friends of the Bondi victims, both dead and injured, Australia’s leading business heads and even sporting greats.

“But today’s Sun-Herald splash is designed to show that all stratums of Australian society are acutely aware of the Prime Minister’s desperate decision aimed at avoiding a scorching national spotlight on his anti-semitism and his failure to spot himself, or heed the warnings of many others of, the clear danger signals that allowed the Bondi Beach horror to happen.”

“The Herald lead in no ways belittles the work of this nation’s supermarket shelf stackers who do such wonderful and vital work. They too have seen through the abject nonsense of Albanese’s pathetic arguments that the inquiry he has set up will achieve results much faster than an expensive and lengthy RC and complement perfectly the NSW government’s own royal commission.

“In fact, we understand all Nine Entertainment Co’s newspapers and radio shock jocks, the entire Newscorpe organisation of papers and Sky LNPNews and all newsrooms across the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are working together to get massive signed petitions from retired watermelon growers near Chinchilla, birthday cake proof readers in and around Melbourne, the Axed Sydney Harbour Bridge Toll-Booth Workers Support Group and Lollipop Ladies of inner northern Brisbane in an orchestrated bid to make Albanese see sense and order a royal commission and resign, not necessary in that order even if it makes sense that the RC order should come first.

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