Has Labor done a dodgy deal with the Liberals in Macnamara, or is it just another a case of another Tory in Labor clothing?

“Fighting Tories. That’s what I do.”

Famous words of current Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

A dozen or so years later and that heartfelt statement seems a distant memory.

The Labor Party portrays itself as the party of the worker, it is why the party is reliant on the union movement for both its support and its funding.

The flipside of the political coin is the Liberal Party. The Liberals are the enemy of the union movement, the buddy of the billionaire, and the burden on the backs of the working class.

In Australia, the only other major political party supporting the union movement and workers, is the Greens.

Many Labor voters have voiced disappointment in the Albanese Government, claiming it panders to the Right more than it does to their own rank and file membership. One only needs to see the watering down of the National Anti-Corruption Commission at the behest of Liberals, rather than a willingness to work with the crossbench, to see a prime example. Labor promised a tough watchdog; then delivered an impotent pup more intent on chasing its own tail.

Perhaps the best example of where the priorities of the Labor Party currently lie is seen in the recent state by-election in the Victorian seat of Prahran. It not only provides an interesting display of Labor’s slide to the right, but it also highlights the betrayal of the workers, union members, union supporters, and progressive voters by the Labor Member for Macnamara and the Zionists backing him.

Traditionally Labor ‘how to vote’ sheets direct preferences to the Greens, it shows Labor are a left-leaning party, and if they gave preferences the Liberals, it would cause outrage and justified anger amongst Labor members.

So, when former Prahran Labor MP Tony Lupton decided to run again and put the Liberal Party at number 2 on his ‘how to vote’ sheet, little wonder many were scratching their heads.

It turns out that the Labor Party, at the behest of an internal faction of pro-Zionists, decided that the most important issue in the election, was not the rights of workers, or the union movement, the environment, or even the cost of living, you know, the things they tell us they care about. Instead, the most critical issue was removing a supporter of Palestinian human rights from the Victorian Parliament. If this was accomplished by replacing a pro-union Green with a union-hating, worker-bashing, environmental vandal backing Liberal, so be it.

In the lead up to the Prahran by-election the Victorian Labor Executive voted and reached the controversial outcome of deciding not to run a candidate. Controversial as it was a seat held by the left, controversial as it was a seat previously held by Labor, controversial as it is primarily represented by the Labor held Federal seat of Higgins, and controversial because ultimately the complete and utter betrayal of your local Party members and voters always is.

The decision to betray Labor’s membership happened when a pro-Zionist faction within the Vic Labor Executive were backed by turncoats from the Party’s Left.

The faction then got behind the former Labor Member for Prahran Tony Lupton who ran as an independent, in a staged façade to ensure the ‘Labor aligned’ voters had a candidate running. Then in what was always going to be a tight contest, he directed voters on his campaign material to preference the Liberal Party. Not only that, he penned a column for The Australian slagging off the Labor Party.

Nevertheless Lupton’s campaign manager came from Labor’s Prahran branch having previously managed the campaign of pro-zionist Member for Higgins, Michelle Ananda-Rajah. Sending out an email to Labor branch members to help “Evict The Greens” on behalf of a candidate preferencing the Liberals.

In backing this traitor, the pro-Zionist faction within Labor had ensured not only that the Greens wouldn’t benefit from traditional Labor preferences, but that the Liberals would.

The final result saw the Liberals winning the seat over the Greens by a narrow margin after preference flows.

The motive for this betrayal was two-fold. Ensure someone Israel-friendly took the seat of a previous anti-genocide MP and take resources away from the Greens campaign in Macnamara during the Federal campaign, as after a redistribution, Macnamara now takes in part a large chunk of the Prahran State Electorate.

While the member for Macnamara may have tried to keep himself distant from this betrayal of Labor voters, there are links directly to him and his office.

One of Lupton’s loudest online supporters was former Labor MP Philip Dalidakis, an outspoken pro-Zionist best known now for defending Israel’s continuing war crimes. Dalidakis was the backer of Josh Burns’ nomination and pre-selection for the seat of Macnamara, looking to ensure the seat went to a Jewish man, rather than a popular woman had also nominated.

Perhaps Dalidakis supported Lupton after hearing about the Advance Australia Party meeting Lupton has admitted attending?

Look, we live in a democracy so I’m not going to belittle Advance Australia, maybe it’s a good thing that neo-Nazis and racists have a choice of Party’s, not just One Nation to vote for.

You’d think Josh Burns would keep away from the Luptons, not only over the Prahran controversy, Tony Lupton’s defence of Israel’s slaughter of civilians in Gaza and his meeting with Advance Australia, but also the views of Lupton’s wife Julie Szego.

Julie Szego is a prominent writer for the Australian Jewish News who was sacked from The Age for her views on the Trans Community. She publicly criticised The Age editorial team after they refused to publish a column she wrote reliant on information put forward by anti-Trans activist groups and conspiracy theory nuts. The fallout from this sacking saw an open letter sponsored by Trans Justice Project, and signed by Amnesty International, Victorian Pride Lobby and several other LGBTIQ+ organisations. Szego tried to blame the sacking on her attendance of an anti-Trans rally that also attracted neo-Nazis and saw Victorian Liberal Moira Deeming land herself in controversy.

You’d think this would mean more red flags than a Xi Jinping rally right?

Burns instead embraced the family, hiring Tony and Julie’s daughter Sarah Lupton to run his election campaign.

Leaked branch minutes from branches in the Macnamara show that the Lupton and Burns campaigns are closely linked. Brighton Labor branch minutes show that Labor members from Burns’ electorate were recruited to work on the Lupton campaign in Labor Party meetings by Burns’ own campaign manager and during his own electorate’s branch meetings. The below exert from a Brighton branch meeting is indicative that this wasn’t just raised during the meeting, it was an agenda item.

When they say “some usual ALP Voters” I assume they mean those who would never dream of supporting the Liberals.

Some will defend Burn’s as a friend of the LGBTIQ+ community, and I’m sure politically it’s advantageous that he’s seen to be, however when you are supportive of someone who is critical of Labor’s “identity politics” and whose wife is an outspoken anti-trans activist, it will take a lot of badge-wearing and banner waving to convince many.

Some local Labor members have questioned if perhaps a deal has been done with the Liberal’s to hand them a State seat in Prahran in exchange for the Liberal’s doing whatever they can to see Burns keep Macnamara, give it’s unwinnable for the Liberals anyway.

Macnamara is an electorate that will be a tight three-way battle, and just like the state seat of Prahran it would appear to be a seat without a real Labor candidate.

You can’t wear a rainbow badge while supporting the anti-Trans movement, and you can’t wear a Labor badge and back openly Liberal supporting candidates.

Like Albo, “Fighting Tories” is what I do, and that is why if I were voting in Macnamara there is no way I’d be voting Labor.

After all, a Tory with a Labor badge, is just another lying Conservative.

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