FAWLTY PENNY WONG CRIES ‘DON’T MENTION THE WAR!”

Penny Wong doesn’t want us to mention the war. Problem is, war is what China plans, threatens and talks about a lot. Is Labor trying to keep us in dangerous ignorance – before it’s too late?

Sure, it was funny when John Cleese stomped around in Fawlty Towers shouting: “Don’t mention the war!”

But it’s frightening when Labor’s Penny Wong shouts it, too.Wong, Labor’s foreign affairs spokesman, attacked the head of the Home Affairs Department for telling staff in an Anzac Day message we should be “bracing again, yet again, for the curse of war”.

Michael Pezzullo didn’t have to say “China” because everyone knows exactly who threatens us most.

Which is actually the point, right, Penny?

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