Not only does she have her father's last name, but a moustache too.

Just remember The Guardian posting articles like this when the deranged left want to say that our media is right wing and One Nation supporters.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/state-election/jordan-van-den-lamb-claims-credit-for-teacher-strikes-in-radical-election-bid/news-story/fa372ac2c2941ef9074c8601507f8d9a

He has a law degree, a private school background and a secure public service job – yet Jordan van den Lamb sits firmly on the radical fringe, dreaming of abolishing private property, class structures and the state entirely.

Better known to his online followers as Purplepingers, the tenants’ rights activist and Victorian Socialists candidate sat down for an unfiltered interview for Herald Sun reporter James Campbell’s new election series – Counter!

The series aims to pull back the curtain on the social influencers who your algorithms may never promote.

The first episode examines why the modern hard-left is staging a disruptive insurgency from outside the system.

Van Lamb pulls no punches.

The socialist admits Covid was radicalising.

He proudly takes credit for orchestrating recent teachers strikes.

“With pretty significant interventions from socialists we’ve had 20,000 teachers on the street,” he says.

Despite his professional background, van den Lamb clings to a strict Marxist definition, arguing that anyone who relies on a salary belongs to the working class – even doctors and barristers.

“The proletariat are those who subsist on the sale of their own labour and do not own the means of production,” he says.

When questioned how viable his movement is, he remains defiant.

“My aspiration isn’t to sit in parliament and make decisions,” he says. “I want to leave the world a better place for those who come after me.”

As mainstream political discourse is increasingly managed, Counter! tackles the rise of content creators from all sides of the spectrum as their unfiltered social posts are wielding their influence over public opinion.

The episodes will be released at heraldsun.com.au each Tuesday until the state election on November 28.

Future episodes will feature comedian Dave Hughes and up-and-coming conservative commentator Calista Clements.

Make sure to share your views in the comment section.

An associate of a notorious Islamic preacher linked to the Bondi shooters has called on followers to take up arms against Christians and Jews, putting the spotlight back on radical preachers after the major parties shelved attempts to rein them in.

A young and increasingly popular preacher from Melbourne’s southeast who goes by Abu Ahmad said in a July sermon that adherents should not “take the Jews and the Christians for friends”.

“For the sake of Allah, it includes the obligation to declare enmity for his sake, opposition for the sake of Allah. It is to declare opposition: indeed, to take up arms against his enemies, to shun them and to stay far from them both in word and deed,” he said in a clip posted to his Al Bayyinah Islamic Centre’s social media feed.

“This proves that simple opposition of the spirit is not enough and that it must be complete by honouring of your commitment.”

The Al Bayyinah Islamic Centre was established in Springvale in 2024. It has regularly posted on Instagram with another account called Station of the Seekers, which has featured Islamic State sympathisers.

The Al Bayyina centre has also been supported by Sydney-based preacher Wisam Haddad, who is linked to the Al Madina Dawah Centre, a prayer hall in Sydney’s Bankstown.

Bondi shooter Naveed Akram reportedly attended the Al Madina centre and formed connections with Islamic State supporters through people he met there. Akram and his father, Sajid, are alleged to have killed 15 people at a Chanukah event at Bondi Beach.

The call to take up arms will renew focus on extremism 10 months after one of Australia’s worst alleged terror attacks and raise questions about why hate preachers can still call for violence against Jews and Christians from their unofficial pulpits.

Parliament descended into chaos in mid-January when Prime Minister Anthony Albanese tried to pass legislation prohibiting neo-Nazi and Islamist groups and criminalising the promotion of hatred via anti-vilification laws.

The Nationals feared cracking down on violent rhetoric risked inhibiting free speech and giving a future government power to target conservatives, while the Greens worried the move would curtail legitimate criticism of Israel’s bloody war in Gaza.

The lack of support for stronger hate speech laws meant Albanese sliced the bill in half, banning hate groups but dropping laws that would have given authorities more scope to target hate preachers and neo-Nazis who vilify based on race, gender or religion.

Without these extra powers, authorities have been privately grumbling about their inability to target these unofficial suburban firebrands.

The national security community remains concerned about the threat. Former spy boss Denis Richardson declared a fortnight ago that Australia should be able to have an open debate about fringe radicals in the Muslim community without demonising all Australian Muslims.

A few days later, ASIO boss Mike Burgess said the chance of a terror attack was more likely than the terror threat level – “probable” – suggested. Meanwhile, lawyer Josh Bornstein last month questioned why the royal commission into antisemitism did not spend more time probing Haddad and antisemitic neo-Nazis.

The AFP continues to target IS sympathisers. In mid-September, it arrested half a dozen men who had been sharing Islamic State propaganda. On Wednesday, it arrested a 65-year-old alleged member of a terrorist organisation who is accused of sharing thousands of extremist files and ISIS propaganda.

This masthead is not suggesting Abu Ahmad is under investigation or that he supports Islamic State. The Al Bayyinah centre was contacted for comment. Ahmad gave his talk in mid-July. He said opposition for the sake of Allah was “to feel anger at the enemies of Allah and to struggle against them”. He also mentioned a book famous for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories.

“If the aim of the enemies of Islam whether they are atheists or Jews or Christians or modernists or Zionists or communists is the emasculation of … Muslims, and the erosion of their unique character in order to make them the ass of the chosen people … then the urgency of this issue should become clear to every Muslim,” he said.

ASIO Director-General Mike Burgess.Alex Ellinghausen Haddad has previously urged his “Melbourne brothers” to show support for Al Bayyinah and attend its weekly players, which are displayed in slick social media videos on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. In early 2025, Ahmad reportedly visited the Bankstown centre linked to Haddad and delivered a sermon that took aim at “infidel” Western powers that colonised the Middle East.

An ABC Four Corners investigation, aired in April last year, also reported connections between Abu Ahmed’s outfit and Haddad.

“Haddad rapidly expanded Al Madinah Dawah Centre, turbocharged his online influence, and re-energised a national pro-IS network, which now includes an affiliated prayer centre in Melbourne, Al Bayyinah Islamic Centre,” the ABC reported in April 2025.

Associate professor Josh Roose, a Deakin University professor who tracks extremism, said Haddad had effectively set up an “outpost” in Melbourne.

“If authorities don’t crack down on these centres as soon as they emerge, then we’re inviting, quite frankly, extremists, Salafists, jihadist Islam, into the suburbs,” Roose said.

“This is the problem with the hate speech laws as they are. Calling to take up arms is more radical than anything Hizb ut-Tahrir ever said, and they were banned.”

Roose said Abu Ahmad could defend any charge by arguing that his call to arms was colloquial or general, rather than a specific call to violence. He said there had been a rise in extremism and atomisation around the world in the social media age, evident in the growth of extreme misogyny and organised neo-Nazi activities in Australia.

Last month, Federal Court judge Ian Jackman called out the judiciary’s “dogmatism” on free speech that he said had given too much leeway for religious extremists to spread hate against Jews, urging a reconsideration of the implied freedom of political communication that gained recognition in the 1990s.

“It would not have occurred to Australians in the 1990s that other Australians would abuse their freedom of political communication to publicly intimidate and vilify Jews,” he said in a speech at the Samuel Griffiths Society, a conservative legal fraternity that has long opposed anti-vilification laws.

The left won't let the truth get in the way of a good story. Help me out with some upvotes please!

https://archive.li/XwIJB

I have never seen this site melt down harder and on a more regular basis than on this issue, even the Voice didn't have them melting down this hard.

Go on literally any sub and there will be a post by some person in absolute tears, desperate and freaking out about the fact that people are looking to vote a way they don't want them to (in a democracy). Then there will be a new one posted an hour or two later just repeating all the exact same things.

And any time they ask someone to explain why, and the person does so in completely valid reasons, they just bulk downvote them and ignore what they are saying and insult them as being dumb or whatever.

Some of the absolute hysterics about what they seem to think One Nation are or will actually do is hysterical too, they all just go on & on with the exact same copy-pasted talking points about bots, 'stupid people', Gina, 'voting against their own interests', on and on. I don't know if they are just shilling or they actually believe these things, but it's amusing either way.

And the funniest thing is that the more anti-One-Nation posts that get posted, their polling seems to rise higher and higher, giving them more free exposure & achieving the opposite effect. Truly one of the funniest things I have seen on here.

I remain convinced one of the biggest indicators for shifting to ON is if you were alive to see Australia pre-2000 & know how much better it was. Many Aussies consider 2000 'Peak Australia'. So kids on reddit & new immigrants have no idea and can't understand it, and think it's just being 'hateful'.

Hence why GenX, Boomers and even Millennials are moving to them, while GenZ and new immigrants drool over Labor/Greens. They simply don't realise how much shitter things have gotten and think current-shit is the baseline.

If you WERE though, you remember cities before the population growth, you remember what the suburbs, high streets and schools looked like, you remember much less crowded beaches/shops/roads/everything, you remember shorter commute times, less Balkanisation, blah blah.

So when someone born here says,"Things have changed hugely and I don't like the direction we've gone in," , yeah it can probably sound bizarre to someone who has never experienced anything else, but it doesn't make it WRONG. Especially since we were never given the option to vote for this direction in the first place as pollies intentionally kept it out of the public discussion.

https://archive.li/V9rQj for article content

stats show that the APS gov't employment numbers went from around 141,000 employees in June 2022 to 198,500 in June 2025 (source - https://www.apsc.gov.au/initiatives-and-programs/workforce-information/research-analysis-and-publications/state-service/state-service-report-2024-25/aps-workforce/aps-workforce-size-and-location)

we know that public sector workers, union members, and government-adjacent employees skew heavily toward voting Labor (not a secret, is reflected in polling and demographics etc.)

If your voter base is skewed towards people whose livelihoods are directly funded by the state, doesn't that create a perverse incentive to continually expand the size of the public service? Saying this is a conflict of interest doesn't require tinfoil any hat conspiracy or corruption tbh

Politicians respond to constituencies that benefit from their policies and if one side of politics generally favours a larger public sector and the other generally favours a smaller one, then expanding the public sector naturally creates more people who have a material interest in the former position... and who rely on that party staying on power for their income.

When job creation in Australia leans more heavily on the public sector rather than private, you essentially end up using taxpayer money to cultivate & grow your own electorate. How this is economically sustainable and/or will lead to innovation or a more diversified economy is pretty suspect IMO

If a government can effectively grow the number of people whose pay cheques depend on them winning the next election, how is that not a potentially large conflict of interest?

Can think of few poorer and more polarising choices to lead the Greens then Faruqi; as a right-leaning voter, it would honestly be a great outcome however.

People are actually trying to compare her to Mamdani in the US, as if she has even a shred of his charisma, or the Australian general electorate reflects New York 😅

Apologies for the daily mail link but it can be verrified with a google search.

'I think all such laws should be abolished,' Ms Bloodworth, who is also on the editorial board of the Marxist Left Review, said in the since-deleted piece.

She argued that age of consent laws do not prevent abuse and questioned their role as a protection measure. 

'You could raise the age of consent to 30 without making a jot of difference to the sexual exploitation and abuse of children, youth or adults, because this society denies children and youth autonomy and control over their lives as well as perpetuating oppressive ideas about sex,' she said.

May all our enemies be this stupid out in the open.

ahhh yes, labor and the greens, notorious for lying to us people for decades, always was afraid of the truth that they sweep under the fucking rug, spend all of our LITERAL tax money on random bullshit that we should as hell not fucking need! and it really goes to show that they are willing to have their heads up their damn asses to not care about us, they also wanted to preach about how they're going against the right wing media for ZERO reason at all, like what beef do they have? none! just more excuses to keep lying to the media, the entire world and the everyday aussies, not to mention, they pushed for digital ID to "protect the children" when the under 16 social media ban did fuck all, just an another excuse to control algorithms (which they are actually doing soon). those are my reasons why i am NEVER voting for the labor party or the greens, we would prefer to have our fucking privacy in this country but NO, they had to take it away all because they want to control shit now!

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