‘It’s worrying…’ is how Prime Minister Anthony Albanese expressed his concern at terrorist sympathisers marching in Melbourne and Sydney streets, their flags flying and hateful slogans screeching. You know, worrying like steam coming out of a radiator. Labor’s unforgivably weak response is based on an assumption.

Team Albanese assumes that many voters in Sydney electorates with significant Muslim populations support Hezbollah or Hamas, extremist groups classified as terror organisations that are currently active in the Middle East.