In the history of the news business, only a handful of anchors have managed to transcend their craft and become true legends in the industry. I’m talking about the kind of anchors that people went out of their way to watch (or listen to). Edward Murrow was known for his reporting from London during the Blitz in World War II. Walter Cronkite moved people to tears with his coverage of the JFK assassination and the moon landing. Brian Williams made his name by surviving a direct hit from an invisible rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, which blew his helicopter into a million invisible pieces.

Today, I’m going to predict the next name that will be added to this extremely prestigious list of news anchors: Peter Hitchener. Now, you’ve probably never heard of Peter Hitchener, especially if you don’t live in Australia. But if there’s any justice in the world, that’s all about to change. Yes, 79-year-old Peter Hitchener has something like 60 years of news broadcasting experience, but in just the last two months, he’s managed to carve out his own unique area of expertise, as all great news anchors do. He has become must-see TV because of his relentless coverage of a particular issue.

You see, in the 1960s, when Americans wanted to hear the latest news from the Apollo program, they couldn’t wait to tune into Walter Cronkite’s broadcasts. And today, in exactly the same way, when Australians want to hear about the latest brutal machete attack by foreigners in their country, they know there’s one man they can turn to: Peter Hitchener.

That’s right: machete attacks are now so common in Australia that “machete attacks” now qualify as a distinct beat in Australian journalism. And it’s a very competitive beat — one that Hitchener is frankly dominating, if we’re being honest. No one else comes remotely close. Here’s just a sampling of Hitchener’s coverage in the past few weeks. And keep in mind, as you watch, that all of these clips are indeed completely separate reports about completely separate incidents in Australia. Watch:

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There are a lot of news outlets that will auto-generate articles about earthquakes, just a few seconds after they’re detected. They automatically plug the magnitude and location information into a pre-written template and publish it. At this rate, we’re probably going to see the same thing with machete attacks in Australia. Hitchener won’t even have to go to work. Australians will just get the latest “machete attack information”, along with their daily weather report.

In any event, before we take a closer look at some of these incidents, it needs to be said that Peter Hitchener — as talented as he is — isn’t capable of covering every single machete attack in Australia. There are simply too many of them. So here’s an Australian machete attack that he missed. This one took place in a McDonald’s back in May:

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For good measure, here’s another machete attack from a petrol station back in June:

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Seeing all these reports, a reasonable person might ask, what exactly is the root cause of the problem here? Who are these “teens” and “males” who are wielding machetes? What are their ethnicities? Where are the fathers?

No one in Australia’s mainstream media — including even the great Peter Hitchener — is allowed to ask any of these questions. Instead, they’re compelled to report, endlessly, day after day, about yet another brutal machete attack that’s been committed by nondescript “wayward youths” and “rowdy teens.” Even after the government banned the act of attacking someone with a machete, and then banned the act of possessing a machete at all, somehow the attacks have continued. So they’re hopelessly confused about how to proceed here.

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But Australia’s government has not remained completely passive in the face of this onslaught of machete violence. They’ve formulated a plan. Granted, it’s the worst plan that they possibly could have conceived, but it’s a plan nonetheless. Specifically, Australia’s government has decided to politely ask machete attackers to hand over their weapons, and drop the machetes in the nearest machete collection box. Watch:

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This is the solution they’ve arrived upon, after a series of machete attacks that have terrorized tens of thousands of people. They’re just going to ask the criminals to surrender their machetes in a drop box — as if the only thing causing them to kill people with machetes is the fact that getting rid of the machete hasn’t been convenient enough. The machete attackers have all said to themselves, “Gee, I’d really like to stop butchering people with machetes, but unfortunately there is no convenient disposal location for my murder weapon. I guess I’ll have to keep machete-ing people.”

The obvious parallel here is with gun buybacks which don’t work, either. In 2008, more than a decade after Australia banned most firearms, researchers at the University of Melbourne looked into the country’s gun buyback program:

The evidence so far suggests that in the Australian context, the high expenditure incurred to fund the 1996 gun buyback has not translated into any tangible reductions in terms of firearms deaths.

It turns out that only law-abiding gun owners were handing in their guns. Who could’ve predicted that?

And of course we see the same thing at gun buybacks in the United States. As of 2020, in the U.S. the firearm homicide rate for young black males was more than 20 times higher than it was for white males of the same age. But young black males aren’t handing in their guns.

As the research organization RAND has reported, citing dozens of surveys and studies, “the majority of participants in gun buybacks were older, white men. … 75 percent of the buyback guns were small caliber, compared with 24 percent of guns used in homicides and 32 percent of those used in suicides.”

Additionally: “The number of guns turned into buybacks represent a tiny fraction of firearms in any community. ..  Significant proportions of firearms turned in to buyback programs were not in working condition or were older than guns typically used in crimes.. Nearly one-quarter of survey respondents in Sacramento, California, reported that the firearm that they turned in during a gun buyback event was not in working order, with an additional 24 percent reporting that they were unsure whether the firearm was operational.”

Most of these people handed in their guns so they could receive a gift card, or some other form of compensation from the state. But in Australia, they’re not even offering any incentive for these machetes. They’re just asking the criminals to hand over their weapons. And that’s raising concerns that — if anyone does actually drop off a machete for some reason — criminals will just take the machete from the bin. Watch:

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Notice in that report that they said Australia’s “gun amnesty” had been successful. But that’s not true. Banning guns has not solved Australia’s violent crime problem, as we can clearly see. In fact it didn’t even solve their problem with firearms. Again, from the University of Melbourne: “The 1996-1997 National Firearms Agreement in Australia introduced strict gun laws. … [But] using a battery of structural break tests, there is little evidence to suggest that it had any significant effects on firearm homicides and suicides.”

To the extent that the rate of firearm use has declined in Australia, the researchers found that it was already declining well before the gun ban went into effect.

On top of that, as we can see very clearly, criminals haven’t stopped committing violent crimes in Australia because of the firearms ban. They’re happy to use machetes instead of guns. And now, thanks to the firearms ban, their victims are completely helpless. No one in those malls can shoot the attackers. So they had to wait for the police, who took roughly 30 minutes to arrive in one of these attacks. Yes, people spent a full half hour in panic, as gangs attacked people with machetes.

Of course, even if you somehow manage to ban machetes — which is practically impossible, just like a gun ban — then they’ll move on to some other instrument of violence. You can’t stop violence by reactively banning the objects people use to commit it. Primitive societies were far more violent than our own and all they had were sticks and stones. Will we ban those next?

What’s left unsaid in all of these news reports is that Australians have had legal access to machetes for centuries without any issue whatsoever. It was only when Australia began importing the third world, in unprecedented numbers, that machetes suddenly became weapons of mass terror. Let’s go back to one of those 500 news reports that I played at the beginning of this segment. See if you notice anything about the coverage of Mall Attack Number Two:

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It’s pretty remarkable. If not for the accent of the news reporter, you would never know that it’s a news report from Australia. Almost every person interviewed, or even just seen on camera, is an immigrant. Even the voice over the intercom, telling the store owners to go into lockdown, is clearly a foreigner.  If you had to guess, without any context, you might think this footage was from India or some other south Asian country.

This is a transformation that’s been underway for a very long time. But it’s accelerated recently. Jordan Knight (with the Claremont Institute) has outlined the deliberate process that’s led to the breakdown of law and order in Australia. In September of 2022, some of the most prominent academic and political leaders in Australia — including the prime minister and the immigration minister — gathered for a meeting to address what they called a “skills crisis” in the country, post-COVID.

The agenda for the meeting was to assess, quote, “The role of skilled migration in resolving the current skills and labour shortage crisis.” Ultimately, the group concluded that the “migration ceiling” should be increased to nearly 200,000, and “visa and work restrictions” should be relaxed across the board. In other words, they encouraged fraud. And very quickly, a visa backlog of more than 3 million had been reduced by nearly 500,000 applications. The number of foreign nationals on student visas exploded.

You can see the surge there, in terms of “net student visa arrivals.” Those are levels that Australia hasn’t seen in decades. Meanwhile, as hundreds of thousands of foreigners streamed in, look what happened to housing costs:

Predictably, rents are increasing at historic levels. Millions of Australians can’t afford a place to live. And of course, along with rent, the cost of basic essentials like groceries increased as well. That’s generally what happens when there’s a sudden surge of demand. In Australia — a country of around 27 million people —  net overseas migration for 2023-2024 was estimated at roughly 550,000, far exceeding the government’s own estimates by more than 100,000 people. Again, nothing like this has happened in generations.

You can see the massive swing right at the end of this chart. It’s an unsustainable trend — one that the government of Australia deliberately enacted. Instead of getting “skilled labor,” they’ve lowered the quality of life for everyone living in the country.

For Australians, in practical terms, that means a lot more news coverage of “teens” and “youths” terrorizing the local mall. It also means more scenes like this one:

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That’s from last month, when thousands of Muslims surrounded Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne. And when this footage went viral, the response was, “well, it was peaceful, and it’s part of some Islamic tradition, so what’s the big deal?” Any intimidation was purely accidental, in other words.

The “big deal” is that Australia should not look like Pakistan. It was once a functioning Western nation. And in a very short period of time, Australia’s leaders have effectively erased its national sovereignty.

Just the other day, there was yet another rally that, if you didn’t know any better, looks like a scene out of the Middle East:

Only a nation in complete denial would look at these images, these news reports, and these statistics, and conclude that the machetes are the problem. Australia is refusing to acknowledge what everyone can clearly see. It is pathological and almost comical. Like Canada and the UK, Australia has deliberately transformed into a colony of the third world — to the point that, the next time someone tries to make the case that we don’t really need to enforce immigration law as rigorously as possible, or that the Second Amendment isn’t vital for our country’s survival, you don’t really need to say anything in response. You can just tell them to tune into Australia’s nightly newscasts for a couple of weeks, and see if they can count the number of machete attacks. That should settle the debate — and if it doesn’t, then you know you’re talking to someone who, like the leaders of Australia, desperately wants the West to fail.