We need a little more balance and perspective when it comes to Australia-Israel relations. There are those who are turning it into a political domestic football just as Peter Dutton did before the last election.

Australia’s Jewish community leaders have been far more strident in their criticisms of Benjamin Netanyahu than they have been in their language towards Anthony Albanese. In a letter to Netanyahu, the executive council of Australian Jewry president said that his comments about Albanese were “inflammatory and provocative, and demonstrated a woeful lack of understanding of social and political conditions in Australia.”

To be fair in a letter to Albanese last week, the president berated him for being “excessive and gratuitously insulting” by saying that Netanyahu was in denial about the sufferings of the Palestinians in Gaza. But on Netanyahu’s latest ad hominem attack, he asserted that the Israeli leader was playing right into the hands of opponents of Israel and antisemites to the detriment of the Australian Jewish community.

Meanwhile Sky-after-dark, which unashamedly backs the Coalition, continues to place the onus of the war-of-words on Albanese and foment division between the two nations. The Australian people saw right through this cheap political point-scoring at the last election. When will they ever learn?

Courier Mail associate editor, Kylie Lang, recently came down strongly on politicians whom, she alleges, tell porkies. Donald Trump is an obvious candidate because he has become renowned over the years for being blatantly dishonest in his dealings with others. She then swings to her favourite target Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese with the Coalition mantra about him not keeping to a promise to reduce energy bills, even though his extensive energy rebates led to far bigger savings in most Australian households than $275.

She enlists Matt ‘fossil fuel’ Canavan who plies climate solutions that belonged to a bygone age, to back up her argument. Many more coal mines are closing down than opening up. Those on the lowest incomes do not have an air conditioner or a pool to drain. They had to accept zero tax cuts from the government to which Canavan belonged.

When she switches to David Crisafulli she explicitly says” the opposition” claimed he has cherry-picked his crime figures. No Kylie, the experts such as the highly-rated criminologist Terry Goldsworthy are also saying this. Goldsworthy also pointed out that crime figures had already started to come down many months before the election last year. Police figures backed him up. Crisafulli, supported by his media backers, chose to ignore the latter and went full throttle on a youth crime scare campaign. Contrary to what he said on election night last year, the people did not choose hope over fear, they chose bewilderment over reality, inculcated persistently, despite the declining trends in youth offences.