Cr Callum Pull

Newcastle Councillor | Former Deputy Lord Mayor | Director - Newcastle Airport Pty Ltd, GNAPL & LGNSW

[Cr Callum Pull @PullCal]

A deserving shout out - well done Mitch & the Red Devils!

[Mitch Ry.\n @Rhino11011]

Proud to have been named in parliment due to helping Wallsend football club. Hopefully we can continue to build with promotion coming up.

[Josh Frydenberg @JoshFrydenberg]

Unsurprisingly Labor’s Defence Industry Minister Pat Conroy is not the first and will not be the last ALP figure to launch a baseless and tactless attack on Sir Robert Menzies accusing him of being a “Nazi appeaser“.

Back in 2013 an otherwise decent and good man Labor MP Mike Kelly made a similar claim in an opinion piece in The Australian Jewish News.

At the time former Howard government minister Dr David Kemp and I co-authored a reply which can be found below.

In the piece we make clear that:

Menzies understood the true nature of the Nazi threat, referring in his memoirs Afternoon Light, to the “sinister figure of Hitler”.

When it came to attributing responsibility for the war, Menzies made clear “the guilt was that of Germany alone”.

Following a four-day visit to Germany in July 1938 Menzies was shocked by the Nazis’ destruction of the liberal and democratic features of Germany, and by the apparent willingness of the German people to accept this.

Far from unrealistically believing peace could be preserved, on his return he expressed his deep concern at the parochialism of the Australian states in resisting Commonwealth plans to prepare for war. He told the Constitutional Club of Sydney in October that:

“Few people of the Commonwealth fully realised that the European crisis might involve hostilities in Australian waters – that war might be something that would come to Australia, and not merely something that was happening 12,000 miles away”.

Throughout the period of his prime ministership, Menzies’ commitment to victory would remain steadfast, even during the darkest days of May 1940 when France was being overrun and senior colleagues like Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Australia’s high commissioner to Britain, contemplated defeat.

Menzies worked to focus the British on the importance of the war in Asia and the Pacific. Like Churchill he understood the importance of America to the Allied war effort and made it a priority for Australia to have independent representation in Washington, appointing our first ambassador to the United States in 1940.

Robert Menzies was the man who revived liberal thought and lifted the standards of Australian politics, and was the strongest opponent of socialist class-war rhetoric and the supporters of fascist ideas.

Australians today should acknowledge an immense debt of gratitude to Menzies for his unfailing support for individual liberty at its moment of greatest challenge, for his opposition to those who were impressed by the overseas dictatorships of the ’30s, and to the national division, class war, isolationism and socialist utopianism being fostered from within the Labor Party at the time.

And as for those individuals who seek to dishonestly misrepresent the Menzies legacy in this way, I say it reflects more on your ignorance of history and your desperate tactics to score a cheap political point.

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[Carrington Brigham @DigitalMediaBoy]

This is very good. Visionary for Australian small businesses.

[Mitch Ry.\n @Rhino11011]

You beauty.

[Chris Rath @ChrisRathMLC]

Labor’s dodgy pork barrelling exposed 🐖🛢️

https://t.co/fTb9DnHkZt

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Thank you to former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott for stopping by Parliament to meet.

We talked about a country that rewards hard work, develops its resources, secures its borders, and delivers affordable prices for its people.

[Senator Andrew Bragg @ajamesbragg]

Labor’s big spending has driven up interest rates making life harder for all Australians.

[AusPoll @AusPoll6]

Preferred date for Australia Day

🟢 January 26th: 68% (+7)
🟡 Another date: 16% (-8)

Resolve | 12-16 Jan | n=1800 | +/- Jan 2025

[Senator Andrew Bragg @ajamesbragg]

Labor talks a big game on housing, but the scoreboard is terrible in both Canberra and Sydney. Well said ⁦@ChrisRathMLC⁩

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[Senator Andrew Bragg @ajamesbragg]

The stench of the cover up won’t go away until a Royal Commission is established.

[Tony Abbott @HonTonyAbbott]

The events at Bondi Beach are an absolute atrocity. A horror for the victims and a massive escalation of the hatred directed at Australia’s Jewish community. There should be no place in Australia for the kind of evil we’ve seen this evening. Thank God one bystander heroically intervened showing the good side of our country. I am praying for all those affected at this time.

[Blake @K_Blake9]

I fear that this will be the start of some very dark days here in Australia and especially Sydney. Genuinely scary #bondi

[Cr Callum Pull @PullCal]

RT @nswpolice: There have been NO reports of any incidents at Dover Heights - please do NOT share unconfirmed rumours. Further updates will…

[Michael McCormack @M_McCormackMP]

Sickening scenes at Bondi. Two shooters firing indiscriminately at innocent people. This is not Australia. Thoughts to those in the area and to the first responders.

[Cr Callum Pull @PullCal]

RT @nswpolice: Attention media - please share our message for members of the public to avoid Bondi Beach area as the police operation conti…

[Senator Andrew Bragg @ajamesbragg]

Corrupt CFMEU inflates new apartment costs by up to 30%. What’s Labor doing about it?

[Chris Rath @ChrisRathMLC]

The figures Labor won’t show you… 🫣

[Chris Rath @ChrisRathMLC]

Chris Minns must explain whether he doled out taxpayer money to prop up his precarious minority government.

His office clearly breached the grant guidelines and then tried to cover it up.

This is dodgy pork barrelling at its worst.

#nswpol

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[Cr Callum Pull @PullCal]

Great choice 👏🏼 👏🏼

[Chris Rath @ChrisRathMLC]

I’m deeply honoured to be appointed as Shadow Minister for Local Government.

Thank you @MarkSpeakman for entrusting me with this role in addition to my existing responsibilities as Whip and Shadow Special Minister of State. #nswpol