There’s a double irony about the saying In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Double irony because, first, it’s so often misattributed to George Orwell, and, secondly, it was coined by green-left activists. We live in a time of universal deceit, indeed, but who’s telling the truth? Certainly not the green-left.
Take, for instance, the furious reaction to Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s observation that record-high Indian mass immigration is boosting Labor’s vote.
The Albanese government has hit back at Liberal senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comments claiming that Labor had brought in migrants from India to boost its voting base.
Minister for Multicultural Affairs Anne Aly said members of the Indian diaspora had expressed safety concerns following last week’s anti-migration rallies, and that “comments by some political leaders have exacerbated their fear and shattered their sense of security”.
Well, okay: but note that he doesn’t address the actual argument.
Leaving aside, of course, that the media are, as usual, shockingly verballing a conservative politician (‘appeared to claim’, ‘appeared to double down’). In fact, as Price pointed out, it was the ABC interviewer who specifically brought up Indian migration.
But, where was she wrong? Just ask Labor’s own strategists.
Australia’s Indian community has become one of the strongest voting blocs in the country, with research suggesting as many as 85 per cent backed Labor at the last federal election. Pollster Kos Samaras, director at RedBridge Group Australia, made the point while speaking with Drew Pavlou on his podcast The Great Australian Multiculturalism Debate: Kos Samaras v John MacGowan, excerpts of which were carried in The Iceberg Substack.
The numbers underline the shift. Australia’s Indian-born population reached 916,330 by June last year. Added to that are 200,971 second-generation Australians with Indian ancestry and 113,947 “secondary migrants” born elsewhere but of Indian background. By 2026, the Indian-born population is expected to hit 1.1 million, a dramatic rise from just 95,000 in 2001, according to a Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade snapshot.
With the difference in primary votes for the two parties at just over 600,000 votes, 85 per cent of the Indian diaspora population in Australia (1,046,560) is more than enough to swing the election.
The shift is already visible in key suburban seats, especially in Sydney and Melbourne, where Indian communities have grown rapidly. Newspoll figures show Labor holding onto its gains since May, with other pollsters placing its two-party preferred vote even higher. While older migrants often took more than a decade to engage with politics, newer arrivals are enrolling sooner, often within four to six years. That means a faster impact on marginal electorates.
So, Price is correct that Indian migration is a massive boost to Labor – as the numbers show, more than enough to explain Labor’s recent election wins. Put that together with Labor’s disgraceful, North Korean-style, mass citizenship ceremonies on the eve of the election – with voter registration booths conveniently on hand and Anthony Albanese’s secretive fundraising lunches with Indian migration agents – and only a wet, woke, weak, Liberal party ‘moderate’ could fail to see the obvious.
Liberal senator Dave Sharma, who is of Indian-Australian heritage, said Senator Price’s comments were “very poorly expressed” and said it was appropriate that she withdrew them.
And here we were, all this time, being told that Sharma was Jewish. This guy ticks boxes faster than an ‘Aunty’ with a brand-new possum-skin cloak and an invoice for performing a Welcome to Country ceremony at the local primary school fete.
[Sussan Ley…] the opposition leader, who has committed to winning back migrant communities following the Liberal’s election disaster, distanced herself from Senator Price’s comments.
The opposition leader was in Parramatta in Sydney’s west on Sunday meeting with local Indian community leaders to manage fallout from Senator Price’s comment about the voting preferences of migrants from the world’s most populous country.
Yet, at the same time, Ley is trying desperately to pretend that she’s listening to Australians’ concerns about out-of-control mass immigration.
Ms Ley also said high migration was hurting “Australia’s way of life” by applying stresses on infrastructure and the labour market. “The pressures I’m hearing about are about the total number of migrants,” she said.
“This is not about any migrant or any migrant community. We value every single one of them and what they bring to this country.
“This is not a failure of migrants or migration, this is a failure of government policy to build the infrastructure, to build the services, to have the roads, to have the amenities in our cities. So those pressures are being reflected wherever we go.”
Does this idiot even listen to herself? Does she stand for anything?
And the Libs wonder why they keep losing elections against even someone as hopeless and venal as Albanese?
