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The on-the-ropes socialist Allan government’s so-called ‘multicultural’ calendar has become little more than a taxpayer-funded Labor Party branch meeting in fancy dress. What’s sold as celebrating ‘diversity’ is, in truth, a blatant exercise in ethnic vote-buying, turning Victoria’s communities into balkanised voting blocs rather than any sort of united polity.
Look no further than the Premier’s Multicultural Gala Dinner last August, a $438,000 bash at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Paid for by the long-suffering taxpayer, of course.
Out of 1200 seats, Labor carved off 190 for their MPs, staffers and assorted hangers-on. Fifteen per cent of places taken by the ruling cabal. The opposition got a single, lonely kiddy table. Then-opposition leader Brad Battin and his wife got to sit at the head table, probably so they could watch the pork-barrelling up close, while the rest of the Liberals were shoved in the corner like embarrassing relatives.
That’s not inclusion: that’s ethnic branch-stacking, an old Labor pastime, with a Multicult twist.
The premier, Minister for Multicultural Affairs Ingrid Stitt and federal Assistant Minister for Multicultural Affairs Julian Hill, were each invited to speak for a combined 15 minutes, followed by Battin.
The theme chosen for the dinner was “Harmony in Diversity”.
Ah, yes: nothing says “harmony in diversity” like ensuring the room is packed with people who’ll vote the right way come election time. The same pattern repeats ad nauseam, everywhere the ‘Multicultural’ grift is used to stuff ballot boxes.
The government communications, which were released following a series of FOI requests by [opposition spokesman for multicultural affairs Evan Mulholland], suggest the lopsided guest list at the Multicultural Gala Dinner has become the norm at community events hosted by the Allan government on the public purse.
At a $381,000 Premier’s Diwali State Reception held last October at Centrepiece and attended by dozens of Labor MPs, the opposition was extended just one invitation. While Allan and Stitt each made speeches, and [Premier Jacinta Allan] remained on stage for a 10-minute “fireside chat” with Australian-born Bollywood star Pallavi Sharda, Battin was not invited to speak to the sold-out room.
While ethnics and imported cults get showered with lavish attention – and taxpayer’s money – the religion and culture that defined Australia gets short shrift. Christians got barely 1/30th of the gibsmedat showered on the millions of Hindus who’ve flooded the country in the past decade – and who vote reliably Labor.
At a smaller function held on Shrove Tuesday in March 2025 to “observe and celebrate Victoria’s Christian communities”, 22 Labor MPs were invited to the $11,400 event that was funded by the Department of Premier and Cabinet. Mulholland said no one from the opposition was invited.
This isn’t multiculturalism: it’s clientelism dressed up in rainbow colours. The Allan government is using public money to reward compliant ethnic leaders and punish those who don’t toe the Labor line.
The ‘wrong’ sort of brown people and foreign religions get treated even more shabbily than Christians.
Karan Gandhok from the Australian Indian Society of Victoria, Australia’s oldest Indian community organisation, nor the Federation of Indian Associations was invited to attend the Diwali dinner. He believes this is because the organisations are not sufficiently supportive of Labor.
A Muslim community leader left off this week’s Iftar guest list believes he was excluded for the same reason. Adam Saad, a co-founder of the El Rahman charity and mosque in Coolaroo, said he fell off the invitation list after he publicly endorsed a local Liberal candidate in last year’s federal election.
It’s crude and it’s corrupt in the greyest sense.
Mulholland said the use of taxpayer funds to pay for politically stacked events could be a form of grey corruption – a term coined by IBAC to describe the misuse of public resources for political ends.
As the Bondi Royal Commission frets over ‘social cohesion’, it should look no further than the Multi-cult. From the days of Al Grassby dancing to the tune of the Calabian Mafia to this crude, taxpayer-funded vote-buying is destroying whatever social cohesion not just Victoria but the entirety of Australia had left. Like ‘They are Us’, ‘Harmony in Diversity’ is an oxymoron.
Worse, it’s a destructive lie: it’s nothing more than ‘Divide and Rule’, and the biggest losers are Australians, who are watching their nation turn into a collection of mutually suspicious enclaves, all thanks to a government that treats public funds like party-political election-winning candy.
If this is the future of Australian society, it’s a grim one – and no amount of taxpayer-funded dinners will paper over the cracks.
