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To quote Carl (Neil Patrick Harris) from Starship Troopers: “It’s afraid!” I’m not talking about a grotesque blob of ‘brain-bug’, however, but the grotesque blob of brainless bugs constituting the two-party political establishment and its camp-followers in the legacy media and dodgy left-wing NGOs.
Speaking of dodgy left-wing NGOs, enter GetUp. This is the group that claims to be ‘non-partisan’, but has only ever targeted coalition MPs, including stalking former Liberal MP Nicolle Flint. This is hardly surprising, given that it was founded with nearly half-a-million-dollars seed money purloined from some of the poorest workers in the country, courtesy of then union boss Bill Shorten. Shorten also sat on its board for a time.
Unsurprisingly, as the following email shows, GetUp is all in a tizz over One Nation’s steamroller success – and trying to monetise on the lefty panic.
This morning, Pauline Hanson topped a new poll – and is now Australia’s preferred prime minister. Last week, One Nation raised more than $3 million in donations. The money is flowing, the polls are climbing. And her momentum is accelerating […]
That’s why I want to ask you to add your name to the Never One Nation pledge – a declaration that shows we choose hope over hate, and utterly reject One Nation. Can you sign today?
The grift never ends for these scavengers. They should have learned, though, from Anthony Albanese’s begging for $27 donations to “Stop One Nation”: ON threw it right back at them, raising nearly $4m in $29 donations.
It’s panic stations over at Melbourne’s lefty bible, the Age, too.
There is no good news for anyone in the latest Resolve Political Monitor poll of Victorian voting intentions ahead of the November state election.
And that says all we need to know about the Age, more than anything else: it’s the same echo-chamber mentality as Pauline Kael saying she didn’t know anyone who voted for Nixon.
Lil Chippy also makes the rather odd claim:
Not even for One Nation, despite what you might think. Let me explain.
Narrator: he did not, in fact, explain.
Like most leftists and normiecons, Chip Le Grand is also flummoxed and bewildered at One Nation’s meteoric rise. How could this happen? he wails. It’s the mass immigration, stupid – and the constant lying about it.
Labor’s preferred narrative is the usual post-Covid catch-up fairytale: net overseas migration cut 40 per cent from the peak, settling at 225,000 annually from 2027–28: migrants filling hospitals, aged care and construction. The reality is that there have been nearly 1.4 million long-term net migrant arrivals since Albanese was first elected: greater than the population of Adelaide. The overall number of temporary visa holders has gone from 1.9 million in 2022 to 2.9 million currently.
As we know from bitter experience, most of those will go on to claim permanent residency. The ‘temporary’ visa class is nothing more than backdoor immigration scam.
The overall number of temporary visa holders has gone from 1.9 million in 2022 to 2.9 million currently – in other words, there has been a jump of one million temporary visa holders in only four years. This is indicative of a migration program that is out of control and badly managed. One Nation voters are likely to be picking up on this.
Another significant recent development was the overtaking of those born in the UK as the largest source country in the migrant population by those born in India. But the key here is the pace of change. In 2015 there were 449,000 Indians in Australia; in 2025 the number was 971,000 – a more than doubling in 10 years.
Australia now has one of the highest proportions of overseas-born residents – close to one-third – of anywhere in the world. It’s the sort of thing people notice.
As for the supposed necessity of ‘skilled migration’, less than 12 per cent of migrants fit in that bracket. And a very generous bracket it is: while migrants are over-represented in the ‘care economy’, they are under-represented in construction: recent arrivals under five years account for under three per cent of the building workforce. Treasury’s rose-tinted forecasts and the universities’ addiction to foreign fees keep the gates wide open. GDP gets a boost – on paper. The reality is that GDP per capita, of which migration never contributed more than a hundred bucks or so a year, has declined in 10 of the past 15 quarters. Migrant remittances out of Australia have surged to an estimated US$14 billion a year.
One Nation voters are picking up on exactly this: a migration programme in chaos and out of control. Immigration was never mainly about economics. It is about the kind of society we want.
One Nation supporters already know the answer.
