As far as optics go, it was perhaps the most jaw-droppingly brain-dead display of political cackhandedness I’ve ever seen. Victorian socialist Premier Jacinta Allan posting a video of herself ‘handing the keys’ to a new, taxpayer-funded home in a new ‘social housing complex’ in Melboune. The grateful recipient? A Muslim immigrant grandmother who barely spoke English.
As you might imagine, many Australians were as mad as cut snakes.
Social media responders expressed extreme frustration – many in words unprintable here – that relatively scarce public housing was made available to someone who was not born here (and who had other relatives nearby), while many thousands of Australians either can’t afford a home or are homeless.
Not only someone not born here, but someone who’s never worked a day to contribute to the nation and never will.
Before Allan’s no-doubt voluminous social media team locked out replies, comments on X were incandescent with rage.
This isn’t the flex you think it is. Women sleeping in cars. Veterans sleeping in tents. You’re a disgrace. The polls are wrong you’re cooked – X user.
Rub it in the tent dwellers’ face why don’t you? I bet there aren’t any homeless machete warriors – X user.
These aren’t unreasonable concerns. Hulya must have been one of the 1.2 million-plus permanent residents in Australia who are, to my naive surprise, eligible for taxpayer-funded housing. Our state and federal governments are conducting policy as if their priorities were not the welfare of native-born Australians – or even citizens – but rather new arrivals, who are streaming into the country on an epic scale, as the political class mulls the intricacies of tax reform.
What do you mean, “as if”? That’s exactly what their priorities are.
The latest monthly net permanent and long-term arrival figures from the ABS came in at over 33,200 for May, the highest ever for that month. We don’t have the June figures just yet, but net migration for the 11 months of last financial year is already 89,000 above the 335,000 the budget papers had forecast for the full 12-month period. National income per person has shrunk in nine of the last 11 quarters: it looks like we’re heading for 10 out of 12.
The government promised to cut net immigration back to sustainable, pre-Covid levels before the election, which would imply around 250,000 a year, where it had hovered for years. For this calendar year, it’s on track to exceed 550,000, putting immense pressure on housing, infrastructure and social cohesion.
And in case you still, against all evidence, think the Great Replacement is just a ‘conspiracy theory’:
The vast bulk of these new arrivals are from developing nations, where English isn’t a first language nor Christianity a majority religion. A cynic could think the political class is seeking to destroy Australian culture.
Because they are. Just ask the Brits, where it’s become a detention offence in schools to wear a Union Jack dress on ‘Culture Day’. Even in Australia, local councils are voting to ban the Australian flag, because it ‘might not be culturally safe for indigenous, migrant and LGBTQIA+ aligned people’.
The agenda is so obvious that even the heavily censored, left-leaning ChatGPT AI program can see it.
In fact, I caused a fuss last week when I posted the response of the latest version of ChatGPT to a provocative question: “If Australia’s government wanted to covertly erase the nation’s British/Irish/European heritage, would the immigration program look much like the one in existence today?”
The answer shocked me. Yes, it would look “strikingly similar”, according to the supposedly centre-left AI platform. The response stressed “strong plausible deniability” and “unprecedented levels that would dramatically change the country’s demographic composition within just a few decades”, as well as noting that in 2023 over half of new permanent arrivals were from India […]
“If a government wanted to significantly alter the nation’s cultural identity without provoking open resistance, it would likely follow this exact playbook – fast, opaque, technocratic and couched in neutral-sounding economic terms.”
Everywhere it can get its claws into, the socialist Labor government of Victoria is striving mightily to erase white Australians’ identity and history.
Earlier this year the Labor government renamed Berwick Springs Lake, southeast of Melbourne, Guru Nanak Lake after Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of the Sikh faith, despite significant local community pushback.
The political class know full well what they’re doing and how much the majority of Australians hate it.
Launching a series of essays in 1994, when net overseas migration annually was below 80,000, Bob Hawke conceded the two major political parties had “an implicit pact … to implement broad policies on immigration that they know are not generally endorsed by the electorate”.
I’m sure he would be shocked at the recent figures – as doubtless many Australians are. A February survey by the Australian Population Research Institute found 80 per cent of Australians wanted lower immigration.
But, of course, the political elite and the chattering classes of the media never have to live with the consequences of their own actions. There are no rampaging Muslim mobs chanting ‘Gas the Jews’, or machete-wielding gangs of Africans, in the nice expensive suburbs where they live.
Let us eat falafel.
