I'm not sure that talking-point is a winner...
4 months ago by zero_gravitas to c/ausmemes
I had to look up the speech to check if this was an accurate representation or whether that ellipsis was doing a lot of work, and while it's not verbatim, it's very much close enough:
In the 2021 census, more than half of Australian residents, 51.5% were born overseas or had one parent born overseas.
51.5%.
Is that what supported by the Australian electorate? Is that what Australia wants?
Link to speech at 8m29s: https://youtu.be/mMHm9EzrobY?t=509
Agree. And you would think it should be a declining base, because boomers old and dying out.
I'm more than a little scared there might be some younger generations that have drank some kool aid from online. And it may include migrants. It seems crazy to me, but I have seen theories floating around that say once migrants have got citizenship/permanent residence in a country, they become anti-immigration.
Yep I knew a while old guy not born in Australia, and living here for 40 years or something, saying to me that they should stop immigration.
This was on my first month living here and he knew it. But well I'm white and he said I was ok to be here, implying it's only certain places that are supposed to not migrate.
Not just a theory. There are multiple studies in multiple countries confirming it. It's an odd quirk of humanity. Everyone thinks they are the exception. It became pretty clear during covid.
What a piece of shit
Can we send these people back to the life they advocate for. Like a cave, in the mountains. Never having to meet more that 20 people. And scraping an "trad" lifestyle and praying to the sky god to keep the leopards away.
She doesn't care about maths. She cares about making the bigots feel confident enough to express their bigotry. She wants her voter base to feel powerful and also persecuted, so she'll switch frames of reference as needed.
Kick out all the British born, leave it for the indigenous people! That's most of the population of Australia.
How are you going to literally say that the majority of people are/have/do X and then ask if the people want that?
"You're black."
"Yep."
"And you find this... acceptable?"
Honestly as shit a take as it, it doesn't matter to the average ONP supporter, the racism at this point is the draw.
I think the more interesting way to convince people is point out that she wants to use the government to impose her values on the population. Tell them she wants to make church on Sundays compulsory, that she'll close down Chinese restaurants in their home town to give support fish and chip shops and other ridiculous shit
That's an odd strategy to run in a country like Australia.
I can't believe I'm defending her, but she's no Trump wannabe.
She's been saying this crazy shit since 1996. All that's changed is the level of attention she's been getting for some reason. If it turns out that there's been an orchestrated campaign to mass-spam social media with ONP propaganda a couple of years down the line, I'd believe it. She's been around for decades, and catering to her 5% fringe whack-jobs all this time. Suddenly in 2026, she's mainstream-relevant.
Quite ironic from a european view; there are two continents that were settled only a few centuries ago and their residents already call others "foreigners".
Forgive me for pointing this out, but literally your entire continent was complicit in enslaving the native populations of other continents. Settle down, white boy, you ain't perfect.
Oh wow, do we get Pauline Hanson propaganda here too?
go to feed...
go to feed...
I don't think I could manage to listen to her speak for over 8 minutes, so here's a tldw:
https://www.abc.net.au/...
PM Pauline's wishlist:
That looks like a pretty solid 'go after the white boomer vote' checklist to me. I saw her last year, in person she looks oooold. That trademark hair is all fake these days, she's in her 70's now. Fairly standard boomer look. Going for the boomer vote is a strategy has been failing the Liberal party of late, there just aren't enough boomers any more. But if she wins them then yeah - she might get a third of the vote.
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