If you need a demonstration of the insufferable Left in action today, try this:
Labor Leader Bill Shorten is on the back foot over a television ad spruiking the employment of Australians First which overwhelmingly featured white people, conceding on twitter that the “lack of diversity” was a “fair cop” and wouldn’t happen again.
His move came as his fellow frontbencher Anthony Albanese reportedly criticised the ad, which has been roundly attacked as racist on social media, as a “shocker” which should never have been approved.
“Clearly it was dropped to Channel Nine to be shown last night .. I’m a member of the ALP national executive, I can assure you I hadn’t seen it,” he told reporters in Canberra on Monday.
“I think the ad’s a shocker and it should never have been produced and it should never have been shown,” he added.
“It’s not the sort of ad I want my party to be promoting.”
Here’s the ad courtesy of Fake Green, Fake Lefty, Sarah Hanson-Young:
Roughly 8% of Australians are ethnic Asian so one face in twelve people is perfectly representative of the population split.
What is “awful” is youth unemployment:
As revealed last month, youth under-employment hit an all-time high 18.0% in the February quarter, versus 8.6% for the labour market as a whole:
Whereas youth under-utilisation (combining both unemployment and under-employment) also hit an all-time high 31.5% in the February quarter:
Thanks in part to high immigration taking entry level jobs.
Ms Sarah Hanson-Young should go back to wherever she came from.