By Stephen Saunders
The March for Australia demonstrates the necessity of pushing back the “you’re a racist” slur habitually deployed by the all-powerful minority—our mega-migration lobby.
It was like Goliath encountering a David with no slingshot. Yet the governing Big Australia minority went ballistic over the March for Australia (MfA).
From 2021-22, the border reopening lent bipartisan cover, for Morrison then Albanese to take the immigration deluge to the next level. As MfA says, a “uni-party”.
The ABS recently confirmed that the Albanese government had accrued about 1.4 million in net migration over 2022-25. That’s a staggering 80% higher than the 2007-10 record of China-buff and present-day US ambassador Rudd. The immigration lobby utterly refuses to acknowledge the reality and gravity of these numbers and intimidates journalists who do.
Also in August, at the “reform” roundtable, two dozen top grifters aligned with the Treasurer’s ersatz productivity pillars: Resilient economy. Skilled workforce. Digital technologies. Quality care. Net zero.
They refused to discuss “I-for-immigration”, central to our actual economy of: Gas cartel. Endless immigration. Housing speculation. Government jobs. Resource giveaways.
On August 31, citizens marched for low migration in capital cities and elsewhere. The squeals of outrage they attracted weren’t about contesting the evidence. Instead, it was the same old all-purpose one-size-fits-all kneejerk slur: You’re a racist.
Some low-migration advocates reassure themselves, they’re “not racist”, wedded to respectful debate and conversation. That’s challenging, when the other side is at war with the environment, bonkers for net zero, and suppresses the I-word itself.
From their first October 2022 Budget, Albanese Labor brazened what no government has ever done before. Always printing a high migration target, always imposing a vastly higher outcome. Aided by meretricious academic and media propaganda, they get away with it. Driving net migration, to six times the historical average.
It’s way past time to tackle their “racism” canard. It’s Albo’s go-to mass-migration excuse for his socially divisive government obsessed with identity and race.
Who are Big Australia lobby?
They’re the controlling 1-20% that adores (benefits from) mega migration. As compared to the much larger share that doesn’t want it and tends to lose out.
It’s the ruling classes, the neoliberal technocracy, woke symbolic capitalists, call them what you will. You’d expect industry, government, and the “public” service to be up there. But check the roundtable list. Unions, community, environment, housing reps, are equally happy to pile on, as is the craven opposition.
TAPRI’s Katharine Betts has a useful take on this. Sure, there’s an “influential growth lobby” of industry, developers, universities, supported by Treasury. She also identifies an overlapping group of recent origin: self-appointed “guardians” against racism.
These near-20% of her voter sample tend to be younger, better educated, financially secure Labor-Greens voters worried (of course) about climate change. They’re the ones most insistent that voters querying mass migration are “racist”.
Their stance is “moral,” not material. What humbug, exacerbating the housing pain for everyone, including themselves, whilst spreading shame and censure.
They exert a disproportionate effect on the other 80%, muting public expression. Playing on such fears, a glass-jawed government and allies brought out the heavy artillery, to neutralise MfA with fake outrage.
What’s March for Australia?
It seemed problematic, MfA didn’t identify themselves, or who was bankrolling them. It was said, one backer was the scion of a Perth real estate conglomerate. State-ABC went much further.
Ventured MfA, “our streets have seen growing displays of anti-Australian hatred, foreign conflicts, and disintegrating trust.”
Their key points were: 80% want lower migration, we’re being ignored, identity is weakened, it’s time to act.
They issued flyers for each city. Saying: big business wants endless migration, there are many valid objections, the majority is with us, Labor/Liberals are a uni-party. Also, we’ve had more Indians in five years than Greeks and Italians in 100.
The last statement triggered loudest howls of identitarian indignation. But Australians never signed up for Albanese installing yet another large diaspora—neither should any “democratic” electorate ever be forced to.
The outrage should be vented on Albanese himself, signing racially discriminatory qualifications and immigration deals with sectarian Modi India.
Just on August 31, I read several misleading media reports of the Canberra March I’d attended. We were four figures not 100s, it was peaceful, police behaved decently. It was the counter-protesters who (literally) sprayed hate at us.
“Racist” smears from government go troppo
Over 2022-25, the Greens had sprayed accusations of “racism” at Labor itself. With Labor lying about “halving” immigration whilst perpetrating the opposite, Adam Bandt made the bizarre accusation of a vile migrant-bashing “race to the bottom”.
Albanese prefers “benevolent” Xi China to “bad” Trump US, still his real-world defence ally. Typical was his symbolic “recognition” of Palestine, particularly annoying the US. Palestine demos suit his divide-and-conquer agenda.
Demos against mass migration? The horror. “Respectful conversation” got cancelled at once.
So un-Australian, vituperated the Home Affairs Minister. “Racism and ethnocentrism”, added his culturally diverse Multicultural Minister.
“Vile, racist and un-Australian,” ranted Queensland’s LNP Multicultural Minister. Stepping over Brisbane’s homeless to virtue-signal to Indian migrants. In uni-party Victoria, police had intelligence of “far right extremist ideologue” marchers.
Globalist Guardian generalised the marchers as a law-threatening “neo-Nazi grab-bag”. Afterwards, The Age claimed neo-Nazis had actually “led” the fractious Melbourne march.
But you can’t top state-ABC. Neo-Nazi, pro-Hitler, far right, extreme racism, Christchurch massacre, great replacement, this jittery report had the lot.
Memo to the ABC: Three-quarters of our unnecessary population growth derives from debilitating low-skilled immigration. That’s policy and it is virtual replacement. You don’t need to ideate any “far right white nationalist conspiracy theory”.
If it’s so reprehensible to protest mass migration, what on earth are citizens “allowed” to do? At state-ABC, yawn, there’s still “space for a really respectful conversation”.
Senator Pocock too, still imagines “sensible conversation” might deliver a “plan”. Hullo Dave, Albanese already has a set plan, Huge Australia.
Having allowed his own people to be mauled, now Albo cackles that some marchers were “good people” not neo-Nazis. As with The Voice, he weaponises the “racist” smear at a cowardly remove.
Government itself is the racist/extremist
Whether or not MfA regroups, and they might just be our least hopeless hope, it’s about time for disrespectful conversation.
For however long it takes to restore vestigial democracy. If voters (not Treasury) want low migration, which is all Australia can realistically afford, that should be the policy.
In their election triumph, “progressively-patriotic net zero” Labor enjoyed smearing the other wing of the uni-party, as Trumpian extremists. Now they monster voters. They need continual 180° feedback, from the non-roundtable classes:
Voters aren’t the racists
Of course there’s racism in Australia, including the ruling classes, and especially hurting the Indigenous. Welcome to Homo sapiens and its traits.
Yet also, Australians are demonstrably low on racism and sexism by world standards. The decency of marchers I met is being exploited to the hilt. Many citizenries would have mutinied long before Australia’s world-beating post-2000 population growth topped 45%.
Who’s the real racist?
The Labor hierarchy perceives massive Indian (and Chinese) influxes as pro-Labor, as increased insurance for long spells of government.
As if our 50% “migrant origin” weren’t sufficiently extreme by world standards, Labor’s rigging it further. Picking a winner, Modi India. With carte-blanche recognition of their qualifications, with special student-migrant privileges not accorded to other nations.
Who’s the race hypocrite?
The hyper-migration lobby emotes, no exploitation of migrants. There must be “necessary” skills recognition, fair wages, and generous housing.
What humbug. The temp-visa flood mainly fill semi-skilled or unskilled slots for cut-price wages and dodgy accommodation. If the crude exploitation really bothered Labor ministers, they’d slash immigration. Instead, they jeer at a local rental-protestor like Morgan Cox.
Who’s the real extremist?
To restate, an ocean-bound “continent with massive natural resources ought to have world-cheap energy prices, affordable housing, world-low population pressures”.
All the figures show the uni-party delivers the opposite. Pursuing extreme immigration/housing pain, irrational about Australia’s comparative “advantages”.
Decades after opening our economy to market liberalism, manufacturing has shrunk to a dot, with economic complexity shrivelled, R&D fallen off a cliff.
What’s really kept us going is the second set of “pillars” above. By world standards, Australia’s extremely into the gas cartel, endless migration, and resource giveaways.
Since 2016, the government has lost its mind for UN “net zero”, as China and India smirk. The collective derangement is that we have “special advantages” to launder emissions via carbon captures, cleanse red dirt into green steel, magic water into green hydrogen.
Who’s really trashing cohesion?
The fake social cohesion agenda of the powerful Scanlon Foundation immigration lobby funds the influential Grattan “Institute”, whose chief was hand-picked to head (or behead) the “Productivity” Commission.
Having failed at The Voice, Albanese prizes his special “envoys” for antisemitism, islamophobia, social cohesion, then tosses in a race-discrimination “commissioner” and first-nations “ambassador”. No surprise, as the first runs her sectarian agenda, the second seeks to ramp up sectarian protections.
Albanese-style “cohesion” means the reverse, new levels of identity politics in increasingly “ethnic” electorates. Marchers I chatted with see clearly—he’s a menace.
Australia as we knew it can barely survive another six years of his radical worldview.
