By Stephen Saunders
Anthony Albanese’s responses to Bondi hew to a script. Unpopular mass migration must continue—at any cost. Citizens must be socially “cohesive”—or else we’re racist.
Less than 24 hours after Bondi’s studied sectarian slaughter—a ghastly new “landmark” for Australia—Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his press gallery chooks had already agreed to a narrative.
It was guns and antisemitism, nothing to do with mass migration. The Coalition dared not challenge this framing. Jewish organisations and politicians dared not buck the script.
Josh Frydenberg agitated for a Royal Commission. He got a one-commissioner show that looks away from mass migration and Islamism, presuming top-down “cohesion”.
The rhyming media coverage of the January 26 Marches for Australia underlines why the government won’t let voters have low immigration and more affordable housing. We’re just too racist, as it were, too easily “led” by neo nazis.
Albanese remains an immigration radical
The majority consistently favours lower immigration or an immigration pause, even the sourcing of immigration from like countries. See, that “proves” we’re racist.
Since Bondi, the One Nation vote has tripled. Ever wonder why? One Nation policy is 130,000 migrant visas annually, with tough visa regulation. Sussan Ley’s Liberals, with or without the Nationals, would rather not discuss immigration numbers.
Albanese’s security and immigration policing had been overmuch focused on neo nazis. Reverse racism masked the escalation in antisemitism, notably since 2023. In security terms, the Bondi Akrams were almost hiding in plain sight.
Falsely, Treasury economics assumes that mass migration keeps us younger, more productive, and more skilled. Social policymaking, from the Race Commissioner on down, assumes racism is primarily visited by lighter skins upon darker skins.
Albanese’s partisan 2023 immigration deals for Indian qualifications and students aren’t even seen as discriminatory. You’d have to be “racist” to even mention them.
From 1945 to 2005, with White Australia snuffed out by the 1970s, Australia averaged net migration around 90,000 annually. Australia’s net migration had been more than adequate and diverse. Over his first 2022-25 term, Albanese hiked net migration, to a crazy 424,000 average.
Mass migration isn’t left versus right—it’s political classes versus the rest. No other developed nation is emulating our multicultural “nirvana”.
Peer nations and world powers have much smaller immigration profiles—low rates of population growth.
Australia is 30% overseas-born and 50% migrant “origin”. While this is thrilling for population boosters George Megalogenis and Abul Rizvi, it is a world outlier, a historical anomaly. More than 45% percent population growth this century is nuts, socially and environmentally.
Population growth rates are matching economic growth rates, keeping productivity growth in a 60-year cellar. But Treasury executives emote for UN net-zero. In their woke budgeting, the fire and flood-wracked continent can never have too much immigration.
Forty million here we come—who needs water? We just need better “planning”. Vanishingly few urban “planners” dare say otherwise.
Both under conservative and liberal governments, the other Anglophone (Five Eyes security) nations have prudently paused mass levels of immigration. Australia’s world-exceptionalism continues to defy voters. This I call “Democracy 101”.
Albanese subverts the Bondi responses
From the start, Albanese lucked onto a Bondi miracle from central casting.
Brave Ahmed al-Ahmed showed we stood “cohesive”. Bondi, as it were, was Not Who We Are. Al-Ahmed quickly became a world media circus.
Having his saint and miracle, Albanese also needed parables and prayers.
Australia has gun controls—when we care to use them—with very low rates of intentional homicide and gun homicide. Yet, Albanese immediately looked over there at guns. “No one can justify why this household had so many firearms,” intoned Tony Burke. As if, before December 15, we never had central government.
Up until December 14, non-allegiants with extremist affiliations could gain and maintain state licences for multiple inappropriate weapons under leisurely Mr Magoo forms of scrutiny. As if, diversity and inclusion were licensing criteria.
Albanese’s 19 December gun tactics included a Howard-style gun buyback. The original Port Arthur reformer raised his eyebrows.
At The Guardian, Karen (sorry, Sarah) Martin claimed Howard was “dog-whistling” up a “terrifying” anti-immigration debate. It was worse than AI.
By 29 December, Albo was onto security. Dennis Richardson (who else?) would do dentistry on the capacity of ASIO/AFP intelligence to prevent terror.
No matter that Australia had enacted more than 50 pieces of “anti-terror” legislation in the first decade after 9/11, nearly 40 more, the following decade. In 2019, Richardson had already recommended a revamp of horse-and-buggy-era surveillance powers.
So, what was with the covert repatriation of ISIS brides, fast visas for 3,000 Gazan refugees, Labor’s citizenship rush-job before Election 2025, Burke’s rare and selective visa cancellations, the favouring of Palestine demos and “recognition” of Palestine, and the government abuse heaped on low-immigration protesters? It never happened, I guess.
Does not Labor get the memo? In Islamism, mass migration tends to support jihad. After Bondi, Labor is keen as ever to talk up the neo nazi peril. Reducing immigration would help mitigate both threats.
From Frydenberg to sport stars, from business leaders to Ley, the virtuous classes still craved that Royal Commission.
Supposedly, Albanese failed to read the room. The national chorus said his Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion was a humiliating backdown.
Nah, he read the room. Like COVID before them, the 15 who died were another perverse opportunity to shore up mass migration. To fake inclusivity and unity, as never before.
Australia Day Albo effectively said: you the people must be “cohesive”. But you can’t have relief from indiscriminate mass migration and the divisive immigration/housing crunch.
Immigration is subverting democracy
Albanese swanned around England as a progressive patriot. His policy record says authoritarian, regressive, globalism.
Before and after The Voice referendum, ‘twas said only “racists” who would reject the proposition. Not by Albo directly, but federal acronyms such as SBS, ABC, ANU, HREOC.
His concession speech ignored the gulf between inner-city woke (voting Yes) and ordinary folks (No). Similarly, the snarling attacks on low-migration protesters came from senior ministers, not from him.
Albanese took a loss on his misnamed Misinformation Bill but not on the under-16s social media ban. Bondi’s posh-Teal MP Allegra Spender said that Australia just needs a Minister for “Social Cohesion”. Upper-class insensitivity, at its best.
Albo’s power play was the omnibus Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill. Chutzpah, coming from a world-fashionably pro-Islam pro-Palestine government.
We’d long had a non-criminal hate offence under 18C of Racial Discrimination Act. This Bill added severe criminal penalties, for vaguely defined racial vilifications, also for ministerially decreed “hate groups” or perpetrators of “hate crimes”.
The dodgy vilification (hate speech) clauses exited the eventual legislation. It was still bad law, chilling for dissent. To think, Scott Morrison got panned for his failed Religious Discrimination Bill, which was far less draconian.
The official 2024-25 ABS/Treasury stats disguise that student visas are the key source of net migration and that India and China are key source countries. They ape instead a silly ANU Migration Hub measure, migrant arrivals plus migrant departures.
India and China themselves don’t do mass in-migration and state-sponsored reverse racism. That’s an Anglosphere or Euro-guilt thing.
We can and should do better on guns and race. But also, Australia is one of your least racist nations. Its “diverse” electorates are well cushioned in the electoral sweepstakes. Meaning here, electorates where 1st- and 2nd generation migrants form the majority.
According to smug pollster Kos Samaras, one must win said electorates to win government. Labor, so he reckons, holds 48 out of the 50 “most diverse”.
In the last three federal elections, the losing candidate supposedly failed to appease “Chinese” electorates. Both in Sydney and Melbourne, Labor is deliberately crafting “Indian” electorates.
According to Muslim Votes Matter, there are “over 20 seats” federally where their community has the “potential deciding vote”.
There are only 150 federal electorates. It’s problematic that Liberal/Teal and Labor/Green compete over “diversity” not the greater good for the populace.
Check Labor’s Housing Minister for celebrating January 26, which is India Republic Day, not Australia Day.Diwali, ho-hum for Australians, is catnip to Liberal/Labor politicians.
Faking it, Liberal/Teal and Labor/Green contested Albo’s undemocratic Hate Bill. Just as happened after COVID, this leaves mass migration more entrenched than ever.
Bondi Albanese is no “reformer”
There you have it.
Despite raising temporary-visa holders to a staggering 10% of population (2.9m), “patriot” Albanese insinuates that he is catching up for COVID, supplying enough housing, tackling rental/electricity prices, taking bold climate action, beating population ageing, upskilling the workforce, fixing visa backlogs, and boosting social “cohesion”.
That 2.9m includes 731,234 NZ citizens, 638,166 students, 240,332 temporary graduates, 402,652 bridging visa holders, 238,322 temporary skilled workers, 226,962 working holiday makers and 360,214 tourists. A vast labour-market underclass.
The UN, Ley and Albanese, Treasury and Home Affairs, also the uncountable international-immigration queue, they’re all having a lend, draining citizens’ tolerance.
However, Australian Population Research Institute finds hope for a “political realignment” away from mass migration and net-zero. It only seems possible if One Nation (common targets of Senate hate speech) wins a parliamentary share of decision-making.
Now we’re told voters prefer One Nation’s Hanson (26%) to Ley (16%) as Prime Minister. And that was just before the Nationals re-split from the Coalition.
Despite propaganda of immigration reverting to “normal”, actually Albanese presides over endless mass migration (3x normal), world-level rental and housing pain, punishing energy prices, the usual two-tier school funding, struggling infrastructure and services, and elevated social discord.
Unless that “political realignment” happens, I fear those indicators will be little changed whenever Albo leaves office.
In Wikipedia and AI however, he’d retain a “reformist” gloss. These leftish media are a bit negative about sometimes-hapless, somewhat-sexist Morrison. However, they tend to overlook the regressive policies and high voter unpopularity of the iconic “feminist” Julia Gillard.
AI notwithstanding, I claim Albanese Labor has exploited Bondi. To nix voter dissent and to extend the 20-year season of unpopular, unwise mass migration. This is Australian Democracy 101.
