Australians are entitled to object to mass immigration, multiculturalism and whatever else they like. If some people find that “troubling” that's their problem. People troubled by  opinions and beliefs other than their own are weaklings of the kind who expect to be protected by Big Brother from real life. 

Jabbering about Australia being a “settler country” doesn't change the fact, or the opinions if you think that you are right and everyone else is wrong, that there are too many people coming here too fast. 

That is bloody obvious to any intelligent person. And it has nothing to do with “indigenous peoples”, who were here before the rest of us. 

It is clear that these commo-cranks are locked into a  mass immigration, pro-Palestian, antisemitism, give the place back to the abos package deal, while they want more people to come here. It saves them from having to think. 

The so-called Opposition has to start opposing; dropping the Morrisononion idea that there is no culture war, and fighting that war. Ley's almost exact copy of Labor's reaction to the anti-mass immigration rallies - ignoring the majority of decent, patriotic Australians for virtue-signalling about a few make-believe Nazi ratbags was disgusting.

The American system is not perfect; Donald Trump is not perfect; but both are better than the here and now in Australia.

The education of this obviously young author and her generation was abandoned by the light-weight conservatives. She knows nothing of history, and what Australia was like before her parents came here. They arrived at a time when Australians were learning that they were to be foreigners in their own country. It was all come-on-down to any odds and sods who wanted to come here.

The culture war that has to be fought to get Australia back where it was, was ignored by Morrison, and it is now being deliberately suppressed with the fearmongering nonsense of climate change, Net Zero and their consequences of huge rises in the cost of living.

Both Labor and Liberals are the guilty parties. And, if there is to be a rise in the presence of Nazi imitators as things get worse, they need to look in a mirror to find the reason.

ttbn,

Every time you post, you demonstrate precisely why the so-called "culture war" is more about culture panic - a refusal to accept that Australia, like every functioning democracy, evolves. And your nostalgia for a past that never truly existed does more to expose your position than any counterargument could.

//The Opposition has to start opposing... fighting that war...//

Translation: You’re frustrated that even the Coalition isn’t embracing your culture-war talking points. Perhaps that’s because most Australians-including many conservatives-don’t want a politics dominated by rage, scapegoating, and imaginary Marxist takeovers. They want solutions, not slogans.

//Ignoring the majority of decent, patriotic Australians...//

You don’t speak for the majority. You speak for the loud minority that defines "patriotism" so narrowly it excludes anyone who doesn’t look or think like you. That’s not patriotism. That’s ethno-nationalism in drag.

//The American system is not perfect; Donald Trump is not perfect...//

No, he’s not. He’s a twice-impeached conman whose brand of grievance politics is actively dismantling democratic institutions. If you see that as a model for Australia, it tells us more about your politics than about our problems.

//She knows nothing of history...//

On the contrary, Malhotra shows far more awareness of Australian history than you do. She acknowledges both the reality of Indigenous dispossession and the benefits migrants have brought-without denying the need for civic cohesion. You, meanwhile, offer slogans, slurs, and fantasies of a whitewashed past.

//It was all come-on-down to any odds and sods...//

And yet here you are, using services, systems, and infrastructure maintained by those odds and sods-many of whom work harder, contribute more, and display more civic virtue than those who think "being born here" is a moral achievement.

You mistake discomfort with irrelevance. The country has moved on from your 1950s dreamscape. People like Malhotra aren’t asking Australia to erase itself. They’re asking for a version of it that includes everyone who calls it home-without erasing the history, values, or shared civic bonds that make it worth defending.

That’s not weakness. That’s modern nation-building. What you’re calling for is just… regression.

Be real, bloke. We don't have "staggered" immigration, it's staggering immigration. 1.4m in three years flat, 80% higher than Rudd even. That's why we marched. And Albanese hated it, which is why he had us smeared as vile, lawless, neo-Nazi, pro-Hitler, far right, extreme racists.

The lesson seems pretty clear. Albanese wants to destroy Australia as we knew or know it. MfA might be our least hopeless hope. Let's hope they learn from their mistakes in Melbourne, and regroup, early and often

Steve S

Good onya!

Great article

To me (a migrant from the UK who has lived here for more than three decades) the touchstone is whether migration benefits the pre-existing population. In Australia, historically, I think overwhelmingly it has. Migration has brought skilled workers and entrepreneurs that have benefited the economy, and diverse cultures and life experiences that have enriched society. But the system that has served us well is currently under strain in two respects, and unless we address these we risk igniting the vicious and often overtly racist hostility to migration that is erupting in Europe and the USA.

The first is that the sheer numbers of migrants in recent years has exceeded our capacity to comfortably absorb them. In the past three years, net overseas migration has totalled over 1.1 million people, and while net migration of 445,640 in 2023-24 was down from the all-time high of 525,320 in 2022-23, it was still far higher than in any previous year. This has implications for housing affordability, infrastructure and access to health and other public services.

The second, which this article explores well, is the composition of the migrant intake, and what is expected of them. Too often this debate is framed as a binary opposite – either migrants must completely assimilate or are to be left to maintain unchanged the customs, values and worldviews of their homeland. But I think that both migrants and the pre-existing population benefit most when we land somewhere between these – expecting migrants to accept and respect the core values of their host society while enjoying and sharing the riches of their original cultures. The author seems to be an excellent example of this