Rubbish, all of it!

The conga line of suck-holers political parties, are what people are objecting to.

Full and open debate is honest and refreshing. Price echoed her constituents concerns.
I hear complaints about Indian immigrants all day everyday, and a good part of the complaining is justified in my view, by the evidence.

We can also equate objection to mass immigration of Indians, to mass immigration of the MENA cohort: Observe for yourself the disaster Victoria has become from roving gangs of Black African crime gangs turning the streets of Melbourne into a war zone. So by extension, if Price made public complaint over this issue, and nominated Black Africans as the root cause of the collapsing society in Victoria, she would be again wrong. Wake-up Scott!

Pathetic! Since when did Australians have to apologise for what they clearly meant to say? Just because some bed-wetter disagrees with them?

In what way are some people's opinions “inappropriate” and others not? What Prasser really means is that some people are not entitled to have an opinion. Why is one honest opinion of an elected member of Parliament an “outburst”. I believe Alex Hawke is a bully, and Sussan Ley is a dill, but they are entitled to have opinions because we authorised them to have opinions, as we did Jacinta Price.

How dare Scott Prasser, a nobody to 99.9% of Australia, write such crap.

Whether or not Jacinta Price supports Ley as leader - and who could do so without lying? - is not going to detract from the fact that the Coalition is definitely not his “strong Opposition”, and never will be, without more people with the guts and honesty of Jacinta Price.

As for Ms. Price “learning” from old John Howard - what rot! One of only two Prime Ministers to ever lose his own seat at an election. How about also taking lessons from Peter Dutton, who single-handedly lost the 2025 election by not sticking to his guns like Jacinta Price does.

I admit that at first that I was dubious about Jacinta Price, wrongly thinking that she was empowered merely by her part aboriginal status; but, that is clearly not true, and she is one of a very few Australian politicians we can have faith in.

Just looking at Prasser's background is a clear indicator as to his ability & even greater inability to make such a call.

If only Pauline, Jacinta, Alex Antic & other Conservatives could be voted into the Public service Board !

Jacinta should have apologised for any offence and restated her view that you're as much an Australian citizen if you have been here five minutes or have an ancestry that predates history. Her claim that Labor is using immigration to increase its vote is harder to put in the racist basket.

So you're saying she put put her career first and not stand true to her convictions?

The coalition is unelectable anyway, and they're already are sellouts.
I think Dutton showed he cared about Israel more than Australia.
Ley has about as much chance of winning as he did, Zero.

One look at her and you can see she's weak and pathetic and wouldn't be respected on a world stage.

I'm sick of this finger wagging 'You must apologise' culture.
Maybe you want to make her sit, roll over and bark like a dog as well?
Pee on herself for you as well?
Tsst-Tsst

Fester

Sorry. No, she should not have said what you or I or anyone says she should have said. She honestly, and bravely, said what she wanted to say. She is not a self-serving grub like so many of her colleagues in all parties are.

She said Labor was stacking electorates with Indians, to boost their advantage. That is dead right, and easily verified. It's about the Labor Party, not Indians. The idea she should apologise for "hurt feelings" is nonsense. Australia has completely lost its mind to woke-ness.

Just imagine this in reverse, a senior Beijing or Delhi politician, apologising for the "hurt feelings" of migrants. As if. Just for starters, China and India don't have mass migration, no way would they be that stupid. Only Western nations do this.

Here is a sobering anecdote to today’s dislocated Australia: Pre Tsunami Banda Aceh 26/12/2004. The day after Christmas. How fitting, and no clue to the nature of the impending doom on the horizon: beautiful sunny and calm day, surrounded by azure blue waters of the tropical paradise, a tourist Mecca.

The only signs of the impending doom were Elephants in panic, breaking their leg chains and fleeing to the high ground; and lack of bird life.
Very few people recognised their own misgivings under those circumstances, and were saved by openly voicing them to family members.

We are now governed by senseless Dictators, purely self interested in their own selfish gains, and obviously determined to shut us up, and close down channels of communication!

We the Plebeians, need to revolt before it’s too late to turn the ship around

And i should add as another sobering reminder of the shifting Earth under our feet, the most popular baby’s name in the UK is officially Muhammad.
How long before Australia is swamped likewise with totally unsuitable immigrants, and added to the basket case of Europe?

What a pantermine ! The fact of the matter is that the Redbridge
poll found that 82% of Indian migrants vote Labour.
Not surprising then that the government brings in as many Indians
as possible.

And another statistic difficult, if not impossible to verify, is the Social Housing quota attributable to immigrants. Rolling suburbs of them by a simple look around.
Many of them used as a Chinese doss house for underhanded profit and sub-letting.

Maybe the emigrating Countries could stump up with housing developments tailored towards housing their own immigrants to Australia, leaving the Governments concerned here in Australia, to get on and build Social Housing applicable to Australian Citizens, which should be their primary concern

Any country whose top 3 sources of immigrants are India, China and the Philippines is in serious trouble. People more like us locals don't want to come here any more because they know that Australia is as bad, and getting worse, than the UK, Europe etc when it comes to Third World invaders. People with money seem to be attracted by the United Arab Emerites.

The Coalition are now conservative social justice warriors
Susan Ley demanding Price give an apology, then gives one herself.
Did Jacinta Price break any laws?
They all act as if she did, think about that.

There is nothing 'conservative' about the Liberal Party; it has gone the way of the UK Tories. While there is some hope for the UK in the shape of Reform, there is nothing good on the horizon for Australia.

It is absurd to think that a party calling itself the 'Liberal Party' could ever be conservative. It's only the extreme Leftists who think being slightly to right of their own Marxist ideology makes you conservative.

If the Liberals and the Nationals were - as a whole, not just a very few of their individual members - conservative, they would be in government now.

Conservatives don't throw one of their own to the wolves, arrogantly apologise for her, and suck up to minorities, while ignoring the majority.

Jacinta Price is increasingly proving to be an embarrassment and liability to the Liberals. She’s squandering the political capital she built during the Voice referendum by alienating communities, destabilising the Coalition, and refusing to show even basic political maturity - like apologising when her framing causes legitimate concern.

This isn’t about suppressing opinions. It’s about understanding the difference between speaking plainly and speaking recklessly. Price wasn’t attacked for opposing Labor’s immigration policy, she was criticised because she framed it in a way that echoed conspiracy theories about “ethnic vote-stacking,” which will understandably offend people, even if that wasn’t her intent.

Instead of clarifying and moving forward, she doubled down, attacked her own colleagues, and helped turn what should have been a critique of Labor into another Liberal implosion. The Coalition desperately needs to look like a credible alternative. Price is making that harder, not easier.

There’s a lesson in John Howard’s trajectory - not because he was perfect, but because he learned that message discipline, team loyalty, and strategic humility matter in politics. If Price can't grasp that, she may soon find herself with an adoring fan base, but no influence, just like every other populist backbencher who refused to learn the difference between heat and light.

This is a scenario resulting from the educating of people who can't be educated & people who don't get educated yet have the common sense to see all the wrong & observe the discrimination dished out by the incompetent !
Now is the time to start restoring common sense ! Now is the time to start bringing back the requirement of merit !
Now is the time to apply the brakes to the bandwagon of the fake "qualified".

If Price can't grasp that..
John Daysh,
Spoken like a true bureaucrat. What you need to admit is that this artificial complexity of jargon & other babble in the circles within the the corridors of power is what brought us to this situation.
Ordinary people can see the incompetence dished out by the "experts" & the costs their antics incur economically & socially !
Ordinary people have merit, the elitists have none ! Nothing that people need on a daily basis is provided by elitists, only by ordinary people.

When Senator Price said that you were equally an Australian regardless of your heritage or time here, she outlined the democratic principle of equality, one of the main arguments against the voice. I don't know why she doesn't just affirm that belief and dismiss the view that she regards Australians of Indian heritage as being different from other Australians.

I work with a number of Indian migrants. Some fled Fiji. Another related that friends of her father had been chucked out of Kenya by Idi Amin as well as other friends who had a business in the States being fearful of being deported by Trump (a fear shared by one of my relatives).

Upholding the democratic foundation of equality by treating all citizens equally makes for a strong and unified nation.

That Labor is using mass migration to shore up its vote is not a wild conspiracy theory, but Senator Price relating the practice to Indian migrants was hurtful to Indian migrants, divisive and counterproductive.

From the article...
""That Price's immigration comments might be based on some recent polling,.... [is] neither here nor there."

So what she said was factually accurate, but that's beside the point?? ??

That pretty much sums up the way things work in the Liberal Party these days. (It is of course how they've worked in the ALP for decades).

That Indian immigrants overwhelming vote ALP is established. What can't be known is whether that influences the ALP's decisions about who does and doesn't get to come. But what we do know with certainty is, if Indian immigrants were coming here and overwhelming supporting the Libs, a lot less Indian visas would issued.

Recently tens of thousands marched against the current immigration. policies. This was a profound shock to the establishment and establishment parties who have tried to vivify the marchers as being fascist-adjacent. Its been the goto argument for a while now, using terms like racist and islamophobic etc. What we seen overseas is that, once a few leaders stop being intimidated by these slurs, (eg Trump, Farage, AfD, le Penn) genuinely good people who fear for their and their kids futures, become emboldened to stand against the uniparty policies.

So they need to squash such leaders in their infancy. Hence the hysteria around Price's saying the quiet bit out loud. That she stood her ground is to her credit. Now that she stands outside the constraints of party group-think things should be interesting.