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.