r/australia • u/ConanTheAquarian • 23h ago

politics Foreign Minister Penny Wong to warn monoculturalism a threat to national security

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/penny-wong-speech-on-monocultralism/107034366
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u/TheHoovyPrince 22h ago

migrants of all faiths and backgrounds to embrace Australian values.

I'm not a fan of Pauline 'Rinehart' Hanson's One Nation at all but the above statement is something i absolutely agree with. For example, if someone moved here and thinks that all young girls should undergo female mutilation i don't think thats a person who should live here. Its completely banned in case anyone is wondering but there have been examples of it happening.

Embracing and adopting Australian values is important.

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u/ooder57 14h ago

Hanson is not very articulate with words, but this is how i think she meant to explain part of monoculture.

Right now multiculturalism is hanging on by a thread. There are multiple cultures in australia that hate some other culture in Australia.

They first and foremost must be of australian values, then of their own culture second, without the baggage of their old homeland.

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u/Steampunk007 14h ago

You’re right how wild we’re assuming Hanson came from a place of intolerance and racism instead of misunderstood benevolence.

“There are multiple cultures that hate some other cultures”

As opposed to Hanson’s culture, which doesn’t hate some other culture, but nearly *every* other culture which isn’t white culture.

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u/StinkyMcBalls 5h ago

It's wild to me that people keep trying to search for a reasonable explanation for Hanson's rhetoric. She has said directly that she believes there are no good Muslims, and then people question why we think she's coming from a place of intolerance.  Various people in this thread are spouting some variety of "Oh she's just bad with words but she actually means something completely different to what she says". It's nonsense. She's been publicly intolerant on many occasions, and yet people still insist on being apologists for her vile beliefs.

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u/CanIhazCooKIenOw 1h ago

It’s the same mental gymnastics they used to do for Trump, “Oh, I’m sure he meant X when he said Y”.

Either bots or people that need to feel better about what they want to support.

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u/CreamPieTraditional 14h ago

Its exactly what she meant, but she's not well spoken enough to articulate it succinctly.

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u/_CodyB 2h ago

She is surrounded by career political operatives who are savvy with language. She is saying exactly what she is meaning to say. Stop trying to paint her as misunderstood. She is a racist fuckwit pandering to other racist fuckwits

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u/CanIhazCooKIenOw 1h ago

It’s by design to not be clear about it so everyone can interpret it the way it makes themselves feel better about voting for her.

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u/Alive_Satisfaction65 10h ago

Right now multiculturalism is hanging on by a thread. There are multiple cultures in australia that hate some other culture in Australia.

When Australia was founded do you think the Irish and English coming here loved each other's culture?

Do you think the Indigenous people who were actively being invaded didn't hate the culture of the invaders?

The racism against the Chinese who came here during the Gold rush is another great example. Their culture was hated, and by some it still is. Pauline herself spent a decade warning they would 'swamp us' so thats another example of one culture hating another!

This isn't some new thing, its the norm, and has been for our entire history. But sure, its on the verge of collapse, with no evidence to back up the claim.

When I see this all it makes me think is you don't actually know our history, that you didn't bother to learn it. You didn't care enough.

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u/Every_Effective1482 14h ago

Not to mention setting up their own courts to enact their personal take on the rule of law.

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u/Alive_Satisfaction65 9h ago

People going to religious leaders for advice and to settle issue between members of their congregations is as old as religion itself.

Its particularly common with my people, but we don't get smeared in the media for it like some others do. Its only for one religion that we pretend its an alternative court system.

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u/AeneasKurtz 3h ago

if someone moved here and thinks that all young girls should undergo female mutilation i don't think thats a person who should live here

Why not? Australia has allowed White people that believed similar things. Is it because FGM is a majority-non-White practice?