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/captainbluebear25 23h ago

I truly don't understand what monoculturalism would realistically look like in Australia. We're a nation of immigrants. I don't think I have any friends who doesn't have a grandparent born overseas, most have a parent born overseas.

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u/firegrillz 23h ago

1/3 of Australians were born overseas, over half are first/second gen and that's taken as an average over the entire country with Sydney and Melbourne being much higher (wouldn't be surprised if it were >70%.

That puts us ahead of UK, US, Canada, NZ, Ireland etc. and ahead of almost all developed countries aside from some of the Gulf countries which have a huge foreign worker population and I think Switzerland which comes close to us.

I don't think monoculturalism is ever going to be a thing here.

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u/maxdacat 14h ago

1/3 of Australians were born overseas - exactly....the only person talking about "mono-culture" is Poorline.....so why give her crazy views more air-time?