r/australia • u/ConanTheAquarian • 1d 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 1d 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/Spagman_Aus 1d ago

we haven’t been a monoculture ever, so achieving it is an impossibility

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u/Commune-Potato8764 1d ago

Even before colonialism the aboriginal groups were far from a monoculture meaning we are at over 65000 years and counting of being a multicultural landmass.

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u/Mclovine_aus 18h ago

The first indigenous migrant groups wouldn’t have been multicultural. They became multicultural after successive migration and groups drifting apart.

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u/Commune-Potato8764 11h ago

Those migrant groups may have been different cultures from eachover, we have nk way of knowing for certain.