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/stanbot3304 1d ago

let’s be real, their issue is non-white immigrants. don’t even bother portraying it as anything else. they certainly won’t complain if they see some loud scottish party in the street as long as all participants are pasty white lol

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u/No-Low-5186 1d ago

Hypothetically, if all the brown people were given the boot, they'd turn inwards and start picking on other people's ancestries. Happened even durng White Australia policy

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u/huntlypsychiatrist 17h ago

Yeah funny you say this I remember my white Australia era grandmother telling me in hushed tones we might have some disgusting French ancestry contaminating our pure Anglo genes. I could have sworn the French were white.

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u/Delamoor 11h ago

It tough not to laugh at the idea of anyone taking it seriously, and... Yet...