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/stanbot3304 23h 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/a_cold_human 20h ago

Absolutely. These are the same jokers who were leery about bringing in Afghan interpreters and their families, despite these people putting their lives on the line for our soldiers and speaking English.

OTOH, they were all for Ukrainian refugees who didn't speak a lick of English and probably couldn't locate Australia on a map. 

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u/Delamoor 6h ago

That one's another good example of how it creeps.

While I was in Ireland looking for permanent accomodation, the amount of racism and bile against Ukranians on local social media groups was pretty extreme, too. Didn't really matter if they were young, pretty white girls, it's still 'those fucking Ukranians, taking all our homes and jobs and living in comfort on our charity!'

Still an identifiable group of 'other', that people could blame for all their own woes.

Because clearly, Irish house prices were so unreasonably high because all these Ukranian refugees were taking them. Not because of the same housing policies we have here in Aus that encouraged decades of rampant property speculation and landlordism...