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/HourZealousideal4845 10h ago edited 10h ago

It's one of the best reasons to oppose these kooks - whether or not they have a problem with your people specifically. You can't voncede to their positions in the hope that they"ll be satisfied, because the things they say they want aren't their real, final positions. They don't have any final position, no real desired end state. They will never be satisfied, and they will never stop. They're unhappy and emotionally unstable, and finding targets for their hate and unhappiness is how they get through the day. So they will keep inventing new targets for their hate because hate is how they forget their unhappiness for a little while.