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I had to look up the speech to check if this was an accurate representation or whether that ellipsis was doing a lot of work, and while it's not verbatim, it's very much close enough:

In the 2021 census, more than half of Australian residents, 51.5% were born overseas or had one parent born overseas.

51.5%.

Is that what supported by the Australian electorate? Is that what Australia wants?

Link to speech at 8m29s: https://youtu.be/mMHm9EzrobY?t=509

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[-] Nath@aussie.zone 32 points 1 week ago

I don't think I could manage to listen to her speak for over 8 minutes, so here's a tldw:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/pauline-hanson-press-club-address-banner-stunt-one-nation/106808570

PM Pauline's wishlist:

  • End multiculturism.
  • End the SBS.
  • End free ABC in cities - only regional areas get ABC.
  • End access to media she dislikes from the Canberra Press room.
  • End all immigration (from non-white places).
  • End families speaking languages other than English at home.
  • Reduce employee rights. Reduce minimum wage.
  • End Trans rights.
  • Scrap National Indigenous Australians Agency.
  • Reduce abortion access.

That looks like a pretty solid 'go after the white boomer vote' checklist to me. I saw her last year, in person she looks oooold. That trademark hair is all fake these days, she's in her 70's now. Fairly standard boomer look. Going for the boomer vote is a strategy has been failing the Liberal party of late, there just aren't enough boomers any more. But if she wins them then yeah - she might get a third of the vote.

[-] No1@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Agree. And you would think it should be a declining base, because boomers old and dying out.

I'm more than a little scared there might be some younger generations that have drank some kool aid from online. And it may include migrants. It seems crazy to me, but I have seen theories floating around that say once migrants have got citizenship/permanent residence in a country, they become anti-immigration.

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Yep I knew a while old guy not born in Australia, and living here for 40 years or something, saying to me that they should stop immigration.

This was on my first month living here and he knew it. But well I'm white and he said I was ok to be here, implying it's only certain places that are supposed to not migrate.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 6 points 1 week ago

Not just a theory. There are multiple studies in multiple countries confirming it. It's an odd quirk of humanity. Everyone thinks they are the exception. It became pretty clear during covid.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

What a piece of shit

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Can we send these people back to the life they advocate for. Like a cave, in the mountains. Never having to meet more that 20 people. And scraping an "trad" lifestyle and praying to the sky god to keep the leopards away.

[-] ada 16 points 1 week ago

She doesn't care about maths. She cares about making the bigots feel confident enough to express their bigotry. She wants her voter base to feel powerful and also persecuted, so she'll switch frames of reference as needed.

[-] naught101@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

The whole "we need to make it easier for bosses to fire workers" thing also seems like it should have tanked..

[-] BeardededSquidward 12 points 1 week ago

Kick out all the British born, leave it for the indigenous people! That's most of the population of Australia.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

How are you going to literally say that the majority of people are/have/do X and then ask if the people want that?

"You're black."

"Yep."

"And you find this... acceptable?"

[-] Geobloke@aussie.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Honestly as shit a take as it, it doesn't matter to the average ONP supporter, the racism at this point is the draw.

I think the more interesting way to convince people is point out that she wants to use the government to impose her values on the population. Tell them she wants to make church on Sundays compulsory, that she'll close down Chinese restaurants in their home town to give support fish and chip shops and other ridiculous shit

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 9 points 1 week ago

Hey that's me! My mum was a Kiwi. Despite my family having been on this island for at least 200 years, my ancestors weren't bigots, so some of them married foreigners! gasp

[-] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago

That's an odd strategy to run in a country like Australia.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Quite ironic from a european view; there are two continents that were settled only a few centuries ago and their residents already call others "foreigners".

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago

Quite ironic from a european view

bub, where do you think we came from?

[-] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Forgive me for pointing this out, but literally your entire continent was complicit in enslaving the native populations of other continents. Settle down, white boy, you ain't perfect.

[-] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

[-] Kaligalis@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

When your talking point is "you bastards shouldn't exist in the first place. Vote for me!"

[-] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Oh wow, do we get Pauline Hanson propaganda here too?

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