A little cautionary tale about mass migration and Chinese social media apps.
With days left to the election, Australian opposition candidates have been wooing a crucial group that turned its back on the conservative Liberal-National coalition in the last election: Chinese Australian voters.
And they are trying to reach them on platforms that their party once talked of banning over national security concerns: Chinese social media apps like WeChat and RedNote.
The happy-go-lucky country of Australia, located at the far-end of the globe, away from the geopolitical turmoil in Europe and the Middle East, is a peaceful and pleasant place to live – or should be.
Most of the immigrants seem to have assimilated comfortably, enjoying generous benefits such as state-sponsored medical care, welfare packages, high wages, vast open spaces and low crime. Life is good in Australia, with thousands of applicants from all over the world keenly seeking a better life in the sun. Although with a relatively small population of some 25 million, four of its cities are currently rated among the world’s top 20 most livable.
Australia’s cultural landscape is undergoing a profound transformation, shaped by an “unprecedented wave of migration.” As of June 30, 2023, 30.7% of the nation’s 26.6 million residents—some 8.2 million people—were born overseas, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This marks the highest proportion of overseas-born Australians since 1893, surpassing the 29.5% recorded in 2022.
Hinduism, for example, is recognized as the country’s fastest-growing religion, not due to conversion, but through the mass immigration of Indians into Australia.
Australia is frequently praised—often by its own politicians—as a multicultural success story, yet the long-term consequences of such profound demographic changes remain underexplored, especially as these shifts are poised to intensify.
Sub Canada for OZ. We are no different.
Things will get worse under a Carney government with Mark “I00 Million Unvetted 3rd Migrants” in a position of influence.
h/t kiki9
The globalist prime minister of Australia, who has a history of anti-Trump bashing, is now reportedly devastated that Donald Trump cut U.S. funding to Australian universities.
Canada’s Clown Colleges are facing cuts as well and of course they’re screaming that Orange Man Bad.
Melbourne residents have been sent a letter in the style of a police appeal as Beijing hunts for Kevin Lam, a pro-democracy Hong Kong lawyer who fled to the city
Kevin Yam was wanted on suspicion of “a range of national security-related offences”, the anonymous letter read.
The letter in the style of a police appeal was sent to residents in the suburbs of Melbourne, seeking the whereabouts of a dissident Hong Kong lawyer living in their midst.
“A reward of one million Hong Kong dollars is being offered by Hong Kong Police to any member of the public who can provide information on this wanted person and the related crime,” it added.
This week, Justin Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister of Canada.
The latest in a run of centre-left darlings to become unstuck.
He follows Ardern, Merkel, Sturgeon – all who resigned without the courage to face voters.
Within a fortnight Trudeau will be followed out the door by Joe Biden, and with a German election just around the corner, I suspect Olaf Scholz knows that he is next.
A witness who was inside the Melbourne synagogue firebombed before dawn on Friday has recounted fleeing the building to raise the alarm.
Yumi Friedman, founder of business Yumi’s dips, told this masthead he was inside Adass Israel synagogue in Ripponlea, in Melbourne’s inner south-east, with one other person at the time of the attack about 4.10am.
Australia’s citizenry, one step further on the road to complete capture, is now subject to a codified new “misinformation” moratorium on social media.
Why do so many indigenous Australians turn to substance abuse?
A little over 10 years ago, as a young anthropology student, I arrived in the dusty, shrub-infested outback town of Alice Springs in a champagne-coloured Toyota Camry. It’s an extraordinary place: vast and dry and scorched. I planned to spend my summer break managing three local liquor stores there — given the town’s reputation for Aboriginal alcohol abuse, I thought it would make an interesting case study — and ended up living in Alice Springs for much of my early adulthood.
SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday, as a judge extended a ban on social media platform X sharing video of a knife attack on a bishop that started the criminal investigation.
The seven, aged 15 to 17, were part of a network that included a 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing a bishop in a Sydney church on April 15, police said.
Clips of the stabbing were taken from the church service’s livestream and subsequently made the rounds on X. An Australian regulator on Monday ordered the platform to take down the videos, an action the platform is fighting.
Since the 7 October pogrom in Israel, it has become increasingly clear that hostility towards Israel is no longer confined to its Islamist enemies. It is increasingly prevalent in Western democracies, too.
This has certainly been true in Australia. Indeed, just days after Hamas committed atrocities in southern Israel, mobs stood on the steps of the Sydney Opera House, chanting ‘Gas the Jews!’. It set the tone for subsequent pro-Palestine protests, each one serenaded by the hateful chant, ‘From the river to the sea’. Israel has rarely been more threatened, and it has certainly never been so alone.
A bishop and several other people have been stabbed during a sermon in Sydney that was being streamed online, local media report.
The incident reportedly happened on Monday night in the suburb of Wakeley.
Police responded to reports that a number of people had been stabbed but said none of their injuries were life-threatening.
Terrorist stabs priest in a Sydney Church.
Bishop Mar Mari was stabbed during a sermon at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, Sydney.
As the assailant is wrestled to the floor he can be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar.”
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) April 15, 2024
"If he had not criticized my prophet Mohammed and my religion, I would not have come to attack him”, says the Islamic attacker. Islam is a huge problem. https://t.co/TiY0zhGYgv
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) April 15, 2024
Canadians should perhaps pay more attention than we have to the referendum in Australia on Oct. 14 on the subject of the Aboriginal peoples. There are just under one million designated Aboriginals in Australia, slightly below four per cent of Australia’s 25 million people. The roughly corresponding figures in Canada are that Indigenous Canadians, including in both countries a good number of mixed ancestry, are slightly under five per cent-just, at under two million in a population of 40 million. The issue in the referendum was a proposed amendment to the Australian Constitution by which a federal advisory body comprised of native people would be set up which would have only a consultative role. How this body would be selected and its recommendations presented would be dealt with later. The idea was just to give Aboriginal people, in the wording of the referendum, a “voice” in the politics of the country.
Australia’s most populous state has for the first time appointed a feral pig “tsar” in a battle to eradicate huge numbers of the animals as their population booms after three years of plentiful rain.
Bec Gray, whose official title is State Feral Pig Coordinator, has a budget of A$13 million (£7 million) and aims to eliminate 87,000 wild hogs in New South Wales in the next eight months.
Why did Australia vote No in the Voice referendum?
I’m in Sydney for the Voice referendum result and was ready to settle in and watch the declarations for each state – but it’s already over. No looks to have won, by a pretty big margin. Tasmania voted No and New South Wales seems to have gone the same way. Both were swing states. If those two voted heavily for No, then it’s likely that it has won by a landslide. Similarly, No is way ahead in Victoria and is likely to win by a large margin when counting begins in Western Australia. So, an ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice’ will not added to Australia’s democratic apparatus. Aussies have voted to protect the principle of everyone being equal before the law and in parliament.
And from New Zealand … slightly to the right of OZ
New Zealand: out with the old, in with the new
With Christopher Luxon now the next New Zealand Prime Minister and a majority about to be formed in Parliament via a coalition with the Act Party and its very inspiring speaker and leader, David Seymour, there is little doubt that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
New Zealand First may jump on this bandwagon too and why wouldn’t they?
With Labour and the Greens having plummeted in the results, the dream, or rather, cauchemar, of their coalition has been rightly thrown under a bus.
h/t TB Canucklehead and a few others.
