A Kangaroo Loose

@dyrenfurth @australian Battlers vs billionaires - you are still thinking in the old economic tribes. One Nation is about reclaiming a traditional British Australian identity trashed by a strange combination of globalism, Islamism and neo-Marxism. It’s not economics.

My latest column for @Australian on the contradiction at the heart of One Nation: a populist movement railing against elites, financed by the country’s wealthiest individual, Gina Rinehart and the risk of that assciation and Pauline Hanson's flirtation with Donald Trump: "Who is One Nation for: battlers or billionaires? Is Hanson for the voters driving her surge – the financially stressed, the mortgage holders, the outer-suburban workers who believe the system no longer works for them? Or is she for the interests funding her rise? In the United States, Donald Trump has managed – for now – to straddle this contradiction. MAGA has mobilised working-class voters while being bankrolled and amplified by billionaires and tech elites. Elon Musk can posture as a tribune of the people while sitting atop vast concentrations of wealth and power. But Australia is not the US, and Trumpism is electoral poison when Iran-driven oil shocks are hitting Australians at the bowser. Our political culture is different. Our electoral system is different. Our tolerance for perceived undue influence over politicians is lower. Our voters are less inclined to accept that a party can champion battlers while aligning with those at the very top of the economic pile. That is the risk Hanson now runs. The same party that draws its strength from battlers is now associated with a billionaire whose policy preferences – on issues such as wages – are not aligned with those voters’ material interests. Labor is preparing the attack. As Treasurer Jim Chalmers put it this week, Hanson risks becoming a “wholly owned subsidiary” of Rinehart. Patronage is not cost-free. Hanson is both the engine of One Nation’s rise and its ceiling. A career politician such as Joyce is no answer either. A next-generation figure in the mould of France’s Jordan Bardella would be a more formidable – and genuinely unsettling – prospect for both Labor and Liberal. Hanson needs to choose. She must decide whether she is on Team Trump or Team Australia – and between battlers, making clear their interests come first, and a billionaire patron. Or she can continue down the current path and hope voters either do not notice or do not care. Those choices will determine whether One Nation’s surge lasts. Because suburban battlers know exactly what economic stress is – and whose national team they’re on – and are unlikely to be convinced that those flying private jets understand it." Link in comments ($)

@SharazDavid @AusPressCouncil @HackedOffHugh @hackinginquiry You don’t want independent journalism. You want left-controlled journalism. Independent journalism is happening on X and the left hate it.

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@hogsbreathvip82 Because conservative = British = colonialism in their minds. Also who wouldn’t undermine the traditional Identity of a country when hoping to assert your own

Despite the endless bleating that “Indians are natural conservatives” I have yet to see any member of the South Asian diaspora in Australia engage politically with anything other than leftism.

@BWJacksonX @FoxfordComics @AntipodeEmpire Still studied in schools

@BurkeanAussie @FoxfordComics @AntipodeEmpire I have a rough idea of what Pascoe claims but I was overseas when he had his 15 minutes of fame so I never really followed it closely.

Always hilarious to me that China and India didn't even know this massive continent in their backyard. And then some English dude from the other side of the world just came along and yoinked it.

@BWJacksonX @FoxfordComics @AntipodeEmpire Interesting to ask why others weren’t interested until the English. People come to other lands not just looking for fertile land but someone to trade with. And in Australia they found no one who did that. So they didn’t come. That fact alone refutes Bruce Pascoe’s claims.

@FoxfordComics @AntipodeEmpire Plenty of Indian & Chinese people are interested in this piece of real estate, now that we’ve made a lot of improvements to it.

@DrDaniS @colwight Actually what makes Australua the country it is is British Australia - a coherent ethnicity formed from immigration over 160 years overwhelmingly from two islands off Europe that intermingled with eachother but hardly anyone else for close on 1000 years.

I like Colin Wight @colwight. A lot. So I hope he doesn't take this personally, or mistake it as directed especially at him. It's really not. But here goes. "...White Australia simply has no idea how to deal with its Indigenous population." That ⬆️ right there is the problem. There is no White Australia. Australia does not have an Indigenous population. The Indigenous people living in the atrocious town camps are not from the same population, in any meaningful sociological sense, as wealthy Indigenous academics who earn 6-figures and live affluent lives in the cities. These two groups have very different lives, needs, challenges, and opportunities. And they are far from the only distinct groups who would be counted amongst Australia's Indigenous population. The fundamental problem with the White vs Indigenous distinction is the same problem that plagues every race-based policy and intervention: the underlying presumption that somehow people of one race are all the same as each other, and fundamentally different to people of another race, and that this justifies treating them differently. It used to be called racism until the woke left re-branded it as "cultural competency". And then everyone who wasn't aware of the myriad ways in which it was now necessary to treat Indigenous people differently to other Australians, was labelled "culturally unsafe". According to our woke-left elites, NGOs, & Govt Depts., if you don't treat Indigenous people differently, simply because of their race, then it's not safe for them to be around you. That's right, if you're not racist, if you treat all of your fellow Australians with the same respect, dignity, and compassion regardless of their race, you're a dangerous individual. Australia has a lot of white citizens. These people do not create a homogeneous group that we can sensibly refer to as White Australia. Many of them have very little in common in ways that matter to them and don't see the purpose of being lumped together based on nothing more than the colour of their skin. The fact that the woke-left love talking about "whiteness" should ring alarm bells, frankly, if nothing else does. There is no single Indigenous Australia. There is no single White Australia. There is Australia. Australia is populated by people of a number of ethnic and cultural backgrounds. There was a time when they were bound by a unified sense of being Australian. It superseded every other cultural and ethnic identity and it was the one thing they were all happy to be lumped together on the basis of. This is what used to be called Social Cohesion. Social cohesion now means something very different. Now, social cohesion means that we mustn't hold a Royal Commission into the CA & CSA perpetrated against Indigenous children in the town camps, because it might stigmatise the perpetrators. Let's pause there and recap: there are people who think you would have represented a danger to this sweet little girl, who would deem you "culturally unsafe" if you, say, objected to a Land Acknowledgement being given at an ANZAC Day ceremony. These same people organised to petition against a Royal Commission whose goal was to keep men like Lewis Jefferson away from her. Percolate on that for a couple of moments. It's not this mythical White Australia that doesn't know how to deal with the serious problems in the town camps and remote communities. The problem is Woke Australia. The anti-meritocratic, feelings-over-facts, lived-experience over hard-data (if it supports their narrative), cancellation over lived-experience (if it doesn't), virtue-signalling-over-outcome, ideology of envy that has captured every institution of influence in the country. It has cleaved our great nation along lines of race, religion, class, age, and sex. Our national unity is now hanging by a thread. Woke Australia doesn't know how to deal with the serious problems in the town camps. Because Woke Australia doesn't know how to deal with any serious problem. This is hardly surprising. Unless a problem can be solved by labeling someone racist, promoting an unqualified woman, applying blue hair-dye, accessing an abortion, or adding more letters to an acronym, Woke ideology finds itself at something of a loss. It is time to put all of the nonsense aside. There is serious social breakdown in many of Australia's remote Indigenous communities. Framing this as White Australia not knowing how to handle its Indigenous population is woke-contaminated thinking. Treating Indigenous children differently because "culture" is woke-contaminated thinking. Treating Indigenous families differently because "connection to country" is woke-contaminated thinking. Treating Indigenous perpetrators differently because "colonisation" is woke-contaminated thinking. Imagining that the town camps maintain some sacred way of life, preserve an ancient culture, and provide some vital spiritual resource to a special kind of person who couldn't thrive in properly resourced villages, towns, and cities with their fellow citizens is base racism any way you cut. Many town camps are places of intense alcohol abuse, regular violence, abuse of women, and abuse of children. If you think these are the hallmarks of a sacred Indigenous culture that must be maintained, that is base racism. If you think it is acceptable for Indigenous children and families to live in such places, simply because they are Indigenous, that is base racism. This is not a problem of Australia's Indigenous Community. It is a problem of these specific communities. It is not a problem for White Australia, or Indigenous Australia to solve. It is a problem for Australia to solve. And the first step will be cut the ideological crap, acknowledge the brutal reality of the situation, and implement interventions that prioritise the welfare of real vulnerable people over woke identity-politics.

@markgkenny The Australian nation is built by the British. Claiming the country magically still belongs to aboriginals is play acting especially when it relies on a religious idea that is objectively false, barely anyone really takes seriously and is antithetical to a secular country.

Read this. Beautiful piece.

@moodslayer95 No they vote left because they suspect even Centre-right parties are not fully on board with the ideology of multiculturalism which allows them establish themselves without one iota of assimilation or respect for those who actually built the nation.

minorities vote left because racist fucktards like you keep chasing them there. if you want indians to vote tory/liberal/republican, actually appeal to their communities on issues they might be interested in. not pull shit like this.

@PaulineHansonOz Get your Farrer candidate on the same page about immigration Pauline.

The interim report of the Royal Commission into the Bondi Attack mentions guns 150 times, yet mentions Islam just a handful of times. The Royal Commission was a waste of time and taxpayers’ money if it can't see obvious problems with immigration while recommending further restrictions on lawful firearm owners.

@DrewPavlou Never forget this. Even supposedly good migrants have other loyalties

Progressive Australian journalist gloats that Chinese Australians voted on ethnic sectarian lines against the Liberal Party to punish them for anti-CCP rhetoric. He thinks this is a good thing for the country.

@bo_chart @riyadinhoo_ @RikardRene You mean books written by an Oxford don? You must be so smart.

@riyadinhoo_ @RikardRene Par contre cette théorie est discutable....Qualité du livre par exemple.🤔

Paris Jackson explique que son père, Michael Jackson, faisait lire des livres à ses enfants en guise de monnaie pendant leur enfance. Pour chaque jouet qu’ils voulaient, ils devaient chacun lire un livre puis il les interrogeait dessus 📚 « Donc notre père nous faisait utiliser les livres comme monnaie. Si tu voulais 5 jouets, bah il fallait lire cinq livres. Et il nous interrogeait dessus. » « Les livres c’est le savoir, et le savoir c’est le pouvoir, c’est ce qu’il disait tout le temps. »

@NicholasKWolf @former_feminism Without a doubt. Also my own people are more worthy of my love because they are mine. I don’t have to justify that to anybody.

@former_feminism Only if you see yourself as being a different class of person to migrants from a different ethnic background or country. Do you think you are better than them?

We are being replaced. India is colonising Australia in real time and we smile and smile and go along.

@TruthFairy131 He needs to get with the program

What the hell? The One Nation candidate in Farrer said that the current number of migrants is “not too many”. Sorry, what now?! 🤨 One Nation supporters need to demand answers. What is their immigration policy? Why has ON chosen a candidate that tried to run for Labor in 2022 & that donated to a teal candidate last year. It seems his values still align with Labor. Who is vetting these candidates?

@davrosz We are ‘bigoted’ against cultures that are obviously worse and no Leftist would ever seriously entertain living in. Good judgement is another term for it.

Australians are not antisemitic, apart from some startlingly rare exceptions. We are demonstrably bigoted against First Nations people (and Africans and Muslims). But Indigenous Australians especially. I find this Royal Commission into Antisemitism a disgraceful affront to them.

@VeryInsig Hints of a Voice Mark 2. Advisory body on government and legislation and of course ‘Truth Telling about First Nations’ high priority

Article summary: “Oops. Multiculturalism is not working out the way we wanted. Our kumbaya platitudes have failed. Now we have to think of some way to manage these divisions we have created. We have the answer - let’s form a new government agency!” abc.net.au/religion/royal…

@ShereleMoody The video is not appalling the ‘home’ is appalling. Stop covering up.

News Corp journalist Liam Mendes decided to film the inside of then home where Kumanjayi Little Baby and her mum were staying overnight when she was abducted. The video is appalling and very-much designed to inflame racist stereotypes about Aboriginal people and to also poverty-shame her family. Please do not watch it.

@PaulineHansonOz @Sauronlordking Predictable. Royal Commissions by elites don’t come up with findings contrary to their own ideology. All religions and cultures are equal and anyone who says otherwise is the problem. Guns and Western intolerance must be the issue.

Media Release: Royal Commission deflects like Albanese The interim report of the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion appears to follow the Labor government’s intention to scapegoat Australian firearm owners for the Bondi massacre. One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said she was concerned the Royal Commission was a waste of time and taxpayers’ money if it could not see obvious problems with immigration while recommending further restrictions on lawful firearm owners. “The report mentions firearms more than 150 times while barely mentioning Islam at all,” Senator Hanson said. “Radical Islam is the elephant in the Royal Commission’s room. The vast majority of terrorism attacks around the world have been committed in the cause of radical Islam and that was certainly the case at Bondi. “This inquiry is supposed to be about social cohesion, but we have a system which actively works against it by allowing immigration by people who have absolutely no interest in assimilating with a cohesive Australian society. This includes extremist Islamist preachers who have been enabled to radicalise people in Australia such as the Bondi shooters. “The interim report states agencies have identified no gap in existing legal and regulatory frameworks that impeded their ability to prevent an attack like Bondi. If the system had no gaps – if law enforcement had all the necessary powers – then how did it fail to stop this? “Until this question is answered, community safety and social cohesion remain at risk from immigration and the focus on firearm restrictions – which was the initial response of Anthony Albanese – remains the political deflection it always was.” Senator Hanson said farmers, sporting shooters, recreational hunters and other licensed firearm users were among the most highly regulated members of the community and should not be targeted with policies that did nothing to improve public safety. “Law-abiding firearm owners are not the problem,” she said. “If this process is serious about preventing future attacks it needs to deal with the causes, not just reach for the most politically convenient lever.”

@Baumann_Mac Losing that war thrust millions of Vietnamese into the darkness of repression including persecution of dissenters and Christians which still happens. Long delayed opportunity for private enterprise. Not as bad as North Korea but not much better.

@DrewPavlou @Sinbad_1998 The Builders Laborers Federation in Victoria used to do this. Walk off the job straight after a concrete pour to penalise employers not playing their games

This is so absurdly criminal - a militant hard-left union with organised crime links in Australia hired a UFC fighter to pretend to be an Extinction Rebellion activist and blockade a massive government infrastructure project mid-concrete pour. The CFMEU probably cost tax payers up to $1 million for this stunt. Concrete is on a clock. Once it leaves the batching plant, you’ve got about 90 minutes before it’s unworkable. So you probably waste dozens of concrete trucks and dozens of work shifts. And if the concretes already placed starts to set before the rest goes in, you get a structural seam which means you need to jackhammer it out and repour it. These fucking criminal scum bags just stole $1 million from you personally, the taxpayer. Imagine what Lee Kuan Yew would have done. Imagine if we had leaders with balls. Credit @LeeRespecter

@dr_duchesne Relentless intellectual innovation is both blessing and curse. What we can say with confidence however is that it occurred in European societies more than anywhere and birthed the modern world.

I don't think you have much of a choice but to grant the premises of my claim -- that Europeans produced a far higher number of philosophical schools than the rest of the world combined; but re your main point, that the world would have been a better place without nominalism (leave relativism aside for now), that's a false argument made by traditionalists; why should the European mind, in the late Middle Ages, have accepted without further thinking the independent reality of universals (say, the word "humanity") instead of demanding analysis about the use of this word? what exactly does it refer to? is there anything in particular that can be equated with this word? This does not mean one has to agree with nominalism; but one should acknowledge it as a major moment in the history of thinking. (I would have replied directly to Vermeule but he restricts who can reply).