ChristopherRussellH
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ChristopherRussellH
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In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive. No Dm's Please



Angus Taylor stood up this week and told Australia its immigration system needs to discriminate based on values, that people from certain places are less likely to share what we stand for. Somewhere in Menzies, a Chinese Australian family heard that and thought: he's talking about us. They're probably right. Here's the thing nobody is saying about Tuesday's announcement. We asked 2,000 voters who they blame for rising prices and interest rates. Forty per cent said politicians. Twenty per cent said CEOs. Six per cent said immigrants. Even among One Nation voters, the people Taylor is performing for, 59% blame politicians. Their vote isn't an immigration grievance. It's institutional fury. And you cannot outdo One Nation on either grievance or immigration. So what Taylor has actually done is design a policy that won't win the voters he's chasing, delivered in language that will cost him voters he desperately needs, in the seats that decide Australian elections, in the cities that have already punished the Coalition across two consecutive elections. The demographic backdrop makes it worse. India is about to overtake England as Australia's largest overseas-born diaspora, likely confirmed in ABS data due this month. The median age of England-born Australians is 59.6. India-born: 35.8. One of those communities is the electoral future of metropolitan Australia. The other is not. Chasing ghosts of the past whilst losing votes. Full piece below
























