LeeKuanYewRespecter
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LKY took Singapore “from Third World to First.” This account explores how growth, order and civic culture can help Australia avoid decline.
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It’s Monday morning, which means it’s time for Labor to debut this week’s talking point on One Nation. Just so we’re up to speed, the latest lines are that Hanson thinks you are paid too much and are too hard to sack, that Labor just wants to give you a tax cut but One Nation won’t let them, that they want abortions harder to get and guns easier to buy, and nothing is Labor’s fault. It was Covid, Ukraine, and Iran. Then there was this weird manipulative thing where she kept rattling off numbers about how much Labor has supposedly benefited Barnaby’s electorate specifically, which was presumably some rhetorical trick. If he pushed back, they could then say Barnaby doesn’t want his constituents to have Medicare or the usual disingenuous stuff that no longer works.
LeeKuanYewRespecter37,643 Aufrufe • vor 4 Tagen
Finally, the truth from Kos. Recent migrant communities are single-issue voters, and that issue is family reunions. All the talk about “not being heard” or “not being spoken to properly” is peripheral. The real question is whether you will keep allowing mass migration. Kos references his Greek family background. From 1949 to the 1980s, only about 250,000 Greeks moved to Australia. Of that a third came through the assisted migration program. The rest came through family reunion and related pathways. That means today, of the masses of new residents, every student who gets PR, every “skilled visa” we hand out, puts a whole family in the pipeline.
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Sorry but this is not an accurate reflection of what Sakkal said. He seems to be one of the few journos that actually gets One Nation. He recognises that its support is not a protest, it’s not grievance, it’s a genuine movement and it’s not going away anytime soon.
LeeKuanYewRespecter38,167 Aufrufe • vor 12 Tagen
You have to understand chain migration in the context of Labor/Labour-style politics. “Community leaders” who help facilitate migration and settlement build loyalties that last generations. But the moment you try to limit migration, as Labour is now attempting, you get the rise of the likes of the Gaza independents who are explicitly sectarian. Why do you think Labour-adjacent outlets like The News Agents and Novara Media are suddenly giving this so topic so much of a run?
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China doesn’t allow dual citizenship, so many Chinese PR holders stay on it indefinitely. That means the Liberal proposed welfare changes to those on PR would affect a them significantly and pose electoral risk for the Liberals. Barrie Cassidy seems perplexed by the idea of not kowtowing to an ethnic voting bloc.
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The best thing about these podcasts is they have on activists who didn’t get the memo says the quiet part out loud. Anti-Poverty Centre activist Kristin O’Connell thinks the Greens’ tax campaigns are wrong because they do not go far enough. She wants to tax billionaires and fossil fuel companies “out of existence” and tax income more. We know, Kristin. That’s what they also want to do. They are just clever enough not to say it out loud. The thing about that is upper tail of wealth tends to follow a Pareto distribution. You can reshuffle the deck, but over time unequal outcomes re-emerge because people differ in talent, aptitude, discipline, risk appetite, timing, luck and the ability to create value. A society with rule of law, property rights and entrepreneurs will create rich people. It will also create wealth for everyone else. The only way to tax billionaires “out of existence” is to remove the conditions for any wealth creation at all. How many times do we have to learn that lesson?
LeeKuanYewRespecter13,222 Aufrufe • vor 13 Tagen
Finally a politician, albeit former, actually saying something. Jason Falinski points out that an NSN member and his Australian-born family members were deported within week of their protest in front of Parliament House while Burke is yet to even entertain the prospect of deportations. Crucially, he raises the issue of foreign-funded NGOs that have fueled this hatred in our communities and run cover for its adherents. Jason was the member for Mackellar before he lost his seat to teal, Sophie Scamps. What does Sophie have to say on the matter?
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“This is very urgent business ladies and gentlemen, I beseech you. Resist it while you still can, and before the right to complain is taken away from you, which will be the next thing.” Many know this famous Christopher Hitchens clip but few know the full argument he is making. I will break it down here. 🧵
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Chat, is it normal to add the population of Adelaide to a country the size of Australia every couple of years? Bjorn Jarvis, head of demography at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, says 75% of Australia’s population growth is coming from immigration. That means, roughly, assuming immigration does not increase, which it may well do, Australia is on track to become majority foreign-born by around 2050. By then, something like 80% of Australians could have at least one foreign-born parent. At some point, we should probably ask whether this is normal, whether anyone voted for it, and whether a country can absorb that much change that quickly without becoming something else entirely.
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