Australia Has No Need For Anti Immigration Parties. Australia First Party? We Don’t Ever Want A Return To The White Australia Policy Do We?
As Australians we should recoil in horror at the image on the left. Recoil in horror, yet recall with some shame that there was a time in our past where this evil existed. It existed right here in our own country – Australia. It must never exist again!
Yet, this kind of evil will appear on the horizon at the next election in the shape of the “Australia First Party” which has announced it will stand at the next election.
If you think Senator Fielding and Family First are “right wing and extreme” – get a load of these turkeys…
The average voter might find some of their policies attractive. They appeal to the unifying emotion of nationalism we all possess to greater or lesser degrees.
A closer examination of those policies reveals the same platform as the “White Australia Policy” and of course Pauline “Please Explain” Hanson.
Those insidiously sick, bizarre and cowardly members of the Ku Klux Klan are now attempting to infiltrate the Australia First Party. This is hardly a surprise. They are exactly the kind of person the party’s policies appeal to.
NSW director of Australia First, Jim Saleam said:
“Mr Palmer (sic KKK) did the same to One Nation years ago and Pauline Hanson fell all over herself trying to disassociate the party from Klanism — we’re not going to let history repeat itself.”
Whereas Mr Palmer told The Sydney Morning Herald the Klan members joined Australia First to:
“take back what we consider our Aryan parties … in case the ethnics get out of hand”.
This is the kind of evil I’m talking about. “Aryan”? “Out of hand?”, “Ethnics?” “Parties?” These are KKK style words if ever you’ve heard any. It’s a bloody disgrace Palmer uttered them to anybody, let alone to The Sydney Morning Herald!
We want this in Australian politics?
I should hope not.
They’ve Got The Australian Labor Party Spooked
No pun intended, but Labor seems to have caught a sniff of flapping white and ghostly robes in the air and has moved hastily, as you would hope, to ensure no Labor preferences go to Australia First, while the Liberals – who’s party structure doesn’t permit a guarantee we are told, has stated via spokesperson Brian Loughnane that they should not to give Australia First any Liberal preferences.
So What Are These “Australia First” Characters On About?
Well, nothing new, in light of the image pictured above it seems. They have, on their website, a document they loosely phrase their “Constitution” that includes what they call themselves their “Core Policies”. Those “Core Policies” include their desire to Abolish Multiculturalism. As I said, nothing new here, same old far right divisive evil we’ve been hearing going back decades and similar in principle to Hitler’s Nazis.
But the one that really stood out, on their website, to my mind was this:
“Australia must remain predominantly white”.
Which is actually a vile quote from Australia First founder and former Labor member Graeme Campbell. Ugly, damn ugly! This has no place in Australia. It undermines the good will and principles under which we all live and prosper. It can only lead to division. Just as it’s always led to division worldwide.
Seems these right wing jerks aren’t going to be alone at the next election, though. They’ve got rivals for their racially motivated obsessions. The “Australia Protectionist Party” is also planning to run candidates at the next Federal Election. Australia is to have goosestepping candidates in abundance if they can get the numbers to run as a party. My fingers are crossed they engage, as so many right wing parties have done before, in the predictable internal power struggles over who gets to read “Mein Kampf” to their members and in turn is allowed to be called “Fuhrer” when spoken to.
The resurgence of extreme right wing politics in the world, as seen in the recent European elections, is disturbing. History tells us this doesn’t work. There’s nothing “pure” about a community of people who fabricate policies based on racial, religious or political oppression. It’s not new, it’s hardly smart and it’s cost the world dearly time and time again.
Please – not in Australia, it’s a country to beautiful to destroy though right wing crazies like “Australia First!”
Scott Kane
Why any group can call itself “Democrat” in Australia is beyond me. Democracy suggests a free press, and we are far from that. When governments spend hundreds of millions of our taxpayer dollars on advertising, who do you think has the final say on what goes to air, or what is printed. The ABC is owned by government, and is about as politically correct as it gets. I want hear the far right, left and middle, in fact all arguments. I believe the levels of immigration is to high, particularly from Asian countries, and will cause huge problems in the future. I live in an up market refugee camp near Dandenong, and it’s a great mix of people, but their is no community.
Their is very little infrastructure here, just the gangs roaming the streets.
The African imports simply look lost, in another world, dumped here because it was the nice thing to do, or because of some idiot agreement the government signed. I guess the Australian government could look to some EU countries, and see the problems being caused there, but that would be too easy.
Anyway, it’s not the government deciding immigration policy, it’s big business, and the elite end of town.
Hi Vic and thanks for taking the time to comment!
Let me make two points about democracy:
1. Australia is a democracy. I can freely post articles on this blog, and you have the opportunity to comment. Newspapers are the same. Sure, big political parties pay millions buying advertising space, and yes that does impact smaller parties and independents. But they are only precluded by not having the money – not by law, act or deed. The media will accept any advertisement that meets their published guidelines and the law. The limitations are really only about misleading people, offensiveness and libel.
2. The Australian Democrats have worked for 30 years to preserve and enhance democracy using the Senate. If you are genuinely concerned about democracy, the Australian Democrats exists to champion your concerns. Of course, that places responsibility in the hands of people such as yourself and other voters in ensuring our presence in parliament – through the democratic process of voting.
On immigration and your local community. I know you’re being light-hearted referring to Dandenong as a “refuge camp”. It is not. It lacks the personal restrictions, human despair and wrenching absolute poverty of refugee camps. But the lack of community you refer to is a symptom of a greater problem. These new Australians come to our shores from regions where murder, rape, genocide and violations of civil liberties are normal.
The symptoms you describe show that our government has done the wrong thing by bringing them here and just abandoning them. They need our help. They need a future and they need opportunity to achieve that future.
It is the abandonment that must change.
This is a solvable problem. Not through division, or banning refugees and immigration or other knee-jerk reactions. But through properly designed, funded and implemented assistance schemes.
Remember, that in running communities a society only gets back what it is prepared to put in.
Regards
Scott Kane
Great article, Scott and I agree entirely with your response to Vic’s concerns.
Regards,
Robin.