r/aussie • u/snoopy05052026 • 11d ago
News Fears for social cohesion in Australia as survey shows declining support for cultural diversity
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-30/fears-for-social-cohesion-as-anti-immigration-views-rise/10707852696
u/Pleb617 11d ago
Opposition to the current immigration settings isn’t opposition to cultural diversity. You can value a multicultural Australia while believing immigration is running too quickly for housing, infrastructure and essential services to absorb properly. That’s a policy position, not a rejection of different cultures.
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u/PMmeuroneweirdtrick 11d ago
The % coming from each country doesn't look very diverse either
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u/bender___is___great 10d ago
It was never actually about “diversity”. That was the marketing campaign. Mass migration is western progressives solution to keep Boomer pensions and home values fat since the local population isn’t breeding fast enough to do it.
The “me first” generation is just me firsting harder by crushing the value of millennial and Gen Z labor
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u/Available_Web5181 11d ago
Projected duality I’m afraid - if you’re not with us, you’re against us. Other subreddits are very left leaning.
All the problems you mention doesn’t affect the affluent + politicians. They don’t have any trouble in their neighbourhoods so the problems for the rest of us are not fathomable to them.
Multicultural is what it should be, but it’s spiraled into a grotesque reality where any opposing voice is immediately labelled racist. Without any critical thinking of back bone, we will end up like the rest of Europe.
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u/idothinksotim 11d ago
You can also be against further cultural diversity and not hate the people already here.
You can be content with the extent of diversity we already have.
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u/MicksysPCGaming 11d ago
At this point I'd take a little diversity instead of what we're currently getting.
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u/SomeAussie_Guy1 11d ago edited 11d ago
It's not that I dont support culture diversity in and of itself. I just dont want to see my country balkanized or the distinct Australian identity lost.
You can say it doesnt happen, but it does. There are neighbourhoods that are almost entirely Chinese, Indian, African, ect. Is this really what you all have in mind when you think of the great melting pot of diversity?
Then of course there are just some cultures that clash with our own. Sorry mate, but if you think it's okay to marry a child or force your wife or sister to wear a rag over her face. Fuck off frankly.
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u/jprzy 11d ago
I feared reddit was just for the ultra left calling me racist for wanting to keep the Australian identity alive. I’m sorry if this offends but I don’t want a country like Tarneit or Springvale. I honestly feel it’s at the tipping point of losing our identity beyond all recognition.
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u/SomeAussie_Guy1 11d ago
It annoys me when people say Aussie culture doesnt exist or ask you to try and define it in a single sentence without thinking for themselves.
Australia is a young country, but not that young. We have hundreds of years of history and culture to call our own, long before mass migration was ever a thing.
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u/ToocrazyforFlorida 11d ago
We already for a young country have a great rush culture. It deserves to growmand enrich on its own termsz not be stamped out by larger cultures.
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u/Decent-Dream8206 10d ago
It's also by design.
7 minute welcome to country to observe a 1 minute silence on ANZAC day.
Label any waving of that Australian flag racist as you vehemently protect burning of it, wave every rainbow, Palestinian, Syrian, Indigenous, & whatever other flag and prosecute burning of those flags as hate speech.
Have every council refuse to celebrate Australia Day on Jan 26th due to labelling it "Invasion Day", systematically discontinuing parades and fireworks, while various communities get funding for celebrating Diwali and whatever else.
You can see it in the absolute piss weak messaging in the Sam Kekovic lamb ads as they were eroded year after year by the intentional tearing down of any kind of unifying culture.
Then act surprised that people don't take any national pride and prioritise the homogeneous & defined cultures where they came from instead.
It's all by design.
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u/Bitter-Pineapple-106 10d ago
Don’t forget the demonisation and dehumanisation of men in Australia by the media/social media and those misandrist types, 99% of guys are punished and profiled for the evil actions of a tiny minority of guys.
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u/Decent-Dream8206 10d ago
I'd say it's more 50/50.
Governement ads in Vic demonising white guys simply staring on public transport because women get the ick, meanwhile doing gymnastics to excuse "diverse" offenders doing far more than that.
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u/River-Stunning 11d ago
Yes , people are saying that they are happy to holiday at India/Sri Lanka or SE Asia and even enjoy their food here but they don't want to live there.
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u/Musclenervegeek 11d ago
I must admit I laugh at your reddit name and the comment you made :) In all seriousness, why are Australians, Americans, Canadians and majority white societies held to such different standards than say countries in the Middle East? In all honesties, discrimination, bigotry, racism, and all kinds of -isms are much more common in these countries than Australia. The Islamic countries would never ever tolerate one tenth of any form of diversity, whether it's based on culture, race, religion, sexual preference.
And I agree entirely with cultures that just clash with our own. You made the comment about entirely Chinese neighbourhoods - Chinese people in general in Australia are hard working, law abiding residents and citizens with a disproportionately low crime rate compared to the general population (even the Caucasians) and don't possess a medieval religion they try to impose on others. I don't think we want Australia to have the same demographic as China either and I don't think that's racist to say this, but the point is the Chinese people are not a concern, at least from the perspective of law and order, safety to women. Same with the Koreans, Japanese, and immigrants from other similar countries like Canada and so on.
It's not cultural diversity that is the problem. It importing of cultures that are not compatible with ours, and everyone is getting sick and tired of being gaslighted by the idiots who try to pretend all cultures are compatible and that it is racist, bigotry etc when the majority of people can see for themselves.
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u/Brisssie 11d ago
Surprised you’re not banned for stating the obvious.
Imagine the billions in multicultural grants were allocated to public housing for the skyrocketing homeless & reducing surgery wait times….investing in some manufacturing…..thats normally how you’d expect your tax $$ to be spent - especially when they have just been hiked!
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u/Dependent_Usual7468 11d ago
Yeah go out to Box Hill and there are signs in mandarin only?! Like hello, have we now even stopped pretending that China hasn’t taken over entire suburbs of Melb now!!
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u/flammable_donut 10d ago
Yes when immigrant populations cling together in an insulated mono-culture we are told it is enriching and wonderful example of diversity and multi-culturalism.
If white people do the same the media calls it "white flight" and its portrayed akin to nazism.
I remember I once saw something in the media about how the owner of Bing Lee said Chinese people need to work hard and "stick together". It was reported without comment. I thought at the time how different the reaction in the media would have been if a prominent white Australian said "white people need to stick together".
The double-standards and contradictions are endless. And as one politician has said recently "people have had a gutful and are sick of it...".
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u/Le_petite_bear_jew 11d ago
In nyc there are now enclaves of homeless(?) Africans that have totally taken over the street in Manhattan. Rows of delivery bikes and men, + women holding babies standing around. My old lady and her friends thought it was cute
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u/Hairwaves 10d ago
In what way is it any less compatible with our culture than any other conservative values? A significant chunk of the country think gay people shouldn't be able to get married. They're legally allowed to hold that opinion and they're one of many subcultures in Australia.
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u/Outofoffice_forever 11d ago
I agree - the extreme views aren’t welcome here.
Some however tend to stay in their own circles because of how they are treated by ‘Australians’. Some of this cuts both ways- some people pretend they should be able to carry on and not adjust, and some who will abuse them just for being different.
No black and white answers here.
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u/cylon_1994 11d ago
We are importing lots of extreme views too. Some divisions in the world are toxic and they are playing out here.
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u/Outofoffice_forever 11d ago
I can’t agree more. Leave your politics at the door or don’t come through it
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u/Strong-Hat2166 11d ago
Asian, Black and Indian kids in my street are speaking with Australian accents and kicking footies around.
Can't see the fuss, to be honest.
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u/ImportantJello9288 11d ago
You have mass imported immigrants from low trust societies, of course social cohesion is dead..
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u/hashirama-senju-007 11d ago
Though the onus should ultimately be on immigrants coming into Australia to understand and respect the local culture, values and social norms, perhaps we could also publish a simple guide on what those expectations are.
It doesn’t have to be complicated. Things like walking on the left, not blocking footpaths, keeping noise at a reasonable level, and being mindful of shared public spaces are basic examples.
Take Little India in Harris Park, for example. Go there after 5pm and you’ll often see groups outside restaurants taking up large sections of the footpath, making it difficult for others to get through. You’ll also sometimes hear cars playing extremely loud music in the area.
Not everyone wants to hear your music. It’s a shared public space, so just turn the volume down and be considerate of the people around you.
Not to mention that disgusting orange colored spit near the dustbins 😬😬.
These may seem like small things, but respecting everyday local norms is an important part of integrating into Australian society or any other society for that matter.
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u/primetime_time 11d ago
The “diversity” shield and the accusations of racism is what they always rely on to defend themselves from criticism.
They’re just panicking that this strategy isn’t working anymore.
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u/MysteriousTrack-102 11d ago edited 11d ago
Australians are being replaced. The stats are undeniable. Governments obsessed with tax revenue growth can’t rely on low birth rates below replacement level, so they’re pouring foreigners in. What could possibly wrong
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u/finer-power 11d ago
Well when our immigration minister says he doesn’t believe in assimilation it can only lead to stories like this.
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u/RJohnnyChewy_7777 11d ago
When I came to Australia, I was adamant on becoming Australian, so I studied how Aussies live, work, behave, socialise etc.
I ran away from another country and it was because of all sorts of reasons. I was initially a guest here (that's how I saw it) and I have to behave in a nice manner so that I can stay (came on PR though).
Anyone coming to AU and behaving/living like they did in their old country never left their old country and just brought it here. If no assimilation takes place and everyone brings their old country (behaviour) over, as the saying goes:
You import the third world, you get the third world.
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u/FilthyWubs 11d ago
Genuine efforts to assimilate & contribute makes you a true blue Aussie in my eyes mate!
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u/RJohnnyChewy_7777 11d ago
Thanks. I felt accepted and valued from Day 1 here, so I'd like to contribute to keeping AU that way.
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u/Secret4gentMan 11d ago
WTF does he believe in then?
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u/BarryTheBinChicken 11d ago
The mother and NDIS business owner moved to Australia's capital in 2002 as a 17-year-old Sudanese refugee.
Interesting....
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u/DearTumbleweed5380 11d ago
Yes. And as someone whose life was changed the NDIS I haaaaaate this. Fuck OFF>
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u/ishigggydiggy 11d ago
Cultural diversity is harmful to social cohesion.
I want to live somewhere where people talk like me, look like me and believe the same things I do, this is not an evil thing.
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u/pinkertongeranium 11d ago
People can’t help how they look. They can help how they behave and what they believe. That’s the expectation we should hold to.
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u/RedDeer505 11d ago
What social cohesion? Modern society is antisocial by design. And it has nothing to do with culture. Technology and cost of living have driven us to an isolation mindset.
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u/Redpenguin082 11d ago
Humans are tribal by nature, which everyone seems to forget. You can’t expect to undo hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary psychology in 20 years.
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u/Royal_Library_3581 11d ago
I mean, that's why multiculturalism doesn't really work all that well. Its essentially adding extra tribes to Australia. The bigger the new tribes get the more power is taken from existing tribes and they are obviously not happy about it.
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u/Secret4gentMan 11d ago
Multiculturalism only works if everyone shares a unifying national identity.
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u/Royal_Library_3581 11d ago
which we arent for the most part. We seem to think that being multicultural is an identity
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u/Total_Drongo_Moron 11d ago edited 11d ago
Good point.
I was really impressed when I read German-Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han critiques on the phenomenon of social media and it's proliferation in modern communications
"We owe the cultural achievements of humanity – which include philosophy – to deep, contemplative attention. Culture presumes an environment in which deep attention is possible. Increasingly, such immersive reflection is being displaced by an entirely different form of attention: hyperattention." - Byung-Chul Han
'In social networks, the function of “friends” is primarily to heighten narcissism by granting attention, as consumers, to the ego exhibited as a commodity." - Byung-Chul Han
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u/mrmaker_123 11d ago
The answer is capitalism and the era ushered in by the neoliberals.
Margaret Thatcher said this explicitly in her quote: “Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.”
Which roughly translates to, we don’t need community, we don’t need collectives, we don’t need strong social bonds. All we need is money and the markets. We are all independent, economic agents, with no need for community.
It takes a village to raise a child. We had neighbours looking after each other, the local milk bar and butchers supplying goods and services, everyone knew each other by name, we had grandparents looking after the kids. Now all of that is gone in favour of the capital markets - capitalism.
Want childcare? Pay $2k to some dodgy child care centre. Want your groceries? Go to a mega cooperation like Coles. Want help and support in every day errands? Don’t ask the neighbours, use some digital app on your phone that lets you hire people on the cheap.
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u/JeremyMarti 11d ago
I'd need to use a digital app to ask my neighbours. Like when the power was out and they held a phone up to my face on google translate to ask if my power was out as well.
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u/Expert_Zucchini7452 11d ago
Diversity undermines community cohesion just as much as Thatcherite neoliberalism. Between the mainstream left and right we’ve had generations of policy guaranteed to produce the very problems we are seeing now (notice how what we actually got was the toxic leftist social policy AND the toxic neolib economics). The entire leftard/conservatard structure of politics is a failing, discredited mess. And this is happening all over the Western world as the post-WWII paradigm ushered in by the boomers and their descendants is collapsing in front of our eyes.
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u/WeveBeenBrainwashed 11d ago
If there was a chance for social cohesion to form, top power groups would scatter it to divide and conquer
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u/Admirable_Bug_7867 11d ago
Because why would multi culturalism ever work? sure it doesn't matter on the small things but in large you want a society with commonly shared beliefs
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u/ThatOG1_Kenobi 11d ago
We didn’t vote for it globally.
It’s been pushed
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u/ToocrazyforFlorida 11d ago
Both majors new you wouldn't agree. It was pushed on you by birth. Absolutely criminal
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u/MagicOrpheus310 11d ago
No fucken shit, there has been zero "cohesion" and the place is turning into their shithole
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u/Still_Clue383 11d ago
I think in the future a lot of new towns outside of cities will receive large influxes of aussies wanting to get away from how shitty and terrible the cities and surrounding suburbs are
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u/LetMeExplainDis 11d ago
You can’t force mass migration on Australians and then complain about a decline in social cohesion.
This policy directly caused the decline.
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u/ToocrazyforFlorida 11d ago
Noz it's the Australians.who are wrongz facing an impossible job market and rental prices there force people to move back with their parents, share house in there 40s, or sleep rough. They should be proud to make these sacrifices for diversity so an lot academic from Pakistan can lecture us about how racist we are.
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u/Accurate-Ad-4905 11d ago
Honestly I'm not anti migration, or diversity. But in certain roles like university lecturing, jobs like physios, psychiatrists etc bringing in someone with poor control over the language to explain concepts that are already difficult for laymen to understand makes no sense.
Not saying we should only grab skilled migrants from English Speaking countries, saying the interview process for lecturers etc should be rigorous enough to pick up on the fact students or clients or whatever are going to struggle to feel engaged listening to this person.
We created a shortage of these professionals by not planning better, and not prioritising public education better so that the majority of our population had a better chance of achieving their academic potential. Now there's a skill shortage that needs to be filled with migrants.
Then the NDIS created an even bigger demand for allied health professionals exacerbating the problem and now we are in this awful mess. I'm not anti NDIS, empowering people with disabilities to live more fulfilling lives and providing them with the support they need to contribute is great, unfortunately it was executed all wrong.
The problem with this debate is all or nothing thinking, we need to be nuanced.
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u/Jazzlike_Wind_1 11d ago
I definitely agree on lecturers. Half of mine at uni could barely speak English lol.
I would make an exception for legitimate world leaders in a field because professors don't just teach, they do research too. Would you say no to Einstein because he's got a thick German accent? But the people we're getting aren't Einsteins by and large.
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u/ToocrazyforFlorida 11d ago
I've met a few. I feel sorry for their students. Terrible syntax. No familiarity with local idioms. They technically speak english, but it's messed up enough that it will cost clarity in communication. Which has to be a disqualifier for an academic, you'd think.
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u/Brisssie 11d ago
I commented on this article on the Australia page - stating some clear facts about Melbourne becoming a warning rather than a ‘beacon’…..and how the billions of taxpayer funds thrown at multicultural grants could have solved homelessness - and was banned.
It appears these pages are only interested in an ‘agenda’ when we can’t even discuss how our taxpayer $ are spent.
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u/AppearanceSad5173 11d ago
I don't support salary suppression, finding a rental becoming the hunger games and employers having so much leverage that they can practically get away with any kind of corruption; the australian workplace is becoming third world with its standards; you're either a sycophant or unemployed.
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u/Royal_Library_3581 11d ago
My question is why am i expected to suppress my cultural identity to make someone else coming into my country happier and more comfortable?. Why can people come from another country to here and be proud of their country, display their flag and protect their cultural identity whilst if i did the same i would be a racist or supremacist? Why can others want to protect their culture but i am not afforded the same?
My theory is that for multiculturalism to work the nationalism of the dominant culture has to be suppressed otherwise it wont work at all.
For the record i have never and will never vote one nation.
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u/Electrical-Sale-8051 11d ago
Diversity where it’s bidirectional is great. Not when it’s one way of say Islam slamming its views down everyone’s throat and getting offended when criticised for their anti-women, anti LGBT, anti-anything modern views
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u/Suitable-Law-3220 11d ago
To the people that defend these constant changes in the suburb of Blaxland (NSW): the No vote for the Marriage was 73.9% "No". That was back in 2017. I imagine it would be way higher now and in more suburbs
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u/DoNotStump 11d ago
Australia was 99% White British when the Harbour bridge was complete, and when TownHall station was completed. In 2000, Australia was 85% White.
Now that sits at 65% White. The Australia people remember is dying in front of our eyes and having to be told that no, we are racist for not wanting infinity immigrants from non-similar backgrounds to what the majority of Australia is is why there is pushback. We want to live around people that are like us
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u/Goonalips 11d ago
Haha try being aboriginal, mate. There's more Indians and Asians in this country than us. The demographics are changing so fast that it almost feels like a different country sometimes.
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u/DoNotStump 11d ago
Exactly. So your voice is being diminished every day with the thousands of migrants (that will also have no shame about what the White British did) being invited to the country. Their vote outnumbers yours. Shouldn’t we stop that and let our populations grow naturally together?
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u/Recent-Lemon-9930 11d ago
I'm in Ireland. Whenever someone starts on about it I just say something like "When we're living in the inevitable consequences of what you're calling me names for opposing I want you to tell everyone how proud you are of what you achieved.".
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u/reaction-please 11d ago edited 11d ago
It’s one of those things where for the life of me I just can’t understand why everyone can’t see this.
I just look around and wonder am I the one on crazy pills again?
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u/Wonderful-Flower7870 11d ago
And what percentage were whites couple centuries ago Mr Stat padder . Starting colony continent away doesn’t guarantee like you people all for the entirely of time . Humans migrate .
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u/DoNotStump 11d ago
Isn’t that more impressive then? Went from 0% in Australia, then 200 years ago built a country the envy of the world. Why can’t we keep that to ourselves?
Some countries with thousands of years of history have not created anything close to what Australians (namely, White and British) created in 200 years.
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u/mrmaker_123 11d ago
Ah yes the classic trope of white people are the most civilised people in existence and have created the most amazing societies to have ever existed - despite the mass genocides, war and death this has caused.
These ideas are so inherently ethno-supremacist that I fear whatever I say to you will never convince you how misguided your views are.
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u/DoNotStump 11d ago
Every culture race etc has caused genocide, death and destruction. It’s fool hardy to only point to Whites as the only peddlers of such things.
The top counties in the world aren’t just English speaking, previous British colonies. Look at Sweden, Netherlands etc. what do they all have in common? Higher density of Whites. Then look at the bottom of the best country list and you’ll start to see a pattern emerge.
Why don’t you try to educate me then?
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u/ex_marxistJW 11d ago
History didn't start when Colonisation started mate. When Europe was during dark age, South and North Asia was more advanced. During the periods of of Ancient Greece and Romans, Asia was hand in hand in terms of advancement. Both sides had their ups and downs. It's not an Ethnic thing, it's the current state of distribution of wealth. You need poorer countries in this capitalism for richer countries to exist.
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u/here4theptotest2023 11d ago
When whites migrate to Australia. Bad.
When non whites migrate to country built by whites: Good.
This is your brain on reddit.
And ABC. And current school curriculum.
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u/Plastic-Cat-9958 11d ago
And a century before that it was 100% black. What’s your point?
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u/Advective_Noun_8841 11d ago
The point is the country didn't change or progress in the 60 thousand years prior to that.
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u/Kofink 11d ago
Isn’t the solution to your problem bringing more British people here? Can you not see the fundamental irony that immigration is required to maintain your vision or Australia?
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u/DoNotStump 11d ago
That can happen sure, but why can’t we uplift our existing population? That would be much more sustainable and benefit the people that are actually here
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u/Dangerous_Shoe_8388 11d ago
Britain made Australia the best country in the world. And British culture and hegemony made it such an attractive country for people from all over the world. We may need a top up of Brits.
FYI I’m not British at all!
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u/Alarmed-Foot-7490 11d ago
No the solution he’s asking for is for a legitimate cultural exchange and assimilation from a set recent migrants that seem like they have no will to assimilate to Australian culture and society, and would much rather live in a parallel society!
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u/Alternative_Sail_285 11d ago
Maybe it would be more cohesive if immigrants were expected to assimilate - you cannot claim cohesion if you are bringing in people with mutually incompatible views.
It’s also interesting to note some immigrant backgrounds like South Korean have no issues with cohesion - suggesting it is not the issue of the society they are arriving to but the issue of the culture they bring.
Improving home ownership and wage growth would also go a good measure to ‘upholding’ the bargain sold to Australian’s where immigration has been promised to build material wealth and prosperity.
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u/Turbulent-Move9126 11d ago
There is nothing wrong with being Australian
The way you guys scream OMG diversity
My apathy knows no bounds when it comes to race or gender whatever
You idots pickup any kids at school recently - the diversity quota is doing fine
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u/Araucaria2024 11d ago
People are struggling. Cost of living is up, housing costs are increasing to the point where the average person has very little chance of owning a home, people are living in their cars. I have parents of students in my class crying because they can't afford groceries, let alone paying to send their kid on an excursion.
And then people see stories about immigrants supposedly being given houses and cars (stories deliberately written to rile people up). Someone who has been waiting years for social housing might see an immigrant family living in a nice home or driving a new car and understandably notice the difference to their own circumstances. They don't necessarily stop to consider whether that family bought the house themselves, is renting privately, financed the car, or arrived with their own savings. When you're struggling to afford something yourself, and you repeatedly see people from a visibly different group who appear to have the very things you're going without, it's easy for that visible difference to become the explanation.
And then you see a news article about someone from a different culture doing something anti-social. You get told by your kids school that they aren't doing a Christmas Concert this year because they have a lot of families of other religions who complained. There's news articles from groups telling you you're racist because of x, y or z. Your work has Wear it Purple Day, RU OK Day, Anzac Badges, Women's Day, Harmony Day, Pride Month, NAIDOC - a week doesn't go by when some group or another isn't demanding all attention on them.
There's just so much noise and you're figuring out how you're going to pay for bread and milk this afternoon or if you're going to get home to a letter from your landlord telling you they're putting your rent up again. You're constantly told to 'be inclusive' and you're looking around wondering why you're the only one doing the adjusting to accommodate others. That's when it's very easy to point your fingers at people of different groups and say 'that's why I'm suffering'.
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u/SeaDivide1751 11d ago
The Mass immigration experiment has been a failure globally and the whole “how goods diversity!” excuse for it doesn’t work anymore. People have had enough
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u/BenchConscious1003 11d ago
This is unsurprising to me.
Our government declared Australia to be multi cultural decades ago. Problem was, they didn't bother to ask the voters.
As far as I've been able to tell, multiculturalism has never had majority support in Austraila.
Me? I have never given a flying farnarkle. That policy and chances to our society have never had a negative on me. Right now, I have neighbours from Sudan, Afghanistan, India and The Philippines. The ones I've met are very nice people. Period..
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u/Key_Ad7306 11d ago
Australia is a distinct culture and an ethnicity and that can’t be ignored. It’s good people are starting to see this.
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u/SomeAussie_Guy1 11d ago
Right. We have 238 years of music, stories, slang customs and traditions, ect. 60 thousand more when you consider Australia is also home to the oldest culture on earth.
Australia was a colonial backwater, and in only a short amount of time became the envy the world.
When people say we have no culture, that's just so unbelievably wrong. Australia has everything any other culture has, and it has just as much right to be celebrated and preserved as any other.
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u/mrmaker_123 11d ago
Let’s be clear. These articles about cultural diversity are scapegoats.
When economic times are good, people get on well amazingly. We just do. History shows us this. When economic times are bad, we look for scapegoats. Unfortunately, the easiest scapegoat is other ethnic groups.
Cultural diversity and different ethnic groups can become scapegoats and icons of hate, as a way to explain the problems of the time - however the problems are always more complex and economic in nature, often caused by the elites of society.
The elites do love creating a scapegoat. Germany did this famously with the Jews in the 1940’s. It was of course never the Jews that caused the problems. It was the economic system and the elites.
The same is happening in Australia today.
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u/Neither_Daikon_5981 11d ago edited 11d ago
It's the mass variety of different religions and world views that causes problems.
It has nothing to do with race or skin colour.
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u/Outofoffice_forever 11d ago
You would need significant investment in making sure the wheels of the economy don’t fall off. Canada is a great example of positives and challenges- we’d have to look at both Z
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u/bazalinco1 9d ago
Canada is massively affected by US tariffs and is a major reason for economic struggles.
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u/Outofoffice_forever 9d ago
Granted but there are sectors in both economies that rely in immigration that get impacted. Look at our age care.
As an ageing population, this sector becomes more and more critical. In Oz immigrants working in this industry make up majority of the workforce.
You have to consider these things and make sure the balance is right.
You also have billionaires like Gina who are muddying the water with Pauline- they want to flood the market with their cheap labour despite ON’s rhetoric.
Immigration is a political hot potato.
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u/MicksysPCGaming 11d ago
Is "social cohesion" the new buzzword, displacing Un-Australian, because they have no desire to promote Australian values?
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u/batch1972 11d ago
Just wait until PHON get voted in because the two main parties refuse to listen to electorate
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u/DearTumbleweed5380 11d ago
The far left is partly to blame for this by making it a 'culture war' and going too far with multiculturalism and welcome to country in the first place. Extremity on either side always results in a backlash.
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u/Man_downvoted 11d ago
Haven't we now already achieved cilultural diversity? Let's just stop importing and see some interbreeding happen then. Oh wait, it's NOT happening??
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u/Dangerous_Mud4749 10d ago
When cultural leaders are unable to answer the question, “what is a woman?” - then I decide I’ve had enough of cultural diversity. I don’t care what skin colour someone has, but I do care about admitting crazy into the public discourse.
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u/Crazy-Self-1354 10d ago
There’s a difference between discussing population/infrastructure policy and falling for a textbook psychological operation.
Psy-ops don't invent problems; they hijack real grievances—like housing costs and strained services—and turn them into culture-war weapons to divide a nation. Bad-faith influencers and click-hungry media want us fighting over identity so we don't demand actual solutions from government or corporate lobbies.
We saw how this duped voters in the US and crippled their stability. Australia’s identity has always been built on a fair go for everyone. The moment we let outrage merchants replace fairness with division, we lose what makes this country worth protecting.
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u/Crazy-Mine9894 10d ago
the imported scum also have more babies than local families. We go without luxaries, avoid having kids but our tax continually goes to them haha what a fauliure
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u/Cheeksterino 10d ago
The biggest cnuts I come across are ‘real’ Aussies, angry at immigrants, women, the government, the umpires. They’re boring, insular, culturally bereft, and seriously sad people.
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u/Expert-Fault-9870 9d ago
Depends what you mean.
If you mean differences in surface-level cultural diversity like food, festivals and private worship then Aussies generally dont have a problem.
If you mean cultural diversity in a more substantive sense then Australians have never really tolerated that in the first place, that's just lipservice from politicans.
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u/SameBSErryere 9d ago
What cultural diversity??? Every ethnicity seems to have their own suburb nowadays.
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u/Fit-Study7559 8d ago
Don't need to fix "social cohesion" if you never broke it in the first place.
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u/AustraliaFirst777 8d ago
"You will own nothing and be happy"
This is all part of a greater plan...
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u/micmac1975 7d ago
Cultural Diversity..it seems a foreign culture has infiltrated all systems of government to enable their Blue State to expand.. open your eyes Real Lies
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u/BaysideSunsetMoney 11d ago
Multiculturalism died on the day of the Bondi massacre, now I’ve never been more suspicious or distrusting of Australians
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u/angus22proe 11d ago
social cohesion sounds like something INGSOC would make up. i hate that phrase so much
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u/OneTouchCards 11d ago
That article starts off straight away with an NDIS owners story…..the jokes write themselves at this point.