Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club speech has dominated the headlines in Australia this week, with her pledge to abolish multiculturalism perhaps the stand-out point.
She’s grabbing the headlines because One Nation have surged in the polls to become Australia’s most popular political party, but this is, of course, nothing new from Hanson. She has consistently opposed multiculturalism for her entire 30 years in politics. I mean, that’s the fundamental philosophical idea of her party’s name – One Nation – that government should represent a single unified Australian people rather than an intersection of minority ethnic and religious interest groups.
Many people refer to this as “civic nationalism”, but a more accurate term for it is actually “cultural nationalism”. Hanson defines Australians not merely as the law-abiding citizenry, but a people with historical, linguistic, religious and civilisational dimensions. Hence her appeals to “Western” or “Christian” identity. Her longest-serving federal parliamentary ally Senator Malcolm Roberts sometimes takes this further into discussions of our “Anglo-Celtic character” as Australians.
White nationalists, of course, object to this cultural nationalism (which you also hear espoused by the likes of Howard and Abbott on the right-wing of the Liberal Party) as incoherent on the grounds that culture itself has an organic basis in racial particularity, rendering the mass assimilation of non-White migrants in their view impossible. White nationalists take the view that only the mass assimilation of migrants of European descent is possible, as only they share the civilisational identity and requisite racial qualities of founding stock Australians.
Import the third world, become the third world. Import the first world, stay the first world. More or less.
Pauline Hanson, however, never pretended to be a White nationalist, and has consistently stated her rejection of White nationalism every time she’s been questioned on it. Say what you want about Pauline, for all her faults she has been ideologically consistent throughout her political career. So criticising her for not being a White nationalist is a largely futile exercise.
If you want White nationalism, you will need an actual White nationalist party with an actual White nationalist leader. Some blokes tried that recently and the government listed them as a prohibited hate group. If their legal challenge to overturn this fails, Hanson has vowed to repeal the hate group law, which might be the only lifeline to decriminalising White nationalist organising in Australia. But neither Pauline nor her One Nation party will ever adopt White nationalism explicitly themselves.
What Pauline and One Nation might be able to do though, considering the polling, is win the next federal election and form government.
This presents an incredible opportunity to make meaningful change to how Australia is governed, not simply through the restoration of free speech, but also in dismantling multiculturalism.
Multiculturalism is not simply the trivial presence of other cultural practices within Australia, this is a false impression the political establishment presents to obfuscate its political reality. “So you want to abolish multiculturalism? Well I guess that means no more Chinese takeaways for you chud!” The leftist commentators parroting this strawman are idiots.
In reality, multiculturalism is the institutionalisation of minority ethnic and religious lobbying. When Anthony Albanese or Tony Burke talk about “modern Australia” being “multicultural”, this is what they are actually defending.
Every time a new “hate speech” law is passed, or a new DEI regulation to discriminate against White people is adopted, it is done so at the recommendation of these minority ethnic and religious lobby groups. There is a whole department of government dealing with “Multicultural Affairs” which exists for the sole purpose of granting taxpayer money to these lobby groups and facilitating them telling the government to pass more hate speech laws and adopt more DEI regulations.
If Pauline Hanson is serious about abolishing multiculturalism, it can’t just be empty rhetoric about how people “need to assimilate” like we have heard for years from the Liberal Party whilst they’ve been complicit in funding and institutionalising this multicultural bureaucracy, a multicultural bureaucracy that has now morphed into a multicultural police state that jails people for offending or criticising the multicultural bureaucracy and its agenda.
One Nation, therefore, must commit to abolishing the entire bureaucratic regime of multiculturalism – all of these multicultural lobby groups need to be defunded and jettisoned from the political process.
The first of these taxpayer-funded activist parasites that needs to be jettisoned is the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, which, as stated by Tony Burke himself, was the leading advocacy body responsible for the most egregious attack on our liberal democratic Western values in our nation’s history in the prohibited hate group law.
The ECAJ is also responsible for marginalising the Australian Jewish Association from the organised Jewish community, due to its support for both One Nation and free speech principles.
The multicultural bureaucracy only tolerates antiwhite anti-freedom leftist activists within its ranks, marginalising not just Jewish groups which refuse to tow the line, but also groups such as the British Australian Community which are never given a seat at the table even though they represent the largest ethnic group in the country!
If One Nation is serious about abolishing multiculturalism, we need to see actual policy, not mere sentiment and platitudes.
We need to see them commit to dismantling the anti-democratic, anti-Australian multicultural bureaucracy that has formed a cursed alliance with the Labor Government against the political will and freedoms of the forgotten Australian people.
This is not asking One Nation to become something they are not, but simply asking them to be what they fundamentally claim to be. To do what they say they believe in.
Abolishing multiculturalism either means this, or it means nothing.
Header image: Pauline Hanson during her National Press Club speech (NPC).
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