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Memo to Coalition: take heed of Trump

By Stephen Saunders - posted Monday, 29 September 2025


The "mature debate" and respectful conversation that they urge upon voters are a cruel one-sided parody. This elite maintains their own curated set of overpopulation porkies that they ego-trip among themselves. These only get dumb, and dumber:

We have no controls , also it never happened, we're fixing those visa-backlogs, we're catching up for COVID, blame Peter Dutton , "better planning" will sort it, we're up-skilling and de-ageing, finally we're busting the congestion and decentralising, also who needs water, rapid population growth decouples from greenhouse emissions and environment, and lest we forget, you're all racists."

It was always a given, that this comfortably entitled Big Australia silo would react venomously, to any direct interruptions or unlikely protests from without.

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But the recriminations over the past two months are ridiculous, out of all proportion, and distinctly dangerous. The elite is "punching down" at voters as never before.

Sure, to this elite , ordinary Australians are terribly racist, which is not actually true. But it's the main pretext , why we're Not Allowed to have low migration - unlike the great majority of the wealthy nations.

Now we're complete dimwits too, with little capacity to resist the ominous "neo nazi" thugs who strongarm us and poison our tiny minds.

Unlikely Jacinta Price

Carp as you will, the published platform and promos of March for Australia are straightforward and true. Business and the uni-party love mass migration, which is way higher than most voters want.

Just for the record, we're talking 75-80% higher in Albanese's first term, than Rudd's huge three-year record. Five-six times, the historical average.

These Labor "achievements" not being in dispute, no wonder Albanese and allies vigorously played the man (sorry, the non-binary diverse person) not the ball. Dear Leader birthed his notorious good-people smear:

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Good people…look at who you were with…it isn't actually about housing…it's about sowing division…neo nazis have no role.

They're not good-people-only-fascists, barked Labor Minister Ed Husic . Enough of a hint, for Price to chill it. Even after her sacking however, she continues to urge low migration, citing Labor's 1.2m (quite an understatement) first-term immigration.

Silo's response is what you'd expect – bigger lies more often. Net migration has fallen 40%, back to the "long term" average, Minister Burke fibs at state-ABC. We've reduced immigration from "record" Coalition highs, smirks Minister Leigh , also on ABC.

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