Schools, universities, public broadcasters and even political parties of the Left are trashing Australia’s image

We’re seeing how loyalty to Australia cannot now be assumed in sport or, indeed, in war.

Last Friday, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph ran a giant ad all over its back page in a script few Australians could read. Pitched at Australian Indians, it was entirely in Hindi.

It urged Indians to use the NBN to follow the Sydney Test between India and Australia: “Don’t miss a single shot.”

Yes, it seemed innocuous.

Yet it was also unsettling, for those who still dare think about what it takes to create a nation and not just a hotel.

The NBN ad was promoting the Test between Australia and India. Picture: Michael Klein

NBN apparently assumed many Indians here don’t read English well.

Or that the business of Australians who don’t read Hindi was not worth chasing.

Or maybe it’s all just targeted advertising.

After all, this newspaper – and other News Corp titles – ran an eight-page wrap promoting this five-Test series with stories in English, Hindi and Punjabi.

Still, maybe there is a language issue with even Indian immigrants now pouring in so fast that 92,940 came in just the last financial year.

After all, our latest census said one in 30 Australians has poor or no English.

Mind you, Indians are just the kind of immigrants we’d like – law-abiding and entrepreneurial.

So it may seem strange that I should still worry about this ad – and about Indian fans making the Boxing Day Test match in Melbourne sound like a home game for India.

But the old lies used to sell mass immigration have now been exposed.

Integration cannot be assumed.

Indian fans made the Boxing Day Test sound like an Indian home game. Picture: Tony Gough

We import not just people but their cultures. And immigration today looks increasingly like colonisation.

So far I’ve used a benign example.

I mean, who cares if Indian fans have a party at the cricket? But we’re seeing how loyalty to Australia cannot now be assumed in sport or, indeed, in war.

I was shocked a decade ago to find more Australian Muslims were fighting for the ISIS terrorists than were serving in Australia’s army.

Meanwhile, China’s dictatorship is telling 1.2 million Chinese Australians they owe their loyalty to China, while Palestinians stage disruptive anti-Israel protests as if their Palestinian cause was greater than any courtesy they owed to Australians.

We’re in strife, and not just because of insane immigration levels.

Even worse is that schools, universities, public broadcasters and even political parties of the Left are trashing Australia’s image so badly it’s no surprise if new Australians from prouder cultures won’t barrack for this sorry country – in sport or war.

Originally published as Schools, universities, public broadcasters and even political parties of the Left are trashing Australia’s image