Andrew Bolt: Leaders ignoring the obvious on migrants
Ordinary Australians are talking about our immigration problems, but it seems our leaders would rather look the other way, writes Andrew Bolt.
Just hours after a Muslim terror suspect murdered three people at a Christmas market in France, our political leaders met to debate what to do with our insane immigration intake.
The Prime Minister and state premiers in Adelaide could have discussed much that makes most Australians oppose us importing nearly 240,000 people a year.
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They could have discussed this past week’s news, for instance, like the Sydney judge who warned that “such an ideology has no place in any civilised society” as he jailed another teenager of Middle Eastern background for planning to attack police in the name of militant Islam. Or they could have discussed the CCTV footage police released of yet another pack attack in Melbourne by Sudanese youths, most from refugee families, who this time kicked two teenagers unconscious.
Or they could have discussed the TV report of a Melbourne woman telling how “40 to 60” other Africans smashed her gate, climbed over, punched her and her partner and called them “white dogs”. Or they could have talked about fresh evidence of China’s dictators getting our Chinese-Australian organisations to promote their foreign policy.
See, our politicians may not discuss such things but many Australians do, which may help explain why polls show the public is much keener on cutting immigration than are their leaders. Most polls this year show between half and three-quarters of Australians want immigration cut. But in Adelaide yesterday, only one premier, NSW’s Gladys Berejiklian, wanted that, too.
True, the Prime Minister and the premiers did talk of ways to ease the squeeze on our biggest cities caused by importing so many people. Perhaps they could steer more immigrants to the country. But they were silent about how immigration is also leaving many Australians fearing for their safety or their country’s unity. A Lowy Institute poll found 41 per cent of Australians now worried that “if Australia is too open to people from all over the world, we risk losing our identity as a nation”.
Indeed, we already have huge ethnic colonies forming in Sydney and Melbourne. In Melbourne’s Box Hill, Chinese is now spoken by 40 per cent of residents. In Sydney’s Lakemba, nearly two-thirds are Muslim.
Maybe fears of Australia fraying are exaggerated, but while our leaders refuse to even address them, the public’s concern about immigration will only grow.
Originally published as Andrew Bolt: Leaders ignoring the obvious on migrants
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