It just boggles my mind that people who are literally descended from immigrants are protesting immigration in Melbourne today. Unless you’re an indigenous Australian you came from somewhere else.
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"we want Australia to be back to how it used to be!" So, before white people invaded? "not that far back"
aug 31, 2025, 4:36 am • 8 2 • view
I’m pretty sure it’s not really about immigration though, right? If immigration continued but was just limited to white people, I feel certain these protesters would be immensely happy and all go home.
aug 31, 2025, 5:39 am • 4 0 • view
Yes, unfortunately you’re right.
aug 31, 2025, 5:41 am • 2 0 • view
You are an academic but you seem more interested in straw manning the protest than actually trying to understand why it is happening. Don't you value the truth?
aug 31, 2025, 9:58 am • 0 0 • view
Why do you think they’re happening?
aug 31, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes although I guess everyone ultimately descended from migrants or invaders. Unless you think the original inhabitants were created in situ by gods or evolved from marsupial megafauna.
aug 31, 2025, 7:54 am • 0 0 • view
They might not have intelligence and many of them are frightened. They need help
aug 31, 2025, 3:42 am • 1 0 • view
We’re all boat people, as Bob Hawke once said.
aug 31, 2025, 4:36 am • 4 0 • view
That’s racist! I’ve been here since the dawn of time!! Oh wait, no, that’s not correct, I’m actually a ten pound pom which makes me 1st generation Australian. I stand corrected.
aug 31, 2025, 3:11 am • 5 0 • view
How can you be educated and be so stupid. Pretty much non of the protestors are against immigration. They have made it abundantly clear that what they have a problem with is MASS immigration during a housing crisis. Is that really so hard to understand?
aug 31, 2025, 9:56 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, but they descended from white migrants- this lot are happy with them, just not brown people 🤬
aug 31, 2025, 5:41 am • 0 0 • view
Apparently it’s happening here in Brisbane too. We’re an incredibly white city so I’m really wondering who they’re shouting “F Off” at.
aug 31, 2025, 3:18 am • 2 0 • view
As my late father was oft to quote The Bard, "You can't educate Richard Craniums".
aug 31, 2025, 5:25 am • 2 0 • view
Conservatives/right wingers are never ones to let facts get in the way of their good time.
aug 31, 2025, 3:24 am • 1 0 • view
Such people aren’t known for their intelligence
aug 31, 2025, 3:38 am • 4 0 • view
The Murdochracies all have the identical problem! White skin? Your ancestors were not from America, Canada, Britain or Australia. The best claim might be red haired Celts in the UK, but Angeln and Saxony are very much not in England!
aug 31, 2025, 7:18 am • 0 0 • view