So Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price is in trouble for... stating facts?
Only in modern Australia could a politician be vilified not for lying, but for telling the truth about the consequences of mass migration and political vote-stacking.
Price, in an interview with the ABC, dared to suggest what everyone knows but few in Canberra have the spine to say: the Labor government is gaming the migration system to build its voter base. Cue the outrage.
Apparently, pointing out that Indian migrants are arriving in record numbers, and that, statistically, they lean Labor, is now a cancelable offence. Never mind the fact that this information is easily verifiable. When the facts become politically inconvenient, they magically morph into "hurtful comments".
Alex Hawke, a Liberal in name but a wet lettuce in spirit, leapt at the chance to grandstand. Not by confronting Price like a man, but by calling her office and berating her staff. According to Price, he even issued a thinly veiled threat: comply or end up like Senator Jane Hume, who has largely been sidelined by the Liberals for gaffes she was said to have made during the election campaign.
Meanwhile, Sussan Ley plays damage control, parading through Little India in Sydney like some colonial governor reassuring the locals. But ask her to back her own senator? Not a chance. In fact, she's publicly berated Price, stating that her "comments were wrong, not correct. They should not have taken place. They will not be repeated."
And then there was this line from Sussssssan:
"We move on now, we move on with warmth to embrace our incredible multicultural communities."
So expect more empty multicultural pieties from the Liberal-National Coalition.
This whole charade exposes the festering rot in the Liberal Party. It has a "woman problem" alright, but not the one the ABC thinks. The problem is that when conservative women like Jacinta Nampijinpa Price stand up, speak plainly, and challenge the orthodoxy, the men around them don't just run for cover. They attack them. In fact, the party throws them under the bus.
Let’s be crystal clear: Price said nothing racist. (Imagine! The Left accusing an Aboriginal woman of racism!) The Senator criticised a political strategy, not a people. She praised Indian Australians as hardworking, loyal citizens. Her children are of Indian ancestry. But none of that matters to the outrage machine.
Labor's migration agenda is real and excessive. It is as politically motivated for Labor as it is financially motivated for the banks and the entire real estate/housing market. This includes major media outlets that make a killing out of real estate marketing publications and websites like Domain.
Mass migration is pushing homes out of reach for ordinary people, it's straining our infrastructure, and it's undermining social cohesion. Australians know it. They're seeing their quality of life erode while politicians fight over who can say what without offending the latest aggrieved lobby.
Price is guilty only of doing what far too few in parliament are willing to do: put the national interest ahead of political correctness.
If the Coalition had any backbone, it would rally around her. But instead, it dithers, it apologises, it signals.
Australia needs a sustainable migration program, not an open-door policy designed to rig elections. And we need leaders who will speak that truth, without apology.
Thought for the Day
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – Common saying, misattributed to George Orwell
