by Rachel Stewart

I’m not going to sit here and tell you I’m an expert on Ozzie politics because I’m not. But watching the surge of popularity for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party is deffo worth a squiz.

It’s been evident for a while now that One Nation’s star is on the rise but, crikey, after their massive showing in South Australia’s election at the weekend some are asking if it’s finally their time to shine. But the usual suspects aren’t, of course.

One Nation's statewide primary vote in South Australia has exceeded 20% – that’s up a massive 18.5 % since the last election – and currently stands several points above that of the Liberal party. But just like National here, the Liberals are not getting much traction with voters. Pauline Hanson for PM anyone?

In Ozzie terms that’s like asking whether NZ First and Winston Peters could be sitting in the driver’s seat by the end of this year’s election. I say funnier things have happened. More than that, I’d argue that both leaders have been written off for far too long by a left-biased media hellbent on talking voters out of supporting these supposed “racists”.

Well, the mainstream media meatheads might be in for a bit of a reality check. Continuing to act like they are yesterday’s fish and chips wrapper ignores the fact that the times we all find ourselves in are moving in their direction. All they have to do is relax and wait for the steady march of more government-sanctioned migration chaos.

Loathing mass migration with few limits on who actually comes into your country – similar to here – does not a racist make. What it creates is a disaffected, unheard, often working-class taxpayer who’s worried about their job, the unaffordability surrounding their children’s future, the physical safety of women, and the clash between the culture they know and love vanishing daily before their eyes. It’s pretty straightforward.

But the depiction of those voters – just like NZ First voters – says more about the depicters than the depict-ees. They are consistently written off in that totally classless way that only the elite left have perfected. You know, as grey, uneducated, rural, and/or provincial, and – the coup de grace – racist. A simple narrative package tied up with a red ribbon and a bow.

Oh, to be so sure that your place in the world will never see you age, live anywhere other than a major city, assume that an academic education means wisdom, and to believe that wanting to put limits on other cultures overriding your culture is somehow Neanderthalic. Look at Britain. It’s essentially a European Islamic state. People are finally sitting up and taking notice.

Here’s Australian PM Anthony Albanese quoting the globalist playbook around “vigilance” against “anti-immigration agendas”.

Which is why he used the rather benign Vietnamese community to say it. He knows that it’s Muslims the voters are worried about. And his comments were made only two days after this happened.

Which is all very interesting given how Jewish Australians feel about what they see as his constant appeasement of Muslims and his lukewarm support of them. After the Bondi Beach massacre he was noticeably underwhelming on that score.

Given this backdrop of deep discontent it’s no surprise that Australian voters are likely going to deliver up some serious surprises for the two main parties at the next election. Like a befriender of bears delusionally thinks they are adored by the bear, that is until the bear up and kills them like a cat on a mouse – i.e. slowly and with predatory intent – Albanese may soon come to find he’s in a bear hug he’s not enjoying.

All around what’s left of the western world, Muslims are given preferential treatment by virtually all of the politicians in power. It’s as if their faith, their stone-age treatment of women, their taking of child brides, their bottomless hatred towards Jews and Christians is expected to be somehow politely looked past.

Here’s the late, great Christopher Hitchens back in 2006 telling the truth to an audience at the University of Toronto of what has now come to pass.

Why oh why is it so hard to say that some cultures are just basically incompatible with others? Why does that get labelled as ‘racist’? I don’t know. But I do know that Pauline Hanson and One Nation is Australia’s last electoral hope to stem the tide of suicidal empathy. Because that’s what it is. Empathy for everything except western values, history, and culture.

And New Zealand is a ‘see you next Tuesday’ hair away from being exposed to what Australia is currently experiencing, and Winston Peters is positioned as the politician capable of saying what only Pauline Hanson has the guts to say on the daily.

So, fair suck of the sav Aussie voters, keep giving her a go. What have you got to lose? Except, you know, everything.

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