John Derbyshire | Unz Review (http://www.unz.com/) | 6 April 2019
http://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/despite-trump-tergiversation-immigration-increasingly-divides-parties-and-raise-a-fosters-to-oz-sen-fraser-anning/#comment-3146130
Extract: Finally some good news: Down in the antipodes, ripples from the March 15th mosque massacres in New Zealand continue to spread out.
Brenton Tarrant, who committed those massacres, is actually an Australian; so the event generated even more interest in Australia than it would have anyway. That interest has brought forth a hero: Sixty-nine-year-old Fraser Anning, who has a seat in the 76-member Australian Senate.
Senator Anning is ... I think the word is "colorful." He is plain-spoken and straightforward in what we used to consider a classically Australian style, although in recent decades the loathsome turbid waters of Political Correctness and feminized sensitivity have risen and drowned much of the cultural landscape Down Under.
Anning is culturally conservative: hates homosexuality and abortion, opposes multiculturalism, and—you may want to position yourself near the fainting couch for this one—in his maiden speech to the Senate last year, called for a referendum on re-introducing the White Australia policy that his country practiced up to the 1970s. That policy limited permanent settlement of immigrants to white people.
There were condemnations, a motion of censure in the Senate, and a petition to remove Fraser Anning from the Senate (although there is apparently no constitutional way to do that).
Nothing abashed, this week Senator Anning registered a new party, Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party. He also published a spirited open letter to the Australian Prime Minister—you can read it at the Occidental Observer, on Facebook, or at Australia's Pickering Post—defiantly asserting his objections to mass Muslim immigration:
https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/04/03/fraser-annings-open-letter-on-the-new-zealand-murders
You can take issue with Senator Anning's bluntness, and even with his arguments. I, for example, would take issue with his saying that Australians didn't vote for mass immigration and weren't asked.
It is true that in Australia, as here and in Britain, all the big old political parties, with various degrees of honesty, promoted mass Third World immigration. It's also true that there are difficult institutional barriers to getting a new party established.
Still, no-one has to vote for the established parties.
I was about to add: "indeed, no-one has to vote at all ..." Then I remembered that Australia does in fact have mandatory voting, with a $20 fine if you fail to vote—not a bad idea, in my opinion. [How Compulsory Voting Works: Australians Explain, by Tacey Rychter, NYT, October 22, 2018]
Still, there must have been minor parties people could vote for that didn't push mass immigration. Or voters could have staged a strike—a voter strike!
Yet Aussies—like Americans and Brits—went on voting for the major parties. In that default sense, contra Senator Anning, we did wish for it; we did vote for it.
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April 11, 2019 at 12:11 am GMT • 500 Words
Quote: "You can take issue with Senator Anning's bluntness, and even with his arguments. I, for example, would take issue with his saying that Australians didn't vote for mass immigration and weren't asked.
"It is true that in Australia, as here and in Britain, all the big old political parties, with various degrees of honesty, promoted mass Third World immigration. It's also true that there are difficult institutional barriers to getting a new party established.
"Still, no-one has to vote for the established parties."
As you admitted, voting is compulsory in Australia. Further, voting for fake politicians like Mickey Mouse for example, or writing GTFO on a ballot paper is a criminal offence. The other problem is that just about all Australian electoral parties are divided into two camps: Satellites of Liberal (Oz Rep.) or Labor (Oz Dem.) Through the use of preferences, a vote for the satellite is a vote for the Lib/Lab.
The entire idea of Independents being able to form a bloc to bring about the rise of a government that the majority voted against has only arisen in the last ten years. This has also lead to Independents turning votes over to what their constituents would consider to be the enemy.
Australians also do not vote for the Prime Minister. Australians vote for a local politician in the House of Reps. Which is modelled on the UK Parliament. If your local rep. gets in, it's a point towards one of the two, Lib/Lab taking the lead.
The Australian Senate is modelled on the US Senate.
So the problem is that Australians simply cannot vote out either of the two mainstream parties. Like Americans, all Australians can do is swap one for the other as both lurch further to the LEFT.
Referring back to the 1970's, there was a Prime Minister named Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal – or what in those days was considered to be the Conservative Party. Fraser was elected in a landslide in an attempt by many to stop the imminent death of the White Australia Policy – a massive influx of Vietnamese and other Boat People/Illegal Aliens, international students and non-White immigrants. Fraser later laughed that he was not in any way at all Conservative. Fraser boasted that he was raised in a Jewish family, and it was his ambition to destroy White Australia. <– All of this was available on Wikipedia until some years ago. Now it is considered to be anti-Semitic to tell the truth. You should be able to find reference to it on Malcolm Fraser's Wikipedia page in the page history section ... compare old versions.
As for voting for Fraser Anning and his new party, we can't. Only the people that live in Fraser Anning's electorate can vote for him, and if they vote against him, his party is dead. IF Anning has others join his party, it's the same with them.
And still, when Anning gives his preferences to the dual party Lib/Lab system, then a vote for Fraser Anning is a vote for Lib/Lab.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6915885/Far-right-activist-Neil-Erikson-detained-police-interrupting-Muslim-prayers.html
Far-right activist Neil Erikson has been detained by police for interrupting Muslim Friday prayers in Melbourne's Federation Square
In a video posted to Youtube on Friday, Erikson and his associates can be seen walking through the peacefully gathered group of Muslims who were sitting in groups of men and women.
Erikson arrived before the 1pm start time of the prayers and can be seen in the video wearing a high-vis shirt and walking through the group of woman before yelling slogans into a megaphone
He can be heard repeatedly shouting the slogans 'Mohammad was a False Prophet,' 'Mohammad was a Terrorist' and 'Vote Fraser Anning.'
The Muslim crowd calmly asked who he was and asked him to leave before police arrived minutes later.
Officers escorted him away from where the prayers were taking place to another part of Federation Square where they questioned him.
Erikson repeatedly asked why he was being moved to another part of the square.
He also questioned why the police had taken three hours to remove hundreds of vegan protesters who blocked Melbourne CBD streets during rush hour on Monday.
At one point in the video he can be seen trying to walk back to where the prayers are taking place despite police directing him to stay where he is.
Officers then tackle him to the ground and handcuff him.
It is understood he was driven across the city to Flemington where he was released with a direction to not return to the CBD.
His associates were not detained