10/19/2022
Australia was long a model for immigration patriots. It stopped ships from invading the island and put out a based video telling illegal infiltrators that “You Will Not Make Australia Home.”
Alas, we have to win every single time, while the opposition has to win just once. The BLM movement has undercut the moral courage of Australia, leading to, apparently, mostly white people declaring themselves to be Aborigines and declaring the British settlers to be evil colonists. White people have, unironically, colonized the Indigenous movement in that country.
While this is amusing on some level, it’s far more worthy of wrath and moral indignation. These seditionists proudly speak against their Sovereign, the late Queen Elizabeth II. Republicanism is likely to get a boost in Australia as the political elite tries to build a new political identity by smearing the preexisting nation. That means cutting the mystic chords of memory that connect the country to the British Isles.
Just think of what could have been avoided if the country had stuck to its White Australia policy. Keep immigrants out once, and you are called a racist once, but if you do what they say once, you get called a racist forever. Immigration advocates rarely argue in good faith, especially when they are making moral appeals.
Still, Cultural Marxists and anti-white activists aren’t the people I truly fear. It’s the cheap labor lobby, or what I call the “Rope-Sellers,” those who import a permanent, hostile underclass out of a short-sighted desire for cheap labor. They will sell the rope to those who will hang them. And they’re doing it again.
Two years of hard border closures have left businesses scrambling to fill half-a-million job vacancies in a country once considered an “immigration nation.”
”Everywhere I’ve been around the state over the last six weeks, whether it has been in metropolitan or regional Victoria, the one issue which is top of the pile is access to workers,” said Paul Guerra, CEO of Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the state’s biggest business lobby.
”There are so many jobs, we are hearing from businesses, that are unfilled. The only way to fill these shortages is through migration,” he told Nikkei Asia. “For Australia, this is now urgent.”
Nearly half of all Australians are first or second-generation immigrants. Before the pandemic, the island continent had the second largest temporary immigrant workforce in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Now, Australia has the second worst labor shortage in the developed world behind Canada, a country where immigration accounts for nearly its entire labor force growth. The shortages are widespread, spanning the nation’s hospitality, child care and aged care, health, education, and IT sectors.
[’Fortress Australia’ seeks to become immigration nation again, by Mitch Ryan, Nikkei Asia, October 18, 2022]
As the race for talent heats up around the globe, some experts argue that Australia will struggle to attract immigrants back to "Fortress Australia."https://t.co/d8V4TAHfxO
— Nikkei Asia (@NikkeiAsia) October 18, 2022
An “immigration nation” is a dying nation. This is the sine qua non of seeing the country just as an economy. The people who built Canada and Australia are being displaced because of corporate greed. It also won’t help economic elites, because resentful helots will eventually push for socialist, redistributionist policies. This is why nationalism must be a shield and sword against both Marxism and short-sighted, bourgeois Economic Men who can’t see past the next quarterly earnings cycle.
The problem seems worse in the Anglosphere than anywhere else. However, the English-speaking peoples of the world have roused themselves before and may again. Perhaps it’s time for that invisible population, Anglo-Saxons, to start organizing for their own collective interests. Andrew Fraser, author of The Wasp Question, offers some ideas in his book that were discussed in a recent appearance on Left, Right & White with Gregory Hood [God Save The Anglosphere, by Gregory Hood, American Renaissance, October 5, 2022].
Regardless, Australian patriots need to take a strong stand on immigration — and recognize that the most dangerous enemy isn’t found in the black bloc but in the boardroom. It’s the corporate lobbyists who will give away your country — and then act surprised when the Revolution devours them too. Sometimes, I regret that as immigration patriots, we are saving them from themselves.
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