Luke Ford

From VDARE 2008:

The great nations of the Anglosphere seem determined to merge themselves out of existence.

Mass immigration is making the U.S. a part of Latin America, while an emerging North American Union would combine Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Across the Pond, Britain surrenders her sovereignty to the European Union. Not to be outdone, Down Under, the Australian Prime Minister appears to want to merge Australia with Asia.

An article in the Herald Sun entitled Unified Currency Chance with Asian Union, Says Expert [Jane Metlikovec, June 05, 2008] reports that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has “announced his plan to create a broad Asia-Pacific Community by 2020.”

A certain Prof. Tim Lindsey of Melbourne University thinks that`s a great idea:

“We are living in the “Asia century,“ he said.”Australia is uniquely positioned as the only Western society in Asia and we have never capitalised on that, despite most of our commodities going to Asia.“

So what about Australia`s Western identity and Anglo-Celtic heritage? Apparently, that can be easily disregarded:

(Lindsey) said Australia was still suffering from a “colonial hangover“ by setting ourselves apart from Asia. “This perception of ourselves as a European nation has to change,“ he said.

PM Rudd has chosen a point man to advance the project:

“Mr Rudd has appointed former foreign affairs secretary and one-time ambassador to Indonesia Richard Woolcott as Australia`s envoy to sell the idea.”

There is some political opposition:

Opposition MPs are divided about Mr Rudd`s plan, which he put forward during a speech to the Asia Society Australasia Centre last night, just days before he heads off on a week-long visit to Japan and Indonesia.

Opposition`s foreign affairs spokesman Andrew Robb says the plan is presumptuous.”His (Kevin Rudd) first job is not to be making pronouncements about grand architecture for the region, telling China, Indonesia and Japan and India how they will be organised as a region by Australia in the next 20 years,“ Mr Robb told ABC Radio.

Nevertheless, Robb`s opposition seems more a question of practicality than a concern for Australia`s cultural identity:

“Once (Rudd) has demonstrated a capacity to build and maintain and grow strong bilateral relationships with all these countries (and) repair the damage he has already done with some of these countries, then we can… maybe influence the broader architecture that shapes the region.“

How about the argument that Australia`s cultural identity is non-Asian? Is that a legitimate argument nowadays?

From VDARE today:

Pauline Hanson, a fiery populist leader who has been working to save Australia from mass immigration for many years, triumphed in the recent elections. Though as of this writing the total number of seats for her One Nation party has not been determined, it’s certain Hanson herself has one.

The Main Stream Media is shrieking hysterically, as you might expect.

Far-right One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is pushing for a royal commission into climate science and Islam and wants to abolish the Family Law Court, in an extreme policy agenda set to frustrate a future government trying to pass laws through the Senate.

The federal election has resurrected the political career of the controversial figure, whose party is expected to snare at least one Senate spot 18 years after she lost the Queensland seat of Blair.

[Election 2016: Pauline Hanson’s big Senate win, and what she plans to do with it, by Nicole Hasham, Sydney Morning Herald, July 3, 2016]

Don’t you just love the name-calling? “Far-right,” “extreme,” “controversial?” Leftists are never described in such terms in supposedly objective news reports.

In response, Hanson is threatening to boycott the MSM altogether. She simply takes for granted the MSM will be fanatically opposed no matter what she does and so, Trump style, she’s going to take her case straight to the people.

Pauline Hanson has launched a spray at the media ahead of her return to Federal Parliament, complaining of bias against her and warning she will bypass traditional newspapers and TV networks in favour of “citizen journalism”.

Ms Hanson, whose One Nation party is on track to claim two but possibly as many as four Senate seats, warned in a video posted on her Facebook page that she would not give interviews unless the media stopped treating her as “a punching bag”.

“So what I’m saying [is]: get your act together. I could be in Parliament for up to six years. I wouldn’t mind a working relationship with you, but if you’re not going to give me a fair go, don’t come knocking on my door, because you ain’t going to get an interview out of me.

[Election 2016: ‘Punching bag’ Pauline Hanson attacks the media after Senate win, by David Wroe, Sydney Morning Herald, July 6, 2016]

This is one of the key ideas patriots are finally starting to understand. The Main Stream Media’s reporters are just leftist activists by another name. They use different tactics, but they aren’t fundamentally different from the screaming leftist protesters in the streets. They share the same goals, the same ideology, and the same enemies.

Hanson’s comeback is also causing much wailing and gnashing of teeth among certain members of the political class.

Former foreign minister Bob Carr says Pauline Hanson will hurt Australia’s image overseas, calling her a “mischievous troublemaker and racist”.

Mr Carr, who now works full-time on improving relations between Australia and China through roles at three prominent Sydney universities, said the re-emergence of One Nation would have been noted with alarm across Asia.

[Australian federal election 2016: Pauline Hanson’s political comeback an ’embarrassment to Australia’, says Bob Carr, by Heath Aston, Syndey Morning Herald, July 6, 2016]

It’s almost like those who have a financial stake in transforming Australia into a culturally Asian country don’t like patriotic movements.

Incidentally, we last saw Bob Carr (who has a Malaysian wife) when he was complaining about Margaret Thatcher (accurately) predicting Third World immigration as the ruin of Western nations.