The Hon. John Ruddick
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Look, my hunch is in this country, because we're usually sort of five to ten years behind these trends, I'm sort of hoping, maybe I'm a bit too much of a glass-half-full type of a guy, but I'm sort of hoping, look, we haven't got to that point yet.
I'm hoping as well.
But let's have the pause so we don't even have to see if we are there, because once we're there, it's such a mess.
Yeah.
Now, look, so you're saying you're inclined to support deportation, but are you talking about, like, if somebody is an Australian-born citizen, you're saying you'd like to find a mechanism to kick them out?
Thank you.
Yeah, well, I do believe immigration is the most important thing.
And this is what we're seeing in Germany, the AFD, which are like basically just an anti-immigration party.
And their leader is a female.
She's a lesbian married to a Sri Lankan.
But she's extremely articulate and she's saying, look, you know, we're going to lose Germany.
And it's happening all across.
It's not happening in Eastern Europe.
It's happening in Western Europe.
It's happening in every Western nation we know.
Yeah, well, particularly the Anglosphere, because we've just been so nice and generous for so long, and now it's just gone too far.
So, yeah, it's Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and England, in particular.
So, yeah, look, I'll be honest with you, Sam.
My strong hope is that we haven't got to that point where that's necessary, particularly for someone who's an Australian citizen, because it'll just be really messy.
And it will also make people who are new migrants to this country sort of...
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