The Hon. John Ruddick
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Now, sometimes the chamber, the parliamentary chamber, looks like it's quite empty, but there's about 500 people up in the offices watching.
They've got to hear the case about why we shouldn't be wasting 75 million bucks on multiculturalism.
Now, the reason why I... Look, libertarians wanted to abolish overnight at least half the government departments.
This would be top of the list.
But in addition to the fiscal side, the economic side, you're saving money.
I just find that I hate the concept of multiculturalism, okay?
Where if you're born in Timbuktu and...
Your ancestors have lived in Timbuktu for 10,000 years and your uncles and your aunts and your grandparents and your neighbours, your cousins, everyone you know lives in Timbuktu.
But you've heard about this place called Australia and you want to go and live there.
You think, oh, that looks better.
And let's say they end up getting a visa to come and live in Australia.
Well, that's just one lotto.
So they should be saying, okay, I'm so grateful to be part of Australia and I want to become an Australian.
They're admitting with their feet that Australia is a better country than Timbuktu.
So then we come out here and the major parties hand out these grants.
What do they do with the $75 million?
Well, they go to all the little communities and they say, well, look here –
Let's say it's the Australian Chilean Society, okay?
They have a little annual get-together to all the Chileans, okay?
Now, what would happen is they would, before the government gets involved, what would happen?
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