Waleed Aly
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1,043 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Jun
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So what I mean by that is that famous stat that gets dragged out all the time that 50% of Australians are either born overseas or have a parent who was born overseas and so on.
That doesn't mean that they won't vote for someone who's taking a stand against multiculturalism.
And it doesn't necessarily mean that they don't like multiculturalism or anything like that.
It just may not be a determining factor in how they assess a proposition like One Nation.
So these things can land in all sorts of unpredictable ways.
We are walking through a hall of mirrors now.
It's just all reflections and jumping at shadows and all sorts of things.
So we don't really know.
But I think easy conclusions like, well, this can't work in a multicultural electorate are things that we have to resist.
I think we saw how badly those sort of presumptions or assumptions can run aground in the United States.
Yeah, so that's the key point.
I'm not saying this based on the fact that, wow, it's polling quite high numbers now and it's gone past the coalition and then more recently...
It's gone past Labor in the polls.
The thing that's happened in Australian politics, especially it was really stark at the 25 election, was this almost, it seemed, irreconcilable divide between city and country.
And so what that meant was that as the coalition kept getting banished from the cities and confined to the countries via the National Party and then some kind of mostly rural liberal members, there was no prospect that the coalition could form government because you can't form government in Australia without the cities.
And so I'd been working on the theory that as long as One Nation, as long as its surge was basically
claiming rural voters, then it could surge really as much as it liked.
It was never going to be a threat for government.
What happened in the past couple of weeks is not that the number of total votes kept going up or total support kept going up.
It's that the demographics started to broaden.
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