Kristina Keneally is at it again
Kristina Keneally says that ramped up immigration is necessary to change Australian culture.[Click for link]
Why? What is wrong with it?
What would Kristina know about Australian culture anyhow? That is, of Australian culture outside of the confines of the political elite of inner-city Sydney and Melbourne.
Keneally is also pushing the 'Big Australia' of the failed Rudd government.
But taking 'cultural change' first and foremost, exactly what does Keneally mean by it, how is it measured and since when was 'cultural change' a key aim of immigration?
It is left-wing social engineering. What government or political party, including Labor, has ever sought a mandate for that?
If people were not aware of the danger this woman can do they have now had their eyes opened. Change our culture? Albanese you are a joke along with the whole labor movement.
Personally, I don't resort to crude comments - it just demeans to a lower level of life by the one making the comment.
But let's us centre on what is being said by Kristina Keneally, and I don't know her any more than you do Suze. The big problem in this country is population - there is just not enough of us. We push immigation becuse not to do so we would stagnate our ecconomic growth if we did not. I know this because I work for the car industry and one major reason was we were two small a nation, that customer base that a car industry needs to sell enough cars to be financially viable. We had three car industries at that time Holden, Ford and Chysler so you can imagine how tough it was for business. If that was not enough we had a Prime Minister (John Howard) who removed tarriffs thus opening the doors to imports of cheaper cars. It did not stop there - we started import rather maufacture on many other products and our industries closed, not being able to compete with imports and unemployment increased.
The second catalyst in our economic situation was that wages dropped and people struggled just to get by. When that happens married couples cannot afford to have babies so the birthrate flatlines; the worst that can happen to a nation such as ours. We are a rich country and with the right government we can grow, with good infrastructure, to support millions more people. The best people to have is 'home grown' excuse the pun. We turned to immigation first from Europe, best for us because of their simularity in culture. Once again, we had a government who for some reason (only known to them) made it almost impossible for Europeans to meet the riculous financial conditions they demanded. Thus we accepted people from Asian cultures that were alien to our own, that is not to demean them for most have settled well and adopted the Australian life. But we still cannot grow fast enough in numbers that will help us in our economy. This is further exasterbated by a current government that is totally ignorant of real economics. That is why we are where we are today. There are other factors that have brought us to where we are today but space precludes me adding them.
Personally, I don't resort to crude comments - it just demeans to a lower level of life by the one making the comment.
But let's us centre on what is being said by Kristina Keneally, and I don't know her any more than you do Suze> The big problem in this country is population - there is just not enough of us. We push immigation becuse not to do so we would stagnate our ecconomic growth if we did not. I know this because I work for the car industry and one major reason was we were two small a nation, that customer base that a car industry needs to sell enough cars to be financially viable. We had three car industries at that time Holden, Ford and Chysler so you can imagine how tough it was for business. If that was not enough we had a Prime Minister (John Howard) who removed tarriffs thus opening the doors to imports of cheaper cars. It did not stop there - we started import rather maufacture on many other products and our industries closed, not being able to compete with imports and unemployment increased.
The second catalyst in our economic situation was that wages dropped and people struggled to get just to get by like it is now. When that happens married couples cannot afford to have babies so the birthrate flatlines. The worst that can happen to a nation such as ours. We are a rich country and with the right government we can grow, with good infrastructure, to support millions more people. The best people to have is 'home grown' excuse the pun. We turned to immigation first from Europe, best for us because of their simularity in culture. Once again, we had a government who for some reason (only known to them) made it almost impossible for Europeans to meet the riculous financial conditions they demanded. Thus we accepted people from Asian cultures that were alien to our own, that is not to demean them for most have settled well and adopted the Australian life. But we still cannot grow fast enough in numbers that will help us in our economy. This is further exasterbated by a current government that is totally ignorant of real economics. That is why we are where we are today. There are other factors that have brought us to where we are today but space precludes me adding them.
Didn’t we just have an election? Kristine Keneally was voted in despite all the lies surrounding this election.
Kenneally is a FAILED state Premier. She lost office and the election. On the way there Kenneally sided with the real estate industry to attack mums and dads in their own homes as she routinely looked the other way as family homes were being turned into all night venues with horrific stories of abuse of neighbours. The woman then had the hide to stand in front of the cameras and justify her betrayal of average people by stating "we won't be having a Nanny state". Needless to say the blonde millenial did not have to suffer the fate of thousands of citizens.
Out of interest sake ALbanese has already shot himself in both feet by promoting Kenneally to the job she now holds. Pushing out a well performing man did not seem to worry him. Not a good start for Labor after throwing the election. Apparently the architect of the defeat, Chris Bowen, is also on the front bench.
If Labor cannot win when the LNG government was gone then it mat want to look up 'doing a Bradbury'. all it had to do was stay on its feet. It decided to fall over!
Bowen is another thick-headed ideologue who believes he always knows what is best for everyone else. It follows that the voters (the 'punters' they insultingly call the public) always get it wrong.
Apparently, the Australian public are so bovine and willful that Labor either has to explain its policies (that cannot be wrong!) more simply. -Or as many 'Woke' commentators and activists are arguing, Labor should lie and conceal its intentions pre-election and do what they like after getting into government.
Regarding the last mentioned strategy, many migrants would recognise that sly treachery very quickly indeed, having fled from authoritarian and totalitarian regimes.
Agreed that Albanese is carrying far too much lead in his saddlebags. It doesn't help that Kristine Keneally and others have a far higher estimation of their own worth than is warranted by their poor performance and tin ears.
Let's get Micky Mouse to comment on Pluto and other Disney characters ... he'd be a darned sight more knowledgeable, informative and genuine than Kenneally.
No one should direct that the Country cgange its culture.
In fact the culture was better before immigration from the 70s.
We should be proud of our culture, not aim to lose it.
Good to see she is focussing on production, the economy, and hard work.
Sorry - first sentence - 'change its culture'.
The best thing Kristina Keneally can do for Australia is get on a boat and go back to Canada better still take a plane, it's faster. She stuffed up New South Wales and they got rid of her. Cut her off at the knees before she does any more damage. She may know something about Moose and Beaver hunting but definitely not Australian politics. Australia don't be conned as New South Wales was for a short period. Cheers Jacka.
Yes, Jacka both you and Mick have addressed this subject 'spot on'
Keneally is typical of the political 'Woke': smug, conceited and self-entitled, with no expertise or credible life achievements at all and riding on the crest of a wave to further her own selfish ambition.
Lives in Hunters Hill and does not intend to meet the rest of Australia.
Keneally is an example of why we should be wary of immigration. When she emigrated to Australia from Canada how did she pass the necessary interogation.She shold be sent back home for intention of altering our culture.
No political leader is a good leader if they do not follow the wishes of the majority of Australians. KK does NOT qualify for leadership. No where near.
She doesn't qualify for migration.
Keneally exhibits all the worst of Marxist, leftie, ALP social engineering and cultural cringe - except when it comes to her pay packet.
Anything remotely Australian must be changed, expunged and history rewritten.
No one should listen to a word that this serial failure says.
Precisely.
We can’t afford to have higher immigration until we address infrastructure. It saddens me that Labor appear to have learned little from the election results.
With a front bench like Albo's, Labor can kiss the next election goodbye.
Ms Keneally is the beneficiary of Men. She was never elected into the NSW Premiereship, she got it through the interference of Labor henchmen who subsequently landed in jail for corruption. She lost the next election in a landslide. She was then attempted to be parachuted into Mr Howard's seat of Benelong and lost again. So she was then picked by Mr Shorten as a senator - didn't have to face the electorate for that. Now not one but two men have stood aside so she could be given the cabinet position AND the deputy leader of the senate position. And this is the woman who stood in the NSW Parliament and emphatically stated "I am nobody's 'girl'!" Seems to me she is everybody's girl!
Mr Dutton was quite right, anyone less qualified for her job would be very hard to find.
Can I say that this Country s divisiv. Not united.
We have Keneally going on about 'culture', and the NSW part aboriginals refusing the National Anthem.
None of that is progressive or uniting..
Send her to Sudan to take a good look at what happens when you increase your population from 15 million to 42 million in 40 years.
It'll be a cultural change alright if we end up with 40 or 50 million sometime soon.
I'm already over it. Too many rising costs and no benefits that I can see.
Even talk of water rationing raises my anger levels to boiling point.
And I had my pension cut by $10 000 because we need to help strangers from overcrowded nations.
Enough already.
Too many blow ins from all over the planet in our Parliament with no idea of Australian culture.
Kristina Keneally is nothing but a failed politician from the NSW Government and seeing she cannot suck the teat there, she has gone in the Federal politics.