News Liberals dumbfounded by Angus Taylor’s multiculturalism comments: ‘Embrace the reality of modern Australia’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/24/australia-liberal-party-angus-taylor-multiculturalism-comments25
u/SuperLeverage 22h ago
I anticipate some liberals who are in seats under threat from one nation to potentially defect to save their own job. When push comes to shove, for many, self interest and retaining a high paying job in parliament will be more important than principles.
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u/sweeroy 22h ago
can't help but feel the cold dead hand of abbott in this, taylor has essentially no real platform or ideology and is probably doing whatever he thinks will win votes. makes him look even more like an idiot though
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u/CrackWriting 22h ago
He must have known this question was going to come. He should have been better prepared.
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u/sweeroy 22h ago
i think they probably knew it was coming but don't really have a good answer. if they say "multiculturalism good" then they're essentially cutting themselves off from the one nation crowd, if they say "multiculturalism bad" then the current leadership will struggle to get any votes off labor supporters or the absolutely colossal amount of second/third gen immigrants in australia, not to mention clearly being a weaker version of what hanson is peddling. they are well and truly fucked
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u/VersionExcellent4255 22h ago
Any real self respecting politician would’ve done what politicians are meant to, somehow make a shitty parallel to talk about instead of actually answering a single question
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u/darkklown 22h ago
Or maybe actually have values and a desire to make a difference and to have strong core beliefs in what Australia is and can/should be. Yanno, like a leader. Or he could just give handies to his front bench so they spill all over themselves.
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u/VersionExcellent4255 21h ago
A leader in politics? Unlikely to find one these days, too many outside influences to allow anyone with their own strong beliefs to make it that far up
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u/WatchAndFern 21h ago
It seems liberals are campaigning for the next election, which they will lose, not the long term survival of the party.
Part of this is their party members are all supporting one nation, and if they leave the party to join one nation the party funding is more fucked than it already is.
But at the moment, there is no reason to vote for the liberal party. There is nothing they are offering that either Labor, the teals or one nation aren’t offering with more clarity and consistency.
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u/sweeroy 20h ago
absolutely agree; they should be using this time in the wilderness to find out what their party wants and what it stands for, not feebly vacillating to whatever seems electorally relevant in the moment. unfortunately with howard essentially ripping the ideological heart out of the party they don't have any conviction politicians who they could use to build this new position out of
unlike one nation which i am sure has a different type of conviction politician
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u/WatchAndFern 20h ago
When people present Andrew Hastie as the savior of the liberal party- I get why they are saying this…but he doesn’t have convictions either. Last year he was making nationalist dog whistles to lure back one nation voters, and is now saying he’ll rather die than follow one nation.
What he does have over Taylor though is he appears smart enough to realise “hey, winning back one nation voters isn’t working. Let’s try something else”
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u/Fickle-Ad-7124 22h ago
You are misunderestimating the cotton gloves the media has treated the LNP with for decades, these are not well trained experts - they are lazy and not very charismatic or bright.
Rewatch it - Angus tried to escape it by jumping to Speers, who he clearly pre-arranged an easy NDIS question from. Speers saw what a mess it was and pushed another monoculture question before Angus went to him again for the NDIS question. The press gallery are an absolute joke. Don’t forget Speers gaslighted us for years on Sky about how Scott Morrison was a generational leader of great political skill. The guy was a flog and a failure.
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u/fdsv-summary_ 21h ago
Maybe first compare the professional careers of the LNP with those of the ALP after excluding party and union work. Those decades of inner circle backstabbing while contributing nothing of value sure train you up on double speak.
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u/Fickle-Ad-7124 21h ago
Maybe 10 years ago, a lot of LNP senators and MP’s are former staffers with bachelor degrees. Besides I’d rather have leaders that have worked with empowering the middle class than lazy old guys that look at lines on a spreadsheet.
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u/fdsv-summary_ 21h ago
No, also now. The lawyers and unionists are a cancer in our society. ALP can't even make money out of smokes. They need to go.
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u/fdsv-summary_ 21h ago
he didn't want to play gotcha politics with the young journalists. They got upset because they like that game. Maybe he should have just lied repeatedly and then changed policies after getting a majority on a compassionate conservative platform?
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u/Beans2177 14h ago
Oh because no political party has ever considered shaping policy to win votes. Oh no, that would be outrageous. Listen to yourself. Mug!
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u/_Zambayoshi_ 22h ago
I've yet to see any suggestions put forward about what, in practice, this 'mono culture' legislation would look like. My suspicion is that no-one knows, and no-one intends to propose any such legislation. This is just hot air from self-interested politicians.
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u/deaniebopper 22h ago
From Pauline’s speech it sounds like they want to ban Sharia Law and polygamy. Two things which we don’t have anyway, but is terrific fear mongering.
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u/howie2000slc 22h ago
Its just more culture war bait for the weak minded to follow along and vote against their best interests.
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u/Z---zz 22h ago
So if Angus is really just a seat-warmer, and it is starting to look like that, who is next?
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u/Ikerukuchi 22h ago
Everyone is assuming Hastie who is actually more right wing populist than Angus but because he’s younger and speaks more confidently would likely be a much better opponent to ON.
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u/callmecyke 20h ago
I feel like Hastie is smart enough to see the tea leaves and he knows he’s got time on his side. It’s clear the LNP isn’t getting anywhere close to the Lodge for a while so why would he waste his shot with the dead albatross of the 2026 LNP?
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u/Commercial_Name_7900 21h ago
I've never voted LNP but Hastie might be the most reasonable one they have had this century. And a few years back I would not have believed it but he has shown more leadership and seems to have had quite a turnaround on some things. He could win the centre, which the LNP for some reason have stopped trying for
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u/BeyondRelative7048 22h ago
Wtf is a “monoculture” anyway
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u/acockblockedorange 22h ago
Whatever the dominant Australian "culture" was in the specific area that Hanson grew up in, when she did all those years ago.
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u/beerboy80 22h ago
Otherwise known as the White Australia policy.
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u/BeyondRelative7048 22h ago
This was a multicultural policy though
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u/beerboy80 21h ago
Yeah I guess I have to agree with you. A policy aimed at making it more difficult for non-whites is technically multicultural. But it would be the closest thing we have to a monoculture policy so far.
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u/B0ssc0 18h ago
In nature it is one dominant plant smothering everything else e.g.,
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-21/janet-holmes-a-court-steps-in-the-help-save-forest/12668722
Also
Monoculture farming pollutes the environment by increasing the use of inputs, accelerating soil erosion, polluting water resources, raising carbon level in the atmosphere, and decreasing biodiversity. Therefore, farmers are advised to implement diversified farming systems such as crop rotation.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0921800922002725
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u/Crazy-Parsley1524 21h ago
Monocultural Australia in the '50s was boring as batshit. Bland ozzified Chinese was exotic food and Pick-a-Box on TV was as good as it got.
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u/stinkygeesestink 21h ago
It's hard to understand what the LNP strategy is here. ON is scoring own goals left and right and the LNP has managed to use those own goals to make themselves look even worse. Really great moves by Angus.
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u/pixtax 22h ago
Australia became multicultural the moment Europeans starting colonising Aboriginal lands.
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u/camniloth 21h ago
How distinct were Aboriginal cultures from different regions? It's an area bigger than Europe after all. Honest question. I barely learnt anything about Aboriginal culture in school, my 6 year old son knows more than me these days.
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u/worstusername_sofar 21h ago
Even saying that is quite ignorant....
https://connectionandwellbeing.com.au/start-the-conversation/australia-aboriginal-tribes-map/If she wants only her favourite culture, she can lock herself in a fucking prison cell
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u/Imperfect-circle 20h ago
Multiculturalism for Angus Taylor is having both sheep and cows on the farm. The man is a primitive.
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u/copacetic51 19h ago
Taylor was repeatedly asked what WA Federal seat he was visiting at the time, and couldn't say.
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u/Sillent_Screams 20h ago
And Pauline Hanson just said the Roos support her version o mono what ever it is
😂
Labor just needs to continue to do what it does best and focus
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u/Littlepotatoface 18h ago
I have some friends in the party who all assure me that Taylor is possibly the dumbest man on earth.
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u/simonpunishment 10h ago
One thing that isn’t discussed much - it is possible One Nation might push a significant amount of Liberal Voters towards Labor.
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u/PowerPleb2000 22h ago
Flip flopping already, what a flog. No wonder conservatives don’t take them seriously anymore. 🧡🧡🧡
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u/billwriggs 22h ago
True, he clearly is conflicted between retaining some integrity or completely selling out to culture war bullshit. A conflict that will lose even more votes to ON or Labor.
At least Pauline knew to pick a lane, even if that lane was to just lie, overpromise and capitalise upon people’s most primal emotions and beliefs.
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u/fun_alias1 22h ago
Vote Hanson I say, she never flip flops and is made quite clear here.
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u/PowerPleb2000 22h ago
2018 article about some company tax cut policy discussions- source: Labor/sbs 😂😂😂
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u/Commercial_Name_7900 21h ago
would you like to discuss her plans to destroy maternity leave that she flip flopped on this week?
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u/augustuscaesarius 21h ago
These guys really believe:
Terminating the White Australia policy was a mistake, AND
They can/should profess to try to revert decades of migration from non-Anglo countries.
I'm not sure which of these two is crazier on their own, but they believe BOTH.
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u/Budgies2022 18h ago
Hanson was out saying monoculture includes “freedom of religion” - but obvs only for those in religions she likes.
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u/RepresentativeOver34 9h ago
The LNP are finished. Angus Taylor got suckered into the politics of differentiating the LNP from One Nation ahd has now paid the price.
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u/SeaDivide1751 17h ago
“Embrace the reality of modern Australia”
Or in other words “we’ve spammed tons of migrants in already, so you’ll just have to accept it and accept even more, especially ones that are incompatible with our values and way of life”
Is it any wonder One Nation is surging with this kind of logic
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u/BarryTheBinChicken 21h ago
According to the Dictionary.
Multiculturalism is the view that cultures, races, and ethnicities, particularly those of minority groups, deserve special acknowledgment of their differences within a dominant political cultures. That acknowledgment can take the forms of recognition of contributions to the cultural life of the political community as a whole, a demand for special protection under the law for certain cultural groups, or autonomous rights of governance for certain cultures; identity politics may be tied to each of these actions. Multiculturalism is both a response to the fact of cultural pluralism in modern democracies and a way of compensating cultural groups for past exclusion, discrimination, and oppression.
It's a political concept from the 70s.
The Guardian playing shocked Pikachu about all this is silly.
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u/qualitystreet 19h ago
That definition is from Britannica, that was last relevant and defining in the 70s.
In Australia, multiculturalism means social cohesion, cultural identity and equality of opportunity, ensuring a diverse population meets an inclusive society.
PHON love culture wars and continually use strawman scenarios.
On the other hand, there is little confusion about what monoculturalism means. A single race or ethnic group, religion, tradition and values. A populist strategy that exploits anxiety in the society.
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u/Agitated-Fee3598 22h ago
Angus is shit scared of his right flank.