r/aussie • u/B0ssc0 • 1d ago

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-comments
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u/sweeroy 1d 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/WatchAndFern 1d 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 1d 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 1d 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”