Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (NT, Country Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence Industry) Share this | Hansard source

Our nation's housing crisis can't be discussed in isolation from last weekend's events. Thousands of Australians took to the streets to march, with the Australian national flag in hand. Shamefully, members of the government and members of the Greens have sought to mischaracterise these marches and impugn the character of those who marched.

The Minister for Multicultural Affairs described the marchers as 'blatantly racist' and having an 'anti-immigration agenda'. Senator Faruqi expediently used the marches to again voice her anti-Westernism and her deranged view that Australians are inherently racist. She said:

Racism is the foundation of settler colonial states.

This is from the same senator who gleefully stood in front of a placard calling for the extermination of Israel; the same senator who has attended antisemitic rallies where protesters waved terrorist flags; and the same senator who condones the barbarity of Hamas, who are the actual Neo-Nazis of the Middle East. Even the Prime Minister said the tone of much of the rallies was 'unfortunate'.

Much of the Left media imbibed and repeated these misrepresentations, again exposing their abandonment of journalistic objectivity. But Australians can see through the false narratives. The vast majority of people who attended those marches are proud and decent Australians who love our country. They marched because they have legitimate concerns—concerns about the impacts of unprecedented mass migration under the Albanese government, and concerns about ruptures to our social cohesion because mass migration has opened the door to people who reject our values. The majority who marched weren't antimigrant or racist. In fact, many who marched were clearly of a migrant background, and they sang our national anthem in solidarity with those around them.

These Australians simply want an end to uncontrolled, unplanned—