Election 2022: The Multicult Rides Again! By James Reed
All electoral comments written and authorised by by K. W. Grundy
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The media are pushing the non-Anglo-Saxon name of Albo as some sort of multicult selling point. 'Members of the Italian community are saying to me that they are going to vote Labor for the first time in their life because they want an Australia that reflects modern Australia,' Mr Albanese said.
'I have a non-Anglo-Celtic name, and so does our Senate leader as well. I think it send a message out there hopefully to multicultural Australia that you can achieve anything in this country.'
So, Anglos do not reflect modern Australia? See, if this is not the Great Replacement, what is? Anglo Saxon elites, in their foolish universalism have done their best to displace themselves, something no other ethnic group in history has done, all of which have pursued ethnic interests, like voting for one of their own kind. It would be interesting to know exactly what gene is responsible for what Garrett Hardin called promiscuous altruism and ethno-suicide. In any case with the Labor government we will be given the next level of multicult outpouring, with all the pent-up energy from the Covid lockdowns coming in policies that will stagger the conservative imagination.
“Anthony Albanese said he reflected modern Australia after being asked for his thoughts on potentially being the first Australian PM with an Italian name.
The Opposition leader appeared in Gladstone to visit an oil refinery where he announced Labor's plans to construct an Australian battery manufacturing industry.
A reporter referred to ex-PM Paul Keating's 1996 comment that: 'When you change the government, you change the country'.
'You will be the first Italian Australian to win and Ed Husic will be the first Muslim Australian in the cabinet. Have you thought about how that will change the country?'
Mr Albanese replied that he was 'heartened' by his support from Australians with foreign heritage.
'Members of the Italian community are saying to me that they are going to vote Labor for the first time in their life because they want an Australia that reflects modern Australia,' Mr Albanese said.
'I have a non-Anglo-Celtic name, and so does our Senate leader as well. I think it send a message out there hopefully to multicultural Australia that you can achieve anything in this country.'
He also pointed out he the raft of popular Premiers with foreign names including Annastacia Palaszczuk in Queensland, ex-Premier Gladys Berejiklian of NSW and Steve Bracks of Victoria who is of Lebanese descent.
'A fellow called Peter Malinauskas just got elected in South Australia.'
'I think it's a very positive thing.'
Mr Albanese was born and raised in Sydney by his single mother Maryanne Ellery in public housing.
She had told him his father had died in a car crash after they had met overseas and wed, but when he was 15-years old she revealed a different story.
'We sat down just after dinner one night and she, it was very traumatic for her, I think, to tell me that in fact that wasn't the case, that my father might still be alive,' he previously told 7.30.
'She'd met him overseas, fallen pregnant with me, had told him and he had said, basically, that he was betrothed to someone from the town in Italy where he was from,' he said.
Maryanne had adopted his father's name, worn engagement and wedding rings, and Mr Albanese believed it was because of the guilt she felt as a Catholic woman with a child out of marriage in the 1960s.
Several decades later after having his own son, he made the decision to track his father down with the help of Carnival Cruises boss Ann Sherry - whose company had bought the cruise business through which the pair met.
He eventually met his father in the Italian town of Barletta and discovered he had a half brother and sister.
'The bell rung ... and the door opened, he walked in and opened his arms to me and we embraced.'
He has since returned to Italy on several occasions to meet his extended Italian family.
Mr Albanese's father Carlo died in 2014.
The Opposition leader was in Gladstone as Labor tries to win the seat of Flynn held by a margin of more than 7 per cent by the Coalition.
While fronting press there, he also slammed Prime Minister Scott Morrison for shunning the ABC during the election campaign.
Mr Morrison was subjected to a tough grilling by 7.30's Leigh Sales in early April - days out from calling the election - but has since largely steered clear of the national broadcaster.
'I cannot believe that the national Prime Minister will be the first one during a campaign who has not appeared on any ABC programs,' Mr Albanese said.”
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