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The Liberals still don’t get it: demography is destiny. And by supporting massive non-Western immigration, the Liberals are continuing to cut their own throat with an imported knife (not to mention destroying the historic Australian nation and people in the process).
Bennelong’s shift from a safe Liberal seat to a Labor electorate was largely due to the electorate’s shifting ethnic makeup. When John Howard was first elected as the member for Bennelong, it was a typical Anglo-Australian area. By the time he was kicked out, Bennelong had become home to an above-average number of non-English-speaking, foreign-born, Asian voters – a natural constituency for the left.
Peter Wilkinson, editor of the quarterly The Independent Australian, examined Howard’s desperate and ultimately futile attempts to woo the Asian (mainly Chinese) vote in his interesting book “The Howard Legacy”, which was published shortly before the 2007 federal election. Essentially, the stupid old fool woke up one day and discovered that one-fifth of his electorate was now Chinese, largely thanks to his own government’s immigration policies.
Wilkinson quotes the following extract from a letter that was sent out from Howard’s office to all families in Bennelong with Chinese-sounding surnames:
“I am deeply honoured and priviledged to represent an electorate which is diverse and vibrant. The Chinese community has a well-deserved reputation for strong family values and enterprise which is widely admired.
My Government continues to build on our nation’s strengths through immigration policies which balance our need for skills and family reunion considerations, and encourage overseas students in Australia completing their tertiary education to apply for permanent residency.”
The spectacle of the mighty John Winston Howard, once a critic of multiculturalism and large-scale Asian immigration, obsequiously pandering to the “Chinese community” would have been almost humorous if it weren’t for the fact that the national interest was at stake.
As Wilkinson notes, our national immigration policy was essentially being held hostage to the re-election concerns of the prime minister.
Of course, the delicious irony is that the Howard Government’s preferential treatment of Chinese immigrants only accelerated the buildup of Chinese in Bennelong, thereby ensuring the permanent shift of this once safe Liberal seat to the ALP.