One Nation is Encouraged by Some Aspects of Tony Abbott's Australia Day Speech

One Nation is encouraged by some views expressed by Tony Abbott in his Australia Day speech.

When he said "the inescapable minimum that we insist upon is obedience to the law" and "It would help to bolster public support for immigration and acceptance of social diversity if more minority leaders were as ready to show to mainstream Australian values the respect they demand for their own" most Australians, and the party that represents them, One Nation, will say "spot on".

When he said "existing and planned infrastructure can hardly cope with the present population let alone the additional 14 million (almost entirely due to immigration) that the Prime Minister expects by 2050" and "the rise of ethnic gangs and perceptions of ethnic street crime threaten the community understanding that migration should be overwhelmingly a net benefit" they'll say "spot on" again.

What jarred though was ''John Howard's declaration about Australians controlling who comes to this country resonated because it struck most people as self-evidently and robustly true …" as when Pauline Hanson said "if I can invite whom I want into my home, then I should have the right to have a say in who comes into my country" he did his best to have One Nation scuttled.

It also jars that he should compare the former member of the extremist Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Sheik Hilaly, who former Labor Immigration Minister, Chris Hurford, tried to deport, to the much-respected Archbishop Mannix. Just the day before 3000 Egyptian Copts had demonstrated peacefully in Sydney (completely ignored by the mainstream media) against the murder. kidnap, rape and forced marriage inflicted on the Christian minority in Egypt by islamic extremists. Coincidentally Fairfield Council in Sydney has just allowed the establishment on public land of a memorial to the genocide of Assyrian Christians by islamic extremists in Turkey. Unfortunately for the multiculturalists it's a fact many people have fled to our peaceful shores because they know from bitter experience that multiculturalism doesn't work.

If this signals a possible about turn on policy by the Liberal Party, following their about turn on the ETS, One Nation welcomes it and hopes it is followed by an about turn on other policies like free trade on which the Liberals are at present equally misguided.