Australian foreign minister rejects ‘monoculture’ call
Wong will argue multiculturalism strengthens Australia’s resilience and raises the cost of coercion, with 73% of Australians still viewing diversity positively, a Lowy Institute poll found.
- Foreign Minister Penny Wong delivers a speech Friday at the Lowy Institute, arguing that calls for a "monocultural" Australia weaken national security and threaten the nation's resilience.
- One Nation leader Pauline Hanson initiated the debate in June, claiming Australia faces a crisis due to immigration and calling for a "monocultural" society to address the perceived issue.
- While 55 per cent of Australians surveyed feel migration levels are "too high," 73 per cent still view diversity as "entirely" or "mostly" positive, according to a recent Lowy Institute poll.
- Wong asserts diversity strengthens economic resilience, citing how diplomatic ties with Singapore, South Korea, and China secured energy supplies after the Strait of Hormuz closed this year.
- Fuelling social division makes Australia vulnerable to disinformation from "external" forces, Wong warns, arguing that isolationism leaves the nation "lonely in a dangerous world.
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Australian foreign minister rejects monoculture call
Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Penny Wong in a speech yesterday defended multiculturalism as “the only Australia that has ever existed,” pushing back against the ascendant far-right One Nation party.Malaysian-born Wong warned against “external and internal forces” seeking to divide the count
Australian foreign minister rejects 'monoculture' call
SYDNEY: Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong will defend multiculturalism as "the only Australia that has ever existed" in a speech on Friday (Aug 13) pushing back against the ascendant far-right One Nation party.
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ussanews.comThe Militant Monoculture of Multiculturalism
Foreign Minister Penny Wong will reportedly use the annual Gyngell Lecture at the Lowy Institute in Sydney to warn that “monoculturalism” poses a threat to Australia’s national security, which is ironic, given that the argument would inadvertently expose the monocultural assumption underpinning multiculturalism itself.If the government has to warn Australians against thinking in “monocultural” terms, then it’s necessarily asserting that there’s …
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