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When did normal become ‘far-right’?

The valid concerns of Australians have been wrongly branded as radicalisation by politicians and the press

31 August 2026

11:00 PM

31 August 2026

11:00 PM

As an older member of Generation X, I was born only 25 years after the end of the second world war and hence, grew up in the shadow of the Holocaust. As I remember it, the far-right used to be filled with antisemites, largely blonde or bald, often with buzz cut hairstyles, and likely sporting one of about five different tattoos. The sort of people you looked away from in the pub. In fact, if you looked somewhat ethnic, as I did, you left.

Today, far-right is apparently anybody who disagrees with the Prime Minister. Raise concerns about migration, ethnicity, or religion and you risk being treated not as someone to be answered, but as someone on a conveyor belt to extremism.

In fact, we can be a lot more specific than that. When I investigated the issue, many Western countries where the ruling elites have indulged in mass migration have seen a massive increase in rape, yet the entire topic is taboo. I wouldn’t even know had I not investigated for myself.

England and Wales remain the true standout. Police records of rape have shown the crime surge from the low thousands in the early 2000s to over 70,000 in recent years. The grooming gang scandals, where young English girls were racially targeted by groups overwhelmingly of Pakistani heritage, exposed not just the crimes but the alleged institutional cover-ups driven by fear of offending communities.

Home Office Police Recorded Crime data

I could produce similarly frightening statistics for Scotland, Australia, Victoria at a state level, France or Sweden. Sweden, in particular, has taken the very wise choice to record the ethnicity of the perpetrator, which is essential for accurate management. Surprisingly, rape statistics are one of the few statistical areas that comes with an army of apologists trying to say that it’s really not as bad as it looks.

Spoilers: it is. Even counting the #MeToo effect, higher recording, and even changes in the law.

Discussing this isn’t far-right, it’s a reasonable concern of normal people. If my Indian Grandmother was aware of this situation, she would be asking questions too. But somewhere along the line, we stopped caring about rape. It is one of the most astounding developments in modernity.


Concerns over the rise in antisemitism is also, apparently, something that the ‘far-right’ are concerned by. Even after a terrorist attack, our own Prime Minister was often reluctant to use the term Islamic Terrorism. Unfortunately, there are no reliable official statistics on the rise on antisemitic crimes. The National Hate Crimes Database counts 47 for all of 2025, while the Executive Council of Australian Jewry counts 1654. With such a disparate range in play questions must be asked about formal standards of proof and the usefulness of such data in combating this ancient scourge.

In something that young people might find surprising, antisemitism is not only the province of the far-left. In the months since the Bondi Massacre of Jews, the Department of Home Affairs 2024-25 Migration Trends profiles Pakistan as a top-ten source country for skilled and family visas, alongside Afghanistan and Syria under the humanitarian stream.

Again, it is not an extremist position to ask why the Albanese regime continues to bring in high numbers of migrants from countries where antisemitic sentiment is not only rife, it is commonplace.

Asking why this has happened isn’t far-right, it’s a reasonable concern of normal people. It is particularly relevant when the Arabian Gulf states have shown us clearly what a guest worker program can achieve. And importantly, I have worked as part of guest worker programs in the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Each time with zero likelihood of citizenship.

Since the massacre of Jews on October 7, 2023, the Albanese regime has piled sanctions on Israel, sanctions on Cabinet Ministers (June 2025), and sanctions on West Bank settlers (July 2024 & June 2026). Australia has also broken with its traditional voting bloc (the United States) at the UN to support a series of resolutions rebuking Israel starting from December 2024, and continues to fund UNRWA despite Israel identifying more than 1,400 UNRWA employees (roughly 12 per cent of its Gaza workforce) who held concurrent dual roles as active members of Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Meanwhile, the Australian government has not imposed sanctions, cut trade, or taken formal punitive actions against the Nigerian government regarding the violence targeting Christian populations in the country. This is targeted violence aimed at the extinguishment of one ethnic group. Yet the UN, without any media scrutiny, will not label it a genocide. Indeed, Australia has recently received Ambassador Femi Pedro (the former Deputy Governor of Lagos State), in Canberra as the Nigerian High Commissioner to Australia on June 23, 2026. Perhaps if our Prime Minister wasn’t such an irrelevant diplomatic player we would have Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu visit us just as he did the UK under Prime Minister Keir Starmer in March 2026.

Having an opinion about this situation isn’t far-right, it’s a reasonable concern of normal people. Especially when atrocities are being permitted in their name.

You couldn’t see it happening under Bob Hawke, could you?

Lastly, and most importantly, we know where this is headed. Thanks to Google’s YouTube and Elon Musk’s X we can all see what is happening in the UK. For now, anyway. We can all see the clear cases of two-tier policing, the ongoing horrors rolling out of Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry, the brutal death of Henry Nowak, who, by all reports, had a bright future ahead of him, and the attempted beheading in the streets of Northern Ireland allegedly by a 30-year-old Sudanese asylum seeker.

Each one of these carries horrific details the likes of which we would not have dealt with before the advent of mass migration.

We have somehow slipped under governments whose ideological imperatives consistently outweigh mounting evidence from the UK and Europe. And like the UK and Europe we are defenceless to do anything to stop it. No recall elections, petitions, citizen-initiated referendums, not even a Bill of Rights. Nothing.

Asking why the media isn’t sounding the alarm isn’t ‘far-right’, at this stage, it’s a survival impulse. In fact, the deeper question is why the media seems to be silent about the proven impacts of importing cultures that are historically and provably hostile to our own.

And just in case there was anybody left who still thought we lived in a democracy, ask yourself how a party with a primary vote of 32.58 per cent could drag us to the brink of being permanently divided by race.

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