Snap out of it, Shaun Carney, One Nation may have had two byelection victories but they still only hold six of the 226 seats in federal parliament (“The radical is becoming normal under Hanson.
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radical → snap → Hanson
If you’re not worried, you should be”, September 17).
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you → ’re → ?
Australians have a long history of cheering on the stirrer and the larrikin, but when push comes to shove we are a conservative lot and we don’t make the boofhead the boss.
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boofhead → have → stirrer
One Nation certainly has no solutions to our current cost-of-living pressures – lots of noise, no substance.
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Nation → have → noise
Come election day, Australians will always vote for those offering solutions, not simply for a megaphone of ill-informed discontent.
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Australians → Come → discontent
Barry Ffrench, Cronulla
One Nation represents a political ideology that claims there is always a simple solution, and that solution has no adverse consequences.
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solution → represent → consequences
Most people see through the fairy tale and the party never gets into power.
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party → see → power
Once in a generation, however, propaganda swamps common sense and such people do get into power.
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people → swamp → power
A period of turmoil follows as a new generation learns the simplistic approach is bogus.
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approach → follow → turmoil
They are voted out and we return to normal.
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we → vote → ?
I wonder if we are approaching such a generational revelation.
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we → wonder → revelation
I can rely on you to lift my spirits by reaffirming that the quiet majority of folk will speak out for the marginalised and sidelined with decency and fairness.
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majority → rely → decency
I cannot believe the mainly free ride Pauline Hanson gets in too much media due to the influence of her powerful mates.
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Hanson → believe → mates
That is not how it used to be.
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it → use → ?
We need to call out these subversive attacks on social cohesion wherever they occur, including on social media.
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they → need → media
The rules that apply in TV, radio and newsprint must apply to AI content and all content contributors should be compensated (Letters, September 16).
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contributors → apply → content
The migration hysteria created by One Nation and the response from Labor and the Coalition misses the point, namely the benefits of our policy over the past 250 years (“Politicians’ rethink on immigration demands sober analysis”, September 17).
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rethink → create → analysis
First, it is migration that has moved us from a minor to a middle power.
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that → move → power
Second, it has made us probably the most successful multicultural nation worldwide and one of the most peaceful.
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us → make → peaceful
Like so many Western nations, natural population growth in Australia has stalled, but migration has kept the numbers up.
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migration → stall → numbers
Perhaps more important is the fact that without migrants, who are mainly young, ready to work and become parents, Australia’s average age would have risen sharply, making us a nation of retirees with fewer workers.
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us → work → workers
The importance of migrants for our universities, one of our biggest export industries, and as backpackers to work in our fields, has been well publicised, but perhaps we should also recognise that these largely temporary migrants are mostly great ambassadors for Australia when they return to their homelands.
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they → work → homelands
Finally, laying aside hidden racism, it is important to acknowledge that most migrants, whatever their nation or creed, are young, determined and resourceful.
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nation → lay → racism
They have to endure the difficulties of getting here and fitting into a new, different society.
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They → have → society
Australia needs them just as much as they need us.
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they → need → us
Andrew Caro, Greenwich
Labor can’t afford to cave in to political pressure over visa numbers as the stakes are too high (“Burke’s warning on Australia becoming a guest worker economy”, September 17).
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Australia → afford → economy
One Nation is a xenophobic, divisive party and has no integrity.
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Nation → have → integrity
Pauline Hanson throws ideas and numbers into the air and calls them policies.
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Hanson → throw → them
The Coalition is on death’s door, struggling to survive, and can’t be relied on to make rational decisions.
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Coalition → struggle → decisions
Surely, if the pre-2015 visa system worked it should at least be given another try, before making drastic decisions on the fly.
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it → work → fly
Graham Lum, North Rocks
Tony Burke is quite correct in saying that without immigrants our hospitals would close.
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hospitals → say → immigrants
I know from personal experience that, without Filipina nurses, my stays in hospital and rehabilitation wards would have been impossible.
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stays → know → wards
My mother was born in New Zealand and my wife is German.
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wife → bear → Zealand
Bondi is populated by many people born outside Australia and, living in Dover Heights, the majority of my neighbours are immigrants.
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majority → populate → neighbours
It is high time Hanson and Joyce examined their own ancestors and quit their criticism of migrants – they too are descended from them.
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they → examine → them
While we are talking about overall visa numbers, no one seems to worry about the temporary protection visa (TPV) of about 34,000 people who have been languishing for decades, paying taxes and applying every six months for renewal for their TPV, under the continual threat of deportation.
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who → talk → deportation
These are legitimate refugees whom the government has a responsibility to settle.
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government → have → responsibility
Australia should rightly take 20,000 refugees on humanitarian grounds, but it should not penalise TPV holders.
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it → take → holders
If they have no criminal records, the government should bite the bullet and give them permanent residency.
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government → have → residency
Australians have a big heart and these hard-working, tax-paying TPV holders deserve better than being demonised.
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holders → have → better
…and 59 more, not listed.
The Aporia
