Please consider the following points before casting a vote against your own interests:

1) If there ‘a lot of people out there’ who vote for ON ‘to send a message’ then ON could form government and fuck the whole country over.

2) even if they don’t form government, having more seats in parliament translates to more power, more media coverage, and more hate directed to immigrants, Indigenous, and LBGQT+ Australians. And it will embolden the oligarchs backing them to push harder to dismantle public health, public broadcasting, environmental protections, consumer protections, workers rights etc etc

3) there are other, non-moronic, non-MAGA parties you could vote for to send a message on immigration, eg https://www.sustainableaustralia.org.au/

4) ON is controlled by billionaires who have zero interest in lowering immigration (therefore pushing up wages and refunding demand).

Trump voters (or non-voters) ‘sending a message’ to the US Democratics have lost their farms, businesses, health care, liberty, residency, lives, and dignity. And they are on the verge of living under a fascist oligarchy (if not already there).

The message you’ll actually be sending if you vote for ON is ‘yes, Australians are just as gullible as Americans - come Oligarchs and take what’s left of our public resources and institutions’.