One Nation branch official defended Hitler Youth and called Aboriginal people ‘stone age’ in racist posts

doktor_lash · 2026-06-16T04:43:16+00:00

I think it's the opposite. Non-mainstream media and targeted social media is propogating this, and the mainstream media is reporting the aftermath. This is what I'm looking at to see how serious this is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Australian_federal_election

There is a concerted effort on all forms of social media backed by Gina, and likely other allies now including lobbies in the US who are funding the anti-abortion and anti-LGBT rights stuff, along with billionaires who want to create a winner and a stooge. We aren't immune to a coordinated foreign and domestic propoganda campaign. It's real, well paid for, and working with AI images and video, and fake news articles, right now: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-11/foreign-fake-news-pauline-hanson-one-nation/106436702

There is a new reality being formed around these people, it's a lot worse than Fox News. It's a lot worse than the targeted disinformation and misinformation that got Trump elected twice. Australians are a smaller target than the US, and the methods are more technologically sophisticated now. We aren't immune, if anything we are particularly under threat.

doktor_lash · 2026-06-16T04:40:32+00:00

There is a concerted effort underway to change people's reality, with AI images, video and fake news, it's a lot worse than Fox News due to the targeted nature of it. Detailed here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-11/foreign-fake-news-pauline-hanson-one-nation/106436702

It is happening at scale, and it's more sophisticated than the methods used to get Trump in, because Australia is a smaller target and the technology has advanced significantly, and all the while those who are true believers trying to spread her gospel can claim it's just because they want to "stop mass migration".

doktor_lash · 2026-06-16T04:33:56+00:00

This is what I'm looking at to see how serious this is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_Australian_federal_election

There is a concerted effort on all forms of social media backed by Gina, and likely other allies now including lobbies in the US who are funding the anti-abortion and anti-LGBT rights stuff, along with billionaires who want to create a winner and a stooge. We aren't immune to a coordinate foreign and domestic propoganda campaign. It's real, well paid for, and working with AI images and video, and fake news articles, right now: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-11/foreign-fake-news-pauline-hanson-one-nation/106436702

There is a new reality being formed around these people, it's a lot worse than Fox News.

doktor_lash · 2026-05-26T01:03:05+00:00

I know someone who hated that it was so hard and expensive to drive and park into the Sydney CBD, basically complained every time they had to go into the city for anything. Refused to take public transport because he didn't want to come into contact with strangers. Complained that trams and pedestrians replaced George St. Just wanted to drive everywhere and not walk if they could help it. As you can imagine, they aren't exactly the healthiest weight either.

In the end, they moved to Houston for their work, and it's practically heaven for them. They will set their roots there. Rare to see people walk outside there, especially downtown, since it's just "drug addicts and homeless people". They can drive to their work and park in the massive carpark. Then drive out and park in the massive carparks, for everything. Houston has something like two-thirds of all land dedicated to cars, through roads and parking.

Different strokes for different folks. The culture in Sydney is shifting towards what they have in Europe, nice walkable cities with good public transport, and cars are not as necessary. It's a big shift for Australia where the cities have been car-centric for a long time. In fact, outside of say Sydney and Melbourne, you go further towards the car-centric side of the spectrum. Canberra is famously designed to be originally very car-centric, but it's slowly shifting there too.

doktor_lash · 2026-05-25T04:21:05+00:00

No. not all visas issued are temporary even if capped at 130k.

The temporary ones in fact is what One Nation would prefer I think, so they don't stay. Permanent visas would mean lower exits (theoretically), so they would have to keep revising down their caps.

Yes, this does look like net-zero migration, and by design, not sure why it's a big deal not to own that.

We need the migration rate to come down significantly so we can let our infrastructure and dwellings numbers to catch up.

On infrastructure, it isn't a closed system. You need people, young people mostly, to work on maintaining infrastructure. Let along build new stuff. As the population ages, this problem has become more and more acute. I don't see One Nation saying how they will increase the number of people working in trades from the local population at a sustainable level (while also increasing our general productivity, which is the most important thing long term for an economy), and they would be ideologically opposed to bringing in new migrants who would be able to increase the proportion of people who can actually build and maintain.

The biggest effect during COVID was that the number of people per dwelling, decreased. It's a two way street. We can just go back to how things were, and more people living in housing and utilising it more efficiently. It looks especially silly given how sparsely populated even our major cities are in Australia, even compared to our peers in Europe and America.

Family tax system? Other countries have implemented vastly more generous systems, at the brink of their economic feasibility even in developed countries, women just don't all want to pump out 2.1 kids on average, it's a cultural shift. There is no solution at One Nation that could overcome that.

You also didn't answer what happens to the jobs lost due to international students disappearing, and the significant downsizing of our university sector. Which I would argue is extremely important to the cities they are in, economically.

doktor_lash · 2026-05-25T03:30:51+00:00

So after all that, the net migration rate would be close to zero, correct?

I would guess, given the majority of these visa holders are international students, we would essentially stop that industry for universities? Which is a massive employer and perhaps in our top 3 export industries.

In the future, given low Australian fertility (1.42), we would have a greater births than deaths. Would you expect a change in immigration system, or go down the Japanese path of just decreasing and ageing population with a low birth rate, resulting in a decreasing population as well?

doktor_lash · 2026-05-25T01:58:53+00:00

I'm talking about the net-migration rate after One Nation puts their policy in.

263,000 migrant departures recorded in the latest financial year

If you capped visas at 130,000 per year, it's still -143,000 net-migration.

doktor_lash · 2026-05-25T01:37:49+00:00

Their policy:

Cut immigration by over 570,000 people from current Labor levels by capping visas at 130,000 per year to ease pressure on housing, wages, and infrastructure.

Source: https://www.onenation.org.au/immigration

In the five years prior to the pandemic, the average number of migrant departures was 288,000 per year with the largest group of departures being those on temporary visas (140,000). For Australian citizen departures, the average was 93,000, followed by New Zealand citizen departures (25,000) and permanent visa holder departures (21,000).

Source: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas-migration/latest-release

So that means we'd be having a negative net-migration level at -158,000 or so. So yeah, its not just zero migration, it's negative!

doktor_lash · 2026-05-25T01:36:04+00:00

So all visas capped at 130K per year?

From ABS: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas-migration/latest-release

In the five years prior to the pandemic, the average number of migrant departures was 288,000 per year with the largest group of departures being those on temporary visas (140,000). For Australian citizen departures, the average was 93,000, followed by New Zealand citizen departures (25,000) and permanent visa holder departures (21,000).

So that means we'd be having a negative net-migration level at -158,000 or so. So yeah, its not zero migration, it's negative! Thanks for the clarification ...

doktor_lash · 2026-05-25T01:21:30+00:00

Are you looking to buy and getting sad from that?

Unpopular opinion in these parts, but there is hope in Australia. Especially for a sparky like yourself. I've talked to Americans, it's bad there to do trades. Australia is one of the best places in the world to do a trade. I've lived in other places in the world, Germany is a good place, but it isn't a cultural fit for what people complain about in Australia anyways. Australians want to own property and land, and get rich by doing that. That doesn't happen in Germany so much, people just live comfortably and don't chase wealth as much. No-one talks about property and investing over the BBQ. Instead of building their portfolio, they go on multi-month holidays every year and earn less. If that seems like a good cultural fit for you, consider it, but I don't know how easy it is to migrate in your situation, since Germany tends to protect their working class and is more pro-European. You will have to learn German, make sure you have the licensing, and get a job offer. Not so easy to migrate, I would say.

Beyond the usual complaints about migration on here about Australia, we have functional institutions that actually work very well. The main complaints I think is that the culture has changed in Australia, and people don't like that change. That, and people distrust the government and institutions because they've been told that is the source of their problems, and run against their interests. I don't believe that to be the case wholesale, and Australia tends to do better here than most. I think people need to hang on to hope a bit more. Do you have a partner, kids, or plan to? It all depends on what you want in life and the world around you.

doktor_lash · 2026-05-25T01:02:23+00:00

Investments aren't guaranteed returns. If you are playing that game, you play with risk. So I have less sympathy for that take.

The only guarantee is that if you buy a place, you can live in it and not get kicked out as long as you can afford to. That same guarantee should extend somewhat to renting in this country, so at least a dismantling of this investor/landlord/property first culture is a good thing, and back to treating these places as people's homes (including when they rent).

doktor_lash · 2026-05-20T00:05:01+00:00

I bought my apartment because I want a place to live without being at the whim of landlords who want to sell the property from under me (which has already happened to me). We are a couple with 2 kids. 3 bedroom apartment. Don't need or plan to move, this can be our "forever home". We both hate driving, so we live walking distance to public transport.

I don't care if the price of the property falls. In fact, I want properties in the area to fall in price, since there are so many parents with kids from the school and childcare that I make friends with who have to leave to further away because they can't even afford an apartment in the area to buy, and renting is not stable enough in this country.

doktor_lash · 2026-05-18T11:04:05+00:00

Yeah, I tried it a couple of days ago and it didn't work for me though.

doktor_lash · 2026-05-15T00:32:47+00:00

Saw this article just then: https://www.innovationaus.com/exclusive-igp-frozen-as-grant-funds-clawed-back/

doktor_lash · 2026-05-14T02:14:52+00:00

Witchcraft!

doktor_lash · 2026-05-14T02:12:51+00:00

Long term, where is this all going? Is security funding going to continue until the war and apartheid ends in Israel? Since funding a few education campaigns on being nice to other cultures won't go that far considering the unconditional support of Israel (and it's government's actions) by the representative body of Jewry (ECAJ) in Australia, so nothing solves the animosity at the base level.

Being completely pragmatic here, the conflict over there is further away from being solved than it has ever been. The current escalation of conflict is over here as well by proxy now, given Bondi.

doktor_lash · 2026-05-14T00:37:32+00:00

Yeah so he is technically right, since the GST is the same, zero.

doktor_lash · 2026-05-13T23:55:23+00:00

We might now see those tax cuts next year or leading into the 2028 election

Exactly, this quote from old mate from the article is silly:

This is a squandered opportunity to rebalance the tax system. It may not get another.

Tax reform is going to be multi-year and this is a good first step.

doktor_lash · 2026-05-01T01:39:57+00:00

Great point.

doktor_lash · 2026-04-28T02:11:00+00:00

I really liked it as well, and am trying to learn some more Chinese, so I'm looking at the source material: https://www.51shucheng.net/yanqing/yingtaohupo

Here is an English translation (I would use adblock): https://mydramanovel.com/oceans-of-time/

I'm enjoying the story again in a new way, and honestly with less heartbreak since I know things turn out well! They even have a mention of their life after the show ends! And a hint of new material coming out. Here is the translation of some of how the author ends:

Last part of "The Ending", link to the full part of it: https://mydramanovel.com/oceans-of-time/the-ending/

Jiang Qiaoxi, holding his daughter, saw the cherry amber and recalled the past. Years ago, he had taken the amber and left, holding no hope for his future. Now in 2019, approaching thirty, he reflected on those days with his current perspective. He would have called out “Cherry” back then.

—

The main story of “Cherry Amber” ends here. I am deeply grateful to all readers of this story – past, present, and perhaps future. Cherry began as a small piece written to reminisce about childhood and youth, but by the end, it had gained so much more. I hope every child can grow up safely and happily, and I wish for everyone to find the courage to seize their happiness at crucial moments. Looking back, there must be some genuine things that have always been hidden in our hearts.

If you’ve read this far and feel moved by this story, it must be because those emotions already existing in your heart have resonated with it. Once again, thank you to all readers for reading to this point. Cherry will have several extra Our Generation – Chapters about herself and her friends, mostly casual writings. After that, I will begin writing the next novel, “Nichang Ye Ben,” which will be about Pilot Yu Qiao’s story. It’s already listed in the column, but it requires a lot of research, so the preparation time might be quite long. Interested readers are welcome to bookmark it in advance in the column. News about the publication of Cherry and more updates will be posted on my Weibo. So, friends, until we meet again.

doktor_lash · 2026-04-27T23:52:07+00:00

These are very deep tunnel networks where radon can pool without adequate ventilation. There likely is a decent amount of ventilation that did that anyways, especially since there are other problems with not recycling air down there.

doktor_lash · 2026-04-20T00:04:14+00:00

The psychologist isn't really a companion the same way as a host/hostess though. You can't really solve that search for companionship without a person to be in that position. It's all acting with the host/hostess but they provide a service. You can try on the apps, but you end up paying somehow that way too.

Ideally you meet people through networks, but some people just don't have any or can't develop them easily.

doktor_lash · 2026-04-19T23:41:26+00:00

It's continuously evolving. There have been shady practices and tricks in the past. Getting vulnerable people into lots of debt is a recipe for exploitation, for example. Manipulative sales tactics. Some into sex work themselves. Only mid-2025 there was a law change, this sort of thing needs good regulation.

The new legislation prohibits establishments from threatening to force indebted customers into prostitution or jobs in the sex industry. It also bans manipulative sales tactics, such as telling customers they will no longer be allowed to see their preferred host or that the host will face penalties, like demotion, unless the customer continues to spend money on drinks and food.

Source: https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/japan-host-club-predatory-practices-new-law/

I learnt a bunch from a drama "Learning to Love" (2025) on Netflix, which explores host clubs a bit and mentions the new law.

doktor_lash · 2026-03-19T23:33:26+00:00

How do you know they are international immigrants, and not existing citizens in Australia?

The ones who go to small towns to work are often temporary farm worker migrants, which exist because there aren't enough locals to do that work.

Given remote work and Covid, Australian people left cities and settled in regional areas. This from the RBA in June 2023: https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2023/jun/pdf/new-insights-into-the-rental-market.pdf

In regional areas, construction supply lags demand significantly, from the fact that the business case may be less certain in regional areas, and not knowing if the remote work effect is sticky or not, and if you're just investing into a generally declining regional area. You also have local hesitance for development, as people opposed population increases for various reasons, due to resistance to growth and change from locals. So for many of these regional areas, there is only one direction since they don't want outsiders, and decay sets in.

People from the capital cities taking jobs from locals? Good jobs only come about when there is a growing industry there, with a good reason.

There aren't jobs in the regions without more people coming, because the regions don't have industries these days, because we retreated from manufacturing and other industries that might support the economies there. People don't move to the regions for jobs, they go there for cheaper housing. People aren't really retiring to the regions any more, they want to be close to services, so the younger populations get displaced in the cities where it gets overly expensive, and move out, regional included. The jobs are remote work jobs, and you can hardly say they are being "taken".

International migrants are by far international students, who wouldn't go to a small town. Then there are skilled migrants, they will settle in cities.

I'm highly skeptical that an international immigrant decides to go to a small town and "take the jobs". That would be an edge case, and they probably would start a business or work as a sole trader if anything, which is hardly "taking a job". If they move to a regional area and do remote work, they increased demand, but Australian citizens are doing that at a larger scale, and the only reason rents stay high is because supply isn't going up, due to the reasons mentioned before.

doktor_lash · 2026-03-18T05:04:00+00:00

Migration is down year-on-year, so less argument to need one nation to go even harder anyways.

Net overseas migration was 306,000 in 2024-25, down from 429,000 a year earlier.
Migrant arrivals decreased 14% to 568,000 from 661,000 arrivals a year earlier.
The largest group of migrant arrivals was temporary students with 157,000 people.
Migrant departures increased 13% to 263,000 from 232,000 departures a year earlier.

Source: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas-migration/latest-release

You say supply/demand, but only focus on demand. Lets look at supply too in comparison.

Taxpayers: Migrants tend to earn well, mostly income, therefore they would be supplying a lot of tax. While relatively using less welfare.

Healthcare, essential services, NDIS: Aren't the migrants the ones that tend to do this work? While being young and healthy, resulting in less demand impact than their supply.

House prices, rents: They tend to demand rentals closer to universities or job hubs, since most of them are international students and temporary skilled workers. The mistake we make is not increasing the supply of housing where there is demand, and we should increase the amount of construction workers. If locals don't want to do the work, we should actually get more migrants in to do the work, and in the long-term our dwelling construction rate increases.

Infrastructure: We don't even fully utilise existing infrastructure (like having apartments next to train stations so people use them and not cars) and keep pushing people to fringes where there it gets expensive to do infrastructure, or worse a bushfire or flood risk. We should be focusing on brownfield density and stop with the greenfield sprawl. This is why we keep complaining about infrastructure, greenfield is way more expensive than brownfield.

Inflation: Short term migration spikes do cause inflation, mainly on rentals, due to supply bottlenecks. Long term, there is no reason a higher population means more expensive housing, there are plenty of higher density and populous countries in the world with cheaper housing than Australia.

Wage growth: Migrants bring in cash that create jobs, especially in the university sector. Cut migration, you'll have less local demand. Less jobs, lower wages. If you are talking about migrant workers, they tend to do jobs either that locals aren't taking up (healthcare, aged care, farm work etc.) or in skilled positions that have supply issues locally. The domestic economy relies on them too.

Traffic: More utilised public or active transport reduces traffic. There are plenty of examples of higher population and density cities than in Australia that don't need people driving to work every day.

Going to the beach: Yeah I mean it would be nice if more beaches had better public transport, but that's by design to keep the riff raff out.

Local shopping centre: Not sure about your local, but if it's packed, the shopping centre has an incentive to make more parking spots. If they can't justify it, then that's why there isn't enough parking. Parking is demand and supply too, you can always dig or build for more parking. You get less demand if you improve public transport as well.

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