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Is it possible to have a monoculture? This WA town doesn't think so
Alep Mydie says One Nation's concept of an Australian monoculture is flawed. (ABC Great Southern: Madina Jaffari)
Leaders in regional WA say their town was built on multiculturalism.
It comes after One Nation leader Pauline Hanson suggested Australia should have a monoculture in her address to the National Press Club last week.
Senator Hanson has been invited to discuss the issue with Katanning Imam Alep Mydie.
When Imam Alep Mydie heard One Nation leader Pauline Hanson's call to establish a monocultural Australia, he was more confused than concerned.
"Even in the place I call home, which is Katanning, I have been here for the past 56 years, multiculturalism has existed before I arrived here," he said.
Australia's 'Whinger in Chief' hasn't proposed a thing to fix the system she hates
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The message was clear. It was from a recent migrant from South Africa who was married to a recent migrant from Bosnia.
At a round-table birthday party discussion, the subject of Pauline Hanson's National Press Club speech came up. The migrant said she did not feel qualified to comment but mentioned a hospital visit with her child which cost nothing; the lack of violence; the abundance of good food at a reasonable price; and how she and her husband were on track to buy a house. In short, she wondered: "What are you whingeing about?"
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Pauline Hanson’s Press Club speech provided plenty of ammunition for at least some of her opponents
Still her show: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson at the National Press Club last Wednesday. Rohan Thomson/ Bloomberg via Getty Images
Pauline Hanson’s address to the National Press Club was the talk of the town — well, of the town in which I live, Canberra, anyway — for a few days last week. But GetUp!’s banner stunt and Hanson’s intemperate abuse of Guardian journalist Sarah Martin have distracted analysts from the best evidence we have so far of what One Nation, in the guise of a putative mainstream party of the right, now stands for. If it is no longer a minor party of protest rooted in rural and regional grievance and reaction, what exactly is it?
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