If you have a grudge against your country, how can you destroy it? By Tony Abbott in Quadrant.

Blackening a country’s history is one of the most effective ways to undermine the morale of its people. …

The most recent academic history of Australia, published last November, opens by declaring that the traditional notion of settlement, as a largely peaceful expansion, is no less than the “founding lie” of modern Australia, masking what the author claims was a brutal conquest. Even though it was always official policy — albeit imperfectly observed — that the Aboriginal peoples of Australia should enjoy all the rights and protections of British subjects. …

What then, might those persuaded that their country’s history is shameful do by way of atonement? Well, in Australia, they could:

• Seek to amend the constitution to give people with some Aboriginal descent more say than others over the government of the country.
• Delegitimise the national flag by flying it co-equally with indigenous flags on all government buildings and at all civic occasions.
• Begin all public speeches by acknowledging the traditional owners of “what always was and always will be” un-ceded land.
• Change the school curriculum so that every subject, from maths to Latin, is taught from an indigenous perspective.
• Invoke a climate crisis to close down our main exports and to hobble heavy industry.
• Defund the armed forces now, while claiming to boost them in the far distant future.
• Insist that gender is a social construct, rather than a function of biology, to confuse and subvert troubled adolescents.

 

 

The big one:

But for those with a grudge against their own country, it’s sustained mass migration, especially from countries with quite different cultures, that’s the surest and swiftest way to change and punish a place that’s irredeemably tainted by unforgivable sin.

This is done in order to dilute and eventually to extinguish the Anglo-Celtic core culture and the Judaeo-Christian foundational ethos (which is actually what attracts migrants to the Anglosphere) that today’s left-establishment finds so suffocating and judgmental. And it’s to encourage migrants to “other” themselves by funding ethnic activism under Orwellian slogans like “our diversity is our unity” or “our diversity is our strength”.

In this regard, migrants from Islamic countries are especially useful, because belief in a global caliphate, and the conviction that it’s the Koran rather than the legislature that validates law, starts to make pluralist democracy unworkable.

 

To green-left, cultural-Marxist governments, mass migration from the “global south” is not a problem; it’s the plan. It’s the way for supposedly unjustly rich countries to atone for their white privilege and to apologise to poorer ones by becoming more like them.

Pointing this out is not to attack immigrants, nearly all of whom come to countries like Australia to join us, not to change us. But in enough numbers, change us they do, and not always for the better.