Yesterday said yesterday that Australia will never submit to division, violence or hatred, and that we will come through this together. Unfortunately, Prime Minister, division is precisely what your leadership has championed—beginning with the Voice.
In fairness, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this was not a deliberate attempt to divide the nation, but rather a failure to think through the consequences. Regardless of intent, the result has been ongoing division across multiple fronts: gender ideology, politics, heritage, and more. The list is long and growing.
Many Australians are weary of platitudes. We are also weary of being told that unity requires silence, submission, or the compulsory acceptance of ideas that actively reject us and our values. Some people no longer want “togetherness” on those terms, because they are exhausted from constantly having to accommodate those who openly despise who we are and how we live.
We are tired of being told we must embrace every fringe ideology that has forced its way into our institutions and legal frameworks. Against that backdrop, calls to “come through this together” ring hollow. Unity cannot be imposed, especially when it demands that only one side change.
What many of us want instead is to work through our differences in a country where we feel at home—among people we love and respect, and who respect us in return. A country where our way of life is not treated as an obstacle to be overcome, and where we are not endlessly expected to reshape ourselves to accommodate those who refuse to accommodate us.
And to put it plainly: if that is unacceptable, others are free to find somewhere else to live.
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