• indomara@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Absolutely. My family and I want to the Brisbane “March for Australia” … I won’t bother retelling our experience again, check my post history if you like - but it wasn’t peaceful.

    One of the lines we heard often from that screaming jeering pushy crowd was “I don’t mind immigrants, I’m not racist, I just don’t want the illegal immigrants here.”

    Mate, we’re a fucking island, this isn’t America. We put the illegal immigrants in an offshore detention centre ffs. It’s not like they’re hopping the border.

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      7 days ago

      Most illegal immigrants are poms that have overstayed their working-holiday visa.

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        7 days ago

        And they already have greater privileges than anyone else on a working holiday visa.

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        6 days ago

        Yeah… I don’t think there are as many of those as you think.

        No Aussie drivers licence, no healthcare, most places won’t rent to you, can’t build a life really.

        It’s hard enough to build a life while minimising the data you spread around, but with the sheer number of services that require id and proof of right to be here I can’t imagine there are a ton of these people.