Can the Liberal Party win over multicultural Australia?

The liberal party, which spent a few weeks to suck the shock and lick their wounds, seems to be ready to attack from the attack.

The most obvious proof of this change is report Queensland LNP Senator and Shadow Minister Paul Scarr did this week Guardian Australia. While making any explanation of why multicultural communities abandoned the coalition, Scarr presented some theories. He blamed his colleagues for their “loose”, “hard” or “incompetent” languages, which enabled his rivals to arme public statements to damage their images ”.

Some of his colleagues were more blunt. In an recent ABC Four corners Department, Liberal Party Luminary George Brandis He explained why his party lost the election:

We alienated women, especially women who want to work from home. We disturbed public officials. We disturbed the multicultural communities, especially with this announcement that did not go anywhere about the referendum. We insulted people living in inner cities. Indeed, we did not have an offer for young people, especially students. We also disturbed other minority groups. It seemed to be exhausted to almost uncomfortable.

This is many people who need to work on the liberals if they want to go back to their good books.

But is it enough to develop language and rhetoric to reclaim the trust of the coalition of multicultural communities? Research Assistant Osmond Chiu in Perpıta Thought Tank, Crirase He doesn’t believe it. “If most people believe you are with them, they will forgive an incompetent tongue,” he said.

“For the liberals, the issue is that there is no trust regardless of what he says. Unless they show that they are real in fighting conservative soles and fighting racism and discrimination, no one will believe or pay attention to anything they say.”

And the rhetoric is increasingly, Scarr’s reflections do not seem qualitatively different from what liberal colleagues say. Previous Internal InvestigationIt was written by Jane Hume and Brian Loughnane after the 2022 Federal election:

There is a special need to ensure that the representatives of the party are sensitive to the real concerns of the Chinese community and that the language used cannot be misinterpreted as insensitive.

Obviously, the warning expressed in this review was then thrown out of the window. Hume’s claim The fact that workers’ volunteers are “Chinese spies” seems to be a classic yap do it, not like me ”.

Scarr’s comments show that the coalition thinks that it is the primary problem of messaging to gain support from multicultural communities in the vote. However, the Melbourne-based, China-Avustralian community leader points out that actions will always be more important than words. “Listen to the words of the Chinese, but also watch your actions,” he said, Crirase:

We want to see a real change in values [from the Coalition]Thus, everyone is treated equally, regardless of their Australian history.

Scarr also wanted to reflect a more compassionate image of his party, perhaps he claims that the liberals finally took the note. Albanian“Courtesy is not weakness,” he said to them. As Scarr said Guardian Australia:

For this reason [when] We talk about migration, we talk about the numbers of macro, but we should never forget that real people are talking about real families with different, different experiences.

Although it seems to have made two choices that immigrants have made two choices that migrants are ul real people, real families ,, to ultimately or at least to express them. Although it is a good start to adopt a more empathic stance against multicultural communities, perhaps more important than compassion, the admission of many people in these “diasporas-and certainly Australian citizens with voters.

Scarr did not realize that “China, Indian and other diaspora communities rejected the liberal party, but it could not be largely followed that it could not see multicultural communities beyond the diaspora frame of the coalition.

A few years ago, then Acting Minister Alan Tudge observed While some communities regret that they are still seen as “diasporas ın by their origin countries, they chose to see them as“ proud Australians .. Tudge’s words argued that people should choose: either as part of the “diasporas ve, or you are trying to be a“ proud Australia ..

Scarr chose to make a special interview Guardian AustraliaProbably hopes that the conciliatory message will reach the target audience – multicultural communities and left communities on the left and skip traditional supporters of the coalition. However, it would have been more convincing if he had gone to Sky News or gave a special interview. AustraliaSaying that immigrants are citizens and “we” etc. “to them”.

It has not yet become clear whether liberals were ready to disturb their conservative soles by calling the unhealthy enemies more broadly, or insulting multicultural communities and avoiding red meat to this part of the election zones. In addition, while trying to get political points against political opponents in a series, it is unclear whether multicultural communities have some kind of collateral damage.

Tharini Rouwette, the founder and CEO of the Multicultural Political Participation, Literacy and Leadership Center, is skeptical of liberals to the latest “narrative pivoti”:

Multicultural communities do not need PR. We need policies that repair the damage and redistribute power. If the system behind it remains the same, a new face means very little. With an empathic narrative pivot, you cannot take back a ten -year dog peanuts. If the coalition requires reliability with multicultural Australians, Dutton needs to dismantle her legacy up to zero representation without being deported and deported. Don’t tell us it has changed. Show us in politics, appointments and power sharing. Until then, this is not a change. Turns.

Both labor and liberals should consider taking Rouwette’s advice. Last month, Australian Interior Minister Tony Burke is a joint statement He announced that an office was established for multicultural affairs at the Ministry of Interior with Multicultural Business Minister Anne Aly. organizations And communities.

But Aly’s Comments This shows that it is at least a rhetorical level in front of the Labor Party:

Social adaptation is about everyone… It is about making multicultural communities responsible only for social harmony and social harmony, I think, contributed to the perception of extreme serenity of multicultural communities, responsible for social harmony.

Will the liberals acknowledge that there is a meaning of labor? If the coalition wants to recover the confidence of multicultural communities, it will be a sincere apology from Senator Hume, as requested by many deficit. literature And petition. Hume’s fall may be to punish him for damaging the party’s chances of election, but he is not as convincing as an admission that his words have damaged social harmony.