These Uncomfortable Facts About Immigration in Australia Should Be a Warning | John Anderson

The Rubin Report

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 1 November 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks to John Anderson about transitioning from politics to public commentary; the rise of long-form media and distrust in mainstream news; why young people seek deeper conversations; the decline of reason-based debate in Western democracies; how progressive voices avoid open discussion and rely on emotional arguments over facts; Australia's cultural complacency and erosion of Western values; and the danger of avoiding hard choices for future generations; the fading Crocodile Dundee spirit in Australia; how complacency and cultural comfort have eroded resilience; Australia's historical roots in authority versus America's experiment in freedom; young men searching for meaning amid declining mental health; the impact of Jordan Peterson on restoring responsibility and masculinity; how victimhood culture spread across the West; mainstream media decline and the rise of podcasts like Joe Rogan; the importance of truth, trust, and long-form conversation in the face of AI and media collapse; Australia's fading national identity; Melbourne feeling like a globalized "blue city" disconnected from traditional Australian culture; rising immigration reshaping demographics; concerns about importing ideologies hostile to Western values; radical Islam and pro-Hamas demonstrations after October 7; the danger of cultural complacency and forgetting founding principles; how democracy requires shared moral foundations, assimilation, and leadership to avoid national decline; and much more.

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0:00.0	When you take God out of being over government, government becomes God.
0:04.0	Well, what's government?
0:05.0	Whatever the system, including in democracy, actually it's just people.
0:08.0	What's the problem with people? They're flawed.
0:10.0	I just came from Melbourne and it is very hard to get a feeling for the city.
0:16.0	Often, we were kind of joking. Where are the Australians?
0:18.0	In Australia, we've always been known for being laissez-faire, you know, there's no class system in Australia, a very fortunate society.
0:25.3	But I think the downside of the admirable equality, you know, egalitarianism of Australian is actually complacency.
0:33.3	Now, the problem with complacency, you can ignore reality for as long as you like, but in the end you won't be able to ignore the consequences of reality.
0:47.3	If you have many people coming in, if they're prepared to merge and build up, it can be fine. Everything goes well.
0:52.3	But if people are coming in bringing their own beliefs, their own politics, their own approach to life that is actually hostile to the
1:00.0	hosts, we know that a certain proportion of Muslim people are radicalised, quite a high proportion.
1:06.0	You don't need too many to make the world a very difficult place.
1:10.0	Maybe it's got to get even worse before it gets better.
1:13.6	But we do need some sort of wake-up call and hopefully before it's too late.
1:17.6	That's been the history of the Western democracies.
1:19.6	But is that just baked in that that's what humans will do?
1:22.6	We will just wait until it's too late.
1:34.6	All right, you're a pro, John Anderson.
1:36.3	We are flipping the script.
1:38.1	We just sat down for about an hour.
1:39.7	Yeah, you've got to get rid of that piece of paper.
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