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Dining on dumplings: Dutton tries to win important Diaspora communities. Will it work?
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Dining on dumplings: Dutton tries to win important Diaspora communities. Will it work?

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On a forum in West -Sydney on Friday a campaign -crosover point for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his rival Peter Dutton -a challenge was set to the leaders.
The daily Telegraaf, who organized the event, asked them: What was their reaction of one word to the word migration?
Albanian replied “balanced”.

Dutton replied: “Payed and great for our country”.

The opposition leader was asked to condense that for one word.
“We are net supplies,” he said.

After years of ruthless focus on the disadvantages of immigration, the answer illustrates a shift in the tone of Dutton, trying to win voters in the community of Diaspora, some of whom have shifted from the coalition in the last elections.

Peter Dutton held on a forum in the Blacktown Workers Club in North West Sydney on Friday. Source: MONKEY / Mick Tsikas/Aapimage

Dining on rods

On his first full day of the elections, Dutton dined on dumplings and fried rice in a Chinese restaurant in the suburbs, while promising the local Brisbane community $ 225,000 in financing for a museum in honor of the history of Chinese Australians in the state.

It was a clear signal that the opposition leader would build a multicultural message in his campaign.

Peter Dutton shakes a woman's hand over a table full of yum cha dishes.

Peter Dutton visited a Chinese restaurant in Brisbane for Yum Cha. Source: Delivered

The assessment of the liberal election campaign of 2022 stated that the liberal government of Scott Morrison had alienated the Chinese Australian voters, many of whom had supported the coalition in earlier elections, and this had cost them crucial seats.

“In the top 15 seats of Chinese descent, the swing against the party (on a two -part base) was 6.6 percent, compared to 3.7 percent in other seats,” said authors of the assessment, former director of the Liberal Party Brian Loughnane and prominent front bench senator Jane Hure.

“Nowadays there are more than 1.2 million people from Chinese heritage who live in Australia. The rebuilding of the relationship with the Chinese community must be a priority during this term of parliament.”

The most important policy remains a concern

While the Yum Cha plates were cleared, the founder of the Museum Peter Low SBS World News said that Dutton’s message resonated with the community.

In contrast to the alienation that many felt when former liberal leader Scott Morrison was prime minister, and COVID-19 Pandemic rhetoric of the liberal party was considered “anti-Chinese”.

But Mr Low was not willing to throw his support behind one of the most important policy of the coalition, the plan to reduce permanent migration.
In his speech by the budget answer last month, Dutton doubled his previously announced plan to reduce permanent migration by a quarter, reducing it to 140,000 places a year.

The coalition states that a post-Pandemic migration thrust has put too much pressure on the services and has contributed to a lack of available housing stock for tenants and buyers.

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But low sees it differently.
“For me, the 25 percent migration in migration is very bad for Australia.

“Admittedly, there is a home crisis, but the home crisis can be solved fairly easily by allowing people to build more houses.”

Voters are hard for it

The coalition knows that his way to victory in these elections is a tough fight and it should fall back from at least 19 seats for an outright majority.

Many of the goals are marginal voters in the outskirts on the edge of large cities – such as the voters of McKewen in Melbourne, where Dutton was watching this week at the Xavier family while they stacked their bills on the table and explained how difficult it was to offer a decent standard of life.

Peter Dutton speaks to a family outside their house while cameras take the interaction.

Peter Dutton visits Fulbert Xavier, Priya Xavier and their son, Aidan Xavier in Donnybrook, north of Melbourne on Wednesday. Source: MONKEY / Mick Tsiks

The family who came from India to Australia who wants a better life is still undecided about which party they will vote in the elections.

The policy of the liberal party to It is designed to appeal to voters in the suburbs and to make use of concern about the high costs of living work to work and school.

Dutton’s unexpected mosque visit

That is also a message aimed at the hundreds of thousands of Australians in those areas that Muslims practice and celebrated the end of Ramadan – a period of fast – with the EID festival.
Historically, the various voting block has mainly supported work, but the community of anger about the government’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza seems to be breaking its foundation.
This year many mosques made it clear that politicians were not welcome. Some MPs still went to prayer events and opposition front bencher Jason Wood was confronted with a deep hostile reception in a mosque in Melbourne, all recorded and posted on social media.
In the aftermath of the The coalition is much more focused on anti -Semitism and supporting the Jewish community.
Last year Dutton also raised eyebrows when he described it young The decision of the political movement to run candidates in some seats in West Sydney as a “disaster”.
In view of that dynamic, it would be a tough battle for the coalition to gain ground at voters with large Muslim populations, therefore it was an unexpected turn of events when the bus of Dutton picked itself up at the Al-Madinah-Moskee in the western suburb of Sydney in the outskirts of Leppington and the opposition leader was caught
Several Arabic Muslim leaders have indicated SBS Privé Privé that the mosque chose the liberals to visit was a Pakistani-Indian place of worship with teachings in Urdu, which became more far away from the Middle East politics, which forms less risk of protest or hostility.
The Imam Sheikh Ahmad Hussain later said that he wanted to welcome all politicians, but that should not be interpreted as supporting their policy.

“Many do not agree with his ideas, but as a place of God – everyone is welcome,” he said.

Peter Dutton runs with members of the Al Madinah -Moskee

Peter Dutton visits the Al Madinah -Moskee in Leppington last Sunday. Source: MONKEY / Mick Tsiks

In the aftermath of that visit, Dutton was pressed to confirm whether he would keep the special envoys of Labor to combat anti -Semitism and Islamophobia – both of which were created to tackle concerns about social cohesion.

In the press conference, Dutton confirmed that he would do Job held by Aftab Malik and holds the role in place “if it makes a difference”.
“But I think there is a lot of frustration at the moment about what is being listened to, from what is advised by the envoy, so I should follow advice.”
His office later confirmed that the anti -Semitism Envoy -Rol of Jillian Segal would continue without the need for the same control.

Immediately after Dutton’s visit, the mosques trip came to an Assyrian Christian Festival in Sydney, where he mixed with hundreds of people who took selfies and shake his hand. In this community he is praised to reach Australia as part of the former government that helped them.

A man dressed in a traditional outfit holds the hand of a smiling Peter Dutton

Peter Dutton during the Assyrian New Year’s celebrations last Sunday in Fairfield. Source: MONKEY / Mick Tsikas/Aapimage

Details of migration -cutbacks remain unclear

The immigration policy will continue to dominate the election campaign, but the details of exactly how the opposition is planning to reduce permanent migration, including which visa categories would be directed.
Dutton is committed to providing more details before the election day.
But although he continues to link immigration to the Australia housing crisis – despite data that suggests that the relationship between the two complex – Dutton also chooses his words carefully, not to ban the Diaspora community in the process.

“There are many migrant families that I have spoken throughout the country who are desperately worried about their children, they are the second and third generation migrants, they came to this country looking for opportunities and their children cannot afford to buy a house.”

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