Do Australians reject White Australia?

February 9, 2026

Dennis Altman deludes himself if he thinks that, except for a few far right activists, Australians reject the idea of a White Australia. No one should doubt that if, instead of the current 4 per cent, First Nations people numbered 50 per cent of our population, roughly the percentage of Palestinians in Palestine/Israel, they would demand the return of their homeland as vigorously as Palestinian do theirs.

In that event, we white settler Australians would show ourselves to be every bit as brutal as Israelis are. We’ve done it before and we’d do it again if we thought that our backs were against the wall. Our vastly superior numbers allow us to ride on our moral high horse but the reality is that when settler Australians look at Israelis we are looking at ourselves.