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ForeignLocal's avatar

What an amazing piece, my dear friend! I’m so deeply proud of you. What you wrote, right there, just turned the land of Oz into the best place on Earth, after all these time when we thought you guys had entirely lost what made you you. As I say to people often, it’s not the beaches, the mountains or the forests that make a country: it’s its people. Weak leadership has been very bad to us, mistaking our generosity for weakness. It’s time to deport absolutely everyone who came to our countries to abuse our way of life. Every single one of them.

And I look nothing like your men, but I’m already writing you a secret Valentines Day card! 😉

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Kelli's avatar

Oh thank you!! It would be my first. I do believe in Australians. I believe we will turn this around. 🇦🇺🇦🇺

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ForeignLocal's avatar

No doubt.

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Noah Otte's avatar

Australia 🇦🇺 has always been a great ally to my country the United States. They fought alongside us with honor and distinction in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War. Australia is a beautiful country with a diverse population made up of an eclectic array of cultures, delicious food, vibrant wildlife, breathtaking natural scenery, sandy beaches and blue seas, friendly people, and distinctive accents. These two Afghan doctors who said they’d kill Israeli patients and claimed they’d killed Israeli patients before, took advantage of the tolerance and open mindedness of Australian society. Australia is a multicultural nation which is a magnificent thing. But Australian multiculturalism must have its limits. Australia is a nation built on western and liberal values and Anglo-Saxon and Aboriginal culture. There is no place in its borders for Islamism, antisemitism and values that are backwards, medieval and primitive. The land down under can never tolerate sex-segregated mosques, dowries, honor killings, acid attacks, Islamic morality police, women wearing the full burkha, polygamy, and sexual harassment of women. The Australian Jewish community needs our support right now as it is not getting the backing of Australia’s weak Labour government under empty suit Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. PM Albanese is no John Curtin or Alfred Deakin. He is more akin to Keir Starmer in the UK. Like Keir Starmer’s long lost Australian cousin he never knew about. I’m praying for Mr. Albanese’s defeat in the next election and that Australia will find its own version of Donald Trump or Javier Milei to protect the Australian Jewish community and make Australia Great Again! 🇦🇺🎆 Not that it isn’t already great, but it could be even more so! These two Arab Josef Mengeles have as of a couple days ago officially been fired and are now in police custody. They should never have boasted so openly on Instagram or come to Australia thinking they could just do or say whatever they wanted. Australians detest antisemitism just as they do any other form of hate. They won’t put up with your bigotry or your homicidal tendencies. Don’t mistake the welcoming nature of Australians for weakness or softness. By the way, Australia Day is a wonderful day everyone should celebrate nor is it stolen land. Give that load of malarkey a rest already!

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Kelli's avatar

Very well said Noah 🇦🇺🇦🇺

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Just Boris's avatar

You forgot to mention that you cheat at sport and that whinging is the National Pastime. 😉

But you did reject the daft Voice nonsense and hopefully you’ll replace your sickeningly woke current official version of ‘Welcome to Country’ with something like your last paragraph. Maybe we could work out one for us both? ‘Welcome to NZ/Aussie, if you don’t see women as equals, if you don’t respect or are not happy to live under Christian values, if you are racist, anti-Semitic or if you like Jacinda or Albanese, then fuck off somewhere else’. Maybe a bit wordy, dunno.

But a good write up by you.

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Peg Forbes's avatar

God you Kiwis never stop whinging 🤣🤣🤣 but you’ve got the absolute best Rugby team. We Aussies love our friends across the ditch. Have to say some of your Pakeha though are as bad as the Māori activists …gotta stop the hate.

Thankfully we didn’t adopt the Voice⭐️

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Hāns's avatar

Boris, I love this!

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Kelli's avatar

Thank you Boris.

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Gemma Lee's avatar

Fuck yeah, Kelli! Brilliant article. The energy is electric, as it should be, as we know it to be. I needed the goosebumps reminder...to know there are others intimate with the laid back passions of our culture that will shift in a heart beat when push comes to shove.

Hope we're finally there so we can rise up collectively and put a stop to the brash Islamic nightmare on our streets.

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Kelli's avatar

Absolutely Gemma! Thank you 🙏🏻🇦🇺

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Doug Taylor's avatar

O, Australia with your salties, spiders and snakes,

At least you don’t permit fake Muslim doctors in your ranks.

-anonymous

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Peg Forbes's avatar

I’m sure we have and I’m sure there’s a few still here….not for long

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Becky with the Good Share's avatar

This means so much, Kelli. My grandparents were Holocaust survivors, and Australia was their safe haven, like it was for so many refugees escaping from hell. Melbourne, where I’m from, took in more of them than any city in the world outside of Tel Aviv, which is pretty amazing given the size of our population. Our borders were more relaxed when the rest of the world closed theirs. I love that about Australia.

Which is why watching what’s been happening there has been so heartbreaking. I’ve lived in the UK for 20 years, and every morning, I wake up, log on, check news from home, and think there’s something wrong with my phone, I need to get it looked at. Because instead of news from 2025 Australia, it keeps arriving from Germany 1933 …

Which is why your piece made my heart sing, and I immediately rushed shared it with all my traumatised friends at home. Like I said, Melbourne is a community of survivors’ descendants. We grew up with the stories: when I was little I thought all old men had numbers on their arms because all the old men I knew did. Online haters like to say Jews are paranoid. We can be but justifiably so! I absorbed at age seven that I had something about me that other people hated so much that they could kill me. That gets buried, you live your life in peace and security, all good. Then October 7 happens, and instead of international sympathy for the victims, there’s an unleashing of a wave of violent angry Jew Hate. Worse it’s been repackaged as ‘progressive’ and ‘aspirational’ so suddenly all my old allies on the Left are spouting rhetoric so vile, they may as well be Nazi skinheads. The childhood fears resurface on a subconscious level. I haven’t slept properly since.

That’s why this piece is so impactful. Your writing stands as a bulwark against the hate, a comfy doona for scared Jews, and a rallying cry to the silent majority of sensible Australians. And I think along with all the characteristics you listed, we Aussies are sensible, and can see straight through the lunacy of Queers for Palestine, aka, Chickens for KFC, and the hypocrisy of protestors yelling for Israel to be destroyed on one hand and crying about ‘genocide’ on the other.

After the Holocaust, Israel bestowed special honours - Righteous Among The Nations - upon non-Jews who helped saved Jewish lives during lives. Obviously VERY different contexts, but I genuinely see non-Jews speaking out on our behalf when it’s so unpopular to do so - I literally can’t think of anything daggier that a 2025 person can do! - as righteous. So thank you from every fibre of my exhausted body x

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Kelli's avatar

Thank you Becky. I truly believe that what we are seeing in the media and in the streets is the loud, uninformed minority. Idiots, just jumping on the current bandwagon with no actual history. But the tide is turning, a little bit at a time. You would be surprised how many people I speak to who have views the same as mine. My work is to try and enorh to speak up so we are not drowned out by the radical morons.

Melbourne is my town too. And I will fight for it.

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Brendon Chase's avatar

Kelli, that could have been written by someone here in the UK (apart from the weather stuff 😂). Things are changing here, across Europe and the USA, across The West, in fact. People are beginning to realise the value of what we have and are becoming increasingly hacked off with our leaders. Things are changing. Just look at the growth of new political parties - Reform here but equivalents all across The West. Something’s in the air. Love to you all 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 🇳🇿 🇺🇸

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Kelli's avatar

Thank you Brendan. Let’s all keep up our hard work!!

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Xan's avatar
Feb 15Edited

Love your writing Kelli. ❤️ i’m not so sure about Aussies rising up though. I like to think it’s true, but 95% of the population rolled over and took the jab, many against their will, five years ago. That showed me something about the once anti-authoritarian people of Australia.

Unless it turns to civil War, we are going to have to fight this using politics and the law. We have to follow the leaders of Poland and Hungary and ban Muslim immigration. Islam seems to cause trouble everywhere it spreads.

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Kelli's avatar

I believe the silent majority will rise up. It’s a shame it will take things like this, but I believe the next election will go the way of the US. But yes, we have to keep fighting!!

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Xan's avatar

Yes! If only we could find an Aussie Trump. How good would that be.

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Kelli's avatar

I think Dutton will be strong on Antisemitism and immigration

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Simon Powell's avatar

Brilliant writing about this great country I now proudly call home.

However, I never gave my permission for you to use a picture of me, especially without my shirt on.

Ma’am, you shall be hearing from my legal team 😤

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Kelli's avatar

😂😂😂😂😂

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Doug Taylor's avatar

I forgot sharks, but I believe Salties, spiders, snakes and Muslim doctors are deadlier

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Good Humor by CK Steefel's avatar

Fab piece. Amen, sis. 🙏

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Kelli's avatar

Thank you CK 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇦🇺

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Peter Doran's avatar

Fantastic piece Kel. Lets hope the silent majority, who agree with it, realise the danger we are in and back the sentiment you just promoted. I shared it as far as I could. All the best.

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Kelli's avatar

Thanks Peter. I have to believe it to be true. 🇦🇺

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Peg Forbes's avatar

Thank you Kelli….very true about Valentines Day and dating…being laid back has actually been our curse considering the current situation…please God we get rid of Labor Greens and Teals post haste. I think Trump has given us Hope. The silent majority will stand up!!

The arrogance of the interlopers will be their undoing

Great piece Kelli….we do have a beautiful country!!

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Kelli's avatar

Thank you Peg. And yes I agree regarding hope!! 🇦🇺🇦🇺

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Dan Solomon's avatar

Australia is a great country. You, Kelli, exemplifiy the spirit of Australia, the open mindedness and welcoming of many cultures, but the abhorrence of prejudice of the vast majority of your compatriots. I loved the Australian poetry you cited.

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Kelli's avatar

Thank you Dan 🙏🏻🙏🏻🇦🇺🇦🇺

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Karen Sinclair's avatar

Love this Kelli ❤️

A love letter to our beautiful country

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Kelli's avatar

Thank you Karen 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

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Ian Mark Sirota's avatar

I’ve always wanted to see Australia.

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Kelli's avatar

I will happily show you around.

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