Angus Taylor has been asked for his position on Pauline Hanson\u2019s aspiration to turn Australia into a \u201cmonocultural\u201d society.<\/p>\n
In her first National Press Club address last Wednesday, One Nation leader Hanson declared multiculturalism a \u201cfailed policy\u201d and claimed that Australia \u201ccannot be a multicultural society\u201d, and that it \u201cmust be monocultural\u201d.<\/p>\n
In response to questioning, the federal opposition leader said at a press conference in Canberra this afternoon: \u201cThe culture I want to see in this country is people in this country who believe in and support Australian values.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been very clear on this commitment to our parliamentary democracy \u2013 a commitment to the rule of law, a commitment to our basic freedoms, a commitment to equal respect and dignity of all Australians. That\u2019s what we believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Taylor was asked by reporters to clarify his remarks several times, and when asked whether he thought multiculturalism was still a principle for Australia\u2019s culture, he said: \u201cWe all need to share in this country. We need to share those values.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s all these vague words running around, but I tell you what, the one thing I want all of us to share is those core Australian things. That\u2019s what we believe in. I can\u2019t be clearer than that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angus Taylor has been asked for his position on Pauline Hanson\u2019s aspiration to turn Australia into a \u201cmonocultural\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-754341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}