Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has repeatedly declined to say whether the Coalition still supports multiculturalism, even as he avoided endorsing One Nation’s call for Australia to become a “monoculture.”
Pressed several times on the issue, Taylor would not give a clear position. Instead, he said the culture he wanted to see was one based on “core Australian values.”
“You explain to me what you mean by that. There are all these vague words running around,” he said. “I’ll tell you what the one thing I want all of us to share is those core Australian values.”
The debate was triggered by Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address, where she demanded an end to multiculturalism, arguing that decades of bipartisan support for the policy had failed.
“How can you generate social cohesion if people can’t speak the language?” she said. “Under the failed policy of multiculturalism, all cultures are allowed equivalence to ours. Surely opposing that is not racist; it’s common sense.”
Speaking on Channel 7, Hanson said “nothing will really change” under her proposal, pointing to Japan as an example of the “monoculture” she wants Australia to emulate.
Taylor refused to say whether the Coalition agreed with Hanson or whether it would maintain its long‑standing support for multiculturalism, leaving the party’s position unclear at a time when One Nation’s influence is growing.
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