Transcript of ABC interview with Professor Gordon Flake from the Perth US-Asia Centre

In a subtle move Trump is warning the Labor Party Government that wanton, destructive population transfers involving a close ally are being watched.

Samantha Donovan: The Trump administration has instructed the US Embassy in Canberra to gather data on crimes committed by migrants in Australia. The directive was apparently sent to several other Western nations too. Observers here say the move doesn’t pose a risk to Australia’s sovereignty but is another significant development in US immigration policy. Julia Bergen prepared this report.


Donald Trump: When politicians talk about immigration reform they usually mean the following. Amnesty, open borders, lower wages.


Julia Bergin: Immigration has always been at the heart of Donald Trump’s presidential pitch. He’s made it clear he wants it wound right back.


Donald Trump: Immigration reform should mean something else entirely. It should mean improvements to our laws and policies to make life better for American citizens.


Julia Bergin: And now the President’s anti-immigration agenda is going global. The White House has issued a directive to United States Embassy staff around the world ordering them to gather data on the quote, crimes and human rights abuses committed by people of a migration background. Posting on X earlier this week, the Department of State said it wanted to help Western nations solve what it described as a global crisis.


Department of State: Mass migration poses an existential threat to Western civilisation and undermines the stability of key American allies. Today the State Department instructed US embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration.


Julia Bergin: That instruction went to US embassy staff in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom and Western nations across Europe. Reports in nine newspapers today quote a senior State Department official as saying the administration wants to warn its friends about the perils of migration. That means things like political unrest and economic instability. But Green Senator David Shoebridge says this is no friendly gesture by the Trump administration.


David Shoebridge: This is a really dangerous export of the Trump administration’s right wing anti-migrant policies. And previously, at least there was some restraint from the United States about openly interfering with their allies’ domestic policies. But the US is not even pretending to hide this anymore.


Julia Bergin: Senator Shoebridge says the US is trying to manipulate other countries’ policies on race and migration, including Australia.


David Shoebridge: The US vice president has said that he wants to use US power, US trade power, US diplomatic power, US economic power to lecture and force the United States allies to change their immigration policies, change other domestic policies. You know, there’s a clear pattern here. This isn’t just gathering information for curiosity’s sake. This is to weaponise the information against the United States’ own allies.


Julia Bergin: In a written statement, the federal government says it hasn’t discussed migration with the Trump administration. That’s despite media briefings in Washington suggesting US diplomats will ramp up pressure on Canberra. Professor Gordon Flake from the Perth US-Asia Centre says it’s got nothing to do with Donald Trump’s concern for foreign governments and everything to do with US domestic politics. This


Gordon Flake: is not them asking Australia and Canada and the UK to provide the US data. This is directing the US embassy to gather that data. Now, whether they’ll be done in a rigorous way or an accurate way, obviously one has plenty of cause for doubt because that’s not what they’re interested in. They’re interested in fomenting fear, fomenting division, because that’s something they ran on.


Julia Bergin: Gordon Flake says it’s not unusual for foreign governments to report on these sorts of things. He says the problem is, it’s not really reporting. It’s about creating a story to tell back in the US.


Gordon Flake: I don’t think these people are particularly interested in data for data’s sake. They’re interested in the narrative.


Julia Bergin: Do you feel like this is impinging on Australia’s sovereign capacity and sovereign rights?


Gordon Flake: Not really. This is the US State Department directing US embassies to gather data. If it was demanding the Australian government to gather and provide data, that would be a different story altogether. But the US embassies, they gather data on lots of things. That’s part of what diplomatic posts do. I don’t see anything yet at this point that I would consider to be an impingement on Australian sovereignty. But it is just one further example of what is at the core of this administration’s approach.


Samantha Donovan: Professor Gordon Flake from the Perth US Asia Centre, Julia Bergin with that report. 

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12 thought on “Trump instructs US embassy to monitor Australian migrants”
  1. The governments know very well what they are doing, it’s the great replacement they have been working on for decades. They used to have Technical Schools and teach trades and they shut them down. They combined the TAFE colleges with a law department and called them universities then sold the seats off to international students, this was the economy in Melbourne. They introduce all kinds of rubbish courses leading people to think they are gender optional or a cat, and they pay for government jobs for them, like “Greens Party Researcher” or “Muslim NDIS Officer” where they get their superannuation 10% paid by the GST extra tax the tradies have to pay for some unknown reason. So they bring in the replacements who send the money home to their family, it’s the same as exporting jobs except the jobs which can’t be physically exported are offshored by getting random migrants to do them. Then they try to swindle the migrants into buying a house for $1m when it’s worth about a quarter of that. At every opportunity the governments are deliberately bungling everything they can and half the problem is they are just shit-for-brains and the other half is they are criminally inclined.

  2. So good of Mr. Trump to look after us.
    Shame he can’t do something, (since he is the ‘Peace’ President), for those living in abject misery in Gaza and Sudan etc. The latest pictures of their suffering make us ask whether we have forgotten how to be human.
    No country comes to their aid. Not one. Therefore we all are complicit. And no one can say they didn’t know.

    Be warned. This is a picture of what this world will become.
    Mark my words.
    Say ok to this and you say ok for it to happen to you.

    Yes I agree that immigration needs to be done with commonsense, but our governments of either persuasion are answering to those who wish our downfall. That’s where we need protection.

  3. This is where Australia is headed! An Indian man defecated on a public street, the Australian who filmed him was the one arrested and charged! Tony (the) Burke defends “modern Australia” with zero tolerance for racial hatred.! How does this makes any sense, even a dog is not allowed to do that.

  4. At what’s arguably the worse possible moment, the government embarked on a program of mass migration from third world nations. People who refuse to speak English and will never assimilate. Crime has increased exponentially, sexual assault is at unprecedented levels and our cities are no longer safe. Stabbings, beheadings, never before levels of violence destroying forever the lifestyle and culture of this nation.

    Australians in general have a laid-back, carefree attitude, distrust authority, despise politicians, care little for world events and proud of it. Contrary to the manufactured narrative, where someone comes from or the colour of their skin isn’t important and not how others are judged. It’s who they are as a person, it’s what’s inside them that counts.

    When people migrate, the country they leave retains it’s identity and changes in the country they end up, that’s indisputable fact. Most Australians accept change is inevitable but vehemently oppose their identity destroyed by the generational hatred and inherent violence migrants bring with them.

    It’s not the people Australians hate, these issues destroyed their nations and Australians object to them destroying our own. These issues aren’t our problem, they’re not welcome and incompatible with the Australian way of life.

    How sad the only Politian who gives a damn is a foreigner.

    Bring it on Trump.

  5. I’m all in favour of this. Even if all it does is make Aussies aware of the disparate crime statistics. That info should be available to everyone. That’s not racist.

  6. “Today the State Department instructed US embassies to report on the human rights implications and public safety impacts of mass migration.”

    Does public safety also mean public health?

    I think we all know that immigrants are not being screened. It’s no longer about skills. Or respect. Or business accument.

    It’s wholly about destroying a Country’s Nationalism and pride.

    A dumping ground into Western Nations – and the most urgent mandate for Government is to start culling and start screening and start sending back.

    Back to the basics before they were thrown out.

    And when the powder keg erupts – they will have their solution – digital ID.
    problem.
    reaction.
    solution.

    “Aussie explodes after catching immigrant using street as toilet: ‘This is Australia!’”
    noticer. news
    (complete with photos)

    Yip, that’s what it’s going to look like if incompetent Government don’t pull their fingers out of their own proverbials.
    We all know that already.

  7. If I were a US president I would be mindful that those being brought to Australia by a treasonous government contained many criminals that their own countries didn’t want, and that these undesirables would be getting Australian passports that could well let them into the US. That would concern me if I were him.

  8. Is this why we had the PAULINE demonstration?
    A forerunner for this.
    Is it ‘Let’s hate Muslims Month/year?
    And let’s have it worldwide.
    Let’s keep all the hatred and propaganda going.
    There’s not enough sadness and fighting in the world.
    Is Trump impatient to get his Riviera?

    Sorry Mr. Trump. You can’t build on a cemetery.
    Even if you remove the bodies or grind them to dust, the blood will eventually seep up.
    And the bodies of the Gazans will one day rise up against you in judgement.

    You, with a capital YOU, can’t escape that.

  9. WHAT?

    WHAT’S NEXT?

    WHO OWNS AUSTRALIA?

    IS THIS RECIPROCAL?

    HAVE I MISSED SOMETHING?

    IT ALL SOUNDS SO LEGITIMATE AND CARING.

    HOWEVER, I’M NOT STUPID.

    I KNOW WHY.

  10. Knowing Bible prophecy the US would never be on my list as a place to migrate to, but I would advise those living there to get out if they don’t wish to be caught in its soon destruction.

    America – Am/mother … Erica/ Earth —— Mother of the Earth, which equates to the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour. New York in English gematria = 666.

    60 Reasons America is Mystery Babylon (Not Iraq) – Escape All These Things (Luke 21:36)

    https://escapeallthesethings.com/60-reasons-iraq-not-mystery-babylon/

    Proverbs 6:16-19

    16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

    17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

    18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

    19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

    Jer. 50:21 “Go up against the land of Merethaim [symbolic Babylon], against it, and against the people of Pekod [symbolic Babylon], waste and destroy after them, says God, and do according to all that I have commanded you”.

    pekod in Jewish Gematria Equals: 129

    America in Jewish Gematria Equals: 129

    New York, home of the United Nations, in English gematria = 666

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