After leaving Australian politics for a short while, the leader of “One” Nation decided she’d had enough of Australia and was going to move to the UK. She eventually gave up on that idea, because:
“I love England but so many people want to leave there because it’s overrun with immigrants and refugees”.
The irony of not wanting to emigrate somewhere because there were too many immigrants did not appear to cross her mind; because of course white immigrants are not the same as brown or yellow ones.
More recently, one of her star Senators was found to be unconstitutionally elected, because he was in fact not of One Nation, but was actually a dual UK-Australian citizen.
So no I don’t think it is so much about borders, as it is about being a hateful bunch of shit fucks.
Australia used to have quite a different gun culture though. John Howard, the conservative PM who introduced our now globally famous gun laws following the Port Arthur massacre was absolutely despised by a lot of people as he tried to introduce that legislation. He received death threats and at one famous speech he wore a bullet proof vest.
https://www.qt.com.au/news/john-howards-biggest-regret-in-his-11-years-as-pri/3549209/
People often talk about culture and laws as if they don’t influence each other. But just as laws are written because people within a culture demand it; laws then shape the culture that follows.
