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A Sunday lunch in Betoota Heights has ended with an extended moan from a Brisbane-based communications consultant who performed a savage check mate on his mouth-breathing uncle by questioned his capacity for self-care in old age amid rising local support for One Nation.
The dispute began when Paul Stick, a retired crane operator who spent four decades at the Port of Betoota, remarked that he understood why regional and outer-metro voters were drifting toward minor parties amid cost-of-living pressures and dissatisfaction with the major party consensus.
According to family members, his green-haired nephew Pogo responded with a self-serving monologue on demographic decline, workforce shortages and the economic necessity of high migration. The exchange culminated in Pogo asking who would wipe Paul's arse when he's old and fucked if migrant intake were slashed.
While framed as a defence of multiculturalism, the argument rested heavily on the assumption that migrants would continue to fill low-paid and physically demanding roles in aged care, cleaning and other jobs that educated young people feel they're above.
Paul said he found the reasoning contradictory.
"He's calling me ignorant and too stupid to see the reality," he said.
"Then in the same breath he’s explaining how the whole system depends on imported workers doing the shit jobs. Dunno what to think other than he's fucked in the head."
Paul told The Advocate that he might just be a "stupid old cunt" but he's noticed a recurring tension in progressive rhetoric, where support for high migration is often justified through labour market demand for jobs that are hard, fucked and chronically-underpaid, even as the same voices emphasise dignity and equality.
But Pogo maintained that their comments reflected economic reality, describing them as "uncomfortable but necessary, Uncle Pauly" before moaning again.
More to come.