Liberals Recruit Prominent Malaysian-Australian Kamahl To Help Soothe Hostilities With Indian Voters

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

The fall-out from the Liberal Party’s short-lived sledging campaign against Indian-Australians continues today, as the right-wing ringleader Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price refuses to apologise for comments made about this community late last week.

In an effort to latch onto imported far-right ideologies from the internet, Price has earned the condemnation of the same Liberal colleagues that praised her for ‘saying what everyone was thinking’ about Aboriginal people during the Referendum.

But the Indigenous Voice is a thing of the past, and while it’s failure was a glorious victory for the Liberal Party – they also lost the election that followed it because they’d isolated far too many minorities that weren’t as expendable as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

This brand of divisive politics does not win elections, it can be confirmed. Which is why Senator Price made a fatal mistake by branding Indian-Australians as ‘imported Labor voters’ who are undermining our democracy.

With a wall of marginal suburban electorates that rely on the support of Indian-Australian voters, this brand of bigotry is a no-go for the modern Liberal Party.

Not even 6 months after betraying the National Party to accelerate her career trajectory, Price has since been sacked from the Liberal front-bench for refusing to support Sussan Ley as leader.

Meanwhile, the Liberal leaders have moved quickly to clean up her mess.

Prominent Indian Australian community members have welcomed Ley’s apology on behalf of Price, but the feeling within the community is that the Liberal Party still has work to do if it wants to win them back.

The Federal Opposition have taken this advice, and today reached out to the one man that they believe can bridge this ever-growing chasm between their party and the Indian-Australian voters that they need to win back if they ever want to regain a foothold in the swining metropolitan electorates.

Kamahl, a household name and decorated Australian musician, has been recruited by the Liberal Party to soothe these hostilities.

The 90-year-old Malaysian-Australian Tamil appeared confused as to why he was fronting this particular press conference in Canberra today, but did his best to hit the right talking points.

“Why are people so unkind?” asked the beloved crooner.

Liberal Deputy Ted O’Brien nodded with a deep respect for the stalwart of Australian music, as he grasped a hand on his shoulder.

“Hear, hear brother”