Is Australia Set to Become a Security Threat for the United States?

There has been considerable debate about Trump’s plan to incorporate Greenland into the American “empire,” something which I think has great strategic and security advantages.

There has even been trolling, perhaps half serious, of Canada being absorbed as the 51st state of the U.S.

But so far nothing has been said about Australia, which is of even greater strategic defense interest to the United States than Greenland. Many Americans may think that there is no problem here as we have the AUKUS treaty for defense. However, in this brief note I would like to ignite a debate about Australia/U.S. relations, in the light of disturbing developments in Australia.

There are many inter-related issues here, so I will skate over them to give an overview. I am thus not concerned with rolling out supporting statistics here, rather than make an initial case that others can debate.

First, Australia has for some decades, perhaps since early 1980, been actively pursuing a policy of Asianization.

One part of this is about trade integration with Asia to ensure markets for its raw materials, as that is about all Australia has, having had its manufacturing base eliminated, more than perhaps any other Western country.

But Asianization goes further, and involves an explicit policy of ethno-racial demographic change, where the immigration intake is skewed towards, majority/Asian, now mainly Chinese and Indian, with Prime Minister Albanese having worked out a special labor immigration deal with the Indian government. Hence, one no longer sees, for example, white bus drivers or taxi drivers; all are Indian. Han Chinese flood the professions, so it is the Great Replacement from below and above.

This replacement of traditional white Australians by Asians gained momentum under the John Howard Liberal Party government (what passes for conservatives in the country), as detailed by P. Wilkinson, The Howard Legacy: Displacement of Traditional Australia from the Professional and Managerial Classes (2007), and has accelerated since then, with a steep turn taken by the Albanese socialist Labor government.

The Great Replacement is conducted through mass immigration as well as the deluge of overseas students, the highest per capita in the West. With a population of just 26.66 million (2023 figure), there were 1,018,799 international students enrolled at Australian universities in the year to 2024.

It is well-known that these are all backdoor migrants, with immigration laws being set up to allow permanent residency for such students, who never return to mainly China. And more than one million overseas migrants came to the country over just the period 2022-2024, with 2.46 million temporary visa holders as of September 2024, which is one of the highest net immigration rates relative to present population numbers in the West.

This influx of foreign students and migrants has generated an accommodation crisis, and a massive rise in property prices, making the once traditional Aussie dream of home ownership impossible for the youth of today, unless they are cashed up Chinese. Thus, tent cities have emerged, of people, mainly poor whites, who cannot get any accommodation at all. Welcome to the Third World