A speech given by Dr Stephen McInerney at the March for Australia in Sydney on August 31, 2025
Today we march for Australia and for Australians.
Today, we march for our people, who have a shared ancestry, a shared heritage, a shared culture, and a shared destiny on this continent: a continent that our ancestors claimed, settled, civilised, federated, built a nation upon, and shed their blood in defence of – for us.
Our forefathers at Federation were crystal clear about why they were federating this nation and for whom they were federating it – it was for those of us who are here today, and those we represent: Anglo-European Australians.
They were clear that it was their will and ardent desire that this nation would remain always ours, and they established immigration policies to that end.
They federated this country with the express purpose of protecting it – of protecting us – from the very fate that now threatens to overwhelm it, and to overwhelm us – mass immigration of non-Europeans at an unprecedented rate, on an unprecedented scale.
Our war-time Prime Ministers Billy Hughes and John Curtin were clear what our soldiers were fighting for in the World Wars.
Our men were not fighting for some abstract set of values; they were not fighting for some chimera called ‘multicultural Australia’ or what Tony Burke self-servingly calls ‘modern Australia’.
No, they were fighting for a people – a people bound together by the crimson thread of blood, a distinct people, a unique people, an irreplaceable people, derived from the British Isles and Europe and forged on this continent through ethnogenesis into a new ethnic group, Australians. “For English, Scotch, and Irish-bred, we’re all Australians now,” Banjo Paterson wrote.
They were fighting in defence of our people’s claim to this continent and the nation our people built here.
Today we stand in the tradition of all our Prime Ministers from Barton to Menzies. And we carry on the legacy of the great leaders of this state – Henry Parkes and Jack Lang – who were equally clear that NSW was not for sale to the highest bidder – but was set aside for sons and daughters of Brittania, the nation-forming people of this land, and other Europeans who assimilated into our number.
Today we march for Australia, for our way of life, and our claim on this continent.
We do so with no ill will towards citizens of this nation who don’t share our ancestry and culture, but with a clear understanding that we are not going to relinquish our majority status, and that the nation the whole world seems to want to join, will not remain the great nation it is if in fact we allow the whole world to join it.
That would doom our people to minority status, which, if we do nothing, at the current rate and scale and composition of immigration, will occur within the lifetime of most of us here today.
Many of us here have friends, neighbours, colleagues, or family whose ancestry is not Anglo-Celtic or European or is only partially so.
We have given them a fair go and extended the hand of friendship, and had the hand of friendship extended in return – and to the extent that these our friends, colleagues and neighbours respect and support our claim on this nation, as the people whose ancestors built it, and our determination to continue to set the direction of our nation, and to remain not only a majority, but to swell again to super-majority status, then I wish them well.
But everyone must understand, and our politicians in particular must understand, that our ability to live harmoniously with small numbers of people who don’t share our ancestry and culture, does not mean we will ever accept the unacceptable and radical transformation of our suburbs and cities, our towns and our regions – let alone the nation itself – into something other than places that we recognise as ours, stamped by our character, populated by our people. We will no longer allow politicians to pursue reckless levels of immigration that make us strangers in our own country.
Today we draw upon the gifts our ancestors from the British Isles bequeathed us: the conquering strength of the English, the keenness of mind and brilliance of the Scots, the mirth and rebelliousness of the Irish, and the poetic spirit and passion of the Welsh.
And we draw on our larger European identity – the whole history of the West, from Greco-Roman antiquity to the pagan Germanic tribes converted by the blood of Jesus Christ, and the Angles, the Saxons, and the Celts.
We carry that legacy forward here today.
We are the Australians.
“The test of democracy,” G.K. Chesterton said, “is not whether the people vote, but whether the people rule.”
From this day forward, the will of the Australian people – which is opposed to mass immigration – must rule.
Thank you.
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What an absolutely breathtaking speech by @dr_mcinerney today in Sydney for the March for Australia. THIS is the way! pic.twitter.com/uILaW2mKFx
— British Australian Community (@Brit_Aus_Com) August 31, 2025
Dr Stephen McInerney is a writer who lives and works in Sydney. From 2017-2021 he was the academic director and Deputy CEO of the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation.
