South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas has made a speech defending multiculturalism because of access to foreign food and dance performances, but irritated Aussies responded by saying they’d rather have affordable housing.
Mr Malinauskas shared a video of himself speaking a a festival last week declaring that his state should “retain its dedication towards multiculturalism”, and claimed that more than 200 cultures celebrating together in “peace and harmony” was the envy of the rest of the country and the world.
“Think about living in a monocultural society, it would be so boring. The food would be all the same. If we walked down Rundle Street and went out for a feed, it’d be all the same restaurants. I couldn’t think of anything worse,” he said.
“The music- we’d have no richness and colour, we wouldn’t see different dance performances.”
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But his statements were mocked in the comments by people who asked whether he’d seen a viral video of an immigrant defecating in the street in Adelaide this week.
“We experienced some great third world culture earlier in the week. Maybe give them a heads up that we don’t shit in the street here,” said one man.
“People are pooing on the side of the road in Para Hills thanks to multiculturalism. Why haven’t you said anything about that?” asked another.
Others said that foreign food wasn’t worth African gang crime, and high prices, while some said there was nothing bad about living in a monoculture.
“So you just hate White people? Without multiculturalism, we would be able to walk down Rundle Mall without getting stabbed. ‘Oh oh but the food’,” read one popular comment.
“The food benefits! I can’t afford to eat anything!” said another woman.
“Come to Japan, it’s a monoculture and there’s lots of food options,” said a third commenter.
Another simply said: “Prefer a chance to get a house mate.”
Throw away 1,000 years of British culture and tradition. You can rape English daughters and their wives. You can replace all of his people.
Just give him 3rd world street food restaurant options and the English elite will let you do it.
– Piers Morgan, 2025 pic.twitter.com/GB24v7RIsx
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) November 27, 2025
Piers Morgan is an enemy of the English people. pic.twitter.com/Rl9L2VEntb
— Steve Laws (@Steve_Laws_) November 28, 2025
Mr Malinauskas’ comments come after British political commentator Piers Morgan made the same argument during an interview with US Tucker Carlson when he was asked how the demographic replacement of White British people has made life better in the UK.
He then doubled down after being heavily criticised by in an X post saying “There are a lot of White English people I would happily trade for a good weekly chicken tikka masala”, sparking a wave of condemnation.
Header image: Left, Mr Malinauskas during his speech (Instagram). Right, an immigrant defecating in the open in Adelaide (supplied).
