To carry out such large-scale anti-democratic treachery against the Australian people, the politicians of the major parties entered into what has been called a “conspiracy of silence”.
Australian governments have also suppressed research into immigration-related matters when such research doesn’t produce the results that are agreeable to the government “line” on immigration. As well as the anti-immigration views being suppressed from above, such views were also suppressed by a social climate of fear that had been created within Australia’s intellectual elite.
Only a few brave souls dared to speak out against the Multiculturalist stance on immigration. In 1984, Professor Geoffrey Blainey publicly questioned the immigration status quo and was subsequently attacked without let-up in the nation’s media, was vilified by the pro-immigration academia, and suffered violent tactics from organised groups of Multiculturalist thugs. Katharine Betts, in Ideology and Immigration, described the social climate that had developed around the issue of immigration.