Assimilation, synergy and refugees 

From the Australian football team winning their first match against Turkiye, against the odds and against Turkiye’s expectation that they were the superior team, with many players on big salaries in European football. The Aussie team comprised 15 cultural and ethnic backgrounds, 8 of them born overseas, some in refugee camps. No big Euro players. But what a team.

And on this day, the leader of our hate refugee party, apparently, is now the preferred Prime Minister. 

As the world of amplified hate against people who are mostly escaping the wars and poverty inflicted upon them by the very wealthy Western nations that now want to cast them out. 

Because it serves the interests of the elite class to keep the people pointing the blame for the scarcity of housing, dignified work, and a pathway out of the irreversible erosion of the middle class, at the migrants and refugees, rather than where it really lies. With the corrupt and exploitative elite. 

Singapore refuses to allow people of a single ethnic group to live in a single area. Assimilation is law. 

But most nations take no heed of what Singapore has done. So assimilation is difficult. 

And then the fire is fueled with hate and blame to keep the people divided. In Belfast, the hate refugee people provoked the fires, or even started them. Because it serves their interest to hate. 

Now we have our racist hate party rising to the top in Australia. The very young man who scored the first goal at the World Cup is celebrated as a hero until he walks down the street of his hometown. Then he is named as someone who needs to ‘go back to where he came from.’ 

You cannot have both. You cannot celebrate the Aussie teams’ win and then want to send the people back to where they came from. 

The Aussie team won because of the strength that comes from diversity. This is the Principle of Synergy. 1+1+1 = greater than three. The same Principle behind tensile strength. It never works to have the greatest 1 + the greatest 1 + the greatest 1 to be greater than three. It has to be some great, some not-so-great, always diverse. Like a great Champagne. 

There are far better questions to ask when we look at migration.

1. Why do people migrate, and how has our country been complicit in creating these conditions? Change this. (Go to Source)
2. How do we enable assimilation rather than contrast?
3. How do we end the very system that profits the few at the expense of the many?

Until we answer these questions, we are treating the symptom and neglecting the Source.

Published June 15th 2026. Photo taken June 15th 2025