Dick Smith’s $1 million anti-immigration ad to divide the nation
Millionaire businessmen Dick Smith has launched a controversial $1 million anti-immigration advertising campaign, regarding the hazards of overpopulation.
The commercials, which will start appearing on television screens around Australia from today onwards, will feature a voiceover from John Stanton, whose voice famously appeared in the Grim Reaper AIDS campaign from the 1980s.
Mr Smith explained the campaign in an interview with ABC Radio on Monday, arguing politicians had failed to properly address overpopulation risks associated with immigration.
“It’s a frightening ad that shows what’s going to happen if we have endless population growth - it’s going to destroy Australia as we know it today,” Mr Smith said.
“Every single Australian family has a population plan - they don’t have 20 children, they have the number of children they can give a good life to," he said.
“But our politicians have no equivalent for the country.”
Mr Smith is also launching a campaign to raise the company tax rate back to 45 per cent, and wants the tax details of the wealthiest Australians released to the public.
“The trickle-down effect is a complete lie, the wealthy become wealthier the poor poorer."
Mr Smith denied his new campaign was xenophobic, saying, “It’s nothing to do with racism.”
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