Blainey responded, "I do not accept the view, widely held in the Federal Cabinet, that some kind of slow Asian takeover of Australia is inevitable.
Hanson went on to form the One Nation Party, which initially won nearly one quarter of the vote in Queensland state elections before it entering a period of decline because of internal disputes.
[5][6][7][8] During the 19th and 20th centuries (until the 1960s), the French-speaking Catholic minority of Canada managed to maintain its share of the population due to a high birth rate, dubbed the "revenge of the cradle."
In Estonia, one of the causes of the Singing Revolution was the concern over the demographic threat to the national identity posed by the influx of individuals from foreign ethnic groups to work on such large Soviet development projects as phosphate mining.
[21] In February 2014, then Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid said failure to establish a Palestinian state would leave Israel facing a demographic threat that could undermine its Jewish and democratic nature.
[23] Fears of changing demographics caused by high immigration from the Asia-Pacific region and birth rates of the native Māori people, particularly among older Pākehā (European-descended New Zealanders), have found their way into parliamentary politics.
[24] Extremist groups in New Zealand, such as Action Zealandia, have been blacklisted by social media networks for inciting fears about "demographic replacement" at the "expense of the European community".
[25] The 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings also drew closer attention to such groups forming links with like-minded ethno-nationalists overseas, in a ‘networked white rage’.