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NSW Libertarian John Ruddick MLC is pushing to abolish the $75 million Multicultural NSW department, arguing taxpayers shouldn’t fund cultural division over assimilation.

The New South Wales Libertarians want the Department of Multiculturalism gone.

John Ruddick MLC told The Daily Declaration that the policy is an insult to Australians.

“Foreigners who want to live in Australia are admitting with their feet that we are a better country.”

“It is absurd then,” he added, “that NSW taxpayers pay 75 million dollars a year to encourage non-assimilation.”

Currently the state’s only Libertarian legislator, Ruddick announced the Multicultural New South Wales Repeal Bill on X, saying he supported assimilation, but hated the policy of multiculturalism.

Too Many Migrants, Too Fast

Reasoning why, Ruddick named Australia’s reckless immigration influx, which has congealed into an out-of-control cost-of-living economic Titanic that most governments refuse to admit is sinking.

“The government has let in too many migrants too quickly,” his X post declared, and we’re suffering because of it.

The proof is “overpriced housing, overcrowded cities, overburdened infrastructure, etc,” he argued.

Ruddick added that this was why he has repeatedly called for a five-year pause on immigration.

There is also the issue of assimilation or lack thereof.

“We need to have a serious rethink about how we encourage migrants to assimilate into Australian culture,” he explained.

“The woke left claim Australia doesn’t have any unique culture.

“They claim that our culture is ‘multi-culture’… but that is logically incoherent and just plain wrong.

“It’s true Australians have come from many countries,” Ruddick affirmed, “but over the centuries we have developed an Australian identity that is more than the sum of its parts.”

Australia Has a Culture Worth Protecting

“Contrary to our political and cultural elites, most Australians still like Australia,” he said.

“We like our people, our history, our traditions and our way of life.”

Ruddick’s 25 March statement did what few Australian politicians this side of the 1988 centenary have dared.

Tapping into the reason for One Nation’s popularity surge and the once-ridiculed warnings of Bruce Ruxton, Ruddick asserted that Australians did not want to be replaced.

“We do not want our culture to be replaced by a sudden influx of millions of foreigners,” he stated.

“Most of these foreigners might be wonderful people; they might bring skills, have fun festivals and spicy foods.

“They might be able to tick the ‘not a terrorist’ box on the arrival form, but even if all of that is true, people who like the existing Australian culture.”

Most of us, he said, “do not want to see our culture so casually replaced by a hodgepodge of foreign cultures.”

For this reason, “migrants that have arrived should be expected to integrate into our way of life and assimilate into our culture.”

This isn’t radical, it’s common sense.

The approach “has worked well with earlier waves of Australian immigration.”

Ruddick then pointed out that “the same would be expected from you if you migrated to Japan or Brazil.”

Fixing the mess that is mass immigration doesn’t have to be controversial or overly complicated.

“We don’t need to be pricks about it,” Ruddick commented.

“The process can take time, and obviously, people will remember where they came from.”

Your Tax Dollars Are Funding Division

Opposing governments who squash freedoms for the sake of saving an ailing multicultural system, Ruddick said, “assimilation is preferable to division and Balkanisation.”

It’s easy to agree with the Libertarians’ point.

Their bill to end the policy of multiculturalism encourages integration and wider community engagement.

Current government policies work against that.

For instance, Ruddick noted that the NSW government is using the multicultural department and taxpayer dollars to “subsidise our differences.”

“To rub salt into the wound, NSW Premier Ho Chi Minns then uses the existence of multiculturalism to justify censorship.

“He has claimed several times over the last year that multiculturalism is not compatible with vibrant free speech.”

Exhibit a):

NSW Premier Chris Minns says that you will get the freedom of speech opportunities that the government affords you, not what you think you’re entitled too. pic.twitter.com/nkxtfyPUyB

— Anthony Khallouf (@ausvstheagenda) January 21, 2026

Breaking down the numbers, NSW’s multiculturalism-or-bust bureaucrats spend “roughly $70 million of taxpayers’ money to encourage new migrants to stick with their old culture.”

In other words, taxes are being used to spread division and disunity behind the overused Orwellian platitude “diversity is our strength.”

Hence, Ruddick’s bill and assertions that “the agency needs to be scrapped.”

“Abolishing Multicultural NSW,” he clarified, “would not ban people from eating Mexican food or celebrating Chinese New Year or speaking Polish.”

“To each their own. But there’s no reason for the rest of the population to pay for these choices.”

Adding protest to an already solid argument, Ruddick said, the people of NSW and Australia were never given a choice between free speech and multiculturalism.

“Instead, the political class have taken our money to subsidise cultural division. They then used that division to justify cracking down on our free speech.

“This is Orwellian.”

After re-emphasising the bill’s relevance, Ruddick called on other MPs to step up and do the same.

His message is simple: Save freedom of speech, end the Department of Multiculturalism and replace it with nothing.