Bianca Colecchia will be running for the seat of Bruce in Melbourne.
Recent migrant to Australia, Bianca Colecchia, is stepping up to plate and joining the political arena.
One Nation’s candidate for Bruce migrated from Italy in 2016, and instantly fell in love with the relaxed way of life.
But she became motivated to join the political race while studying politics and sociology at the University of Melbourne. Participating in the election also meant she had to renounce her Italian citizenship.
The hospitality manager said the academic degree contained elements that overlapped with socialist theories.
“I just graduated from Melbourne University in December in politics and international relations, and sociology,” Colecchia told The Epoch Times at her federal campaign launch earlier this month.
“In the last term, one of my last two subjects was compulsory. So in theory if you don’t complete it, you can’t graduate.
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“[There was a course called] Social Sustainability. It was all about ‘racial capitalism.’ The best one was ’redeeming whiteness.’”
In general terms, social sustainability is aimed at promoting the well being of all people in a society and includes the equitable distribution of resources.
Racial capitalism refers to exploiting people based on their race—slavery—and “redeeming whiteness” is where white-Anglo individuals can supposedly redeem themselves by acknowledging and rejecting the privileges that come about due to their whiteness.
Colecchia says these ideas ran counter to traditional conservative values such as hard work, and meritocracy.
Pressured Administrators to Change Subject
She will be joining the race for the federal seat of Bruce in the south-east of Melbourne, which is currently held by Labor’s Julian Hill.
Colecchia spoke to university administrators about being able to study an alternative subject.
“I went to the Dean and said, ‘I’m aware this is a compulsory subject—I’m giving you the possibility to give me an alternative subject to complete the course,” she said.
Colecchia went close to taking court action over the matter.
“I actually told them if they did not give me an alternative subject, I would take it to court. They took three weeks to give me an answer,” she said, with the university later relenting.
Colecchia now worries that the younger generations coming through the Australian education systems are being exposed to similar courses, and risking losing out on more practical skills.
“I think that a lot of the issues we’re having nowadays are because of education, and because these young people keep getting fed this same information,” she said.
“And by the time they get out of university, they are pretty much a little army of left-wing activists.
“If you look at metropolitan Melbourne and the voting patterns of young people – who do they vote for? The Greens. Why?
“I believe that fixing education will take about a generation to undo all the damage that’s been done.”
One Nation Focusing on Crime, Migration
The candidate will also focus on violent crime and capping immigration.
“I started a petition on youth crime to keep these kids accountable for their actions,” she said.
“The little cousin of one of the girls who worked for me, he was killed last year at 18 years old, and she’s a waitress in the place where I work.
“He was stabbed in front of his house in December just before Christmas. And 24 hours later, they [police] gave us a call that they were outside just letting us know they were all out.
While on the migration front, One Nation’s federal immigration plan would see it push for a cap to visas of 130,000 per year to ease pressure on housing, wages and infrastructure.
“In the City of Greater Dandenong, there has been a 22 percent increase in working homelessness in the past one or two years.
“And that is huge. We’re talking about young people who are going to work, and having to come back to sleep in their cars.
“That’s because there’s too much demand leading to prices going up, and they can’t afford rental properties.
“I think that’s really important–it’s all about putting Australian people first.”
