One Nation’s “Spot the Westerner” Video Condemned

While One Nation as a political party has been gaining traction from the Australian public, its recent approach of releasing a video on 31st January 2026 about ‘spotting the Westerner’ has been publicly and socially condemned by many sides. 

The video was released by One Nation’s Victorian State Secretary Bianca Colecchia, who filmed strangers on the streets in Melbourne’s CBD and asked viewers to spot the Westerner in the same footage. She then further explained that the video is about demonstrating how multiculturalism is a failed concept, as ‘goodness in individuals can’t cancel cultural erosion brought by immigrants’, even going as far as to claiming westerners are now minorities due to new cultural populations from ‘non-culturally cohesive countries’. 

This video along with Colecchia’s statements have caused immense backlash. Liberal NSW Senator replies with how this is proof that One Nation is trying to divide Australians by damaging the core of Australia’s multiculturalism, while offering zero new solution to existing problems such as housing shortages that are incited by policy failures instead.  

Many others, namely Multicultural Affairs Minister Anne Aly and Ethnic Communities’ Council of Victoria chief executive Farah Farouque, also rightfully call out that the video is a selectively edited act of provocative populism, by undermining important contributions from skilled migrants. They both agree that migration is the foundation of Australia’s success, and therefore sensible Australians will reject the notion.