Tucker Carlson has boldly claimed that Australia’s housing crisis will result in a childless generation because it is too expensive for people to buy a home and start a family.
The former Fox News host and right-wing commentator was speaking at the Melbourne Convention Centre on Monday night when he addressed immigration in Australia, which he described as the “sole reason” for the housing crisis, and also criticised the country’s welcoming ceremonies and the “lazy” Labor Party.
Carlson admitted he was shocked when he learned how expensive it was to buy a home in Sydney, even in suburbs far from the harbour.
He said he was looking at house prices because he was considering buying property in Australia, but soon realised that even someone with his bank balance could not realistically afford to buy a house in Australia.
“It was a lot more than I could afford and I have a decent job,” he told the crowd.
‘How can anyone live here?’
He said when he asked a Sydney local the question, he was told many had left the city altogether or ended up homeless.
“I said, ‘That sounds like a crisis,'” Carlson added.
Tucker Carlson has boldly claimed that Australia’s housing crisis will result in a childless generation because it is too expensive for people to buy a home and start a family.
“Why is this happening? Immigration. There is only one reason and that is the reason.”
“But nobody wants to say it like that because it sounds like an attack on immigrants. And that’s how they shut you up. They say, ‘Shut up, racist.'”
Carlson said he generally supported immigration, but if there wasn’t enough housing for a growing population, prices would rise rapidly.
“If your children find it too expensive to buy a house in the country where they were born, you are erased, that’s all. Your lineage is over and that’s what’s happening,” he said.
“If your children can’t afford a home here, then there’s only one person to blame: the people who run your government.”
The political commentator also mentioned Australia’s history and welcoming ceremonies, which show respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
He told those in the room that they had “nothing to apologize for, at all” when it came to the “sins” of their ancestors, referring to white settlers.
“And yet, at every turn, they make you apologize,” he said.
‘I have never seen a society under more attack than the one you live in now, and with less justification.
‘Every time a commercial airline lands, every time there is any kind of inauguration ceremony, they send you the message that you are in a foreign land.
“And I said to myself, ‘And this is not at all a slight to the people you’re talking about, but this is Australian land and you’re all Australian.
“And why would you have to put up with something like that? And who benefits from this? Does it benefit the people who are supposedly being honoured by these displays? No, of course not.”
Carlson was greeted with applause for his stance, and was applauded even more when he began criticising the Labour Party.
He said he was stunned to discover that there were “no workers” within the Labour Party, in the sense that none of the politicians were qualified tradespeople.
“There are no workers in the Labour Party leadership, none of them have ever had a job. They are all parasites living off the taxpayer,” he said.
“The laziest people in the country call themselves Labour Party members.”
Carlson flew back to the United States on Tuesday after finishing the Australian Freedom Lectures, presented by Mineralogy and organized by Clive Palmer.
The couple visited Cairns, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne for the talks, with tickets going on sale at around $200 each.
This price was drastically reduced to between $50 and $110 last month.
Carlson had earlier spoken at the Hyatt Hotel in Canberra, where he confronted an AAP reporter after she asked him about his views on the “Great Replacement Theory”.
He said Carlson had talked about how white Australians, Americans and Europeans were being replaced by non-white immigrants “4,000 times” on his show.
He responded by noting that he “never said white people are being replaced, not once” and that his comments on the topic applied to all Native people regardless of race.
“If you think that’s racist, that’s your problem,” Carlson said.
“It’s completely honest and real, it’s not racist or scary, it’s a fact. It’s not a theory, it’s a fact.”
Carlson became exasperated when the journalist later linked his discussion of the Great Replacement Theory to a racially motivated mass shooting that left 10 dead in Buffalo, New York, in 2023.
“Oh, God! Come on!” Carlson replied.
“How do they get such stupid people to appear in the media? I guess they don’t pay well.”
