SYDNEY—For Nash Lacsina, Australia Day is normally about barbecues and relaxing at home, but this year, the Bondi terror attacks have compelled him to do much more.
On Jan. 26, the drawing technician in Sydney took part in the nationwide March for Australia rallies, which calls for major changes to governance amid concerns about migration volumes and assimilation.
“Ordinarily [on] Australia Day, I would just spend it at home, barbecues, watching TV, but now it’s like we need to change course,” Lacsina told The Epoch Times, who migrated to Australia in 1999 [from the Philippines].
He said Australia was once “a land of abundance and opportunity,” but things have are now different.
“There was too much enablement of hate speech, especially against the Jews,” he said, noting that the Bondi Beach terror attack that claimed 15 lives and injured 40 others, was a motivating factor for his attendance.
“The major parties have let us down,” Lacsina added. “So I think this is why people are coming here [to the rallies] themselves to voice out their frustrations.”
