I had to look up the speech to check if this was an accurate representation or whether that ellipsis was doing a lot of work, and while it's not verbatim, it's very much close enough:

In the 2021 census, more than half of Australian residents, 51.5% were born overseas or had one parent born overseas.

51.5%.

Is that what supported by the Australian electorate? Is that what Australia wants?

Link to speech at 8m29s: https://youtu.be/mMHm9EzrobY?t=509

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[–] 11 points 4 months ago

How are you going to literally say that the majority of people are/have/do X and then ask if the people want that?

"You're black."

"Yep."

"And you find this... acceptable?"

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