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On the beach: selling Australia as a land or as a people : Comments

By Andrew Jakubowicz, published 11/6/2010

Neither the ALP nor the Coalition show much stomach for doing anything but beating up on cultural minority groups.

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If…” cultural diversity (is) a critical component of social cohesion, creativity and productivity”, why is it that we don’t have social cohesion; what evidence is there that there is any creativity in diversity, and how is productivity in any way linked with diversity?

As for showing the umpteen different races that now infest Australia to attract tourists, people wanting to come to Australia – and their are fewer and fewer of them due to the strife that multiculturalism has brought us – look for something different from what they are used to: the enforced pollution of ‘diversity’ allowed by most gutless Western governments.
Posted by Leigh, Friday, 11 June 2010 10:24:24 AM
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"The last major attempt in 2006 to attract foreigners used Lara Bingle to convince them that Australia was a place for drinking, sexual excitement, and unbridled self-indulgent fun."
Because those are the only fun things Australia has to offer- and having said that most people coming for those things might be in for a huge disappointment.
Multiculturalism probably WOULD sell pretty well for overseas tourists (especially for those in Asia might feeling a little more welcome and not-touristy). But a woman in a burqa strolling down Lakemba will most definitely turn everyone off (except other burqa'd tourists).
Come to think of it, it will be hard to advertise Australia's multiculturalism well- as all it is are a few far-western suburbs with a predominant ethnicity. BORING.

As for politicians- simply put, they're talking out of their rear end- all they know is that there is a large chunk of the population opposed in varying degrees to immigration, refugees and/or multiculturalism, and another chunk (with a few lobbies) that are strongly FOR it. The pollies are too lazy to want to put money into seeing precisely who they are, how many etc- so they make some lazy speeches that they hope would win 'both sides', using mostly stereotypes to work on.
Posted by King Hazza, Friday, 11 June 2010 12:18:26 PM
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http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10540#173382

Leigh, spot on. Nobody wants to see millions of taxpayer's dollars wasted on "Immigration detention/Resorts".

We want to see a sensible Cost Effective Policy of filling all empty Qantas outgoing seats with boat people. They only should be detained, temporarily with hard labour, on chain gangs, ditch digging, until a flight out is available to them.

The same goes for all Muslims here now, regardless of how long they have been here or even if they are born here.

Get rid of them ASAP, but as cost effectively as possible, lets stop wasting taxes on these scum.

http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10540#173410

King Hazza, given your comments on a variety of topics, i have a couple of web pages that may appeal to you.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8630135369495797236#

http://www.reich4.de/Begriffe/sittlichkeit/?lang=en
Posted by Formersnag, Friday, 11 June 2010 12:59:05 PM
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The central theme of the article that Australia should be a tourist mecca for multiculturalism tourists is silly and frivolous.

Just think for a moment, would anyone visit the UK to gawk at an revel in its 'multiculturalism'?

The French refer to 'Londonistan', does that attract French or other tourists from Europe and elsewhere, or do they all have their drop-dead, wondrous 'multiculturalism' highlights to satisfy their passion for it?

Again, would anyone visit Africa for its multiculturalism. Whoops, hold on a bit, a black monoculture rules OK because the liberal left said so. Hmmmm, maybe Afghanistan then, that should be a whizz as a multicultural destination, but then again maybe not.

However the article is really about the political correctness of diversity and multiculturalism in Australia isn't it, because how else could anyone ever rationalise making a few capitals with very obvious over-population and traffic problems a desired destination for visitors on holiday? Visit Sydney to sit in a traffic snarl and get holiday snaps of 'thriving diversity', yeah right!

While we are on the subject, what political party has ever campaigned on a 'Big Australia' or 'Diversity' as primary social goals? I support immigration and see some value in diversity but these are strategies only towards and should never be promoted as goals in themselves. Why put the cart before the horse and for whom?
Posted by Cornflower, Friday, 11 June 2010 1:03:31 PM
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http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10540#173418

Cornflower, some net pages for you.

http://www.australiafirstparty.com.au/cms/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8630135369495797236#

http://www.reich4.de/Begriffe/sittlichkeit/?lang=en
Posted by Formersnag, Friday, 11 June 2010 1:49:35 PM
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I want to know what formersnag is on...it seems to be taking him well out there...somewhere.
Posted by Phil Matimein, Friday, 11 June 2010 3:13:26 PM
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