Business as usual politics and grandstanding politicians, won't cut it, except as petrol on the flames!

Yes, if we apply enough force, sacrifice enough lives, this stuff can be suppressed and driven underground to fester and fester or power up like a hydrated volcano building and building irrepressible pressure!

Our job, whether we like or want it or not, is to win hearts and minds, and entirely unnecessary Tory preferred austerity, replete with social injustice and inequity, that only protects those, who by and large, created these (GFC) problems, isn't the answer!

We need a very different far more inclusive template that picks folks up, as opposed to first leaving them behind, then steamrolling/crushing them with quite massive inbuilt inequity/injustice.

Manifesting as unprecedented attacks on the very modest indeed, living standards/future prospects of the most vulnerable! That just gives ever increasing opportunities for racial recruitment!

We need a two pronged attack, to #1 exterminate evil extremists! #2 eliminate the reasons they use to recruit those, with nothing left to lose!?

And that's only possible if they again have skin in the game, or something of value left to lose! e.g., Affordable health, education, housing, energy, replete with inherently fair (what you'd do it for) reward for their time and labour!

Diabolically dumb, divide and rule, patently puerile politics,(fuel on flames of massive discontent) won't cut it!

But maybe, just maybe bipartisan pragmatism coupled to still untried and or, resisted to the last Tory, inclusive policies just might?
Alan B.

failed multiculturalism and immigration. Pollies still to gutless to act. The more Islamic immigration the worse outcome for all other citizens. Don't see Buddhist, Hindus or Jews caqusing terror on the street. Then again I suppose they have not got Mohammed as their role model.

What a pile of deluded garbage.

Binoy Your ideology is so thick that you can't even see through it to the trees, let alone see the wood for the trees.

With your ideology you have no right to even utter the words human rights. Obviously your idea of human rights has nothing to do with the average citizens human right to not be bombed, blown up or killed by ratbags with a bloodthirsty religion as excuse.

Your anti establishment attitude completely blinds you to the requirement to remove, by what ever means works, these ratbags from civil society. With that attitude you would have been still defending Hitler's human rights as he marched through Europe.

Time to have a good look at your self, & the actual meaning of this garbage you are preaching. Time to grow up in fact, drop the hate, & join the race, the human race that is.

One thing we can all be assured of with this individual Binoy KAMPMARK, aimlessly wandering about Melbourne's RMIT. By permitting him to even access to our young people at the RMIT, Melbourne. Australia as we all know it, is assuredly buggered it really is. My only suggestion for the deluded MR. KAMPMARK, he should perhaps, seek a legitimate job or, return forthwith to Selwyn College Cambridge, and stop peddling his arrant nonsense behind the ablutions, in any one of our many eminent learning Institutions.

Hi o sung wu, how yer going mate?

The climate could do with a bit of global warming right now. Even up here it's getting a bit too cold these mornings for an old bloke.

I guess that is one advantage of articles by these dills. They get you so hot under the collar, you are at least warmed up for a few minutes.

Hope you're doing well down there.

The services aren't what they used to be mate, I don't think you would like it much today. The boy has just done 3 months reserve service. He was only half way home when they were after him again to go back & do 6 months.

He told them he would go back & give them 6 weeks for their next little cruise, but only if they finally pay him for his transport down there for this last stint. In 3 months they have not managed to organise compensation for his last trip down, let alone the cost of getting home.

I hope we don't have a serious need for our current defence force in the near future, I don't think they could handle much at all.

Hi there HASBEEN...

I suspect neither of us would last too long in any of the Services these days. With their high priority on 'political correctness', as demonstrated by that, Chief of the Army, who proudly announced how he'd weeded out, all those male members who dare to vocalize how very attractive and fetching a female member may look, while on duty.

Even though the young female member may be especially appealing and alluring in her uniform, as she saunters effortlessly past you, with a mere whiff of her delicate perfume. After all, the military is now a 'sexless' organisation, and while homosexuality is permitted, normal heterosexual urges and desires, are strictly contrary to normal, Military Discipline.

I dunno mate I reckon the country is beyond 'economic' repair now! And 'political correctness' is by far, the most potent weapon of the far 'Left'. Despite all that, take it easy anyway ol' mate, and try to inculcate those fine values you learned in the Military. Into that young boy of yours, while you were a Navy Pilot, all those years ago.