Keith

You claim:

<<<< I too have seen the huge numbers of races involved on the hospital system. It's great. As usual no doubt it's the attraction of the advanced nature of another western science leading the world that encourages and enables their desire to practice in the west. Eh? >>>>

If western culture is so transformative, how come you remain such a bigot? Eh?

races involved on the hospital system..
Severin,
There's nothing really spectacular about this. It's simply to uphold the Government stipulated quota of at least 8% of indigenous employment within the health system. By employing others as well helps give the impression of a multicultural environment. The question of qualification is not part of the equation, appearance is what matters to the bureaucrats. If you don't believe me look up Qld Health Job adverts in small regional newspapers.
Another thing to remember is that, as soon as an indigenous achieves position they leave for the bigger centres to keep climbing the career ladder very much as every bureaucrat & professional. They can not achieve higher position by remaining in a community & are literally forced to move on. It's the snake eating itself by the tail. Until living in the bush is made somewhat more glamorous or financially rewarding you'll simply not get professional people staying there. Life in the remote regions does not really cater for greed & ego but it's a lifestyle choice for decent folk.

Lucy

your only other post here calls on someone who has a different view to you to ‘suck it up’ … i.e. your view that Australia is going to become Asian and South Pacific Islander dominated? On the evidence of that I doubt very much you know many Australian Asians or Australian South Pacific Islanders.
And you call me unpleasant. LOl where’s that black pot?

Severin,

Bigot: n. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
Well it's true! I am strongly partial to my Westernism … Aren’t you to yours also?
It’s also true I am tolerant of differing creeds, races, beliefs and opinions. In fact I’m tolerant of ALMOST everybody who differs from me.
The only exception is I am intolerant of people who are intolerant. (See CJ) And that my friend, i.e. tolerance of intolerance, is something I will never condone in any way.
It is the great question westernism is encountering at present.
How far should we go in tolerating those views which would undo the very fabric of our liberal westernism. Do we tolerate those who would only extend civil rights to some members of their groups and demand we do the same? In regard to Muslims, it’s where Europeans are drawing a line. The French are demanding Muslim French women are accorded the same rights as every other French woman … at least in public. The Danes, the most liberal Europeans, are resisting the minority of 5% of their population who are demanding the introduction of Sharia law. They understand Sharia Law undermines the rights and privileges of liberal westernism. They are curbing Muslim immigration, introducing compulsory Danish culture classes for immigrants, now require a 7 year period of residency before granting citizenship and are insisting on maintaining the dominant expression of Danish culture in their homeland.

Oh that’s right I’m intolerant of Islam… damn right I am opposed to those parts of it that express intolerance! Why aren’t you?

Gee why don’t you read more widely we’d communicate more easily

Hi Severin - welcome back to OLO, and thanks for the encouragement. You don't happen to ride a motorcycle, do you?

There's little point in trying to have a debate with anybody as avowedly and obviously bigoted as keith. It's kind of ironic that he acknowledges the 'racial' diversity of hospital staff, but then completely fails to link that with one of Hussain's central points, i.e. that they are almost completely absent from commercial TV dramas like 'All Saints' that purport to portray a typical Australian hospital.

Lucy, I don't debate with abusive haters like keith, but I do feel compelled to point out their bigotry in discussions like this. His efforts in this thread are standard operating procedure for him, being abusive and self-contradictory in turn. At least it's slightly amusing watching him tying himself up in ideolological knots.

individual - you didn't actually read the article, did you? Your comment has very little relevance to the issues that Nazeem Hussain raises.

CJ

I haven't ridden a motorcyle for a while now, but still hold a licence.

:)

The point of Nazeem Hussain's article has completely sailed over the heads of both Keith and Individual, being the absence of racial diversity in Australian media, therefore not reflective of the reality of life here in the land of OZ. Instead Keith has attempted to use the article as a vehicle in which to push his white-supremacy views - hence he was called a bigot.

Not much more need be said, except that I hope Nazeem continues to contribute his entertaining articles and to thank you for welcoming me back.

Cheers

No probs CJ. I don't think you're obligated to be nice to the racists and the trolls. Cheers.