"Let's start by throwing out our TV's. Or by casting a brown family in Neighbours."

Yeah, they could do an episode on honour killings. They could also do an episode where poor uncle Abdullah dies as a result of a mysterious explosion in his garage....Maybe Bilal Skaf could do a cameo for them....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id9nutw-HYI&feature=player_embedded

over the heads of both Keith and Individual.

Simply pointing at some facts which DO relate to his article. On one hand you claim Aust TV reflects our society but on the other hand if a little of this Aust Society fact is thrown in you're thrown off balance. I find it just so appalling that a 24 year old in this day & age can still be so so isolated in mind that he accuses the society which adopted him & his out of date beliefs, of doing what he himself practices. Being hypocritical. The worst is that at 24 he still requires to be led by others' thinking. I have always stated that Aust TV in general is of very low intellect but then again that's where the money is. Looking at entertainment on a global scale I think you'll find the non white content to be proportional to population to each country. Don't condemn a presently still european society for playing its own when other societies play their own. After all much of this industry is based on european invention but readily copied by those who condemn it. Don't blame us if you can't do it yourself. It's simply the hypocrisy bandwagon steaming up again for the same mindless destination.

David Jennings,

I have a wonderful western life! But you mean I should get some sad-sack morbid influence into it. Eh?

No-one has even challenged my views, let alone dissected them. What's occurred is the Westernism loathers, for who it impossible to present factual and logical rebuttals, started a campaign of silly name-calling.

Btw I see you're too proud to admit and face your error. Continue as such and you'll end up like poor sad hateful CJ. His posts in any thread always contain personal criticism of those who don't share his views.

You need a definition of Slander ... and another lesson.

The Legal definition of slander includes the phrase ... defamation by oral utterance rather than by writing, pictures, etc.

Back to the name calling-factory for you. Lol perhaps you'll meet Severin either coming or going ... as I doubt either of you would know coming from going.

Loudmouth, the best is always last. lol. Mate I haven't taken offense but I enjoyed a hearty laugh. There is absolutely no doubt about your claim ... I'll confirm it's totally inaccurate.

Have you caught up with those running anthropologists yet, the ones running from their answers to difficult questions? You haven't answered my direct question from my earlier post. This one, it's the same one David got confused over.

'I notice you didn't include Indian people or Muslim people in your groups of people who have or are enriching both their own and our collective lives by joining in with the rest of us in this place.

Was that deliberate or does it reflect a current unfortunate reality?'

Or was it merely a Freudian Slip. Often what we don't say conveys more about us than what we do say. As a result I'm asking myself are you (a closet) bigotted racist, Loudmouth?
I'd love you to sit down think about it and respond intelligently to the very fair question.
Lol some would say 'fair' was a bit of good ol'e coded 'dog-whistling'

I meant slander in the colloquial sense not the legal sense. After all, why would I give you legal advice? If you need a lawyer you can go and pay for such services yourself. At any rate I think your repeated comments on Nazeem have crossed a line and are out of step with the forum's rules.

Sadly, Nazeem also seems to have attracted the attention of some rather disturbing far-right people. They appear to migrating to OLO from Facebook.

But anyway I'm celebrating. Pauline Hanson is leaving the country and I'm in the mood for some champagne! As a multiculturalist I'll make it the imported kind rather than the domestic. After all I have little or no interest in preserving low wage domestic jobs ;-)

David,

Look I think you have a beaut future if you would drop the adherece to socialist dogma.

Have a read of this. It's still my attitude to multi-culturalism.

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=4097

Pauline Hanson, while I rejected her politics, I thought her courage added to the rich fabric of Australia. The loss of anyone, with such courage from Australia, lessens us all. Dropping meanspiritedness is something true adults learn to do.

Libel is the written form of defamation. I have represented myself and other family members in courts and tribunals in Australia on a few occassions. As a layman I'm very proud of the fact the courts usually found in our favour. I don't seek legal advice except from experts and have found the 'Bench' under common law is bound to offer intrepretions of points of law if asked.

Yep I think you might gain appreciation of my ability if you read and dissect the views I've published in On Line Opinion.

Enjoy your Champagne, next year I'm sailing to France and intend to spend at least a year cruising the canals of France... I'll drink champagne to celebrate that achievement.

No I'm not lucky but I've worked bloody hard.

It is just a silly argument. Recent migrants simply do not persue acting as a career. We have seen the success of Greek and Italian migrants in show business and soon enough the more recent arrivals will probably join them if they so wish. There is totally not one bit of evidence given that all these actors are turning up and being discriminated against. We have Jamie Durrie, Guy Sebastian and Kamhal all enjoyed success as Sri Lankans, Marci Hines and Trish Goddard have been well received. In fact I would go as far to say they have had higher representation in show business than in volunteer work. SES etc is white as.

If we are going to hear all this crying well at the very least support it with facts. Have "brown" actors who are good at their craft been discriminated against? If so then they have laws on their side to address that. Has that happened or are we seeing a self imposed victim mentality at play?