The author is a thorough going multiculturalist, supported by the multicultural industry, the Islam Industry (the Islamic Council of Victoria) as well as the immigration department, a government arm doing the government’s bidding.

The introduction of multiculturalism as government policy in Australia was not a democratic one; it was the totalitarian decision of politicians who never consulted the electorate. It was suddenly announced, one morning on radio news, during the Fraser regime.

The entire culture of Australia was changed in a totally un-democratic way.

Pauline Hanson was an aberration in Australia politics, and most of us will not miss her at all. But, she had a lot to be angry about, as did many Australians who, while not particularly liking her or her style, agreed with – and still agree with – many of her thoughts on the downhill run of their country after multiculturalism was declared, by a handful of politicians, to be official in Australia.

The fact that the Australian people allowed a government to get away with such an undemocratic outrage proved beyond doubt that the average Australian is a complacent dead-head who deserves what he or she gets. Unfortunately, those of us who take things seriously have to put up with what the dead-heads deserve, too.

Thinking people knew that the multicultural move would bring disaster and something should have been done about it. But, the dead-heads just whinge about it after the act – the foulest known in Australia - and still continue voting for the same idiots they always did.

Hanson did not have “…strident anti-immigration views.” She was against the immigration of certain types of people. Many of us feel that she was wrong to preach discrimination in immigration – her particular beef was against Asians who have proven to be very good immigrants – but she had every right to believe and say what she said, just as everyone else should have had the right to a say on multiculturalism.
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Until people grasp the difference between non-discriminatory immigration (the only right and decent system when we need migrants) and the undemocratic, enforced-by-a-few-without-consultation policy of official multiculturalism, the longer arguments driven by pointless articles like this one will go on.

There is a huge difference between a multi-racial society and a multicultural one. This author is the umpteenth one to ‘advise’ us about ‘Afghan camel-drivers’ – even if many scholars say that they came from Northern India! She doesn’t seem to know about the Chinese, who far outnumbered the Afghans whom every man and his dog mentions when they are trying to convince us that Australia has ‘always been a multicultural country’, even though a few camel-drivers hardly set the scene for such a mythical country.

I would be interested to know where the author came by the knowledge to claim that:

“The earliest ships brought prisoners and settlers from many different ethnic and religious backgrounds …”

Passengers on the earliest ships were convicts of Anglo/Irish background. It’s true that there were a few non-whites who ended up on Norfolk Island, but most people brought to Australia prior to free settlement could not be described by any means as being of “…many different ethnic and religious backgrounds.” When the free settlers did come, they were generally European, with some Germans fleeing religious persecution, but they were still Christians.

And, the author’s sneering at people she likes to call “monoculturalist” – Hanson, Howard and Costello – merely shows her ignorance because what she calls their ‘myth’ was pure fact. Aborigines were Stone Age hunters and gatherers, who made no contribution to modernity.

As for Hanson, she is clearly not bright enough to know that the UK has been totally ruined by multiculturalism, and by the time she wakes up and comes back here, Australia will be just as bad unless people start demanding that multiculturalism be removed, root and branch.

I do believe that Pauline was, for the most part, purposely misunderstood & misquoted by the Latte Set. Like the Emperors new clothes others jumped on the band wagon, not wanting to be seen as crass underclass. Her two sidekicks sabotaged her every move. Maybe they were paid to do so by the big two. Now we can't have an upstart muscleing in on their party. Can we? Strangely all she wanted was a fair & equal go for everybody with no special favours for anybody. Was that so bad? I do notice that the big two have changed their policies to reflect what she was calling for. Strange action for Parties that put her down. Maybe they were forced to reflect the will of the common man.
So she is going to the mother Country. Well, she is in for a big shock. There are extremes of everything there. One winter & she'll be back. At the height of her career I went on a holiday. Every where I went I asked about Pauline. Nobody had heard of her. The British Isles, France, Singapore, Malaysia. So much for ruining Australias reputation.

I wonder if Pauline really knows what living in England is like. It often seems greener on the other side of the fence. I will not be at all surprised if the UK doesn't come up to her expectations as most of the things that she complains about here, exist in greater quantities over there. A large amount of money could always insulate her of course, either in the location she chooses or an ability to cocoon herself, but I doubt she has enough to do that.

Dear Chris
Don't waste your time engaging in dialogue with Examinator. Anybody who comes up with "I posit there is a relationship between circumstances and racism.
Because other are does that mean we shouldn't strive to overcome our more animalistic tendencies?" is beyond help.

Leigh,
Always great to read your posts. You are one of the few people on OLO with intelligence and honesty.
Thanks.