Mate if you think that a racist immigration policy would be valid then well .....

Dear Lucy
Do you read the replies posted in the Forum or are your comprehension skills on par with with your spelling?
Only you and perhaps Examinator could interpret my comments as evidence of my thinking a "racist immigration policy would be valid".
Please explain.

blairbar: << I think she would realize the need for positive immigration to support a mature economy; as long as immigrants were not Asian or came from Africa or the Middle East! >>

blairbar, while you may not think a racist immigration policy would be valid, your speculation above certainly suggests that you think dear old Pauline would support one.

As it happens, in this case I agree with you.

Then there is the vitriolic resentment that Pauline might get a few bucks for her senate votes, and the obvious enjoyment for some from her being wrongly jailed.

Pauline's Australian vision made little sense to me and her contribution to popular debate was more damaging than progressive, but the thought of government by people happy to see someone wrongly jailed because of a difference of opinion is not enticing either.

Fester; her contribution to popular debate was more damaging than progressive,

Please explain!

If you mean that she represented the view of the common people & not the Latte Set, maybe you're right. No one knew who she was overseas. A point that seems to get ignored. So any debate was purely within Australia. As for progressive. Hasve you noticed that the two partys that put her down have adopted most of her policies. Strange that.

So Lucy makes a comment and she gets vitriolic abuse in response. It shows how intolerant certain people are on Online Opinion. Its always the same people on these forums having the same debates which usually devolves at some point.

But Blair, you might not be a racist, but if you look at what you wrote it could be read as an endorsement of Hanson. Thats just how it reads. So its not fair to jump on Lucy for taking issue with that.

Ozzie ... wow ... what offended you more? The fact that Lucy made a valid point about the contradiction or the fact that it was her that made it?