So racial discrimination is okay, as long as you're the ones doing it, right?

Come on Mal, you had a go, & sure didn't do too well. In fact your time in the top chair was one of the worse efforts we've seen.

I really don't know how we ever elected you to anything. The list of authority you give at the end show just how far you are out of step with the people of Oz. This may perhaps be something about you, that you kept hidden when you wanted votes.

A list of academics, religious types, & politicians with the same idea is not likely to have us all pulling our forelock, as it once may have. Strange as it may seem, we do think for ourselves a bit more these days.

These are the very people who have stuffed it up mate, along with you. We are sick of being treated as lab rats by this type of people, particularly as none of them have any sort of track record to be proud of.

History all ready has you placed, but much more of this rubbish will just show how far out of touch you are. Keep it up & you will become one of Bob Hawkes "silly old buggers".

What Mal really means is... the "Global Socialist New World Order" which is being relentlously advanced by this strange notion of "Human Rights"

I say 'strange' with good reason, because it is VERY strange when such laws are used AGAINST traditional Aussies, Aussie law, and Christians in particular.

It cannot be 'Human Rights' when the rights of a majority of the population are perverted, attacked, undermined and assailed by pinko progressive anti-Christian enemies.

The true nature of such groups.. like the USA version "Code-Pink" where their rallies are characterized by

-Send Obama back to the fields
-hang him
-Death to Wisconsin Governor.

Now.. bear in mind... Code Pink is a LEFTIST and PROGRESSIVE group.

So much for 'a civil tone' hmmmmm

The further Australia FLEES from this culpable, anti-Christ like undermining, insidious, intrusive Socialist vanguard..the better.

ACTION STATIONS. (Attention Liberal/Coalition)

1. Remove Australia's signatory status to Refugee and CPPR conventions.
OR... add exceptions to cover our need to manage such things as assylum/country shoppers without Bob Brown constantly reminding us of "Our international obligations"

2. END "Multiculturalism" once and for all, and change the policy and funding focus to promoting unity, and inclusion rather then diversity division racism and exclusion.

Looking at the history of the Intervention, it is ABUNDANTLY clear that both sides are using it for political advantage.

Let's not forget the original noble intent.. "Save the CHILDREN from being swamped with booze and PORNOGRPHY"!

The usual arguments from Mal and Co. The fact is that when you work with aboriginal people it is very hard work as they tend to want everyone else but themselves to be the givers. It is one thing to pontificate about what should be done and quite another to actually get things done. The process put in place by John Howard is the best way to affect improvement in the lives of aboriginal people over time and it is a great shame that the Labor government has undone much of the good work.

If Mal and his cohorts have their way this problem will go on unhindered, on and on into the future. It is strange that someone who once said that life wasn't meant to be easy is so slow to realise that only by doing the hard things that John Howard put in place can future improvements be achieved.

More grandstanding by eminent people and more interference by the UN, which amounts to grandstanding by its committees.

Never mind the vast problems in China or Iraq, Pakistan or systematic persecution and even slaughter of minorities in Africa. It seems the fact that succesive Govenments, one of which Fraser headed, have been unable to solve the problem of poverty in remote indigenous communities is the real international issue.

I don't know what to do about poverty in the top end, but I'm pretty sure this sort of stuff does not help. The eminent persons listed should get off their high horses and start looking at the issue in a constructive way.

Well put Mal et al. You can't help anyone by taking away their human rights.
This isn't grandstanding.