@Matthew S:Besides, what is wrong with a nation or culture wanting to preserve themselves? Try this on in China, Japan, Suadi Arabia, etc., and you would be against it. Why? Are you a white hater? A racist? The argument about aboriginals being here not so long ago is rediculous : two reasons
I'm glad you made this point,The Chinese have always lived in china-
The Japanese have always lived in Japan and the Saudis always lived in Saudi Arabia.White Australians on the other hand, are Older British immagrants.
If they really wanted to perseve their culture,they should of stayed in Britian . People who are So obsess about perserving their culture should stay with their roots in everyway. And I don't think ethnic people are that crazy about coming to Australia anyway

Wrong again, Scooper 9. The Australian referendum which recognized aboriginal people as Australian citizens was opposed by rednecks such as me because of the realisation of the harm it would do to aboriginal people.

This referendum was actually called the “drinking referendum” by people in the Top End who knew that it would give tribal aborigines the right to drink alcohol. Previous to that, aboriginal people were denied that right by our caring governments which put aboriginal welfare ahead of so called “human rights.”

Rednecks knew that granting aboriginal people drinking rights would be catastrophic to aboriginal society and would make the task of assimilating aboriginal people into modern society almost impossible. Even after the referendum granted full citizenship rights to aboriginals, redneck publicans simply refused to sell alcohol to tribal aboriginals. These publicans were then threatened with court action by government functionaries who traveled (briefly) to remote areas and laid down the law to them, before they scuttled back to the air conditioned fleshpots of Canberra.

So please do not lump Rednecks and Social Progressives (Regressives?)together as “white people”, who share collective responsibility for the predicted problems that did eventuate.

I love how your mob think. You create an endemic problem by your slavish adherence to a moral ideal, then you blame all white people for a ghastly problem that could have been avoided if you had listened to the rednecks in the first place.

Excellent post, Skippy.

I will take issue again with you Scooper, on your claim that black people are always poor because of white racism.

During the 1950's and 60's, the cause celebre of the "angry young men" was not Refugees, Reconcilitaion or Republic, it was Colonialism. The opinion of the know all educated caste was that white people were "exploiting" black people by ruling them with colonial administrations. The prevailing wisdom had it that when whites gave their colonial subjects Independence, then those former colonies would become prosperous and everybody would live happilly ever after.

This formulae did work with the Asian races when they received Independence. But it most certainly did not work with either the Muslims or the countries ruled by black Africans.

Now, I would love to think that every human on Earth, regardless of the skin colour and social class, had exactly the same level of intelligence as every other human being. But simple observation indicates to me that such an assumption does not bear the weight of critical analysis.

Unless you can think up a reasonable explanation involving "white racism" as to why Asian people prospered, while black and Muslim people went backwards, then you had better get rid of your far from unique "blame the white fella for everything" mindset and start thinking straight.

Here in Australia, racism works quite the other way. White Australians do not recieve the same levels of welfare as aboriginal Australians. They do not recieve the same government funded educational advantages as aboriginals. There are a plethora of social rights from hunting rights, to fishing licenses, to exemptions from Common Law that aboriginal people have over whites. Sooner or later you must run out of trite, politically correct explanations as to why your pet social theories do not work, and instead ask yourself some hard questions that you have so far preferred not to think about.

While I agree with redneck that all races have not evolved equally on average,there are many factors that influence intelligence and we are begining out that their many types of ability and intelligence.Barry Jones for example no one would dispute is an intelligent man along with Kim Beasily.Listening to Barry argueing a point is agonising,he analyises both sides of a topic to the so much,he fails to reach the core issues that persuade us and himself to choose a definite course of action.His common sense detectors that most people have, seem to be less developed.Kim Beasily has a similar way of thinking that we interpret at waffle.They both cannot seem to clarify a point in a few sentences.Barry is definitely not suited to politics and would have made a brilliant scientist.

My point is that because of poverty many races have no had the time to develop intellectually since good nuitrition and time to learn are enormous factors.For every African we have sent $5000.00 in aid and the problem of poverty worsens.There could well be lower genetic ability on average however there have been negros that have achieved in intellectual persuits.

Andrew Fraser generalises too much about all races,Anglos aren't the smartest race.We all have differing abilities that contribute towards society.

I think we need to slow down the pace of ethnic change in Aust for the sake of harmony.I'm seeing too much crime violence hate and we need to far more selective about who we bring here,since once the fighting starts it will tear our country asunder.

The study of genetics have long since proven that race has absolutely nothing to do with intellectual potential, predisposition to crime or any other subversive behaviour, IQ, whatever. It's all bunk, so there's no point debating it.

Now that you know, hopefully more progress can be made in this thread.

My point is that because of poverty many races have no had the time to develop intellectually since good nuitrition and time to learn are enormous factors.For every African we have sent $5000.00 in aid and the problem of poverty worsens.There could well be lower genetic ability on average however there have been negros that have achieved in intellectual persuits.

Thats complete bulls**t,How about the money western countries make from draining poor countries of their resources.Poverty has not worsen because of money sent.It exsist because of greed.

"I think we need to slow down the pace of ethnic change in Aust for the sake of harmony.I'm seeing too much crime violence hate and we need to far more selective about who we bring here,since once the fighting starts it will tear our country asunder".

"Selective" why don't you just say what you really mean: Keep non-whites out, because Australians are to petty or racist to deal with others. America Britian South Africa Zimbabwe can do the same thing, maybe you'd like an all white population.That would make you feel more comfortable. And I think natives commit far more crimes violence than the new arrivals do