mickijo you make a very good point but' like others, seem to be unaware Aussies are entitled to "human rights" and " a fair go" to.
Just one classic example is how Aussie Veterans and their descendents are treated so contemptuously. Some 60 years ago Australians fought the Japanese on the Kokoda Track, Milne Bay in the Battle of the Coral Sea and other horrid places to "buy time" to allow the Americans to regroup and mount a counter offensive to defeat the Japanese. They also suffered terribly at Balikpapan, on the Burma Railway, POW camps in the Service of Australia. Without their heroic and gutsy sacrifice Australia would be nothing like the "free" country we enjoy today.

As a sign of humanity what did we do for the survivors and the widows/orphans/dependent children?. Hooray they are being presented with a medallion as long as only they or their spouse is alive. Nothing for singles or NOK. Not even a hole in the medallion to wear it? Show me one of these World War II single Veterans who can afford to own and maintain "the Great Aussie Dream" of just a simple home and modest car on the Service Pension.
The Baby Breeders can get $3000 (increasing to $5000 in July 2006) per child plus all the other Family Tax payments , child care etc and yet those who made all the sacrifices saving and building this country, paying taxes abnd bringing up families are treated so contemtuously! Later generations scream for tax cuts more, more etc. Taxes should be doubled to help make up for all the humanity they've absolved themselves from the responsibility for. Little wonder so many of us want nothing to do with our children or their offspring who have no idea or care whatsoever what human rights, responsibility, respect, honour, tradition and family are about.
It's time Australia cleaned up it's own backyard and Baby Boomers and Baby breeders stopped plundering those things supposedly set aside for those who earned them! Take care Keep watch

aussie1, my father was a veteran[AIF]of WW1. A healthy eighteen years, he was shipped to France, twenty months later he was a chronic invalid and was shipped home.
For years he fought the Repat for pension rights and it wasn't until the latter years of his life , they grudgingly gave him the full TPI pension.
Since his death we have been able to obtain his medical records and they show that he was discharged with two chronic diseases caused by the time spent in the trenches.
Now when I hear the "asylum seekers" suing the government for perceived insults and injuries, I get really and truely angry when this country failed its own so badly but can hand out millions to places like Indonesia and these unwanted intruders.