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A call for diversity : Comments

By Conrad Liveris, published 23/6/2014

Parliamentarians are mostly of European descent, 70% male and most have qualifications in the humanities, law and economics.

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Jay of Melbourne,

I agree completely.

Look at the different reactions to disaster in homogeneous Japan with Cyclone Katherina in the US. In the US there were rapes, murders and complete social breakdown. The national guard had to be deployed. Yet in Japan, a much worse disaster with over 100,000 dead there were practically no reports of lawlessness and crime.

What is the difference?

One country has social cohesial through a homogenous population. Trust is high. The other is America.

Of course, for all of human history the real mantra has been 'Unity is strength; Diversity is Death'. Progressives seem to think that history somehow ended with the fall of communism. But in the end it will be only our history as a rich first world country that ends.
Posted by dane, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 8:31:53 PM
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Bare with me for a moment please . . .

Put aside for the moment whether to allow too many people from non-western cultures into important jobs might either (a) be fine, (b) drag us back to dark ages . . .

For the sake of hypothetical debate I ask all white people of more influential classes both left & right - What is the reason for why although Anglos now are less than 50% nation and nearly 40-50% are not of western world cultures, YET all those important key jobs are HOGGED by 95% white people of European heritage [mostly Anglo]?

How has those positions avoided both affirmative action and also the wrath of political anger from the 50% non-white ethnic peoples?

I am being sneaky and sarcastic -
Posted by Matthew S, Wednesday, 25 June 2014 8:33:31 PM
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Hardly surprising, a generation of politicians in all mainstream parties including the Greens who have been conditioned (subliminally) by old white Australia policy and matching attitudes in an ageing electorate (all these new 'immigrants' are temps without voting rights).

Even Szent Istvan the king of Hungary said around a thosuand years ago 'a country with only one language and one culture must be backward' ...... but by the 19th century it was believed 'nothing really worthwhile existed beyond the country's borders' ...... sounds like very much Australia?

In Australia nativists and others have had to negatively campaign and rely on a culturally specific media to constantly dog whistle on or against diversity to the electorate. This is to encourage an informal 'white Australia' policy and their preferred WASP'ish attitudes (this now includes many of Irish Cahtolic background, whose ancestors were subjected to restrictions and stereotyping in the past).

All Australia's major parties whether LNP, Labor or Greens seem to be doing an excellent job in appearing to be the DLP of the 1950s or 60s..... with large dollops of nationalism and bigotry.....
Posted by Andras Smith, Saturday, 28 June 2014 7:14:05 PM
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No need for subliminal conditioning.
We simply grew up in a population with a majority Anglo-Celtic/British ancestry.
It's just the factual reality of our lives.

In case you're not aware, our population *still is* majority Anglo-Celtic/British ancestry, despite the changes in policy 40+ years ago!

People naturally prefer the company of their own ethnic type.
You only have to look at the immigrant communities to see this.

But when it's White Australians who want "community", "pride", "identity", "self-determination", "kinship", somehow what is considered acceptable in exotic minorities becomes a crime, a sin, an horrific outrage.

Australians are beginning to feel nostalgia for our own people and homeland, just like immigrants do.
Ironically, we never left ours.

The pancultural immigrants of the last 40+ years are hardly "temps with no voting rights".

Many of them are just as skeptical of the current overload (even during the GFC!), as it diminishes the living standards, prosperity and security that enticed them here to begin with.
Posted by Shockadelic, Sunday, 29 June 2014 2:29:03 PM
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