Joe, not for the first time you completely misinterpret my comment. As for my views being "reactionary", you clearly need to consult a dictionary. Or is it you are just miffed at not being excluded from the company of all the usual bigots who infest the woodwork of OLO and emerge into the light whenever an article touches one of their many raw nerves?

Multiculturalism is the the real evil. Australia never benefited from mass immigration. We had a perfectly cohesive country prior to that. Immigrants never wish to become like us. or join us, they simply wish to benefit from our success, which is due to peace, hard work and co operation. Every few days on OLO I see immigrants spewing out their views always biased towards their countries of origin, from Israel to Macedonia. We need none of these people. Deport them all and go back to a white Australia policy.

Now in the media I see all the politically correct views coming out, telling me how Australia again should not try to stereotype Muslims due to a "small number of isolated events" . I'm tied to the far left telling me to accept Multiculturalism, when anyone with half a brain can see its a failure.

National Security Action Man Abbott

...is about to turn the next Parliamentary Session into a Man's (+ Julie Bishop) debating club with Bill Shorten bleating agreement.

"Tony Abbott will deliver what he's described as a "security statement" on Monday. Should the Australian military contingent now gathering in the United Arab Emirates be sent into Iraq to tackle Islamic State extremists, Mr Abbott has promised a further statement." http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/national-security-to-dominate-parliament/story-e6frfku9-1227064432241

That's TWO security statements all youse anti-Muslims.

At Question Time when Abbott pats Shorten on the head Shorten cannot wait to agree.

Has anyone seen Joke Hokey and the barely remembered Budget lately?
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@ozzie

I agree. Ever since those right-wing white immigrants from Britain invaded the perfectly good Aboriginal country of Australia the place has gone to the pack - excepting my Scottish ancestors of course.

Unfortunately ozzie, that is the fundamental problem with our political system. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, knows 'multiculturalism' is a failure, but the system allows politicians to continue forcing it down our throats. We need to change the system and bring back White Australia and a good dose of commonsense. I doubt if anyone could name a single benefit to Australia (except culinary) that multiculturalism has provided and as for ragheads . . . they are simply living proof the two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

So for the most part the reaction to yesterday's (non) events seems to be:
We believe everything ISIS sympathisers say.
We don't believe anything Abbott or Shorten say.
Fair enough.
People are arrested for making threats to kill on a fairly regular basis, it usually only takes a couple of constables to investigate and bring the suspect in for questioning, not an army of political police and the riot squad.

I use the term "self loathing" when referring to empty headed lefties like yourself, Daffy Duck, because it is an entirely appropriate and descriptive term. (You are Peter Coates, aren't you?) Western self loathers like yourself analyse every single human problem using an easily discernible formulae.

1. White people are always wrong. Dark skinned people are always right.
2. Anything that goes wrong in a darker skinned people’s society is always the fault of white people.
3. Not only are white people always wrong, they are especially wrong if they are Americans or Jews.
4. Whatever injustices occur in white society must be pointed out and savagely attacked, but if darker skinned societies are riven with the foulest injustices and human rights violations, it is impolite to point these out.
5. The dysfunctional cultures of dark skinned people must be protected, while the successful cultures of white westerners must be destroyed.
6. White people are always the oppressors, and dark skinned people are always the oppressed.

Once this unique way of thinking is accepted and internalised, everything makes sense to shallow thinkers such as yourself.

Thank you for confirming my theory that people like yourself see yourselves as the natural social progressives who have changed the world by opposing the status quo. The difference between real intellectuals of the past and today's and leftists, is that real intellectuals used their brains to figure out what is right and what is wrong. People like yourself simply reflexively oppose the status quo without ever bothering to think about whether the status quo was correct and or not. As Lincoln once said, "Is the majority always drunk?"

Thus you man the barricades and formulate the slogans for every "progressive" cause imaginable, in the firm belief that you are a shining example of the descendents of Jefferson, Voltaire and Thomas Paine. Although what these gentlemen would think of a person like you who goes into bat for the most backward and violent religion on Earth while always putting the boot into your own democracies is something I would love to know.