I love the way you socialist humanitarians think, Dreamon. You equate a few cases of rape and sexual assaults of women in the ADF, with the wholesale, institutionalised, and clerically sanctioned rape and sexual slavery of thousands of female captives by ISIL.

You must be obsessed with cultural relativism, if your mind can ignore the fact that rape and sexual assault in the ADF is a military crime, while in ISIL it is a religiously sanctioned prize of war. Using your peculiar reasoning, a socialist humanitarian like yourself can therefore regard ISIL as morally superior to the ADF, because at least ISIL only rapes the females of their enemies. Cuckoo. It is logic like that that, Dreamon, prompted me to renounce the socialist humanitarian worldview and start thinking straight.

It is just too bad if the Muslims resent the western world because we think we are superior. Of course we are superior, Dreamon. The western world has defined what the modern world is, invented almost everything in it, lead the world in scientific advancement, and our people enjoy personnel freedoms unprecedented in the history of the human race. The success of our societies is underlined by the millions of Muslims who are clamouring to get into our societies, with only a handful of brain dead western converts to Islam going the other way. Hopefully, the yank drones will squish them out of existence.

If Muslims resent us killing their brethren, could they please stop being the cause of almost all the trouble in the world at the present time? Muslims have been brain washed by the mullahs to think they are superior to us, but they just can't fathom why they are so poor, ignorant and miserable, when their moral inferiors are so prosperous and happy. That their stupid religion has everything to do with it, is something that never occurs to them. Especially since western loonies like yourself continuously making ridiculous comparisons between western institutions like the ADF, and Islamic ones like ISIL, thereby reinforcing and condoning the mullahs message of hatred of all infidels, to their ignorant followers.

Dan, "Is it not the right of parents to pass on to the next generation whatever whatever values they consider worthy?"

I would say no. Taking an extreme because its fairly clear cut to most, we don't willingly allow parents in believe in sexual activity for children to pass on those values. Parents caught doing so will generally be prosecuted. Not always easy to deal with it when its the values aspect without the act but overall we do try and protect children from choices of their parents which harm the children.

Religious belief is obviously a more difficult topic, some parents deal with it responsibly, others on both sides of the belief fence not so well.

R0bert

Congratulations on a good article, Laurence Maher
I am intrigued by the reference to the National Action Plan to Build on Social Cohesion, Harmony and Security (2006). I would like to see a copy but have not found it on the website of the Department of Immigration, though there are several references to it.
Grateful if Mr Maher or another reader can point me in the direction of a copy.

LEGO, Australia was conquered and invaded by genocidal, filthy white trash slavers. Some of you, have inherited and benefited unjustly from this.

WWII and the Japanese involvement came about because of the refusal of england, america and australia to recognise the equality of the races.

Your comments about western superiority echo this. I do not think we are superior. Different, yes, but superior, no. And for you to suggest that it is the West who has invented mostly everything just shows how truly ignorant you are. The Chinese for example had an advanced civilisation whilst your monkey relatives were still running around in skins.

If you knew anything about the ongoing legal inquiries, you would know that it is far more than a few isolated cases of rape in the ADF. Members of the brass remain unpunished for this but they may yet change. These individuals need to be put in the bin and the fact that they have not already goes to the heart of the corruption in this country.

I'll tell you one way to fix the problem. Let us hope that the others see to it that ISIS is armed equally, and the Muslim fighters have a lot of work to do to catch up on the wholesale slaughter which has been wrought on their people before the books are balanced out.

Let's see how brave your ADF is when they are not hiding behind uranium enrichment waste munitions and uranium plated battle tanks.

After all, you talk of superiority but they couldn't even put down a rag-tag bunch of Taliban.

And with all the West's talk about the Syrian use of chemical weapons being a line too far, who is too gutless to do anything? The ISIS fighters clearly are far braver, and your mob are just full of sh!t.

Dream on, Dream On, dream on.

phanto: "Religious beliefs are simply a camouflage for primitive behaviour..."

Couldn't have said it better myself. Gullibility and a sense of superiority pegged on a mob mentality make fools of them.