Runner,

I agree, Abbot although socially awkward, was a firm leader.

His own man, not given to trying to please people.

This is why the groups always trying to weaken Australian authority
And sovereignty hated him.

Would the Darwin port have been leased to the Chinese for 99years
Under Abbot I wonder. Or was it already set up before he
Was deposed.

Heh, yeah multiculturalism is great until you question it, then it shows it's true face, violence, intimidation and blackmail await anyone who dares voice concern over any aspect of the holy program.

Dear CHERFUL,

If you are either a nationalist or a universalist then no doubt that you find multiculturalism to be dangerous.

If groups of people seek autonomy, whatever be their reason (religious, tribal or otherwise - especially otherwise) and your national/universal state opposes it with force then no wonder the outcome can descend into terror and bloodshed. But then why would you oppose rather than welcome their autonomy? What right has the state (be it national or universal) to force its way of life over others in the first place?

I welcome the breaking up of larger states into smaller states because it will enhance individual freedoms: smaller states will then compete to attract good people by offering them more freedom (more precisely, by denying them less freedoms).

While the problem of malignant tribes would not go away, it should not require the rest of us to compromise our lifestyle, throwing the baby with the bath-water by living out of fear in large monolithic states (or in the extreme, in one huge planetary state). For solving this problem, real as it is, suffices a NATO-like alliance of many small independent states.

We are a multi-racial society but monocultural as we expect all to fit into our basic social standards and governance which we inherited from Westminster.

We allow some aspects of other cultures that happen to fit to ours but widely varying ways and practices are either against the law or not socially acceptable.

All the imposed ideology of multiculturalism has done is achieve the widest diversity of people without any consideration as to whether they will adapt to our society or not.

There are many features of other cultures that are not acceptable in Australia and I trust never will be.

Anyone who considers Australia to be multicultural is having them selves on.

Dear Banjo,

I support neither the ideology of monoculturalism nor the ideology of multiculturalism: whatever culture one pursues is their private business, including the freedom to change cultures if one so wishes.

<<we expect all to fit into our basic social standards and governance which we inherited from Westminster.>>

Please do not include me in this "we" as I do not have similar expectations nor am I a heir to the above.

Didn't those Westminster social standards welcome beer-drinking, horse-gambling and fox-hunting?

Multiculturalism was never anything more than paying off the leaders of ethnic groups to buy the ethnic vote.

It expanded into paying a fortune to all ethnic groups other than the mainstream.

Greeks, Italians & many other European imports changed Oz, but only slightly for the worse. Most became Ozzies over time.

Many of the later imports from Asia & the middle east are from such dreadful cultures that they are destroying this once great community. It will never again be safe for a girl to walk home at midnight up a poorly lit suburban street.