Opportunities? In Australia? For non-Celtic-Anglo newcomers especially?

Local media is sober, perhaps

Redneck: I say it is ironic that those who complain the loudest about immigration, political correctness and multi-culturalism are the ones most vocal in supporting their right to culture of their own - even if it is a redneck one that espouses disdain for other cultures.
In your redneck mono-culture there will be political correctness will be mandatory, no freedom of speech unless it is aligned with the dominant and only culture.
Redneck a sign on a door in deep south USA reads: "If you aint redneck - you aint sheeit." That is your attitude through tis blogspot. So don't you be pelting stones at other cultures - your hypocrisy seems to know no bounds.

Your obsession with stirring up angst against multi-culturalism, and especially Muslims, is beyond normal behaviour. Get a grip sir.

There is no way in this God's earth I will ever be at one with your silly culture. I think if you want a self-evident truth then it is that democracy and multi-culturalism go hand in hand. One cannot exist without the other. Redneck, following your own cultural mores and anti-multiculturalism, you must want to destroy democracy.

Hard-done-by people burning cars is wrong - just as rednecks hanging African-Americans and identifying with such behaviour and hatred by using the term as a non-de-plume is dead set wrong. Those people in France are responding to a perceived injustice- you Redneck and other proud rednecks are responding to your own irrartional, self-confessed and proven racist hatred - not to mention over-entusiastic feelings of superiority. Be nice and kind.

Arjay, a bit off topic but you could up the welfare figure by a significant proportion of the money assessed by C$A plus the cost of running that organisation. I'm guessing that there are a bunch of other hidden "welfare" like structures in place that I'm not as aware of which push any estimate of total welfare cost way beyond any figures you will see in formal presentations.

Now onto the main topic.
It's kind of interesting to see how black and white this issue is seen by most posters. It's either the fault of those no good "M" immigrants or the fault of the nasty society - what about the view that both sides get stuff wrong and feed each others fears.

Insular groups living in a society dominated by another culture but seemingly rejecting that same society and the values of the dominant culture don't help themselves and breed concern and mistrust.

Biggots doing their bit to ensure that those immigrants never feel welcome or comfortable within the broader community also feed the need for those same immigrants to cling together and promote a mistrust of the broader society.

It cuts both ways. I have a right to expect that those moving to this country will obey our laws and respect my freedoms and I have a responsibility to make them feel welcome help their transition to this society.

Those who refuse to denounce ethnic violence are part of the problem, those who refuse to praise ethnic contributions are just as much part of the problem.

R0bert

Bronwyn, I thought your article was well thought out and very interesting. However, while I can partially understand the French being upset about the complaints regarding nuclear testing because it was being done in France (that part of the French Republic that is in the Pacific), I think that the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior was a different situation. The Rainbow Warrior was a foreign (British) registered ship in a foreign harbour (New Zealand) and French frogmen (sorry, couldn't resist that one) sank it and a man died. And yes, those Greenpeace protestors can be annoying, but that's not reason to kill them or sink the boat (especially when the boat was not in French waters). At first the French government denied everything, but after intense pressure (including by the media) the French Government admitted that agents of the French secret service had sunk the boat on orders. I think the media was right to criticise the French in that regard.

Great post R0bert. People need to start respecting and loving each other as people. The posters on this thread seem to be saying, "well they don't respect me and they will never respect me so I won't respect them". That's fairly circular and it will not lead to a positive result.

How boring you all are!

Read better this

http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/97175.php

- and reply there if here is politically incorrect as an author could much easiely be estimated...

yes you can take extreeme examples of australians rioting but usually it is muslims,arbs and blacks..

For example an extreme example of australians behavig badly, Maitland has higher sex attacks than southwestern sydney. could it be white on white rape is higher reported, where arabs and muslims are more likely to threaten to kill the victim.

http://www.quadrant.org.au/php/archive_details_list.php?article_id=581

if you want to do something active

http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/contact/
contact the immigration minister. I did they usually reply with most muslims are good so we keep letting them in .