What I have never been able to understand is why, if we are such an unwelcoming, racist country, do so many people risk death trying to get here?

Big nana,
Australia is the last continent to be conquered & if Labor gets its way this will be achieved within a few years !

Hey, Foxy,

There's a Chinese proverb which says "a frog at the bottom of a well sees only a small portion of the sky."

Your ridiculously narrow view of your wonderful life wallowing in Melbourne's "diversity" suggests you have green skin.

Here's a sample of what's happening in the real world:
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/20/senegalese-migrant-sets-bus-children-fire-avenge-drowned-migrants/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20190320

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/03/20/twelve-french-churches-attacked-vandalized-in-one-week/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20190320

https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/03/20/report-christian-persecution-in-india-jumps-by-57-in-2019/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20190320

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/03/19/illegal-immigrant-arrested-after-having-sex-with-cow-say-police/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20190320

Calwest,

Here's a sample of what's happening in the real world:
http://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/03/20/senegalese-migrant-sets-bus-children-fire-avenge-drowned-migrants/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20190320

http://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/03/20/twelve-french-churches-attacked-vandalized-in-one-week/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20190320

http://www.breitbart.com/asia/2019/03/20/report-christian-persecution-in-india-jumps-by-57-in-2019/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20190320

http://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/03/19/illegal-immigrant-arrested-after-having-sex-with-cow-say-police/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=daily&utm_content=links&utm_campaign=20190320

You simply take the 's' out of 'https' and all is well; it's an OLO thing.

Thankyou Calwest. Removing the s from above URLs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsXL_67p9Mc&feature=youtu.be

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks

Surely in Australia, we have to champion the values of equality of men and women, of the rule of law, and of the sanctity of life ?

In other words, no matter whoever killers may be, they have no right - equally no right, if you like - to kill innocent people ? Innocent Muslims should not be killed; innocent non-Muslims should not be killed. Their lives are sacred. Mirror-image murders of innocents should not be part of modern contemporary life anywhere.

But let's pursue the guilty down the last rabbit-hole wherever and whoever they may be.

Joe