Quite a percentage of subcontinental & middle eastern looking officers with corresponding name tags seem to be among Customs, Police & Defence personnel, Public service & trading businesses.
Is this because Australians are becoming too useless or ist it to do with an agenda ?
Building sites & general manual labour work places seem to have far less such representation.

I'm all for discussion ttbn, but there needs to be respect for what a discussion is and for the other parties. I don't think much of having discussions with John Cleese characters (the argument sketch or the Jehovah scene), but it does beat a discussion with a delusional psychopath trying to aggressively verbal you.

Of course, poor old Charlie stood no chance with an oxygen thief who argued via messages written on bullets.

Fester

Respect? Charlie Kirk always listened with tolerance and respect in his quiet prove-me-wrong conversations, mainly with young people.

He got shot dead for it.

Lots of people, young and old, are saying he deserved it. So appalling have been some of the comments made by some professional commentators, that even their left-wing employers and organisations are sacking them in disgust.

'Respect' has been replaced with unhinged rage and violence, particularly from people always accusing others of being far right. It seems to me that people who were once described as conservatives are now regarded by the Left as dangerous animals deserving to be actually killed for their opinions.

It is no longer safe to be a public figure and openly express your opinions in the rubble of Western society.

ttbn,

Did someone say, "I don't agree with a word you said and I'll shoot you to death before I let you say it."?

People need to understand what an argument is, that people aren't good bad for the sake of having differing opinions, and most importantly that human civilisation is the result of discourse.

It would have been nice if argument was part of the curriculum and included discussion of national issues like The Voice and whether the yes campaign was arguing that you were a bad person if you did not vote "yes".

Totalitarian regimes are always after the "bad" people and as such stifle the development of civilisation.

mhaze,

If you're referring here to the 85% figure pushed by Price, that's been debunked.

//That Indian immigrants overwhelming vote ALP is established.//

Roy Morgan’s 2023-25 data shows 45% Labor, 39% Coalition, with the rest spread across Greens and others. Even the most pro-Labor subgroup was 49% vs 36%. That’s a lean, not an overwhelming bloc.

//What can’t be known is whether that influences the ALP’s decisions about who does and doesn’t get to come.//

What can be known is that this is baseless speculation. Immigration policy is non-discriminatory by nationality and has been for decades. Intakes are determined by skills, family, and humanitarian need - not party preference.

//But what we do know with certainty is, if Indian immigrants were coming here and overwhelming supporting the Libs, a lot less Indian visas would [be] issued.//

This isn’t known with certainty. Quite the opposite. It's approaching tinfoil-hat territory.

If that logic held, why did Indian migration surge under Coalition governments from 2013 to 2022? By your reasoning, Liberals were importing Labor voters. The claim falls apart instantly.

//Recently tens of thousands marched against the current immigration policies… [and were] vivified as fascist-adjacent.//

When protests feature far-right symbols and slogans, don’t be surprised if they’re described as far-right adjacent. The presence of a few ordinary citizens doesn’t erase the extremist banners behind them.

//Once a few leaders stop being intimidated by these slurs… genuinely good people… become emboldened.//

Translation: when demagogues normalise xenophobia, ordinary people feel safer airing it. You call that "emboldening." Many would call it mainstreaming prejudice.

//Hence the hysteria around Price’s saying the quiet bit out loud.//

Yes, and the worst part is that the quiet part was false and divisive. That’s why even members of her own party distanced themselves. She wasn’t revealing a hidden truth, she was recycling a debunked conspiracy theory.

//The world is a worse place for [Charlie Kirk's] passing.//

Yes, but not for the reasons you might think.

The guy built an entire career on dehumanising minorities, undermining democratic norms, and stoking culture-war resentments.

He died in the toxic atmosphere he helped create.

He died in the toxic atmosphere he helped create.
John Daysh,
I'm more inclined to think he was killed because he was a threat to the toxic & their agenda !