It is telling that one of the most common insults used in John Howard's Australia is to call someone a 'do-gooder'. So Fiona you are dirty filthy low down do-gooder, thats what you are, a do-gooder.

Hey Fiona, does your concern for minorities extend to white South Africans? Here is a link specifically for you: http://www.africancrisis.org/photos16.asp

Ranier, I don't make things up. The context of the conversation I referred to was fruit picking in a town called Robinvale, where one of the convesants lived and worked for a while.

Davo, read your own words, it intimates that that the conversation was recent, yesterday? not in the past tence as you now assert "where one of the convesants lived and worked for a while" . I'd stop while your ahead mate.

This proposal seems like a good idea to me. To the naysayers, I point this out: Petro Georgiou is not suggesting we do away with mandatory detention altogether, and he's not suggesting that we "open the gates" and let anyone who wants come in to the country. Sure, some leftists and refugee activists are suggesting this, but Petro isn't. This bill is solely about letting the asylum seekers out for a time while they're being processed, rather than having them locked up. They're out in the community while their claims are being processed rather than in a detention center while their claims are being processed. It's hardly a radical change in the government's current policy, but it is a much needed step in the humane direction, in my humble opinion.

Gee Rainier, you really do look at the fine details, don't you? In another forum you gloat about travelling the world and speaking several languages. Was that on a contiki tour?

In fact, I question whether your global travels is actually true. Looking at the finer details, in the past and the present tense, I find you to be a bitter and twisted soul.

People in other parts of the world speak several languages out of necessity, unlike you, who does so out of pretention. The Australian cultural diversity you idealise is fake because it is very, very deliberate.

Anyway, a lesson learned, never illustrate a point with real life experiences. Get off your high horse and back to earth, mate.

The languages I speak are Australian, my parent’s languages. Languages, that were here before English, languages that were a part of a linguistic diversity of over 500 different languages.

Work that out Einstein.

The countries I've traveled to are in the Asian pacific. I speak your [only] language out of necessity and I’d even go so far as to contend that I speak and write it better than you. But hey, I'm not competing, just pointing out the facts, cobber, digga, mate.

Me bitter?

No! How could I possibly be bitter when I can find clowns everywhere I go [just like you] to play with? Ha!